Mr. Boehner,
Today the Unemployment seven-month high of 9.8 percent, dampening hopes for a self-sustaining economic recovery. Given your penchant for luxury hotels, gourmet dining and exclusive golf resorts (to the tune of over $1 million in campaign cash), your reference to mopping floors in your dad’s bar room as a kid rings a bit hollow this year. But not as hollow as your five-step "plan" to save the economy that you helped wreck with massive, unfunded tax cuts for the super-rich, two unfunded wars and extreme deregulation of Wall Street. We need to manufacture things again. And your refusal to acknowledge our need to discover, innovate and lead in emerging industries, like wind turbines, solar panels, and other big ideas, is keeping us from moving forward.
Why don’t you run on your own record? NAFTA, which you voted for, has hobbled American industry. Unemployment in your district has doubled during your tenure and is now above the national average. Numerous companies have left the region and left thousands without work. Where are the jobs, Mr. Boehner? Stop blaming others for problems you helped create. Return to the district you claim to represent. Face your constituents and make your case for re-election in 2012.