Yes, but Republicans argue that the government does not create job and it is only the private sector that creates jobs. So I guess people employed by the government do not have real jobs. What about private businesses the government hires for construction, security, food service and other services? Are those not jobs? Or, what […]
An excellent point made in this blog article. Jared Bernstein has a little fun with Perry's declaration that as president he'd make Washington “as inconsequential in your lives as I can.” Over the last few years, government jobs have been awfully consequential in Texas: 47% of all government jobs added in the US between 2007 […]
When president Obama took office the stock market was around 7,000 and the economy was losing millions of jobs. A couple of years later and the stock market almost doubled to over 12,000. The economy started growing and jobs were being added each month. Then came the Tea Baggers. Their view on cutting government during […]
Amazon plans to open large distribution center in Indianapolis. For more detalis, please click here.
There are reports that President Obama is considering using military options in Libya. I really hope he resists the advice to use our military in Libya. Yes, the attacks on civilians are unacceptable. Yet, our forces have accidentally attacked civilians for the last several years in Afghanistan and Iraq. During that time, civilians were massacred […]
So says George Buckley, the CEO of 3M. He thinks Mexico is friendlier to business than the United States. Mexico, the same place where the water is not safe to drink, elected leaders are being assassinated, up to 47% of the population lives in poverty and the average worker earns less than $7,000 a year. […]
How many times have you heard someone say they wanted to work for the government and get rich? I’ve honestly never heard it until now. The new meme seems to be that government workers are overpaid and getting rich off the taxpayer dime. First, government workers pay taxes, so I wish the likes of Gov. […]
Several States that have a budget crisis are cutting taxes (revenue), cutting the pay for public employees and cutting programs that help the poor? We are told that everyone has to share in the sacrifice. In reality, only the poor people are sacrificing because the rich are getting tax cuts while the poor are getting […]
The time has finally come. Next week the company from Ohio will start installing the parking meters in Indianapolis. Get ready for a fee hike and paying on the weekends. The mayor sold it for 20 million dollars. That is less than a million dollars a year. Exactly how many mayors will Indianapolis have in […]