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How can Americans create private sector jobs?
The solution to America's jobs problem lies not with budget-busting federally mandated "stimulus" programs.
Ah, your small-government lower-regulation talk warms the place where my heart would be if I hadn't been a $100 bill-smoking Republican for so many years. If you click on the cities in the video it will take you to some of the governmental insanity on the Institute for Justice's City Studies subsite.
Maybe this isn't the answer, but at least it's better than what we have now.
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They left out the part wher... (Below threshold)1. Posted by jim m | November 16, 2010 12:04 AM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
They left out the part where he's got to pay the outrageous labor union rates to remodel his storefront and the bribes he's got to pay to get his building permit and final inspection. In Chicago it can take you 6 months to a year to get your building permit if you don't grease someone in city hall.
And if he's opening that coffee shop the health inspector will expect to be paid if he wants to keep those doors open for long. At least so it is in Chicago.
It's not just the red tape, it's the corruption that crushes business. We have allowed government to regulate businesses far too much. Yes, some regulation is necessary and reasonable, but the level of regulation today is way out of control.
1. Posted by jim m | November 16, 2010 12:04 AM |
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Posted on November 16, 2010 00:04
2. Posted by john | November 16, 2010 2:50 AM | Score: -6 (6 votes cast)
How can Americans create private sector jobs?
By doing what they're doing.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_09/025514.php
Nine straight months (including Sept.) of private sector job growth. Not bad.
2. Posted by john | November 16, 2010 2:50 AM |
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Posted on November 16, 2010 02:50
3. Posted by Phil | November 16, 2010 6:19 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
120,000 to 150,000 new jobs are needed each month to keep up with population. Using John's numbers, we are almost keeping up with population growth.
So, we get no recovery (which historically would have happened by now if the government got out of the way), this bad economy is the new normal and we should just "keep doing what we are doing".
3. Posted by Phil | November 16, 2010 6:19 AM |
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Posted on November 16, 2010 06:19
4. Posted by Barak2012 | November 16, 2010 8:19 AM | Score: -6 (8 votes cast)
The solution to America's jobs problem lies not with budget-busting federally mandated "stimulus" programs.
That's right. After all, it didn't work for FDR, did it? Oh wait. It did.
4. Posted by Barak2012 | November 16, 2010 8:19 AM |
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Posted on November 16, 2010 08:19
5. Posted by Brian | November 16, 2010 9:45 AM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Actually, most economists now agree that FDRs efforts only prolonged the depression.
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.aspx
and....
http://fee.org/articles/great-myths-of-the-great-depression/
5. Posted by Brian | November 16, 2010 9:45 AM |
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Posted on November 16, 2010 09:45
6. Posted by epador | November 16, 2010 9:46 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Please ignore the historically ignorant offal in #4.
6. Posted by epador | November 16, 2010 9:46 AM |
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Posted on November 16, 2010 09:46
7. Posted by john | November 16, 2010 11:58 AM | Score: -1 (3 votes cast)
Using John's numbers, we are almost keeping up with population growth.
Which doesn't get us out of the woods, but growth is growth, and the trend now is a hell of a lot better than in 2008.
7. Posted by john | November 16, 2010 11:58 AM |
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Posted on November 16, 2010 11:58