Target Dems Yet to Answer: Where Are the Jobs?

Target Dems Yet to Answer: Where Are the Jobs?
As June Unemployment Approaches 10%, Target Dems Continue to Support Job-Killing Agenda

Washington- With June unemployment numbers painting a grim picture for another consecutive month, Larry Kissell’s support for his party leaders’ destructive economic agenda becomes more and more toxic. Kissell supported the $787 billion ‘stimulus’ plan, which passed a mountain of new debt onto North Carolina families and promised to create new jobs, but is yet to create any hint of economic recovery.

“Larry Kissell is running out of excuses for his ongoing support of Nancy Pelosi’s anti-jobs agenda,” said NRCC Communications Director Ken Spain. “Middle-class North Carolina families deserve a congressman who doesn’t believe that ‘economic recovery’ amounts to higher taxes and higher unemployment.”

Today, the Department of Labor announced that an additional 467,000 Americans lost their jobs in June. With North Carolina unemployment already projected at 11.1 percent (May 2009), the national unemployment rate rose yet again in June and reached a 26-year high of 9.5 percent. How much worse can it get in North Carolina?

According to the Associated Press, the country’s dire economic situation is expected to continue for the foreseeable future:

“Even if companies slow the pace of layoffs, they will be reluctant to hire until they feel certain the economy is back on its feet. That’s why economists are forecasting a continued rise in the unemployment rate over the next year. It’s expected to hit 10 percent this year.

“Many think it could rise as high as 10.7 percent by the second quarter of next year before it starts to make a slow descent. Some think the rate will top out at 11 percent.” (Jeannine Aversa, “June Jobless Rate Seen Rising to 9.6 Percent,” Associated Press, 7/2/09)

As Larry Kissell and Democrat leaders scramble to defend their job killing agenda, North Carolina families are left to wonder: where are the jobs? And how much higher will unemployment rise before Larry Kissell finally makes his constituents’ values a higher priority than Nancy Pelosi’s political agenda?