Graves Steps Up for Romney, Ripping Obama's Economy "Is Just Fine" Remark

KC Star:
Republican Rep. Sam Graves of Missouri said Monday that he was, “to be quite honest, shocked,” by President Obama’s comment last week that, despite the troubled economy, the “private sector is doing fine.”
Chairman of the House Small Business Committee, Graves made his comment on a conference call with reporters arranged by Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. He called the comment “an insult to 23 million Americans struggling to find work.”
The president has been taking heat since he made the remark during a press conference last Friday. Romney and other Republicans have used it to blast Obama for being “out of touch.”
Here’s what the president said:
“The truth of the matter is that, as I said we’ve created 4.3 million jobs over the last two – 27 months; over 800,000 just this year alone. The private sector is doing fine…Where we’re seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government, oftentimes cuts initiated by, you know, governors or mayors who are not getting the kind of help that they have in the past from the federal government and who don’t have the same kind of flexibility as the federal government in dealing with fewer revenues coming in.”
Later Friday, after the hostile reaction, the president said:
Listen, it is absolutely clear that the economy is not doing fine…There are too many people out of work. The housing market is still weak and too many homes underwater. And that’s precisely why I asked Congress to start taking some steps that can make a difference… The folks who are hurting, where we have problems and where we can do even better, is small businesses that are having a tough time getting financing; we’ve seen teachers and police officers and firefighters who’ve been laid off…”

Read more here: http://midwestdemocracy.com/articles/graves-behalf-romney-slams-obama-over-economy/#storylink=cpy

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