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• You Were Duped

  —From On High

  How quickly we went from "hope and change" to "elected" and "business as usual":
  Lobbyists on pace for record year
  By Victoria McGrane, Politico
  
  Main Street has had a tough year, losing jobs and seeing little evidence of the economic revival that experts say has already begun.
  
  But [...]

  Posted: December 22, 2009, 6:39am EST
  

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• Reauthorization update (12/21)

  —Virginia Intelligent Transportation Systems

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  We are now operating under an extension that runs through February 28th. The extension was in the Defense Appropriations bill which passed the Senate on Saturday and should be signed into law by the President shortly. Funding levels are authorized at the 2009 rescinded level.The jobs bill contains a one-year [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 11:34am EST
  by Jon Sorensen - ITS Engineer

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• Minor Deficit Reduction Over Creating Jobs? No Thanks!

  —Blue Virginia

  Let me just state at the outset of this discussion that I believe it's important for our country to reduce its structural, long-term budget deficit. This deficit, of course, is driven largely by rising health care costs and pensions for an aging (and not particularly healthy) population, plus the [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 12:11pm EST
  

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• Our Best Guvnah Evah

  —From On High

  In a piece in the Roanoke Times about soon-to-be Governor Bob McDonnell's pledge to focus on job creation in economically depressed Martinsville (don't bother reading it; he offers no specifics other than to pledge to bring jobs to economically depressed ...), I found one bit of information highly informative. ' [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 7:13am EST
  

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• House Approves Creation Of Twelve More Jobs

  —From On High

  US House approves $155 billion jobs bill
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 4:32am EST
  

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• What Else Will Cantor Cut?

  —Where's Eric Cantor?

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  We all got a downright frightening preview of what Eric Cantor and the Bush Republicans will offer America if they are restored to power.  Thinking people (i.e., non-teabaggers) will be terrified. Eric Cantor attacked legislation to provide jobs and relief for millions of unemployed Americans by attacking programs such as unemployment [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 7:08pm EST
  by Brad

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• Lowering the Minimum Wage to Help Recovery

  —Virginia Right!

  

  A Lower Minimum Wage Will Help

  
  Proponents of higher and higher minimum wage mandates understand that the higher wages demanded by law will cost jobs. But they don’t care. To them, fewer jobs at higher wages are preferable.

  But is it?

  In these times [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 11:07am EST
  by Tom White

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• Voices from Copenhagen - Wind Energy Jobs

  —Article XI : To Preserve and Protect

  Sierra Club's Virginia Chapter Director, Glen Besa, is in Copenhagen for the UN Climate Change conference.  Last week he had the opportunity to take a boat tour of Middelgrunden (Denmark) offshore wind farm.  Glen recorded this 1 minute video interview with Jakob Lau Hoist with the Danish Wind Industry Association [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 12:49pm EST
  

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• Whipple Clip Dozen: Sunday Morning

  —Blue Virginia

  Thanks to Tom Whipple for the Sunday "Clips."
  
  1. KAINE TO FORCE TOUGH CHOICES ON MCDONNELL
  2. BUSINESS GETS BIG ROLE IN MCDONNELL TRANSITION
  3. BOB MCDONNELL STOPS IN DANVILLE TO THANK AREA SUPPORTERS
  4. MCDONNELL: BUDGET SHORTFALL COULD REDUCE NUMBER OF STATE JOBS
  6. [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 6:21am EST
  

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• They Say We’re Smart in Fairfax County

  —Virginia Virtucon

  A “Recycled” Joke? A few weeks ago I took some oil from my lawnmower to the recycle center just off I-66 in Fairfax.  (Yes, my yard equipment has four-cycle engines, not those two-cycle oil-burning Trabi jobs.)  The County authorities have put in a lot of money to repave the roadway, mark [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 10:50pm EST
  by isophorone

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• 7.3 million private sector jobs lost but Fed workers doing "Just Fine"...

  —RightsideVA

  
  "Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector.".USA TODAY newspaper has an interesting article on how well the federal worker segment of our workforce is [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 10:35pm EST
  

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• They Say We’re Smart in Fairfax County

  —Isophorone

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  A “Recycled” Joke?

  A few weeks ago I took some oil from my lawnmower to the recycle center just off I-66 in Fairfax. (Yes, my yard equipment has four-cycle engines, not those two-cycle oil-burning Trabi jobs.) The County authorities have put in a lot of money to repave [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 10:29pm EST
  by Isophorone

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• Perriello Lies About CBO Report

  —Virginia's 5th District

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  Congressman Perriello is spreading untruths concerning a CBO report on stimulus spending. Perriello tweeted: “encouraged by CBO report that says stimulus has created(emphasis mine) btw 600k and 1.6M jobs, raised GDP by 1.2-3.2%” When in actuality the report stated: “The Congressional Budget Office late Monday said it estimates that the [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 9:31am EST
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• Raising Bolling's profile...now and for 2013

  —Tertium Quids

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  That LTG Bill Bolling will be a member of Bob McDonnell's cabinet -- as a "jobs czar" is interesting...Bob Holsworth calls it "a major elevation of the lieutenant Governor's role in state government.Yes, it is.But it is also has political implications that go far beyond "creating jobs" (which government doesn't'" [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 8:27am EST
  by Norman Leahy

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• Whipple Clip Dozen: Friday Morning

  —Blue Virginia

  Thanks to Tom Whipple for the end-of-workweek "Whipple Clips."
  
