Posts Tagged 'America'

Our Broken Immigration Program Stems From a Broken Trade Policy

Our Broken Immigration Program Stems From a Broken Trade Policy

The flood of refugees into the United States is not only a sign of a failed immigration policy, but of a trade policy that ignores the underlying reason for this humanitarian crisis.

Robert Zoellick, who served as president of the World Bank, U.S. trade representative and deputy secretary of state, recently wrote an Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal in which he maintained that if President Obama had been paying closer attention to Central America, he could have stemmed the tide ...

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The Land of the Walking Dead

The Land of the Walking Dead

Imagine a land with 47 million people who can’t afford food on their table. A new apocalypse movie blockbuster? It’s worse than that … it’s the United States of America — today. We have become The Land of the Walking Dead.

The Weekly Standard revealed that the United States Department of Agriculture “quietly released new statistics related to the food stamps program, officially known as SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). The numbers reveal, in 2012, the food stamps program was ...

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US Energy Future Being Held Hostage

US Energy Future Being Held Hostage

After President Barack Obama won re-election, Benjamin Cole, a spokesman for the American Energy Alliance said: “I think what’s disappointing is that the policies that have seen gas prices rise and electricity rates skyrocket, and which basically worked to kill the coal industry — I think it’s disappointing that those policies will continue to be in place.”

I think Cole’s remarks should reflect the disappointment all Americans should feel about the war on coal. Fossil fuels are not going away no ...

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The Right to Work

The Right to Work

With Michigan becoming the 24th state to adopt a right-to-work law, the handwriting is on the wall: If you want to attract investment and create jobs, unions are a barrier not a benefit.

Understanding why Michigan chose the right-to-work path isn’t difficult to analyze when you consider the state has an unemployment rate of 9.1 percent. In Detroit, the state’s largest city, 34.5 percent of its citizens are on food stamps, 45.7 percent aren’t in the work force and 99,702 of ...

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What Could Business Owners and Obama Possibly Talk About

What Could Business Owners and Obama Possibly Talk About

Last week President Barack Obama invited business leaders to a meeting in the White House to try and allay fears that the economy would move back into a recession if the more than $600 billion in tax increases take effect Jan. 1.

Obama meeting with business leaders? It’s like asking the maintenance person in a hospital to practice brain surgery. It’s already been painfully proven that Obama knows next to nothing about creating jobs, and neither do members of his staff. ...

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