Chip Forrester has much love for Phil Bredesen:
Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester applauds Gov. Phil Bredesen for using federal stimulus dollars to create much-needed jobs in Lauderdale County where the unemployment rate is nearly 19 percent, the highest in the state.
“Gov. Bredesen’s unique plan to use that money [...]
When are we going to snap out of our stupor!?!? At least the Australians will report this kind of stuff. It would be nice if our media will start actually doing their jobs, instead of kissing Obama’s hind end on a daily basis!
Shared by KathLop.
[...]Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen plans to use federal stimulus money to create 175 jobs in Lauderdale County, which has the state’s highest unemployment rate.
Bredesen said Wednesday that the jobs include 50 highway maintenance worker positions within the state Transportation Department and 125 positions that will be filled [...]
Good thing they did a study because I would have totally thought the opposite:
They’re on the frontline of the workday world – filling our coffee cups, trimming our hair, holding Sunday open houses – but workers in some service jobs in Tennessee are at a higher risk of not [...]
From the senior senator:
“Bart Gordon’s leadership on science, technology, and education has been hugely important to the Tennessee Valley and to our country. I have especially valued working with him to enact the ‘America COMPETES’ legislation, which will help create good new jobs for our future. Bart should be proud [...]
Rep. Blackburn: “If President Obama has his way, the Copenhagen conference will produce mandatory emissions limits that would destroy millions of American jobs and damage our economic competitiveness for decades to come.” From the Congressman’s blog:
I think this “jobs summit” is an admission by the President that the first stimulus hasn’t worked. Remember, he promised us that if it was immediately passed by Congress, unemployment would not go above 8%. Now economists are telling us we are in the midst of [...]
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama outlined new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals Tuesday, saying the nation must continue to "spend our way out of this recession" until more Americans are back at work. -- More.
UPDATE: Sens. John McCain and Tom Coburn are singling out 100 examples of [...]
State auditors say that a City of Knoxville Department of Parks and Recreation employee had youths participating in a summer work program doing jobs on his personal property rather than on city parks. -- More from Tom Humphrey.
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Loads of crock: [...] Betsy Phillips just isn’t sure about all this:
But there’s something fundamentally wrong with building attractions for people who have jobs to fly in and play in while our children suffer from shitty educations and the prospects of people in our state getting to have jobs that fly them places [...]
A press release from Mark DeVol, the lone independent candidate in the Third District race:
At the recent jobs summit, President Obama commented: Despite the progress we've made, many businesses are still skittish about hiring. Some are still digging themselves out of the losses they incurred over the past year. Many have' [...]
The Matt Collins story examined:
[T]he Republican establishment looks askance at the Ron Paul revolutionaries as nut jobs and conspiratorialists. The job of a “leader” in that movement is to be an activist while at the same time making the establishment comfortable — putting them at ease while building numbers [...]
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 [...]
