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Haley's PAC

"Jobs" +
  2:11 web video from Sept. 30, 2010.

[Sound/Music] Barbour (to camera): It shouldn't take a recession for Washington to recognize that job creation's the government's number one priority.  After spending 800 billion of taxpayer dollars on their unsuccessful stimulus package, Democrats still don't have it right.  They've only created jobs for government workers, and they've done nothing for Main Street.

Washington, DC take notice: the right policies will make a difference in restarting our economic engine.  When faced with literally thousands of pages of new regulations for federal health care, financial services, and potentially the cap and trade tax, it's no wonder the private sector's afraid to make investment decisions.  Business owners and entrepreneurs are wary of future tax cuts, but that's not all.  They're afraid of excessive and unpredictable regulations, and they know out of control spending will inevitably lead to inflation and higher interest rates. 

Washington lawmakers should get to work immediately on more and better private sector jobs for Americans.  Our business community needs the confidence of financial certainty.  Instead of taxing our job creators to pay for liberal health care policies that will kill jobs, we should stand strong against raising anybody's taxes, and stop out of control spending by out of control politicians.  We must expand exports and we simply must create more private sector jobs.

In Mississippi we developed an innovative approach to using one time federal welfare funds through a subsidized employment program to create permanent private sector jobs.  While some states use these dollars to temporarily boost public sector employment, jobs that'll be gone after federal funds dry up, we were able to place workers in meaningful private employment.  Congress and the president should prioritize private sector job creation, not growing an already bloated government.  Economic growth depends on the private sector.

Notes: In addition a welcome video and this video, the PAC produced several other issue videos posted on YouTube on Sept. 30, 2010: "Energy," "Fiscal Responsibility" and "Health Care." The videos range from a bit over two minutes to a bit over five minutes long. They feature medium and MCU shots of Barbour, who is wearing a sport jacket and button up shirt but no tie, talking to the camera. Intercut are stock footage clips illustrating the theme. In late Nov. 2010 the PAC posted additional videos "Tort Reform" and "Return to Conservative Principles."