JOB CREATOR...OR JOB DESTROYER?

In the four and a half years Peter Roskam has been IL Sixth District Congressman, I have yet to hear or see a single significant statement or action from him to improve our struggling economy.

From Day One he has been preaching the twin priorities of more tax cuts for the rich and less regulation on business. Yet, the six years prior to his entry into Congress in 2007, were based almost solely on those policies by the George W. Bush Administration. Roskam entered Congress just when those policies helped bring on the worst recession since the Great Depression and bulge our debt by five trillion dollars.

In his second two year term, Roskam devoted all his efforts to prevent a stimulus program with saved or created three million jobs and a national health care law estimated to save nearly a trillion dollars in health care costs over ten years; finally putting some brakes to our spiraling health care crisis.

Now in the first six months of his third term, the Congressman has risen to Republican Chief Deputy Whip and helped sheppard through Congress the Debt Ceiling Bill which virtually every economist of integrity estimates will throw an additional 300,000 hard working folks off the employment rolls.

I'm still waiting for Congressman Roskam to be a job creator; but I sure don't have to wait any longer to see his job destruction bonafides.