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Newt Gingrich: “They promised we would peak at 8 percent unemployment and on Friday we were at 9.4 percent which is not in their budget…”

On the recordJune 7, 2009
They promised we would peak at 8 percent unemployment and on Friday we were at 9.4 percent which is not in their budget which means their budget is already wrecked because we are going to have higher unemployment, greater government expenses and less revenue than they projected because their plan has already failed.
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Newt Gingrich
Republican · Georgia

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Gingrich criticizes the government's economic projections and policies.

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