Boehner attacks Obama on deficit

WASHINGTON, June 27 (UPI) -- U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, attacked President Barack Obama on the deficit and healthcare in the GOP response to Obama's weekly address.

Boehner said unemployment continues to rise despite billions of dollars of spending under the federal stimulus program.

"And now the president admits that unemployment will soon reach double-digits," he said. "After all of this spending, after all of this borrowing from China, the Middle East, our children, and our grandchildren, where are the jobs?"

Obama, in his weekly radio and online message, focused on healthcare, called the present system "unsustainable." Boehner said Democratic healthcare plans would mean millions of U.S. residents would lose their current health care plans and doctors.

"Our nation could lose an additional 4.7 million jobs under the Democrats' healthcare proposal, based on analysis developed by White House chief economic advisor, Dr. Christina Romer," he said. "And 1 million small business jobs would be lost because of the Democrats' costly mandates."