After 42 straight months with unemployment above eight percent, CNN says “there are still fewer people working now than when Obama took office.”

Under the Obama administration, wages are stagnant, gas prices are rising, our national debt has eclipsed $16 trillion, and The Hill reports that “the United States is losing ground when it comes to competing in the global economy.”

“Never since World War II has the economy been so slow to recover all the jobs lost in a downturn,” says AP.

And yet President Obama and Democrats are demanding a small business tax hike that would destroy another 700,000 jobs, according to a nonpartisan study by Ernst & Young.

Does this sound like the time for a massive tax hike on middle class families and small businesses?

The House passed a bipartisan bill to stop all of the president’s tax hikes – it’s one of more than 30 House-passed jobs bills still awaiting a vote by Senate Democrats. You can see the full list here.

A majority of Americans believes the country is worse off today under President Obama. As Speaker Boehner said yesterday, “the American people know we can do better.” Learn more at jobs.GOP.gov.