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President Obama kicked this week off with the beginning of a road show to push his health care takeover.  On Monday he traveled to Pennsylvania to sell his health plan, and the White House has another stop scheduled for this afternoon in Saint Louis.

Yet in the very states President Obama is visiting to push health care, it is jobs and the economy that the people are most concerned about.  This public relations blitz is yet another illustration of the tone deafness of the Obama Administration.  While the president takes to the road to push a health care bill that lacks the support of the American people, thousands of folks in the very states he’s visiting find themselves out of work.  The American people want the president and Congress to focus on job creation – not a massive takeover of health care. 

While President Obama visited the Philadelphia area to push health care, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that unemployment grew another 2 percent over the past year in Pennsylvania.  That’s over 92,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in Pennsylvania lost over the past year while President Obama was fixated on a flawed health care effort. 

The numbers are much the same in Missouri, the site of today’s Obama health event.  About 58,000 jobs have been lost in Missouri over the time that President Obama has been focusing on government-run health care, an increase of almost one and a half percent.  Yet instead of focusing on job creation, the President and his allies have tabled any serious efforts to get America’s economy moving again until they force a health bill through Congress by any means necessary. 

Every day that the Obama Administration focuses on a health takeover instead of a jobs plan that makes sense, more and more Americans will find themselves out of work.  The White House has taken its eye off the ball, but it is America’s working families who are paying the price for it.