Gaffe on Gaffe?
Ezra Klein of the Washington Post recognized very quickly that Barack Obama’s comment “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.†was a real problem. In an article in the Post called “Mitt Romney’s Misleading Attack...Just Blame Donald Trump
The American people are at tremendous odds with one another. The timeless question as to whether we as individual citizens should continue to surrender our personal liberties and become increasingly mindless drones of a government colossus has a tendency to bring out...FUD 101
It is now official. The semester is over, and the grades have been posted. Not only has the Obama Administration flunked ECON 101; they have now also summarily flunked FUD 101. The Wall Street Journal, in an editorial entitled ‘Bumps in the Road,†quoted the chief...The President’s Employment Problem
President Obama has a huge problem: jobs. As in, lack of them. As in, not creating any. He promised them on the campaign trail, and he promised them as part of the $1.2 trillion stimulus package he signed a year ago.
After one year in office, with a huge majority in Congress, he has accomplished remarkably little, which is a relief to a Conservative. He has spent an inordinate amout of time, resources and energy wrangling over socialized medicine and cap and trade, and the unemployment remains stubbornly high.
Tomorrow, employment data will be released for January. Weekly initial jobless claims for unemployment insurance has been running about 470,000, and this week the number hit 480,000. The employment sector will not grow until initial jobless claims fall below 400,000. We're still a long way off.
There are two factors in play. The President has been jawboning big business for the last three years, while on the campaign trail and since his inauguration. Business will not hire workers without some stable signs of an increase in aggregate demand, and as long as this administration sends a [...]
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