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Loretta Sanchez Blames Snow for Lack of Job Creation, Claims Temporary Government Jobs Are the Answer

New unemployment numbers released on Friday confirmed that Loretta Sanchez’s plan to spend hundreds of billions we do not have is not stimulating the economy. Rather than note the obvious, Sanchez instead blamed it on the record snow that happened during the survey.

“The purpose of the monthly hearing is to discern and analyze trends. Going into this one, though, record levels of snow and rain make February’s headline a foregone conclusion. ‘The numbers are going to be bad,’ warns Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., ‘because as the survey was being done, businesses were shut down.” (Capitol News Connection, March 5, 2010).

More troubling though might have been Sanchez’s lack of understanding of how badly Californians are hurting for jobs. The most recent data available shows the state’s unemployment rate at 12.3%, the fifth highest in the country. The total number of unemployed individuals in California was 2,266,000, which doesn’t include people who have stopped looking for work. Sanchez thinks more big government is the solution.

“We also know that this coming month, we’ll have about 40k jobs that the census will provide,” said Sanchez.

The Census Bureau expects that most of its employees will be out of their jobs after six weeks of employment, having worked only 19 hours each week.

“Real economic growth is not dependent on the weather or part-time jobs from a once-a-decade census count,” said Van Tran, who is running for Congress on a job creation platform. “We need to reduce the taxation and regulations that are holding back our small business and entrepreneurs. Loretta Sanchez is out of ideas and out of touch.”