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Why The Unemployment Rate Is Dropping

February 5, 2012

We had a pretty good jobs report in January, with 243,000 jobs created. That's a good sign…but only if it continues. If we created 240,000 jobs every month, that would be 2.88 million jobs created over a year's time. Not too bad. If that continues for several YEARS, we'll be in decent shape, so I'm [...]

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Quotable Quotes

November 11, 2011

The Lord Of The Flies movement takes baby steps… All Animals Are Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others: “We need to limit the amount of food we’re putting out to curb the influx of derelicts.” – OWS kitchen volunteer Rafael Moreno All Animals Are Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others, Part [...]

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Shared Stupidity

August 15, 2011

President Obama talks about closing corporate tax loopholes and taxing companies who move profits offshore. He calls this 'shared sacrifice". This kind of talk makes for a good class warfare political talking point, and Obama repeats this kind of stuff endlessly, but there's much Obama fails to tell us. Some of what Obama conveniently forgets [...]

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Finally, A Democrat Deficit Reduction Plan

July 10, 2011

The Democrats in Congress may not be able to do their jobs and produce a budget, but they have finally been embarrassed into producing a plan to address our record deficits. All hail the Democrats ! It's about time, since the Dems control the Executive Branch and the Senate. In other words, the Dems are [...]

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Hating On Kasich

July 5, 2011

Since Republican John Kasich became the Governor of Ohio in January, he has made a lot of enemies. The unions hate him. The press hates him. The education establishment hates him. It goes without saying that Democrats hate him. According to the letters to the editor I read in the Akron Beacon Journal, lots of [...]

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A Right To Work ?

May 12, 2011

Recently, the Boeing Corporation announced plans to build a $1 billion commercial jet production plant in South Carolina. With the national unemployment rate at 9%, and manufacturing jobs leaving America in droves, it's certainly good news that Boeing is building it's new plant right here in the good old USA, eh ? While it may [...]

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Fixing Ohio

March 25, 2011

Before we get around to fixing Ohio, we have to identify Ohio's problems. 1) Ohio has an $8 billion budget shortfall. Here's how the Cleveland Plain Dealer described the problem last March: COLUMBUS, Ohio — The state of Ohio is steering straight toward a cliff. At the bottom of that cliff is a hole nearly [...]

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Finally, Good News On Unemployment

March 5, 2011

Republicans took away the Democrats 4-year long congressional majority in January 2011. During those 4 years of total Democrat control of Congress, we lost about 6.7 million jobs and ran up like $5 trillion in debt. The numbers are so crazy high that I can't even keep track anymore. Good job, Democrats. If we ever [...]

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Unemployment Nonsense

February 5, 2011

The official unemployment rate dropped from 9.4% to 9.0% in January. Here's the good news from the Bureau Of Labor Statistics (BLS): The unemployment rate (9.0 percent) declined by 0.4 percentage point for the second month in a row. (See table A-1.) The number of unemployed persons decreased by about 600,000 in January to 13.9 [...]

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The Keynesians Failed, Let's Try What Works

January 5, 2011

When President Obama took office during the depths of the recession, unemployment was 7.6%. Now, two years later, after trillions of dollars of Keynesian-style government spending to stimulate the economy, unemployment stands at 9.7%. Millions of jobs were lost as we simultaneously accumulated trillions of dollars in new debt. That is failure on a colossal [...]

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GOP Plans Attack

January 3, 2011

When the new Congress convenes, the GOP-led House is planning to move on several fronts. 1. They are going to try to repeal ObamaCare: The new Republican-controlled House plans to schedule a vote to repeal the sweeping health care overhaul before President Barack Obama delivers his annual State of the Union address late this month, [...]

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Does The Government Create Jobs ?

October 19, 2010

There is an editorial in today's Akron Beacon Journal written by Mark K. Cassell, an associate professor of political science at Kent State University, titled 'Guess what? Government really does create jobs, millions of them'. Cassell takes issue with statements made by several Republicans that the government does not create jobs. Here's the professor's first [...]

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