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The US unemployment rate was published at 8.2% for the month of May, rising a tenth of a point from April's 8.1%. Here's what several congress members had to say about it...
Representative Jeb Hensarling (R-TX5) openly blamed the leadership of President Barack Obama. He said the following: “I guess the only news this morning is that 3 ½ years later, the president's policies are still failing; 3 ½ years later, millions of Americans still remain unemployed; 3 ½ years later, millions of Americans are underemployed. Again, the president's policies continue to fail.”
Hensarling went on to enumerate his list of acts by President Obama that have caused high unemployment: “This should not be a surprise. If you threaten the single largest tax increase in America's history, much of which will fall upon small business people and entrepreneurs, you're not going to get robust economic growth. If you have an avalanche of new regulations, as have ensued under this administration, you're not going to have robust economic growth and job growth. If you go about vilifying success and free enterprise, you're not going to have robust economic growth. If you engage in serial trillion-dollar deficits -- which business people know sooner or later they're going to have to pay for -- you're not going to get robust economic growth.”
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA8) emphasized the fact that the economy has seen a total increase of 69,000 jobs in the last month. She ...
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