Hultgren Statement On September Jobs Report

ST. CHARLES – The Randy Hultgren for Congress campaign issued the following statement today after the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 95,000 jobs were lost during the month of September.



“95,000 more Americans were handed a pink slip last month, and everyone is asking ‘when is this bleeding of jobs going to end?’” said State Senator Randy Hultgren, Republican candidate for Congress. “Bill Foster’s tenure in Congress has been nothing but a disappointment; the Foster-Pelosi economic agenda of spending, taxes and regulation has failed to get our economy moving and Illinoisans back to work.



“Bill Foster voted for the hundreds of billions of dollars of the so-called ‘stimulus’, which, we were told, would keep unemployment below 8 percent. The reality, however, is that unemployment has hovered just below 10 percent for more than a year, but Bill Foster continues to insist that the ‘stimulus’ worked.



“Bill Foster voted for every single spending bill, spending billions wastefully, but that didn’t stop the bleeding. He voted twice for a healthcare bill that has made small business owners uncertain, even fearful, and that has discouraged them from investing, expanding, or hiring, but that did nothing to control the cost of healthcare for struggling families. Bill Foster let Congress come home without voting on taxes, so that now working families and small business owners have no idea how much they’ll owe the IRS.



“It is painfully obvious that Bill Foster is part of the problem in Washington, and news that we’ve lost 95,000 more jobs is simply more evidence of that. The first step to putting Americans back to work will be putting an end to the Foster-Pelosi program of spending and economic stagnation.”