Tag: jobs

The Party of Compassion – Seriously?

Over the years Democrats have cast themselves as the party of compassion using envy to promulgate class warfare in the name of fairness. They throw out the race card, corporate greed, religious intolerance and social justice to put conservatives on…

Creating Federal Jobs Outside the Beltway

Republican Senators Josh Hawley of Missouri and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee recently proposed a new bill, as yet unnumbered, to move 90% of federal agency jobs out of Washington, D.C.  Dubbed the HIRE bill, Helping Infrastructure Restore the Economy Act…

Economic Patriotism

The left has been pushing for several years for Obama to use an executive order to institute “economic patriotism.” Sounds innocent enough,  right?  The economy sucks and patriotism is good!  But then again, maybe it isn’t good, at least not when it…

RINOs Pushing For More Foreign Workers

When is a cap on worker visas not a cap?  When corporations can bribe the ruling elite to pretend it doesn’t exist! Nine Members of the House of Representatives [7 Rep., 2 Dems.] headed by Representative Bill Long, R-MO,  sent a…

Losing Jobs to Foreign Workers

Former Florida Disney employee Leo Ferrero, testifying before the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and The National Interest subcommittee, details how, not long after receiving a glowing performance review from his employer, he learned he was losing his job to a…

Government Destroys Jobs

If the media tells us that XYZ has created 1,000 new jobs we get excited; when QRS closes and jobs are lost, we’re sad and the politician who can provide a subsidy to save QRS is almost assured of wide-spread…

Fossil Fuels: A Non-negotiable Essential

“Anyone who cares about our environment and our climate must recognize that cheap, plentiful, reliable energy is a nonnegotiable essential.”   Alex Epstein, “The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels” Obama  describes the oil industry as a “tyranny.”  Bill McKibben claims that the…

Neutering American Workers

If you really think Obama and the amnesty crowd are genuinely concerned with the plight of illegal aliens, it is time to call Otis, – your elevator is stuck in the basement. Seven American tech companies spent $13.8 million during…

“Another Way To Skin A Cat”

After Cap and Trade failed to attract even modest traction in Democratic controlled Congress, Obama said that “it was just one way to skin the cat.” Now we know that the cat he referenced was the American consumers as he…

6.2 Million People Are Missing

According to a 3 year study from the Brookings Institution, the American economy is less entrepreneurial now than at any point in the last three decades. Business dynamism is the process by which firms continually are born, fail, expand or…

The Bogey-Man Cometh, Again

The Obamaites are circling the wagons to fight off those dreaded global warming skeptics while calling for a renewed war on warming and mayhem. On top of his war against coal, Obama has ordered the EPA and the Department of…