Unemployment Still Crippling Economic Recovery as House Dems and Obama Play with the Fate of Keystone Job Creating Pipeline

January 6, 2012

Unemployment Still Crippling Economic Recovery as Garamendi and Obama Play with the Fate of Keystone Job Creating Pipeline
The Keystone XL Pipeline Project will Create Thousands of New Jobs but Democrats Won’t Abandon their Job-Destroying Policies

Washington — The December national unemployment rate was announced today at the crippling rate of 8.5 percent as California families continue to wait for John Garamendi and his fellow Washington Democrats to spark economic growth in their communities. By championing job-killing, hyper-regulatory policies Garamendi has confirmed that his top priority is to keep California’s unemployment rate debilitatingly high.

“John Garamendi’s party has continuously dumped job-crushing policies on small business owners and its affects are manifested in a stagnant economy,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “Americans want to get back to work and projects like the Keystone XL pipeline will provide jobs for them, but Democrats in Washington are proving they are more interested in providing political payback than helping America’s working families.”

In December, the national unemployment rate remained unacceptably high at 8.5 percent. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 1/6/2012)

By delaying the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline and thus delaying the creation of thousands of jobs, President Obama is creating an economic environment that is starting to force job creators to lay off workers creating grave uncertainty:

“Company leaders say miles of pipe are on the property and that has caused five dozen employees to lose their jobs.

“But plans are delayed on the federal level. Now leaders say the local job market is affected.

“‘We had to make a staffing reduction with some of the temporary employees. Due to the KXL pipeline not being shipped out. We have 500 miles of pipe just sitting in the yard, expected to be shipped out, that some of the employees were working on,’ said President Dave Delie.” (Hubert Tate, “Welspun Announces Company Cutbacks,” Fox 16, 12/12/2011)

With the December unemployment rate at 8.5 percent, California families cannot see any relief in sight as John Garamendi and his Washington leaders refuse to support small business owners. John Garamendi has remained unwavering in his commitment to an agenda that has stifled job growth and burdened his constituents with a crippling unemployment race.

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