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By Michael Combier-Talk Radio News Service

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) criticized the $787 billion economic stimulus package for having too many repercussions in the daily life of American middle-class taxpayers. The middle-class has been hit the hardest by measures taken by the Obama administration said Boehner during a weekly press conference in Washington.

“The pattern here is pretty clear”, said Boehner. “Every time the President makes a so-called tough decision, it is the American middle-class that gets hit the hardest... People who follow the rules, people who pay their mortgages on times, pay their credit cards on times, go to work every day, they’re the ones who” are getting hit upon every day, he said.

Boehner said that “people are really fed up and Washington is hanging up the middle-class in to dry” and require them to pay for the stimulus package, the financial bailouts of AIG and General Motors.

The usefulness of the stimulus package was questioned by Boehner with the attempt of a Georgia town to use stimulus funds “in order to lure” a company with 1,200 jobs based in Ohio.

On the recent bankruptcy of General Motors, Boehner said that the Obama administration is “going to control the board at General Motors and so the government will make the decisions... Auto companies force Americans to buy cars they don’t want to buy. This is lunacy, and all of this is going to get stuck on the back of American middle class’ taxpayers.”