Larry Kissell’s Job-Killing Policies Keep Unemployment High & Destroy North Carolina’s Chance at Economic Recovery
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Larry Kissell’s Job-Killing Policies Keep Unemployment High & Destroy North Carolina’s Chance at Economic Recovery
Doing What He Does Best, Kissell Plays Political Games with North Carolina Families’ Futures Washington — Today, the November unemployment rate in North Carolina remained unacceptably high at 10.0 percent. Middle-class families cannot wait for Larry Kissell and his fellow Congressional Democrats to end their political game playing and do what it takes to secure an environment for economic growth. Kissell threatens struggling North Carolinians with many more months plagued with severely high unemployment as he pursues his job-killing agenda in Washington. “Nothing is worse than inflicting a sense of uncertainty on job creators at a time when they need to be encouraged to grow,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “It is appalling that North Carolinians have been given no incentives to create new jobs thanks to Larry Kissell’s failed economic policies. Tax increases and burdensome regulations are the staples of Kissell’s job-crushing tenure that will come to an end when voters in North Carolina retire him next year.” In November, the North Carolina unemployment rate remained sky high at 10.0 percent. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 12/20/11) Discouraged Americans have given up looking for work and are no longer factored into the unemployment rate making the real unemployment rate closer to 11 percent and the underemployment rate around 20 percent: “In that sense, the real unemployment rate — the apples-to-apples unemployment rate — is probably 11 percent. And the real un- and underemployed rate — the so-called “U6″ — is near 20 percent.” (Ezra Klein, “Wonkbook: The Real Unemployment Rate is 11 Percent,” The Washington Post, 12/12/2011)
Projects like the Keystone XL Pipeline are key to economic rejuvenation and American families are watching environmental radicals influence Democrat leaders as their Washington priorities gamble with potentially 130,000 new jobs: “Environmental groups have been protesting the pipeline that would run from Alberta oil sands to Texas refineries, and there have been rumblings that greens would abandon Obama next fall if he approved it. At the same time, labor unions have backed the pipeline, arguing that it would create badly needed jobs for American workers.” (Dan Berman and Darren Goode, “Obama punts Keystone XL pipeline,” Politico, 11/10/11)
North Carolina families want to see Larry Kissell champion job-creating policies and not continue to condemn them to live in uncertainty. North Carolina workers don’t want Kissell’s excuses, they want an answer to the question: where are the jobs? ###
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