Obama’s cold day in Denmark
Washington Times
Copenhagen was a cold town last week for the global-warming crowd. The expected reorganization of the world economy to fit the green template vanished amid blizzard conditions in a country that has had just seven white Christmases in the past century. God certainly [...]
Seasonally Adjusted Rate Down 0.2 Percentage Point from October
NASHVILLE – Tennessee Commissioner of Labor & Workforce Development James Neeley announced today Tennessee’s unemployment rate for November was 10.3 percent, down 0.2 percentage point from the October rate of 10.5 percent.
“As the year ends, we’re seeing evidence the economy is [...]
From a press release:
Tennessee Commissioner of Labor & Workforce Development James Neeley announced today Tennessee’s unemployment rate for November was 10.3 percent, down 0.2 percentage point from the October rate of 10.5 percent.
“As the year ends, we’re seeing evidence the economy is bottoming out and beginning to show some modest [...]
Hank Hayes reports:
“Agriculture traditionally was just a great engine of the economy in our state, but under this current (Bredesen) administration, it is like an afterthought,” Wamp claimed. “The Farm Bureau will tell you that. Your growers and producers will tell you that. Agriculture is not what it used [...]
Voters are buying into the argument:
More Americans believe steps taken to reduce global warming pollution will help the U.S. economy than say such measures will hurt it. It’s a sign the public is showing more faith in President Barack Obama’s economic arguments for limiting heat-trapping gases than in Republican [...]
Was I asleep when the unemployment rate went below 5%? Or perhaps the war in Afghanistan was declared a victory? Was there a complete turn around in the economy and no one told me? Did Washington finally come clean and admit they are full of male bovine excrement, and are [...]
For some the election of Barack Obama as president wasn’t what they thought it would be:
Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008. He pushed a tax plan to [...]
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TNGOP takes on Obama’s economic plan:
Spend, spend, spend – that’s the only plan Washington Democrats can come up with to fix our ailing economy. And if the spending doesn’t work – spend some more. Tennesseans want to see the spending stop and the job creation start. Families across the [...]
We're involved in two wars, our banking system has major problems, the economy is in a recession, unemployment is at a 27 year high, and "Texas Rep. Joe Barton, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee" wants his committee to: "...consider a proposal to ban the'" [...]
Harding inherited an absentee presidency [Wilson had been incapacitated by a stroke for the last 17 months of his second term] and one of the sharpest recessions in American history. By July 1921 it was all over and the economy was booming again. Harding had done nothing except cut government [...]
From NextGov.com:
A new report released Tuesday by the Center for American Progress highlights the importance of highly skilled immigrants to the U.S. economy, but argues that “arbitrary restrictions” keep companies from fully utilizing this talent pool.
[...]Surprising, he would be so explicit about what he seeks to do:
President Barack Obama called for a major new burst of federal spending Tuesday, perhaps $150 billion or more, aiming to jolt the wobbly economy into a stronger recovery and reduce painfully persistent double-digit unemployment.
Despite Republican criticism concerning record [...]
In a Chattanooga Times Free Press interview, Hamilton County Mayor Claude Ramsey discussed his upcoming campaign, the economy and consolidated services between the city and county:
Let’s do the easy ones — and none of them will be easy — but let’s do the relatively easy ones. ...Taxes kill jobs. They don’t create them.
Since taking office, President Obama has proposed massive new taxes on our ailing economy, explains Heritage tax policy analyst J.D. Foster. These taxes may come in many different forms but each of them will eventually affect every American:
Energy Tax: Cap-and-tax climate [...]The Definition of Economic Insanity
The Foundry
In January 2008, the United States economy employed 138.1 million people and the unemployment rate stood at 4.9%. But the powers in Washington thought deficit spending could boost a slowing economy, so Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) passed and President George Bush signed [...]
An aged actor would like to know:
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham recently said at a news conference that “the green economy is coming.” I couldn’t agree with him more. The signs are all around us, from studies that show green jobs are growing 2.5 times faster than conventional jobs to [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fed survey: Recovery gaining traction as shoppers spend more, factories bump up production. -- Developing.
From the Macon County Times:
Calling for action to create jobs, improve education and strengthen the economy, Carthage native Jamie Winkler has announced he is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the State House of Representatives District 40 serving Dekalb, Macon and Smith counties.
“It’s time our representatives paid attention [...]