  1. MCDONNELL TAPS BOLLING FOR CABINET JOBS 'CZAR'
  3. MCDONNELL, BOLLING TO TRAVEL TO SOUTHSIDE
  6. MCDONNELL QUESTIONS KAINE BENEFITS PLAN
  8. DEATH PENALTY FOES READY FOR FIGHT AS EXPANSION LOOMS IN VA.
  9. STATE’S [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 7:17am EST
  

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• McDonnell makes appointments; Drake to be Sec. of Transportation?

  —Bearing Drift

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  *** Update ***
  Drake says she’s not considering becoming the next Secretary of Transportation.
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  Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell made several political appointments today, including the much anticipated “Jobs Creation Officer” proposed for Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling during the campaign. Bolling is set to become what McDonnell [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:46pm EST
  by jr@bearingdrift.com (J.R. Hoeft)

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• Quote of the Day

  —United Conservatives

  Legislation doesn’t create jobs, mein Fuehrer. Well, other than the kind of useless make-work you’ve been doing your whole life, I mean.
  From Cold Fury
  
  
  h/t Tam [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 4:50pm EST
  

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• McDonnell Makes More Appointments

  —Virginia Virtucon

  Bill Bolling – Chief Jobs Creation Officer Bob Sledd – Secretary of Commerce and Trade Janet Polarek – Secretary of the Commonwealth Full Press Release For Immediate Release: December 10, 2009 McDonnell Announces Additional Appointments to Administration Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling to Serve in Cabinet as Chief Jobs Creation Officer RICHMOND- Virginia Governor-elect Bob McDonnell announced additional [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 11:46am EST
  by Hirons

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• McDonnell taps Bolling Sledd and Polarek

  —The Shad Plank

  Here's the release click below for their bio's. Gov.elect Bob McDonnell announced that Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling will serve in his Cabinet as Virginia’s Chief Jobs Creation Officer. He appointed noted Richmond-area businessman Robert Sledd as Secretary of Commerce and Trade. Finally, he named longtime senior staff member, Janet Polarek,' [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 11:32am EST
  by Kimball Payne

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• Batty Judges

  —Fishersville Mike

  Don Surber posts the tale of loss of coal jobs in Clay County, WV along with prevention of a wind project due to an endangered bat. [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:15am EST
  

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• Obama's Plan Is Working

  —From On High

  Coal companies are on their way to being bankrupted.
  
  And those who will suffer for it most are those who have suffered enough already - America's coal miners:
  Coal company cuts 500 jobs, blames environmentalists
  By Amanda Carpenter, Washington Times
  
  Chalk up another 500 jobs to the [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 5:35am EST
  

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• Richmond pleads for federal rail money

  —Tertium Quids

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  A group of civic "leaders" plead with the feds to spend billions more on high speed rail. The litany is familiar:Such train service would reduce congestion, aid economic development, create jobs and cut pollution, said Daniel L. Plaugher of Virginians for High Speed Rail.Except reality just doesn't work that way.' [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 12:36pm EST
  by Norman Leahy

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• About those jobs...

  —Tertium Quids

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  Mark Warner finds work as a comic foil in this Daily Show clip...not because he's a radical centrist, former business guy who's all concerned about bending cost curves and more transparency...but because he's just another money-grabbing pol: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cAmerican Idlewww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 8:39am EST
  by Norman Leahy

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• A Man With No Answers

  —From On High

  It failed miserably the first time it was tried.  So, hey, let's do it again!
  New Obama plans: 'spend our way out' of downturn
  By Philip Elliott, Associated Press Writer
  
  Washington (AP) - President Barack Obama outlined new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals Tuesday, saying the nation must continue [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 5:15am EST
  

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• No, The First Priority Should Be JOBS!!!

  —Blue Virginia

  Sorry, Congressman Connolly, but you are dead wrong about this:
  U.S. Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.) sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today signed by 13 other freshman Democrats urging the use of a "substantial portion" of unspent or repaid Troubled Asset Relief Program funds to [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 9:51pm EST
  

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• Video: Excerpts From President Obama's Jobs and Economic Growth Speech

  —Blue Virginia

  
  
  Almost exactly one year ago, on a cold winter’s day, I met with my new economic team at the headquarters of my presidential transition offices in Chicago. Over the course of four hours, my advisors presented an analysis of where the economy stood, accompanied by a chilling set [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 4:55pm EST
  

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• Stimulus jobs Cost of $246,436 per job

  —On The Right

  This is a great cost/benefit per job,  from Reuters.com The Obama Administration is touting that their stimulus program has saved or created 640,329 jobs since it was enacted back in February through the end of October. This number is updated and posted on the Administration’s recovery.gov web site. That amounts to [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 10:02pm EST
  by Garrett Watson

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• $246,436 per job and going strong

  —The Contemporary Conservative

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  Read Here: Reuters.com: "Hopefully any new plan will have a better ROI than the current stimulus package. Economic analyst Ed Yardeni runs the numbers:
  The Obama Administration is touting that their stimulus program has saved or created 640,329 jobs since it was enacted back in February through the end" [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 9:38pm EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

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• What’s the Big Idea?

  —Where's Eric Cantor?

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  Think Progress has proven invaluable when it comes to keeping tabs on the right wing.  Today, they uncorked another gem, this one about Eric Cantor. At a conference sponsored by The Economist, Cantor was asked specifically what ideas he and the Republicans were offering to create jobs.  He’s been making the [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 8:06pm EST
  by Brad

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• Ethanol producers demand bigger mandates

  —Tertium Quids

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  The governors of ethanol producing states want the federal government to increase the amount of the product in gasoline sooner rather than later. Currently, the feds mandate a 10 percent ethanol blend. The governors want to raise that to 15 or 20 percent right away. It's all for jobs/energy independence/mom [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 3:52pm EST
  by Norman Leahy

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