Congressman Dave Camp reacts to President Obama's job creation plan announced Wednesday in Washington
Michigan tops the nation in unemployment, but Wednesday a U.S. Congressman who represents Northern Michigan was among a group of Congressional leaders who met with President Obama to talk about creating new jobs.
I talked with Congressman Camp about his meeting with the President. His thoughts and the Presidents Plan are the details in this Fact Finder report.
"I obviously mentioned the difficulties in my state, in Michigan and how hard it was and that's what's driving my perspective and what we're doing is trying to come up with policies that will actually create economic growth and allow for the kind of investment that allows jobs to be created and for people to be hired," explains Congressman Dave Camp.
A major focus on both sides is small business.
"Small businesses, for example, are the engines that drive our economy so we should be able forge a consensus around a series of steps to help small businesses grow and hire new employees," President Obama announced. "Steps that include eliminating capital gains tax on small business investments along with an extension of write offs to encourage expenditures in the coming year. "
But Congressman Camp feels the President's plan does not address the root of the problem.
"The problem is people see these massive regulations in cap and trade and healthcare coming forward and tax increases on 8% tax to anyone who offers insurance and transaction taxes and capital gains taxes going up and all of the 2010 tax increases without a vote of Congress and what our point was its not just about your ideas, it's about what's in the pipeline and about what's going to be coming next year. We need to address those things," says Congressman Camp.
Diana: "There are quite a bit of proposals out there, any idea on when we can see some action?"
"Clearly the first step is to get some good ideas on the table," explains Camp. "We tried to bring some good ideas to the meeting and we are in the process of having some very critical votes for the rest of this year and hopefully those ideas will put those votes into context."
