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On the recordNovember 12, 2003
The number keeps coming up about 3 million jobs being lost in this administration since this administration took office. I want to share with you a chart that looks at the survey of the U.S. employment level. This includes everybody. The numbers that the Democratic leader referred to do not include everyone. It was a different survey of jobs. This is the most comprehensive one. You can see from this comprehensive survey, here we are: the most jobs in the history of the United States. If these include all the jobs, whose jobs does the Democratic leader say don't count? What jobs don't count, according to the Democrats? If you are self-employed, if you are an individual doing work, you don't count. The Democratic leader is not going to count you as someone who is working. If you are a domestic worker or you work for a private household, you don't count--you are not a worker; you don't have a job. If you are self-employed, if you are a domestic worker for a private household, you don't count. If you work on a farm, you don't count. If you are someone who works--it is probably some of the hardest work that is done in this country--on a farm, according to the Democratic leader, your job doesn't count. If you work in a family-run business part time, you don't count.
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Rick Santorum
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Discussing job statistics and employment during a speech on the Senate floor.

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