Wed, 2012-05-02 11:33 |
Economy & Jobs | Norm Coleman
One of the requirements to be President of the United States of America is an ability to chew gum and walk at the same time.
President Obama and his re-election team are celebrating the first anniversary of his ability to chew gum by giving themselves another round of high-fives that resemble a high school sporting event to commemorate the death of Osama Bin Laden.
President Obama swept into office promising his policies would reduce the deficit, keep unemployment below 8%, and usher in a new era of transparency and open government.
Nearly four years later, what Obama's policies have delivered are far from his promises.
Click below to download this one page document detailing where we were, where we are, and where things will head.
In Martin Luther King, Jr., America had its national conscience. A voice for the poor, the oppressed, the repressed, the disadvantaged, the discriminated and the hopeless.
Throughout my lifetime, as a younger man, and now, as the father of two children who are about the same age as I was during the time that King walked the Earth, I still find his wisdom as enduring today, as I did then.
WASHINGTON- The American Action Forum today announced it will host a jobs summit titled "Changing Course: A Discussion on How to Turn the Economy Around" on Tuesday, September 13 from 9 a.m. – 11 a.m at the W Hotel in Washington, DC. Featured guests include House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, National Economic Council Deputy Director Jason Furman, and The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza.
Political discourse in America has gotten rougher, tougher, meaner and shriller in recent years.
It’s not a new phenomenon, to be sure.
In fact, if one were to go back to the time of the founding of our nation, the words those in politics have used to make their points, defeat their enemies or win elections have often been rough, tough, mean and shrill.
It now appears as though Congress and the White House are on the cusp of a $2.4 trillion deficit reduction agreement on raising the debt ceiling, tied to some complex series of spending cuts, votes and other triggering mechanisms.
I suspect in the hours ahead, the American people will learn more about those complex features – and, while not a perfect solution, it may well be the completion of a process that was necessary to get to where we are today.
Thu, 2011-06-16 11:43 |
Jobs & Regulation | Sam Batkins
On June 15, 2011 the House Committee on Small Businesses held a hearing entitled, “Lifting the Weight of Regulations: Growing Jobs by Reducing Regulatory Burdens,” reviewing H.R. 527, the Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act of 2011 and H.R. 585, the Small Business Size Standard Flexibility Act of 2011. These two bills are intended to remove gaps in the Regulatory Flexibility Act and strengthen the power of the Office of the Chief Counsel for Advocacy.
I have to admit that I’ve had some schadenfreude over the scandal enveloping Anthony Weiner, although I am starting to feel a bit sorry for the fellow. The man climbed the ladder of power by attacking his enemies and stiff-arming his rivals, and he seems to have united them all in their disdain for him.
The market crash of 2008 killed all discussion of individuals investing their social security taxes in anything other than government securities held by the Treasury Department. Conventional wisdom since that market crash has been that private sector investment of these assets would have further decimated net wealth. The bitter partisan battle over this was summarized by then Speaker Pelosi in 2010:
