High Unemployment Rate Reflects Shuler’s Job-Crushing Policies
North Carolina Democrat is Running Out of Excuses Following Yet Another Month of Sky High Unemployment
Washington — As Heath Shuler continues to provide nothing but failed leadership and empty rhetoric to struggling middle-class families, the unemployment rate in North Carolina rose even higher to 10.5 percent for the month of September. Shuler and Obama’s out-of-control spending and commitment to job-destroying regulations continues to stand in the way of fiscal responsibility and private sector job creation.
“The devastatingly high September unemployment numbers once again expose Heath Shuler as someone who puts his party’s failed economic agenda ahead of North Carolina families,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “After wasting over one trillion taxpayer dollars on their first stimulus that failed to create jobs, Shuler and his party are now asking Americans to sacrifice more of their hard-earned money to satisfy the Democrats’ big-government addiction. Meanwhile, North Carolinians continue to ask: where are the jobs?”
North Carolina unemployment rose even higher to 10.5 percent in September. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 10/21/2011)
Under Washington Democrats’ job-impeding policies and inability to grow the economy, the number of unemployed workers is registered at 14 million but that does not include the 9.3 million Americans that are considered “underemployed”:
“Put together, almost 26 million Americans are either unemployed, marginally attached to the labor force, or involuntarily working part-time—a number experts say is unprecedented”.
“Economists say the high number of underemployed workers is a sign of the tough economic times.”
(Ben Baden, “An Unprecedented 26 Million Americans Are Now Underemployed,” U.S. News & World Report, 10/20/2011)Even when the unemployment rate in North Carolina rose even higher to 10.5 percent in September, Democrats are echoing Obama’s demand to call for more failed stimulus spending that is merely a short term fix that does not ensure job creation. North Carolina deserves better than Heath Shuler, who refuses to stop promoting his failed political agenda that is keeping them out of work.