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RNC Chairman Reince Priebus:

“We’re here this afternoon to really discuss what amounts to nothing more than yet another taxpayer paid funded campaign stop by the president, this time to our home in Wisconsin, to rehash really more of the same broken promises, more speeches…highlighting yet again a president who is absolutely in love with the sound of his own voice but not in love with following through with his promises.

“Certainly in Wisconsin, we’ve heard all of this before: lofty rhetoric, more proposals that actually never see pen to paper, and worse yet, no results to show for it. But after three years of constant campaigning, I think Wisconsinites are sick and tired of watching and observing a campaign non-stop and a campaign prop or backdrop for this president’s reelection tour. This time, it’s going to be our backyard in Wisconsin. Unfortunately, by nearly every economic measure, whether it’s the manufacturing sector, or mounting deficits, the debt bomb that’s facing this country, Americans are flatly worse off than they were when this president took office.

“We don’t need to look any further than the budget submitted just yesterday by the president, as proof that he’s not serious about governing. He’s not serious about tackling the debt. He’s not serious about tackling the deficit in this country, because as a matter of fact, he’s making everything worse.

“After three consecutive years of deficits, over $1 trillion, the president’s latest budget comes in at 1.3 trillion in year one, despite promising to the American people that he’d cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. What’d he do? He proposed the biggest structural deficit in year one, than any structural deficit in the history of the world. He’s gambling with our kids’ future. He’s gambling with the very future of what made this country great.

“Fortunately for Wisconsin, our state pushed back on the Obama Administration by electing strong leaders like Scott Walker and Senator Johnson who are willing to make the tough choices to get our economy back on track, but we can’t stop there.

“In November of this year, Wisconsin will see through these three years and these speeches and all of these lofty promises from Obama, and I’m confident that we’re going to do our part and elect a Republican president.

“Thanks to labor unrest that has ripped across China, wage costs have been rising in a nation that is supposedly inexhaustible supply of cheap labor. Master Lock and other companies in the past two years have also complained about shifts in currency exchange rates after Beijing engineered a weakening of the dollar against the Chinese yen. This counting US exports to China and bending to pressure from Washington with Bristol’s at China’s tight control over its exchange rate.  I want to draw your attention to an article today in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel about China’s worsening business environment as it relates to Master Lock’s success.

“I think this brings us to an important question: is Master Lock doing well because of Obama’s policies, or is it in spite of his policies? I think most Wisconsinites will tell you that it’s the latter.”

U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI):

“With President Obama going to Milwaukee and visiting Master Lock, it does remind me of the rooster taking credit for the sunrise. As a manufacturer and job creator who has actually made decisions to hire and expand a business, it’s no mystery to me what a slow to our economic recovery and it really is the policies of this administration and I would first start off by saying, it starts with this administration’s basic hostility toward business and the free market system. Business owners certainly and I recognize this and the business owners I talk to feel that hostility and it scares them. It’s one of the things that creates the high levels of uncertainty and certainly a lack of confidence that business owners, job creators feel and certainly the consumers feel.

“The consumers are spending and business owners have a basic fear of investing, expanding business and certainly they have the fear about bringing new people on because they are not seeing a demand. They know that they are the ones being targeted being by President Obama’s assault on success and his strategy, his very overt strategy of class division, class warfare. They also feel the brunt of the growing cost of complying with government regulations certainly from President Obama’s agencies that are just in hyper-drive. They feel what President Obama’s Small Business Administration reported in a study, that it cost 1.75 trillion dollars in 2008 to comply with the federal regulations and since then 11,000 new rules and regulations have been issued…

“President Obama just released his fourth budget and it is another depressing example of this president showing absolutely no leadership on what Admiral Mullins said was the greatest threat to America our debt investment. He did make that promise about cutting the deficit in half by the end of his first term.

“The first deficit that he experienced was 1.4 trillion dollars. This year, his budget comes out and the deficit for 2012 will be 1.3 trillion dollars, not exactly being cut in half. This budget, even though everyone acknowledges from the head of CBO to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke…everybody recognizes that the long term debt and deficit issues are really being driven by Social Security and Medicare and the fact that these things are not sustainable.

“This president and his fourth budget doesn’t lift a finger. He puts forward no proposal whatsoever to save those programs…even though his interim OMB director in front of the budget committee today stating the president is pushing Congress for pro growth tax reform. Why doesn’t he propose it?  Why doesn’t he come forward? Why doesn’t he work with us in good faith to actually enact and pass pro growth tax reform? Instead, he is doing his class warfare and saying let’s tax the rich which again business owners know that they are the ones being targeted. That’s what we are up against…totally against pro growth policies, and that’s what is causing great harm to our economy.”

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