Friday, July 8, 2011

Johanns: Jobs Report Confirms Obama Is Making the Economy Worse

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) today released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Labor released its latest jobs report showing unemployment rose to 9.2 percent in June with only 18,000 added jobs, the slowest pace of hiring in nine months:
"The foundation of our economic trouble is our government's ongoing reckless spending, and in a situation demanding strong executive leadership, President Obama is failing our country," Johanns said. "The American people don't want more stump speeches and can't afford more legislation like the stimulus and health care law that have frozen up the economy. We will not get our country's fiscal house in order until everyone, Democrat and Republican, recognizes this reality and works together to cut the deficit and restore fiscal responsibility."
"This is not a matter of political rhetoric, the numbers are undeniable: the policies of the Obama Administration are making this country worse. Under the President's watch, we will add more to the public debt than every Administration from Washington to George W. Bush combined; Standard & Poor's has given a negative outlook on government credit for the first time under any President; and Congressional Democrats have failed now for 800 days to produce a budget. President Obama's course of action was to offer a budget proposal so embarrassing that not a single U.S. Senator voted for it."

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