Posts Tagged ‘economy’

Latest Examiner article: The Butcher the Baker the Candlestick Maker

Posted: June 8, 2010 by datechguy in examiner columns
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My latest examiner column is now up. It’s called The Butcher the Baker the Candlestick Maker:

The administration is proclaiming the economy heading in the right direction. Republicans proclaim the administration’s moves a failure. The Tea Party trusts neither and feels the government is spending money they don’t have, but movements and parties’ aside what are actual businessmen saying?

As the title suggests I ask the butcher the baker and the candlestick maker how they are doing in a slow economy. The answers surprised me.

As always you can find my complete batch of examiner articles here. If you can’t afford to kick in to the Am I half as good as Andrew Sullivan fundraiser consider checking out those articles as every hit helps.

Who is going to create jobs if not business?

Posted: May 21, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Again we see the media and the left (I know that’s redundant) celebrating the passage of a law that has kicked the stock market between the legs:

Stocks logged their biggest drop of the year Thursday as investors worried about two events coming Friday — a German vote on the EU bailout and options expiration.

Plus, a vote in the Senate to end debate on financial reform cleared the path for a final vote tonight or tomorrow, which added another layer of selling pressure.

It’s very simple, if you want to create jobs you need business to be able to make money and make profit. If they do not then they will not hire.

Small business, big business any business that is the way it is. As long as this administration is unfriendly to business and the bottom line, the jobs are not going to come.

And remember those jobs produce TAX PAYERS. Without taxpayers we can’t continue on the route we are going.

This is economics 101. Until or unless people figure this out the economy will not recover. Period!

Bacon & Eggs, Unemployment claims rise and “unexpectedly”

Posted: May 20, 2010 by datechguy in employment
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Apparently these are words that will always go together as long as this president is in the White House.

How Mika could announce this with the word “unexpectedly” at this point is beyond me.

Now on Morning Joe has Warner (D) of Va on explaining how the unemployment numbers don’t actually count.

Give me a break.

Who want to make book that if the president loses in 2012 the word “unexpectedly” disappears.

Morning Joe is spinning the 9.9% unemployment as good news?

Posted: May 7, 2010 by datechguy in employment, media, opinion/news
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Just before the break Mika gave the number with all frowns. I think they didn’t expect this number. After the break the spin began.

For god sake guys this is going on even with a bunch of temp census jobs out there and they are all going nuts over it.

C’mon guys help me out here. Justify my faith in you. I know you are MSNBC but C’MON!

Update: The Captain is with them today but notes that as you sow politically so shall you reap:

On the decline, the Obama administration was able to claim lower numbers by using the unemployment rate and avoiding the issue of discouraged workers. They’ll pay for that on the incline as those workers start looking for jobs again. For the next several months, that unemployment rate may hide good news as it hid the bad news last year.

The difference, the media didn’t call the administration on playing with numbers when it favored them. They will certainly back them up now.

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