>Linker: Menendez’s Policies Have Failed Minority Workers
(Ridgewood, NJ): Conservative Republican U.S. Senate candidate from New Jersey Ian Linker issued the following statement criticizing Senator Robert Menendez’s policies, which have failed to create and actually destroy jobs resulting in continuing high unemployment rates in New Jersey and across America.
“With unemployment exceeding 16% among African Americans and approaching 12% among Latinos nationwide, Senator Menendez’s progressive policies have failed the minority communities he claims to support. Increasing taxes on small business owners filing as individuals as Menendez proposes will cause more unemployment. Massive spending bills supported by Menendez have caused ballooning deficits and mountains of debt and did little, if anything, to grow the economy and create jobs. In fact, 1.9 million fewer Americans have jobs since Menendez and the Democratic-controlled Congress passed President Obama’s so-called stimulus bill.”
“Amnesty for illegal aliens, supported aggressively by Menendez, takes jobs from American citizens and documented aliens and creates an environment in which the rule of law is overlooked merely to further apolitical agenda.”
“Imposing a punitive tax increase on oil companies as Menendez proposes is just bad policy – whether or not it’s popular – because it will end up causing more pain at the pump, especially for the unemployed. The moratorium on off-shore drilling, also supported by Menendez, kept the cost of oil high and killed American jobs. Down the line, Bob Menendez supports, and has voted for, policies that negatively affect the minority communities he claims to support and have had a deleterious effect on the U.S. economy as a whole. It’s time to reverse course and pass a pro-growth and pro-jobs agenda.”
