Wrong for Pennsylvania

With just 25 days until Election Day, the non-partisan Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today that the American economy lost 95,000 more jobs in September and national unemployment remained at 9.6 percent as liberal U.S. Representative Joe Sestak’s (D-PA) $787 billion stimulus continued to fail to create the much-needed jobs he promised.

The Associated Press reports:

A wave of government layoffs in September outpaced weak hiring in the private sector, pushing down the nation's payrolls by a net total of 95,000 jobs.

The unemployment rate held at 9.6 percent last month, the Labor Department said Friday. The jobless rate has now topped 9.5 percent for 14 straight months, the longest stretch since the 1930s.

Upon ramming the bill into law, Sestak promised his costly stimulus would “save and create millions of jobs.”  But since then, the nation’s unemployment rate has skyrocketed from 8.2 percent to 9.6 percent.

Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports that Sestak’s stimulus debacle sent more than 89,000 payments worth millions of dollars to deceased individuals and prisoners, and a recent government report revealed that the bill spent taxpayer money on a number of non-job related projects, including a study to determine how monkeys react to cocaine; $2 million to examine exotic ants; a system to purchase cell phones for smokers trying to quit, and $760,000 for a computerized choreography program, among other wasteful endeavors.

“Today’s report is yet another reminder that Joe Sestak’s reckless spending in Washington has failed to create much-needed jobs for Pennsylvanians, while driving our national debt past $13.6 trillion,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokeswoman Amber Marchand.  “As Pennsylvanians struggle with the longest stretch of high unemployment since the Great Depression, there’s no doubt they are ready for a change, which is why they will elect Pat Toomey as their next U.S. Senator.”