Santorum on nation's rising unemployment rate:

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum issued the following statement regarding release of monthly employment data:

"After two-and-a-half years of President Obama's failed big government agenda, we learned today that unemployment is again on the rise - now at an unacceptable 9%. Rather than continuing down the failed path of intrusive stimulus and mandates that have done nothing but explode our deficit, we need to reduce the tax and regulatory burdens that are hindering individual freedom, and allow the American entrepreneur to flourish on their own merits rather than having the government pick and choose who wins and who loses. That is the tried and true prescription for economic growth, and it is time for the President to believe in the American people again."