Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele released the following statement today:

“I welcome job growth any day, week or month of the year, but the figures released today need to be stamped with “Buyer Beware.”  While Democrats will likely cling to the slight uptick reported this month, the reality is that these numbers are greatly inflated by hundreds of thousands of government census jobs that are both temporary and based on questionable reporting. Of the 431,000 jobs reported, more than 411,000 will disappear when the census is complete. 

“The underlying fact is that 9.7 percent unemployment is unacceptable by any standard. No amount of spin will resolve the fact that the President’s policies have been a colossal failure when it comes to creating jobs.  If his speech in Pennsylvania was any indication, President Obama has no intention of slowing his high-spending, big-government agenda that prevents the private sector from creating the jobs we need to put our economy back on track.”