>LINKER: JULY JOBS REPORT FURTHER EVIDENCE ADMINISTRATION’S POLICIES INSUFFICIENT TO BOOST SAGGING ECONOMY
(Ridgewood, NJ): Conservative Republican U.S. Senate candidate from New Jersey Ian Linker issued a statement this morning about the latest monthly jobs report:
“The numbers released this morning continue to demonstrate that the Administration’s economic policies have failed – miserably. Yes, the monthly unemployment rate dipped from 9.2 to 9.1% and the economy added 115,000 jobs last month, but the drop is attributable to the chronically unemployed giving up their job search and the added jobs are insufficient to keep pace with population growth and have a real impact on the labor market.”
“The actual working population in America is at its lowest level since the early 1980s right after Jimmy Carter finished destroying the economy. The similarities between our current President and President Carter are striking. Neither President would embrace pro-growth economic policies that have proven time and again to work by adding jobs and reversing economic stagnation and their only answer to an economic crisis is more government control and more government spending.”
“The Administration and its Democratic colleagues have no idea how to reverse this perilous situation. Throwing money at the problem has not worked and this President apparently knows of no other way to fundamentally address the abysmal jobs market. The President’s job training and unemployment benefits extension proposals are simply insufficient to address the magnitude of the problem.”
“We suffer from a leadership vacuum in this country. Americans need political leaders with courage, principles, and integrity that are more concerned with the current state of the economy, than they are about raising money for their reelection campaign. Until we elect leaders of this caliber we will continue to slide down this dangerous path.”
