New Jersey Unemployment Surges to 9.2%Senator Joseph Kyrillos, senior Republican on the Senate Economic Growth Committee, said today's report that New Jersey's unemployment rate surged to 9.2 percent in June shows the state is paying a terrible price for Trenton's inexcusable neglect of economic development over the last eight years. In addition to having the highest unemployment rate in the region, Kyrillos noted that New Jersey led the nation in new jobless claims during the week of June 27."Increasingly grim reports show the painful consequences of eight years of leaders who have deliberately turned their backs on the businesses that create jobs," Kyrillos said. "New Jersey's unemployment rate continues to be far higher than any neighboring state's because Trenton enacted policy after policy that discouraged private sector job creation."Unemployment was well above 10 percent in numerous New Jersey cities during the first quarter including Atlantic City (14%), Trenton (18%), and Newark (13%), Kyrillos noted with sadness."Residents of our urban areas pay the highest price in suffering for the governor's neglect of economic development," Kyrillos said. "This Legislature should be in session today debating economic development measures that will start to bring jobs to our state's cities."Governor Corzine should start the session by calling for the repeal of excessive business taxes and apologizing for the state's clumsy mismanagement of economic development efforts during his administration," Senator Kyrillos said.Web: www.senatenj.com Twitter: twitter.com/senatenj YouTube: youtube.com/senatenj Facebook: senatenj.com/facebook
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“She has already chosen the interests of the insurance industry over the health care needs of working people, she took millions from Wall Street as the economy went into a meltdown, and now she wants to purchase a job in Congress at a time when so many have lost their jobs because of the actions of big bankers and others." -- Monmouth County Democrats spokesman Mike Mangan, on Republican Diane Gooch, who is challenging U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone.
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Hey, Joe since when did you care?
You have never been for anything but reelection and taking power. You use sound bites in an effort to win control but the motives have never been to fix problems only so the Republicans get their turn to raid the public trough, waste the money, give out the jobs and pad their pensions. Do you think we are stupid? You were there and in control when the State started to go to crap.
How about making a contract with New Jersey? May I suggest this:
We the Republican candidates for Governor, the Assembly and State Senate, take a solemn oath that if you the electorate give us a majority in both the Assembly and State Senate, we will post and pass the following:
Additionally, I Christopher Christie promise that I would sign all of these bill into law without hesitation.
We, each signatory, agree that if you the voters give us the majority, we owe you these enumerated measures and that failure to comply with this contract will be deemed a felony under the RICO fraud statutes. Minimum penaly is loss of Elected Office and Pensions and Benefits that are attached to the that office.
(Inserte signatures of all 121 Republican candidates)
Have a signing event on the steps of the NJEA across from the State House and make every Republican Candidate sign it.
Without drastic measures like this, you will never get New Jersey competative again.
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