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Boehner Hosts Listening Session with Ohio Job Creators in Hamilton
Posted by Press Office on May 11, 2012

Today, Congressman Boehner hosted an open discussion with Ohio small business leaders and job creators in Hamilton.  Boehner opened the discussion by asking the job creators what they needed to see coming out of Washington in order to encourage job creation and grow the economy, here are a few of the responses:

As reported by the West Chester Buzz, Trevor Stansbury, president and founder of a company in Loveland, told Boehner, “One of the things that is killing all of us is the uncertainty and our reluctance therefore to hire people because we don’t know what is around the corner.”

Boehner agreed with Mr. Stansbury’s concerns and replied: “This uncertainty – I have explained to the president so many times that I am blue in the face…When people get that uncertain, they sit on their money. They sit on their hands and they wait for the market or the picture to clear. Until there is more certainty out there, we are not going to see big changes in our economy.”

Laura Doerge-Roberts, president of Vinyl Max Windows in Hamilton, was among the many job creators who expressed their frustrations with ObamaCare and the threat it is posing to employer provided benefits.  As reported by WCPO, Mrs. Doerge-Roberts “told Boehner under President Obama's healthcare plan, it's more attractive for her company to violate federal law and pay a $340,000 a year fine for not providing healthcare than to provide what she called the rising costs and decreasing benefits.”

Boehner wrapped up the event by reiterating that House Republicans will continue to stay focused on job creation:

“All I can do, on the House side, is try to be responsible in governing and hope that our colleagues on the other side of the Capitol do the same and hope the President maybe comes back off the campaign trail and works with Democrats and Republicans to get things done that the American people expect us to get done.”

If you are in the Cincinnati area, tune into your local news tonight to catch their coverage of the event.

More from Congressman Boehner’s Discussion with Job Creators here:
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  • Trevor Stansbury commented on 5/14/2012
    Mr. Speaker: Thanks for coming to Hamilton to listen to our concerns. Seriously, we can tell you "get it" and we appreciate the voice you represent for the small business community. The current administration has done nothing to engender the kind of confidence that the private sector needs in order to invest in plant and equipment or to hire additional staff. Instead, we continue to face an uncertain regulatory, tax and heath care future. For that reason, most of us have no choice but to circle the wagons and wait it out. Take for example Obama Administration attempts to repeal the LIFO method of accounting – something proposed in the last 4 Obama budgets. That change alone would cost our parent company between $40 and $50 M. Why in the midst of the worst recession in history, would you tinker with Generally Accepted Accounting Methods that have been around since 1947? No administration in modern times has done more to vilify and undermine confidence in the free enterprise system than our current President. We are not the bad guys. We pay our taxes, we care about our employees, we are active in our communities and, unlike our government, we live within our means. There is nothing we would rather do than hire more people and take risks and invest but we need some confidence that we won’t have to turn around and fire those same people six months from now because the government did something that made it vastly more complex or expensive to do business.
  • Marc Conter commented on 6/25/2012
    What small businesses need is DEMAND, not personal tax cuts, not deregulation, not Congressional obstruction of economic recovery...DEMAND. It is painfully obvious to anyone with a degree of business intelligence that trickle "down" is a myth and income inequality is destroying our middle class of consumers. Why not invest your time productively and support INFRASTRUCTURE and EDUCATION, instead of holding America's safety net programs hostage to personal tax cuts for your campaign contributors. 20 years of misrepresentation is enough...SW Ohio is begging for representation. I am one of those "small businessmen" that you claim to represent and I can think of NOTHING positive you have accomplished in your 20 years. Sorry, nothing. Your representation has actually crushed local economies in Middletown and Hamilton. I have written your office dozens of times begging for an invite to one of your "private" "invitation only" faux open houses.....my question is HOW MUCH DO I NEED TO DONATE TO BE INVITED TO ATTEND?
  • Marc Conter commented on 6/25/2012
    TRICKLE DOWN and DEREGULATION are NOT Jobs Plans. Personal income tax cuts for the wealthy does NOT create jobs or we would be swimming in them. Allowing polluters to pollute more does not create jobs, cleaning up pollution DOES CREATE jobs. I would love a public answer to these two concerns, maybe I can get an INVITATION to your next small business discussion .
  • Dennis Smith commented on 10/7/2012
    I was a Reagan democrat and went bankrupt with the 1st Bush and lost all my retirement with the second Bush. That is why I became an Independent and cut off all ties to the GOP. I am not liberal by any means and would not vote for any Tea Party member. I believe the stuff they have pulled, like compromise and refuse to work with this President and by your actions and the rest of the whole House of Reps.is almost treasonous. I vote to vote all of you out.
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