RNC Women

As Americans all over the country mark the end of summer this weekend with Labor Day celebrations, we ought to make time to remember those that the Obama Administration’s “Recovery Summer” has left behind. 

On this Labor Day, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 14.9 million people in America find themselves unemployed.  The unemployment rate of 9.6 percent has shown little change since August, and many projections predict it will go even higher in the next year.  

Of the nearly 15 million unemployed, 6.2 million people have been unemployed for 27 weeks, more than two years, or more.  Not counted in the unemployment numbers are about 8.9 million Americans who are working part-time for economic reasons. 

These are the people that the Obama Administration has failed.  These are the people left behind despite the Obama Administration’s promises that their stimulus bill would “save or create” millions of jobs, and their borrowing of hundreds of billions of dollars to spend on flawed stimulus spending.  

America’s unemployed, and the working families struggling to make ends meet, deserve better from their elected leaders.  They deserve a Congress that will lighten their burden by providing tax relief, not levying new tax hikes.  They deserve a Congress that will create an environment for business to grow, not adding miles of new red tape that stifles economic growth. 

There is much to remember this Labor Day.  And there is much to do between now and November to make sure that we have a real recovery to celebrate at this time next year.