Despite hopes that the President would confront head-on the concerns of hard-working Missourians during his visit to Northeast Missouri, U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) said he was disappointed that the Administration failed to address staggering jobs losses that were supposed to end with the $862 billion stimulus package passed more than a year ago.

 

“After listening to the President, I along with most Northeast Missourians am frustrated by a President who told us that by spending our taxpayer money he would create 69,000 jobs when in actuality Missouri’s unemployment rate has risen from 8.5 percent to 9.5 percent and we’ve lost 65,600 jobs,” Luetkemeyer said after the President’s visit to the POET Biorefining Plant in Macon. “In the meantime, the Washington-first governing strategy has racked up record levels of debt that equate to over $41,000 for every hardworking American in Missouri and across the nation. It may be tough to see Main Street Missouri from the Oval Office and one has to wonder whether the President is even looking at this point.”