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Kelly Zings Obama Over “Recovery Summer”

By Keegan Gibson, Managing Editor

As Democrats seek to change the conversation heading into 2012, Rep. Mike Kelly is reminding voters of their campaign promises in 2010.

In a press release this afternoon, Kelly blasted the Obama administration on the one year anniversary of its “Recovery Summer,” a six-week campaign to highlight the success of the federal stimulus program.

“Unfortunately, the summer of recovery turned into the autumn of angst and then into the winter of our discontent,” Kelly said in a statement. “The jobs promised were not produced; the goals made were never met.”

Kelly highlighted the recent disappointing jobs numbers.

“In fact, the unemployment rate last summer reached an astounding 9.7 percent, while today it stands at 9.1 percent. In the last 12 months, entrepreneurs have started up the fewest new U.S. businesses in more than a decade, and since the passage of the 2009 stimulus, the U.S. economy has lost 1.9 million jobs.”

“It’s time for solutions, not slogans,” Kelly concluded, in what is actually a fairly catchy slogan.

4 Responses

  1. Oh please.

    Kelly knows nothing about creating anything. He was handed a profitable business by his father and never had to work for anything in his life. His fairy tale about how hard he has had to work is nothing but that: a fantasy he has foisted on an uninformed public.

    Anyone believing Kelly has taken a pay cut needs to realizee that his wife’s family business was recently sold for upwards of $1 billion dollars. He will be reaping the rewards of that long after he leaves Congress and does not need the pittance he is being paid now. (Ask him how much he will make from Marcellus Shale and see if he will give a straight answer)

    However, he is correct in his criticism of Obama and his economic policies. They have failed.

    Kelly is pro-business and enterprise. That is the only reason he will get my vote.

  2. No, Mr. Obama is the King of Rhetoric. Mr. Kelly is a businessman who has actually created jobs, and taken a pay cut to go in to fix the national mess. I assume you concede he is right on the basic point- the Obama economic policies have failed, and possibly made the economy worse…

  3. That’s a good point. As a car salesman, the distinguished gentleman from Butler knows quite a bit about sloganeering.

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