U.S. Rep. Kerry Bentivolio Responds to President's State of the Union
Congressman critical of Obama's remarks.
Congressman Kerry Bentivolio, R-Milford, released the following statement Tuesday following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address: “President Obama keeps trying to convince us that giving up our freedoms and letting the government make our decisions on how to run our lives is a sign of progress. He wants the government to tell us how to run our businesses. He wants the government to get between us and our doctors. He wants the government to take more of our nation’s hard earned money instead of letting us spend it for ourselves. All of these intrusions make us less prosperous, less healthy, and less free. “This evening we heard the same tired rhetoric from the president. From his speech to Congress in February 2009 to tonight…
Tim Reynolds
8:32 am on Thursday, February 14, 2013
The defining economic policy of the last decade, of course, was the Bush tax cuts. Bush and Congress, passed a large tax cut in 2001, sped up its implementation in 2003 and predicted that prosperity would follow. The economic growth that actually followed — indeed, the whole history of the last 20 years — offers one of the most serious challenges to modern conservatism. Bill Clinton and the elder… more ›