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American families should be working their way into the middle class, not falling out of it. Yet today, so many families are living month to month, hoping their car doesn't break down because they have no idea where they¹d find the money to fix it. And those are the lucky ones who have a job. Ten million Americans out of work isn't some abstraction. These are real people, and one out of three Americans who gets laid off has to go home that night and explain to their kids that daddy or mommy isn't going to work tomorrow and things are likely to get pretty rough, and they might stay that way for a while. So I don't want to hear how we can't afford to pay unemployment insurance to people who've lost their job through no fault of their own. I don't want to hear about how we need to lay off police, firefighters, and teachers, leaving us without protection and our kids without the first-class education they'll need to compete someday in the global economy. I don't want to hear how we need to cut Medicaid for poor children, many of whose parents are working three jobs to get by. I want to hear a plan for putting Americans back to work.

Working in small business I have learned to celebrate efficiency and congratulate common sense. Anyone with a little of either knows that as federal deficits and debt rise we chart an unsustainable course. The way out is job growth and government efficiency. Job growth will increase revenue without increasing taxes, and will save the government money in benefits. Cutting government spending will lower deficits. So question one is, who is going to create more jobs?

Between 1992 and 2000, the Democrats created 22.5 million jobs, 92% in the private sector. In his decade in the Senate Mike Crapo has essentially created zero jobs. In eighteen short months in office this administration has taken massive inherited job losses and turned them around. The past five months have all seen positive job growth. In April there were 280,000 new jobs, 231,000 in the private sector. Case closed. Democrats are better on jobs.

And who are you going to trust to cut wasteful government spending? Mike Crapo, the 20 year incumbent? For all their talk of “Smaller Government” the federal government grew exponentially under George W. Bush and Mike Crapo. I would think that if Mike were going to cut the federal budget he would have done it by now. I’m a twenty year small business owner. I will root out inefficiency and waste and cut it no matter where it lives.