Statements about Workers
"You can hire lots of bureaucrats. That’s what the president’s done. He’s added 135,000 people to the government workforce."
"The only reason the unemployment rate is going down is because … twice as many people dropped out of the employment pool as the number of jobs were created."
President Barack Obama "has now spent three years proving that he kills jobs in energy, he kills jobs in manufacturing."
"The unemployment rate among (the) non-college-educated is well into the double digits in America. It's 4 percent or 5 percent for people who have college degrees."
Congressional Republicans have introduced dozens of bills on social issues and other topics, but "zero on job creation."
"More than 25 million Americans are unemployed. More than 50 million live without health insurance. Perhaps 100 million live in poverty."
Say the ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay in the U.S. is 475 to 1.
"The typical white male worker in this country is making in real terms what he was making in 1973" and "the average worker is making what they were making in 1996."
The jobs bill includes "President Obama's tax on soup kitchens"
Under President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, "you can sue if you are unemployed and don't get the job and think you weren't hired because you are unemployed."
"170,000 of the jobs" created in Texas under Gov. Rick Perry "were government jobs."
"Republicans fought to protect tax loopholes for corporations that send our jobs overseas."
"The ratio of corporate profits to wages is now higher than at any time since just before the Great Depression."
"The black unemployment rate (has) increased since the recovery has begun."
"As we've seen that federal support for states diminish, you've seen the biggest job losses in the public sector -- teachers, police officers, firefighters losing their jobs."
"There are actually half a million fewer government employees now than there were when (President Barack) Obama took office."
"Young veterans have a higher unemployment rate than people who didn’t serve."
Forty percent of union members voted Republican in 2008.
From 1947 to 1979, family incomes for rich, middle-income and poor Americans grew about the same rate. But since 1979, incomes for rich families have grown much faster.
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