March 20th, 2012

RNC Chairman on Santorum unemployment comment: He’s right

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus responds to the controversy over GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s statement that he “doesn’t care about the unemployment rate.”

Priebus says, “I think that Rick Santorum’s right. This election is about big things. It’s about liberty and freedom. We’ve got the two year anniversary of Obamacare that’s coming. This is another promise that Barack Obama made that prices would go down and access would go up. And In reality, we all know that actually prices are going up. Companies are taking waivers. That Obamacare isn’t what everyone thought it would be. And in fact it’s the opposite. And it isn’t working and it isn’t improving anything.”

He continues by saying that the election is not only going to be about “what the Department of Labor says the unemployment rate is, but it’s going to be about Obamacare, the debt, the deficit. We’ve got a Republican budget coming out today that’s going to be a very serious document on how to get our entitlement programs and our debt under control. These are the issues I think that Americans are concerned with.”

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