Glenn Youngkin: The Reality Is We Didn’t Have To Be Here Where We Have This ‘Challenged Economy’

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YOUNGKIN: “Well, I agree that getting people back to work is critically important. But the reality is, we didn't have to be here where we have got this challenged economy. I mean, decisions were made in early days of the Biden administration to give up our energy independence. Decisions were made in order to encourage people to stay home and keep the economy closed. And, in fact, one of the biggest challenges we have today is labor participation. And we see labor participation down across the country. It's one of the big challenges in Virginia. We used to have nearly 67 percent labor participation. Now we're down at 63 and change. And that's a couple hundred thousand workers that have just disappeared. And we need them back. And one of the -- one of the issues that we see is that unemployment is low because these folks are not participating. And so we have got to get this economy moving in a way that reestablishes our energy independence, pulls people back into the work force, and just recognizes, until we do those two things, we're going to have a lot of challenge addressing inflation.”