32 Years from Full-Employment – By: Larry Walker, Jr. – In the fairest sense, the U.S. Jobs Deficit has improved by an average of 30,000 jobs per month since January 1, 2011. And although this may be good enough for indifferent Obama loyalists, what it really means is that based on Barack Obama’s very best … Continue reading U.S. Jobs Deficit Sticks at 11.6 Million in October
Measuring Relevance :: The U.S. Jobs Deficit declined by 73,000 in September, however since it increased by 72,000 just one month prior, the result was a net improvement of an entire 1,000 jobs since July. – By: Larry Walker, Jr. – The ever elusive jobs deficit rose from 11,760,000 in July to 11,832,000 in August, … Continue reading U.S. Jobs Deficit Improves by 1,000 in September
Obama’s Cure – More Jokes – By: Larry Walker, Jr. – The U.S. Jobs Deficit increased by 72,000 in August, rising from a deficit of 11,760,000 in July to 11,832,000, based on Friday’s Employment Situation Report. The economy added a mere 96,000 jobs in August, while June and July’s numbers were revised downward by 41,000. … Continue reading U.S. Jobs Deficit Increases by 72,000 in August
Break Out the Fairy Dust – “The largest single barrier to full employment of our manpower and resources and to a higher rate of economic growth is the unrealistically heavy drag of federal income taxes on private purchasing power, initiative and incentive.” ~ John F. Kennedy, Jan. 24, 1963, special message to Congress on tax … Continue reading U.S. Jobs Deficit Holds at 11,760,000 in July
Going Around in Circles ~ “If you’re lost in the woods and you feel like you’re walking in circles, you probably are.” ~ Discovery News – By: Larry Walker, Jr. – According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the U.S. economy needs to create a minimum of 127,000 each month in order to keep pace … Continue reading U.S. Jobs Deficit Grows by 47,000 in June
“Every time in this century we’ve lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.” ~ Jack Kemp * By: Larry Walker, Jr. * A total of 3,514,000 Nonfarm jobs had already been lost by the time President Bush handed the keys … Continue reading The Real Jobs Deficit | Moving in the wrong direction.
Trump Nails It – By: Larry Walker II – Last year our trade deficit with Mexico totaled $53.8 billion, and is projected to end about the same in 2015. When the last three decades are summed, we find that the United States 30-year trade deficit with Mexico amounts to $910.2 billion. Although this has been … Continue reading 30-Year Trade Deficit with Mexico
Port of Savannah Maybe Trump Gets It -By: Larry Walker II- This year-to-date, the United States has imported $267.7 billion in goods from China, while exporting just $65.4 billion in goods to China. That amounts to a current year trade deficit of $202.3 billion, in the first seven months alone. Looking back over the last … Continue reading 30-Year Trade Deficit with China
Symptoms of Government-Down, Borrow-and-Spend Economics – By: Larry Walker, Jr. – According to Barack Obama, “We tried this trickle-down fairy dust before. And guess what — it didn’t work then, it won’t work now. It’s not a plan to create jobs.” But only the most gullible members of the Democratic Party would find such words … Continue reading Obama’s Jobs Recovery — In Temporary Help Services
“53 Percent of All Young College Graduates in America are either Unemployed or Underemployed” ~ The Economic Collapse * By: Larry Walker, Jr. * It is a fact that the U.S. economy has lost a total of 4,884,000 Nonfarm jobs since the beginning of the Great Recession. But according to the National Bureau of Economic … Continue reading Obama Jobs Scorecard, Part 3 : The American Dream
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