John Barrasso: “Not since the early 1980s has the nation's unemployment rate been so grim for so long, a government report due Friday is…”

“Not since the early 1980s has the nation's unemployment rate been so grim for so long, a government report due Friday is likely to show. The chronic level of high unemployment shows that many Americans are still suffering, even though the government has said the recession officially ended in June 2009. The people in this country know what is happening in their own communities and their own States and do not need to be told different things by the government when they know the reality in which they are living. I believe, with Members on my side of the aisle, that one of the things you do is you don't raise taxes on anyone in this country during these economic times. We are unanimous on this side of the aisle in that position.”