Statements about Jobs
The labor market is weak because if you count the unemployed, underemployed, and those who’ve stopped looking for work, the unemployment rate "actually went up last month to 13.5 percent."
"There are 3.6 million jobs sitting vacant, in part because there aren’t enough qualified applicants to fill them."
"After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs over the past three."
Under President Barack Obama, "8.3 (million) fewer Americans are working today than there were four years ago."
Says during George W. Bush’s administration "we were losing millions of jobs per month," while under Barack Obama we have "three years of gaining hundreds of thousands of jobs per month."
Says Barack Obama "sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China" at the cost of American jobs.
"Women in Barack Obama's White House are earning less than men."
Says GM used taxpayer dollars to prop up operations in China.
Says Mitt Romney was clear that he "would not provide government assistance to the U.S. auto companies, even if they went through bankruptcy."
"Veterans’ unemployment is actually now lower than (the) general population. It was higher when I came into office."
Says his administration has created "5 million jobs … over the last 30 months in the private sector alone."
Says Obama promised unemployment would never go above 8 percent.
"Since President Obama took office, there are over 450,000 more unemployed women."
Says Romney invested in a firm that made goods in China that "could have been made here in America."
"This is what President Obama said the jobless rate would be if we passed the stimulus: 5.6 percent."
The federal tax code has "loopholes that are giving incentives for companies that are shipping jobs overseas."
Under Barack Obama, the U.S. now has the "lowest workforce since (President Jimmy) Carter."
The Obama administration’s "green" stimulus program "funneled close to $2 billion dollars to overseas firms," creating thousands of jobs in China.
Says Obama sent $450 million to China to build a wind farm in Texas.
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