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WASHINGTON - Congressman Henry E. Brown, Jr. (R-SC) made the following statement today after the Employment Security Commission announced that South Carolina’s unemployment has risen to 11.6 percent and the state has lost over 24,000 manufacturing jobs in the past year:
“Eight months after the $787 billion stimulus bill was rammed through the House without a single Republican vote, my constituents in the First District continue to wonder, ‘where are the four million jobs this bill was supposed to save or create?’.
Since the signing of the stimulus in February, instead of being jobs created or saved, South Carolina’s unemployment has risen 6.4 percent. More specifically, the Palmetto State has lost over 24,393 manufacturing jobs in the last year after losing 5,989 the year before.
We are shedding jobs quicker than we can even begin to create them, and to add insult to injury, Democrats continue to insist on paying for their health care reform bill by further taxing small businesses- a policy that will force many to close and cost even more workers their jobs.
My Republican colleagues vow to protect small businesses and the manufacturing industry and we are calling on the President to pledge, to job creators across this nation, that he will veto any legislation that will raise their taxes.
We must work to get Americans back to work and keep small businesses open. They are the job creating engines that could provide the much-needed jump start that our economy so desperately needs.”
Congressman Brown and his Republican colleagues continue to propose better ways to rebound our economy in the forms fiscally responsible health care reform, energy policy and budget legislation and they vow to continue promoting this agenda in order to achieve the number one goal of getting Americans back to work.
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