Bill Flores Unemployment Rate is Totally Unacceptable

STATEMENT: Flores: Unemployment Rate is Totally Unacceptable Amid Massive Spending and the Failed Stimulus, Unemployment is Rising.

BRYAN, TX – Bill Flores, the Republican nominee for Congress in Texas’ 17th District, released the following statement today amid the jobs report showing that the national unemployment rate has increased to 9.6 percent:

“Today we received yet another discouraging sign about our economy, as the national unemployment rate increased to 9.6 percent in August. While Democrats have promised a “Recovery Summer,” the truth is that 283,000 jobs were lost during the summer. It is clear to all Americans that the job killing agenda of Obama and Pelosi, which Congressman Chet Edwards has supported, is damaging our economy and hurting middle class families.

“The so-called stimulus bill, which cost $814 billion, has failed to keep unemployment below 8 percent as the White House promised it would. Since the bill passed, unemployment has increased in all 12 counties in this District, and across the country we have lost over 2.5 million jobs.

“If I am elected to Congress, we will defund (and eventually repeal) Obamacare, kill Cap and Trade, cut spending, extend current tax rates (by preventing the largest tax increase in history) and begin to grow our economy and spur private sector job creation.” # # #

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