President Obama announced yesterday that the Democrats had joined with the Republicans in agreeing to extend the temporary tax cuts first put into effect during President Bush’s first term. President Obama also said that these tax cuts would help create millions of new jobs. This is the kind of thinking by our politicians, both...
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President Obama was in India recently claiming that trade with India was good for the US workers. President Obama said that $10 billion in US exports to India would create 50,000 jobs in the US, which works out to about 5,000 jobs for each $1 billion in exports. So, is trade with India really...
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I’ve been watching some of the election results. The economy is not going to improve during the next two years, based on the policies being promoted by the newly-elected politicians that I watched. I was hoping that I would hear at least one politician say that free trade was destroying our economy, and we...
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After watching numerous TV commercials for the November 2 election, it’s obvious that our politicians are clueless when it comes to increasing jobs for American workers. The politicians are advocating things like tax cuts and using stimulus funds to build infrastructure projects. At best, they are only temporarily treating the symptoms of our economic...
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