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Written by Thomas R. Eddlem
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Saturday, 09 May 2009 06:00 |
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 You know the economy is in the tank when officials hail the loss of 539,000 non-farm jobs in the U.S. economy during the month of April as good news. President Barack Obama termed the latest unemployment figures "somewhat encouraging," despite the fact that unemployment rose from 8.5 to 8.9 percent nationally. Obama was somewhat encouraged in part because most economists had expected April job losses to be higher than 600,000, as had happened in each of the first three months of 2009.
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Written by Thomas R. Eddlem
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Friday, 08 May 2009 06:00 |
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 President Barack Obama revealed new details in his fiscal 2010 budget (pdf) on May 7, with a statement saying: “We can no longer afford to spend as if deficits don't matter and waste is not our problem. We can no longer afford to leave the hard choices for the next budget, the next administration — or the next generation.”
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Written by Warren Mass
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Friday, 24 April 2009 07:15 |
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 The hundreds of thousands of Americans who attended Tax Day Tea Parties on April 15 may now be asking themselves, "What's next?" After all, freedom from the unjust taxes of King George III did not end automatically after the original Boston Tea Party. The colonists had much hard work ahead of them.
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Written by Warren Mass
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009 11:30 |
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 Speaking on April 20 in a conference call with reporters after returning from the Summit of the Americas, U.S. Trade Representative Ronald Kirk indicated that the administration has no plans to reopen negotiations on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). But he also said that NAFTA could be strengthened with labor and environmental standards, without the need to reopen negotiations. During last year's presidential campaign, Barack Obama supported reforming NAFTA, but strengthening NAFTA was undoubtedly not the kind of reform many of his supporters had in mind, particularly those economically devastated by job losses caused by NAFTA.
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Written by Warren Mass
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Thursday, 16 April 2009 14:43 |
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 On April 15, the deadline for U.S. taxpayers to mail their income tax returns, hundreds of thousands of Americans from coast to coast participated in around 2,000 nationally inspired but locally organized "Tea Party" protests. Fox News featured live TV broadcasts from four cities — San Antonio, Sacramento, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. — featuring Fox personalities Glenn Beck, Neil Cavuto, Sean Hannity, and Greta Van Susteren.
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