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$16 Trillion National Debt Grinds Economic Growth and Job Creation to Halt, Says AJS Chief.
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Stephen DeMaura, President of Americans for Job Security, today issued the following statement in the wake of the U.S. national debt hitting a record-breaking $16 trillion:
"An economy with tremendous debt is slow to grow, slow to expand and slow to hire. Weighed down by more than $16 trillion in debt, America's economy cannot grow fast enough to return our nation to full employment. With an unemployment rate that has hovered above 8 percent for 43 consecutive months, the government's big-spending policies are only perpetuating the recession and grinding economic growth and job creation to a halt."Under President Obama’s watch, the national debt today hit a record $16 trillion.
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The president promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his
first term. However, he has now presided over four straight years of
deficits over $1 trillion.
- The president’s big-spending policies are costing jobs and economic growth and saddling future generations with crushing debt.
President Obama’s big-spending policies have added trillions to the national debt:
- President Obama’s failed stimulus bill added nearly $1 trillion to the federal debt.
- ObamaCare is expected to add over a half trillion to the federal debt over its first 10 years.
- President Obama’s tax-and-spend budgets have been unanimously rejected by both sides of the aisle three separate times.
- Senate Democrats haven’t passed a budget in almost three-and-a-half years.
The president’s policies are costing jobs and economic growth, and saddling future generations with crushing debt:
- Total federal debt has increased by more than 50 percent since the president took office.
- Debt per person has increased from $34,731 to $50,876 since the president took office, and is now greater than that of Portugal, Italy, Spain, and Greece.
- Our federal debt now exceeds the entire annual economic output of the United States. This level of debt is projected to reduce economic growth by 1 percent, which would result in one million fewer jobs according to the president’s former top economic adviser.
