May 17, 2012
The Obama recovery is the story of the vanishing worker. The economy saw the emergence of 115,000 new jobs last month according to government statistics but it also saw 342,000 workers leave the work force and the shrinkage of the workforce continued apace. We have now reached the same level of worker participation as the first year of the Reagan years, hardly a successful economic plan in action. United States has been a job creation machine…
Tags: Tom Donelson, Unemployment
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April 21, 2009
Last Saturday morning, I had the privilege of attending the official commissioning ceremony of the USS Stockdale, a new destroyer named after deceased Admiral Jim Stockdale, a Vietnam War hero and POW that endured torture because of his refusal to capitulate to his captors. This article is going to be relatively short, but I want to say a few words about the pageantry and patriotism of the men and women serving in our Armed Forces, in this cas…
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November 1, 2011
Are they only for the Rich? On the surface, most 2011 polls seem to suggest good news for the Republicans in 2012. Approval of President Obama’s “handling of the economy” has been mired in the 35-40 percent range; his overall approval rating is equally anemic, having only just recently edged up slightly to a 46%; and history suggests that an incumbent President coming into an election with these poll numbers, high unemployment…
Tags: 2012 election, Barack Obama, Democrat, polling, Republican, Republican Candidates
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March 12, 2009
…ngle. I must say that I’ve seen more creatures that I never new existed during this adventure; all of them creepy and crawly. But now we have a break for the first time in four weeks and I am ready to start thinking about the economy and politics again. After reviewing the news today and catching up on articles that were sent to me by my readers, it seems that the world truly is falling apart. Well, at least, that is what Nancy Pelosi and Barack …
Tags: Stimulus, Taxes
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January 14, 2012
…de Reagan's Eleventh Commandment. Gingrich, a putative conservative, should sing the praises of venture capital. It is the fuel that drives the engine of opportunity. Conservatives want rich folks to invest, to drive the economy. We don’t want them sitting on their mountains of money and letting the economy stagnate. Because when that happens, you give Socialists like Barack Obama the excuse to pour taxpayer money into woe-and-misbegotten ve…
Tags: Newt Gingrich
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November 2, 2009
…“difficult to meet”. After all it takes time to find just the right locations of the “prisons to be named later”. Anyone have any complaints with the Arctic? Let’s put this one in the “wait and see” category. Next we have the economy. Come on out there…let’s see a show of hands. Does anyone really believe the “recession” is over? The National jobless rate in October was 9.7%. That’s a tenth of a percent lower than September but 1.7% HIGHER than t…
Tags: Economy, Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin
Posted in Ira Schwartz, Uncategorized | 5 Comments »
February 16, 2009
…ppy. So much for the lack of earmarks. Individuals will receive a $400.00 check from the government and joint filers will receive an $800.00 check from the government. Again, this is supposed to stimulate spending and get the economy on track. Let’s analyze this a minute. How much exactly is $400.00 per person? Well, let’s see. It’s about $7.69 cents a week. Wow, that’s going to really help the average consumer. Maybe, they can buy an extra six p…
Tags: John McCain, Thailand
Posted in Democrat, Frank DeMartini, Republican, Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
November 14, 2008
…the party of the people and the country, we must look to The Great Communicator himself, Ronald Reagan. His policies are just as important today as they were 28 years ago when he became president. In fact, Reagan inherited an economy from President Carter that was arguably worse than the economy that President-elect Obama is being handed. In 1980 Inflation was at 13.6%, now it is approximately 2.8%. Unemployment was at 7.1%, now it’s at 6.5%. Mor…
Tags: Conservative, Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, Obama, Republican
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February 4, 2010
… decade or two, Western European countries had returned to a standard of living nearly on a par with that of the United States. Europeans, particularly the West Germans, worked very hard and productively, building an enviable economy and high living standards for her citizens. When I was first stationed in Germany in 1980, virtually no Germans used credit cards. But in the last three decades, the European worker through the agendas of social demo…
Tags: Denmark, European Union, Federalism, socialism, Sweden
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November 30, 2009
…world. You can find the article at: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Dispatch/market-dispatches.aspx?post=1356156. The article clearly states 10% unemployment is no big deal because unemployment usually lags the economy. By the time that number is reached, the economy has already picked up or is picking up. He uses historical numbers from the 1982 recession as his guideline. However, he is missing one big point. His article, in its …
Tags: Charley Blaine, Economy, Federal Reserve Bank, inflation, Ronald Reagan
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