Natalie Gonnella
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With an unemployment rate of 9.1 percent and just 54,000 jobs added last month, GOP freshmen had a lot to say about the anaemic pace of job creation and the Democrats' continued disregard for major barriers impacting business growth, private sector investment and economic recovery.
While the Obama administration has downplayed the magnitude of yesterday's report, here's a look at what a number of Republican newbies had to say about the latest economic findings:
Not only is the unemployment rate going up again, but the number of long-term unemployed increased by 361,000 to 6.2 million Americans. These are families, not statistics, and we need to do all that we can to help get them back to work...The big government approach of more regulations, higher costs of doing business, more government spending and record budget deficits has not worked. A strong economic recovery and lower unemployment requires new, pro-growth policies
We’re now in the third year of a failed economic policy – and yet the White House and Senate Democratic leaders refuse to change. They cling to the “borrow and spend” strategy that has produced nothing but deeper debt and deficits...I regret that the unemployment rate reversed course and rose last month. I also regret that the White House and Senate leadership refuse to reverse course as well, and steer us away from ongoing economic failure.
Renewed economic worries frustrate all of us, but for a job seeker or a family watching the value of their home plummet, the lack of progress is especially frustrating. The economic policies that the White House implemented have failed. House Republicans will continue to push for pro-growth policies that will lead to job creation and investment, including the Plan for America’s Job Creators that we released last week. We have a choice: We can double down on President Obama’s failed economic policies or we can implement the House Republican plan that will lead to more jobs and a stronger future for America.
These disappointing numbers clearly show the failure of the Obama economic record. Instead of focusing on genuine incentives for job creation, the President has continued to pursue a job-destroying, Washington knows best approach. I hope the President recognizes that it is time to focus on reforms that encourage private sector investment and real growth. A credible plan to restrain spending and restore confidence must be enacted now. Republicans are ready to seriously address these problems, but we're waiting for a willing partner. The American people should not have to wait any longer.
The abysmal May jobs report is just another link in a disappointing chain of bad economic news. The rise in unemployment is proof President Obama’s plan to spend our way out of an economic crisis is just plain bad policy. As a small business owner, I know to restore faith in our economy we need a long term economic plan that focuses on reducing our national debt, encourages private-sector job creation, and reforms the way Washington does business. An economic plan that lowers taxes, reduces burdensome regulations on small businesses and farms, and stops smothering future generations with mounds of suffocating debt. America can pull itself out of this economic hole if the government stops obstructing growth.
While the President and Democrats play political games with the American people – our families, friends, and neighbors continue to lose their jobs. We have over 9% unemployment and the lowest job creation in 8 months because the President has a disastrous energy policy...Our economy can’t deal with Washington’s wasteful spending and uncertainty. And small businesses can’t afford the Democrats’ tax increases. If we are ever to see economic recovery and job creation, the President must follow the will of the American people and join House Republicans to reduce the debt, remove unnecessary regulations, and enact a robust domestic energy policy.
[May's] unemployment numbers are just the latest indication that the policies of President Obama and Democrats in Congress have tied the hands of small business owners and job creators with burdensome regulations and backward fiscal policies that have stalled the economy, slowed innovation, and destroyed jobs...Getting our economy growing again and helping small business owners and entrepreneurs create jobs is my top priority. That’s why I recently launched Red Tape Rollback in partnership with the Indiana Chamber of Commerce. Burdensome and unnecessary federal regulations are job killers, especially at a time when many businesses are struggling just to get by.
Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle
The number one issue in this Nation remains jobs and the economy. Today’s unemployment numbers indicates that we are still very much in trouble and affirms that President Obama’s stimulus plan is an abject failure...To revive the economy and to unleash the private sector to create jobs, we must lower the corporate tax rates, the highest in the world. We must lift the hidden tax of regulation and stop pointless and counterproductive government spending. Lower taxes, smaller government and less government red tape is the formula for economic growth.
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