DAYTON, OH - Rob Portman today issued the following statement regarding President Obama's visit to Cuyahoga County, Ohio, today:
"During his visit to Strongsville today, President Obama will once again try to convince Ohioans that the 2,300-page healthcare proposal in Congress that raises premiums, adds new job-killing mandates and costs taxpayers billions of dollars makes sense. But Ohioans know better. We want to see healthcare costs go down, not up. And at a time of rising unemployment, we want jobs, not more big-government proposals that are going to make it harder to get Ohio out of this economic crisis. Instead of pushing a budget-busting healthcare bill that will add to our growing deficit and increase costs and mandates, the President should tell Ohioans how he plans to help create jobs."
NOTE: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Cuyahoga County's unemployment rate in January 2010 was 10.2 percent - an increase from December's 7.1 percent. Also according to the BLS, Ohio has lost nearly 195,000 since Democrats' so-called stimulus was enacted in February.
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