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.
It sounds tailor-made for a GOP ad:
Unemployment hits 9.4 percent. President Obama flies to France.
Joblessness reaches 9.7 percent. Obama jets off to Denmark.
The rate of those out of work soars to 10.2 percent. Obama packs his [...]
I am so pleased to report that my home community, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas, ranked fourth in U.S. metros in it's ability to create and sustain jobs by the 2009 Milken Institute/Greenstreet Real Estate Partners Best-Performing Cities Index.
