Allentown – Today, Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate increased to 9.3% while Congressman Joe Sestak continues to call for a larger stimulus bill, more debt, more taxpayer-funded bailouts, and a cap-and-trade energy tax.  It is clear that Joe Sestak’s Washington approach of massive deficit spending, huge tax increases, and more government has been an utter failure.

Just yesterday, the New York Times Magazine released a story in which Joe Sestak argues that he wants to spend more money on an even larger stimulus:

According to the New York Times Magazine: “On economic issues, his [Sestak’s] problem with the party is that it has not gone far enough . . .‘We made a political decision we didn’t want to look like we’re spending too much,’ he told me.  ‘But I say no, not when the ship’s been slammed.’”

Apparently, $3.5 trillion in deficit spending and a 9.3% unemployment rate isn’t enough for Congressman Sestak. 
“Today is another sad day for our state,” U.S. Senate candidate and former small business owner Pat Toomey said, “and a further sign that Congressman Sestak’s Washington approach is failing.  Over the past two years, Congressman Sestak has voted for more bailouts, more debt, higher taxes, bigger government, and fewer jobs.  I am proposing that we take our state and our country in a different direction – to stop the bailouts, reduce the debt, cut taxes, cut government spending, and create jobs.”