A large number of readers responding to the latest Patch poll measuring which steps people favor to reduce unemployment in America agree with two issues where and his , agree.
Schneider and Dold both think unemployment will decrease and more jobs will be created if the government takes steps to ease access to capital for companies and lessen the burden of regulation on small business.
Of the 57 people who responded to the unscientific survey, 19 favor easing regulatory burden on small business and another 14 think government should make it easy for companies to borrow money.
The most readers, 21, believe less financial uncertainty would be the best thing to spur job creation while three think easing barriers on American exports will help most. These are both issues Dold champions in his Main Street Jobs Agenda.
While Schneider and Dold were offering similar ideas to help the economy, their campaigns were busy branding the opposition as something more extreme than their words. Some patch readers, like Moraine Township Republican Chairman Lou Atsaves, were quick to defend their candidate.
“The Schneider attempts to portray Dold as a Tea Party adherent are deliberate falsehoods,” Atsaves writes. “If Dold ‘voted the party line 82 percent’ of the time, and yet (state Rep.) Karen May (D-Highland Park) (87 percent) and (state Sen.) Susan Garrett (D-Lake Forest) (85 percent) voted the ‘party line’ more often, why then do Democrats insist that May and Garrett are ‘independent’ and Dold is not.”
Others, like Stuart Tindall, disagree with Dold and Schneider that small business is the strongest job creation force in the country. He thinks big business is the answer. “What we need is better methods of small business turning into large business,” he writes.
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In contrast to the poll about unemployment, , 637 people voted their opinion and 212 left comments.
With such a difference in the number of readers responding, Patch has prepared a new unscientific poll asking whether they think the economy or health care is the most important issue in the Nov. 6 general election.
The new poll remains open through midnight Saturday. Patch will publish the results Monday.
The Tenth Amendment explicitly states that anything NOT assigned to the Federal Government falls to the States or to the people. The Constitution is a document that describes the limits on Federal power. That's one of it's primary roles. Health care is not mentioned in Article 1, Section 8, therefore it falls through the Tenth Amendment to the States or to the people. That's why RomneyCare in Mass is legal, but ObamaCare is not.
Social stability Monetary stability Legal stability That used to be the strength of the US. We had rules, the Constitution, which protected individuals and businesses from arbitrary decrees from government that might destroy 10 years of work with the stroke of a pen. We no longer have any legal stability. The Constitution offers no protection from government abuse. The Kelo case means no one is protected from government theft. The Bush/Obama bail outs mean there are no consequences for bad decisions... as long as you are too big too fail. Obama stealing ownership from bond holders and giving it to the unions in the auto bail outs further undermined the rule of law. Of course Obama has also made it clear he sees corporate America as an enemy, even while he plays venture capitalist with our children's money. We have no legal stability anymore. We have no monetary stability with government spending nearly twice as much as they take in. Social stability is being undermined by race warfare, and class warfare. Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court do not follow any rules other than their own desires. To live with arbitrary interpretation of the law is to live in fear. And fear will keep the risk takers on the sidelines.
2004 $483 billion. The deficits under Obama have been: 2009 $1460 billion 2010 $1310 billion 2011 $1300 billion President Obama and the Democrats are the biggest spenders in history.
Dubya, whom historians now rate as the WORST president in America's history, spent trillions, to the benefit of virtually NO one, then essentially crashed the economy...Great going, there guys!
We are now 42 months into Obama's Presidency and things are bad, and people are scared of a double dip recession. What did Reagan do right, and what is Obama doing wrong?
Really?....Funny, we thought the same thing when your side kept blaming Bill Clinton for every idiotic thing Dubya did in his first term in office..
The Pew Center reported in April 2011 the cause of a $12.7 trillion shift in the debt situation, from a 2001 CBO forecast of a cumulative $2.3 trillion surplus by 2011 versus the estimated $10.4 trillion public debt we actually face in 2011. The major drivers were: Revenue declines due to the recession, separate from the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003: 28% Defense spending increases: 15% Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003: 13% Increases in net interest: 11% Other non-defense spending: 10% Other tax cuts: 8% Obama Stimulus: 6% Medicare Part D: 2% Other reasons: 7%[38]
You will say anything you can to diminish Reagan's numerous accomplishments, but that doesn't eliminate the fact that Obami has been the worst president in the last 50 years. Jimmy Carter used to hold that title, but now it's Obama. Welcome to reality, sister.
Your statement about 'income inequality' amuses me. Do you really think someone who barely has a high school education should be given enough money so they can financially equal someone who has a bachelors' or masters degree? I think not. The lazy of this country should not be supported by our government--they need to work for everything just like the rest of us. Those people on welfare should have to work for the money they receive--it should not be a free ride because they feel they are owed something. Obama's attitude is that we should provide for all the deadbeats. Not gonna happen. Vote Romney and put an end to this nonsense.
I don't care what people make in Canada or Mexico. Canada and Mexico are not the U.S. Our government cannot and should not be in the business of telling ANY corporation what they can and cannot pay their CEOs. Geez, that smacks a bit of socialism to do so, don't you think? Oh, wait, you don't think. I not only watch Fox, but I watch CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and network news, etc. Maybe you need to get off your liberal high-horse and face reality. By the way, where did you get your ratio figures? Don't spout figures unless you are able to name your source. And don't tell me to google it--you're the one making the statement--show PROOF!
For one thing, it's not "those money" belong to the company"-- It's "that" money belongs to the company". For another, I have to cite your rather hillarious misspelling of "bums" as in "today's lazy bums", because what you wrote is "lazy bombs"...Now, I've heard of "smart bombs" and even "dirty bombs", but I must say, I've never heard of "lazy bombs"!. Beyond your remedial English needs, I'd suggest you also take a class in American History. No, Mr. Supporter, this country was NOT "built by people working more than forty hours a week with no overtime", It was, most of the 20th Century built by working CITIZENS, not serfs, and they were paid fairly and with overtime when working past forty hours. If you want to give up all the hard won rights won by workers in the earlier part of the last century, I'd consider emmigrating to another country, as it sounds like you'd be happier being a peasant in the Third World, rather than a citizen in the First.