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[CNN Political Ticker] Let's see, almost 10% unemployment and no positive signs on the horizon (and let's not forget that Obama said if we spend almost a trillion dollars, that's right – with a "T", unemployment won't go above 8%), businesses told their labor costs are increasing (due to Health Care, Medicare and capital gains taxes going up, etc.), government creating hundreds of new agencies that will require excessive government jobs, and so on.

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[The News As IT Happens] The News As IT Happens » Blog Archive » debbie stabenow on ...: Politics and World News (blog) The discussions are continuing on, and Democrat Debbie Stabenow is among those who want a standalone bill passed for unemployment. It comes as no surprise, .

[USW Blog] USW Blog » Blog Archive » Republicans: The Party of Unemployment: On the first point, there is a considerable amount of economic research. Most indicate that, in periods when the economy is operating near its capacity, more generous benefits may modestly increase the unemployment rate.

[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » Stimulus Failure ...: From the German and British governments to the U.S. Federal Reserve, and from all 50 U.S. states to the European Central Bank, economists seeking additional stimulus have lost the argument. Those of us who believe that double-digit unemployment, accompanied by less-than-single-digit inflation and record lows for nominal long-term government bond rates, signals a crisis of confidence not in the government but in the banking system and the private sector find that we have no policy traction.

[BEEZERNOTES] BEEZERNOTES » Blog Archive » The Real Reasons We Have Unemployment ...: Most economists are aghast that anyone would promote such policies.  Using their models, they confidently claim that such policies would result in worldwide trade wars that would hurt all economies as each country imposed tariffs, import taxes and such on foreign made products.   These models are all based on certain assumptions.  One, for example, claims that globalization allows for everyone to benefit from another country’s special ability somewhere along the production process.  Taken collectively all these specialties  produces quality products for less money.

[The News As IT Happens] The News As IT Happens » Blog Archive » tier 5 unemployment: The 2010 unemployment extension is important to the economy. HR 4213, tier 5, and the unemployment extension 2010 are all centers of discussion in political .

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Somebody Do Something: With new expectations of things getting overheated we plan to hire Volcker, Jr to squeeze inflation out now as soon as the economic data confirms we are at full employment.”

[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » Obama Hits The Road ...: Obama and the White House take comfort the economy is moving in the right direction. They point out that the economy has added jobs in six of the last seven months and stress that when Obama took office the economy was losing 750,000 jobs a month.”¨”¨“The most important thing is, are we moving in the right direction, are we making progress, and is the economy getting stronger, even if the pace is not all together like we’d want to see it?” Gibbs asked Wednesday.

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