Democrats lived down the Great Society's excesses for decades. Yet today's Democrats appear unable to even get basic liberalism right. A historic progressive moment has passed. The cost is millions of jobs and over the long term, the perception of liberalism's efficacy.
Barack Obama inherited [...]
RedState, Rep Lamar Smith has an idea for getting millions of Americans back to work: Enforce immigration law and give the jobs they took back to Americans. [...] API's President Jack Gerard and Devon's CEO and Chairman Larry Nichols called the White House Jobs Summit a "missed opportunity" during a conference call with reporters this morning, and wondered why the oil and natural gas industry was not invited.
No. 1 for Business: It ain't braggin' if it's true...
Peggy Venable gives the details on Texas job creation including creating more jobs last year than the rest of the states combined. [...] 
Michael Lind has some good ideas for what President Barack Obama and Congress not only need to do for the short term, but the longer term as well.There is no god and I am his prophet. [...] W ith good reason, the prevailing economic concern of most Americans is jobs.
With this in mind, two Democratic congressmen have cooked up a plan to help us out. The strategy entails sucking another $150 billion of capital investment out of the market each year and [...]
While this is a day that tradition calls for to give thanks, there are many people in the nation for whom giving thanks -- have lost their homes, their jobs, need healthcare, depend on food pantries, have lost a loved one serving in the military, etc. -- seems an [...]
The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) released its unemployment figures for October showing that the official statewide unemployment rate continues to rise. That figure now stands at 8.2 percent, which is 56-percent higher than it was a year ago. The state has a net loss of over 110,000 jobs in the [...]
The Great Unemployment Mystery by Peter Stern Unemployment in the U.S. is at its highest rate in many decades. Apparently it is a mystery that only a Sherlock Holmes or Charlie Chan can solve because President Barack Obama has not fought significantly to bring jobs to hardly-working [...]
A congressional hearing turned ugly Thursday, thanks in large part to Rep. Kevin Brady, R-The Woodlands, who called for the resignation of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
"Conservatives agree that as point person, you failed," Brady said. "Liberals are growing in that consensus as well. For the sake of our jobs," [...]
As the policy debate has unfolded in Washington this year, voters have consistently believed that tax cuts would do more than increased government spending to stimulate the economy and create jobs. Now that the nation’s unemployment rate has reached 10.2%, voters continue to hold that [...]
On his trip to in Beijing, President Obama was asked the following:
Right before you left for this trip in Asia, you announced that you were going to convene a jobs summit. This smacks of one of those classic Washington answers to a tough problem: convene [...]
During the Rush Limbaugh program today, Limbaugh was discussing the stimulus package. He discussed the idea that the Obama administration would give a tax credit of $3,000 for each American job created by a small business. He claimed this was not incentive enough to actually create any jobs, but [...]
That's right, an elected official [...]
WHAT A FUCKING PUTZ...
“It is foremost on his mind and the mind of the economic team,” Emanuel said of deficit reduction in comments yesterday at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council conference in Washington.
Fucktard. IN A RECESSION LIKE THIS, YOU WORRY ABOUT JOBS. YOU WORRY [...]
"I'm not going to miss important votes," Hutchison said after formally [...]
Collin County employees are not protected by any form of civil service. Many work directly for elected department heads and judges. Those employees pretty much serve at the will of the elected official - their jobs could be called political appointments.
