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Good news unemployed workers … unemployment checks are as good as a job

By Jim Vicevich / July 2, 2010 /

This is really too much. From the woman who wants us to pass bills so we can find out what’s in them, and tells us all to quit our jobs and become violinists, comes unemployment checks are the fastest way to create jobs. Eeeeesh!

Obama admits private sector key to improved economy UPDATE: Video

By Steve McGough / December 4, 2009 /

No friggin’ kidding? You mean to tell me the private sector is the engine of the United States economy? I swear less than a year ago politicians in-the-know were telling us we – the people – had no clue how to spend our own money and improve the economy on our own.

Let them dig ditches

By Jim Vicevich / December 1, 2009 /

Spoken like a man who probably hasn’t dug a ditch, wouldn’t dig a ditch, wouldn’t know a ditch if he hit one in the road. On This Week Sunday  Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman, one of the Sunday morning “wizards of smart” (thank you Rush Limbaugh) thinks he has a great idea to stimulate…

Stimulus + Connecticut = 20 jobs

By Jim Vicevich / October 17, 2009 /

Honestly I am not kidding … 20 jobs. Just to review: $780 billion dollars in stimulus money, approved by Congress in February Connecticut is awarded $47 million (hey we’re  small state) Connecticut has received through September $1 million Total jobs created … 20. Yup, 20. But please, don’t  take my word for it … straight…

Obama on jobs – ‘saved or created’ the new double-speak

By Steve McGough / June 9, 2009 /

The Executive Branch has gotten quite fond of saying their policies have “saved or created” x-number of jobs. Can someone tell me why the media is allowing this to happen? The numbers are pure fiction and the main stream media who’s mostly in love with President Obama is happy to report the data. It’s kind…

Does our government trade with Japan?

By Steve McGough / November 26, 2008 / Comments Off on Does our government trade with Japan?

The short and correct answer is no, and our government does not trade with any other country either. Walter Williams offers us a timely lesson today since Congress, talk radio and the nation is discussing the proposed bailout of the nations big three automakers. I’m not sure if GM, Ford and Chrysler really make up…

“The Right Stuff”

By SoundOffSister / November 15, 2011 /

For all of the unemployed in this country, of which there are a lot, you will be happy to know that today, the federal government has announced job openings…at NASA… for astronauts.

Doubling Down on Stupid

By Dave in EH / August 30, 2011 /

In times of recession and economic stress, one approach to addressing said stress would be to relax those regulations that impede or hinder economic growth. You’d think the President, or at least his advisors, would know this, right?

Why “stimulus” is a bad word

By SoundOffSister / September 5, 2010 /

An article in today’s Orlando Sentinel provides a graphic demonstration of why the American public is fed up with Washington’s “solution” to this country’s economic woes.

Small business not likely to take advantage of “jobs” bill

By Steve McGough / February 10, 2010 / Comments Off on Small business not likely to take advantage of “jobs” bill

Yesterday, I wrote about the $80 billion “jobs” ghost of a bill that did not seem to bring any jobs to the table. President Obama – after serious soul-searching – elected to focus his efforts on jobs, jobs and more jobs. The problem … current legislation for the new package provides few opportunities for job…