The Virginia Employment Commission reported on Friday that
Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined 0.1% to 5.6%. The
most recent drop marks the fourth consecutive monthly decline.
Gov. McDonnell quickly turned the most recent figures into a
political victory, stating that the employment figures are evidence that
“Virginia is growing strong again.”
The employment commission also noted that Virginia’s
unemployment rate has been declining since January 2010, the same month that
Gov. Tim Kaine handed over the keys to the Governor’s Mansion to Bob McDonnell.
So unless Gov. McDonnell’s election victory triggered an
automatic trend down in Virginia’s unemployment rate, Gov. Kaine has to be
given just as much credit for Virginia’s employment success as McDonnell wants
to give himself.
Tim Kaine did not, however, have to enforce barbaric
abortion laws and restrict the civil rights[1]
of Virginians to achieve economic success like Gov. McDonnell has done. What
economic success Gov. McDonnell has achieved in Virginia, then, has come at a
price to the individual liberties of Virginians.
Economic success at any cost is not the way forward for
Virginia. Virginia needs solid leadership and a vision to continually allow the
best in Virginian’s to manifest itself in our economy. McDonnell offers
neither.
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