Ted Cruz Discusses Jobs & Unemployment

for work right which is the only reason the numbers went down because need nearly fourth four hundred thousand people gave

up hope they could find work and Leno observe so abominable has a strategy for reelection which is encouraging even

more people to stop looking for work but Mr cruise the question was not is the unemployment rate they put one rippling three it is

the unemployment rate today and his job creation today better than it was when the president took office and

the answer is absolutely not when you've got the lowest rate of workforce participation in thirty years that's

unambiguous let me tell you I think the most important economic number for assessing where we are and it is one point five in

the three and a half years of president Obama's tenure GDP growth has been one point five percent historically

for the last seventy years GDP growth three point three percent so we have had nearly four years of

growth less than half the historical average by contrast in nineteen eighty four under Ronald Reagan GDP growth was

seven point two percent of what is that meaning these are abstract numbers what isn't me when the economy is growing when

small businesses are prospering they're creating new jobs people are able to find work it

it creates opportunity for everyone what we have unfortunately is small business small

business is facing crushing %HESITATION uncertainty out out to tell you the single biggest question you hear from from

and what what entrepreneurs expressed to me all over the state is this sense of great uncertainty what are the federal regulators going to Duke and

the president keeps promising to raise everyone's taxes which is which is causing small businesses to to keep

capital on the sidelines and not deployed