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By VAL V AN METER
Arundel New»paper« Writer
Although he has voted against the President on occasion, six-term Republican Congressman J. Kenneth Robinson is still supporting Reaganomics as he seeks re-election in the Seventh Virginia Congressional District.
In a recent press conference, Mr. Robinson, 66, urged the public to give the President's policies more time to work, and predicted an upswing in the national economy by the second quarter of 1983.
Addressing the double digit national unemployment rate, 10.1 percent, the highest since 1940, Mr. Robinson insisted that "the things that are being done have not had a full opportunity to work.”
Mr. Robinson said the Republican administration had to battle inflation, high interest rates, government spending and over-regulation in order to get at the causes of recession, and unemployment.
He compared Virginia’s unemployment rate of 7.3 percent favorably with the national rate, and insisted that the Seventh District was not doing too badly, when viewed over all. He noted that the Charlottesville area carried a 3 percent unemployed population, but appeared surprised that his home town of Winchester and Frederick County had an unadjusted August rate of 14.1 percent.
Mr. Robinson said there is no way to get unemployment down when huge federal deficits continue. The answer, says Mr. Robinson, is to do what the President has suggested and cut down on entitlement programs which just “grew and grew and grew,” to “reduce uncontrolable spending.”
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