Newt Gingrich has responded to the unemployment numbers out Friday, when unemployment fell from 8.6% to 8.5% and the economy added 200,000 new jobs:
“Three full years into the Obama presidency, and there are still 1.7 million fewer Americans going to work today than there were on Obama’s Inauguration day.
“Today’s new December unemployment figure doesn’t capture the full scale of the tragedy: almost 24 million Americans still unemployed, working part-time for economic reasons, or discouraged from looking for work.
“The Obama experiment has failed, and it is time to look to proven solutions that have successfully empowered job-creators in the past…”
From the statement, you’d never guess unemployment had dropped to the lowest level in three years — about three years after Obama took office.
