“President Obama’s address tonight was lofty, but the time for words without action has passed,” said Schiff, a Republican running for U.S. Senate.
“That time ended when our unemployment rate hit 10% and began to climb. It ended when his failed policies continued to make matters worse and not better.
The leadership in Congress and the White House is failing the American people.”
President Obama presented a vision of success, but “he and Congressional leaders have failed to make it happen,” Schiff said.
“These politicians continue to wage war not on the terrorists that threaten our very way of life, but against the businesses supporting our economy and trying to add jobs.
They continue to burden business with higher taxes and more regulations, while their reckless deficit spending and Wall Street bailouts actually exacerbate job losses in every corner of America.
The time as come to change Washington from the ground up and that cannot be done by electing the same politicians to make the same mistakes over and over.
“We need to send a new kind of leader to Washington. A leader who has a track record of seeing our economy for what it is, not for what some hope it to be. Someone with the courage to stand up and let the world know what is coming even when it is vastly unpopular to do so. Not because it is the easy thing to do but because it is hard and because it is right.”