1: Job Creation
Getting Americans Back to Work Other Information:
The best jobs program is economic growth. We do not offer yet another made-in-Washington package of subsidies and spending
to create temporary or artificial jobs. We want much more than that. We want a roaring job market to match a roaring economy.
Instead, what this Administration has given us is 42 consecutive months of unemployment above 8 percent, the longest period
of high unemployment since the Great Depression. Republicans will pursue free market policies that are the surest way to boost
employment and create job growth and economic prosperity for all. In all the sections that follow, as well as elsewhere in
this platform, we explain what must be done to achieve that goal. The tax system must be simplified. Government spending and
regulation must be reined in. American companies must be more competitive in the world market, and we must be aggressive in
promoting U.S. products abroad and securing open markets for them. A federal-State-private partnership must invest in the
nation’s infrastructure: roads, bridges, airports, ports, and water systems, among others. Federal training programs have
to be overhauled and made relevant for the workplace of the twenty-first century. Potential employers need certainty and predictability
for their hiring decisions, and the team of a Republican President and Congress will create the confidence that will get Americans
back to work.
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