Newt Gingrich: Obama's long job recession is unprecedented!

Compare the Obama employment numbers for May with Ronald Reagan in the same month of his first term or with Mitt Romney at the end of his four years as governor of Massachusetts and you will see why the president is in such deep trouble with the American people.

On Friday, we learned that the economy added just 69,000 jobs in May — disappointing by any standard and absolutely unprecedented this far into the “recovery.” The numbers meant that all but a tiny fraction of the nearly 13 million Americans officially counted as unemployed continued in a state of personal crisis last month, unable to find jobs in the Obama economy. We know that millions more have simply stopped looking for work."

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