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Economic Policies

In defense of its economic policies, the Obama administration's argument has been that it has saved America from depression. However, there is a counter argument to be made that the Obama administration has actually slowed the recovery, and if the Obama economic team followed different policies, we would be looking at a raging recovery instead of the present “recovery” that is barely limping along and that is close to relapsing into another recession.  Read more »

    

Texans' Tax Breaks Trigger Spending

It’s back-to-school time here in Texas, and we all know what that means: tax-free weekend! This past weekend thousands of Texans headed to malls, shopping centers, and outlets across this state in order to purchase tax-exempt items for school such as clothing and school supplies.  Read more »

    

Senator Judd Gregg on our Nation's Fiscal Calamity

Greta Van Susteren talks with New Hampshire Republican senator, Judd Gregg, about our nation's impending fiscal calamity. He said that the current debt is $13 trillion, but that will double in five years and triple in ten years. Who's going to have to pay that off? Our children. This means that their standard of living is going to go down, due to no fault of their own. "It's a nightmare!"  Read more »

    

Obama, Take A Lesson From the Mayor of Midland, TX!

A recent CNBC study named Texas the top state for doing business. CNBC's Power Lunch dug in a little deeper by interviewing the mayor of Midland, Texas, Wes Perry. Midland's unemployment rate is 4.67%, while the national unemployment rate is hovering just under 10%.  Read more »

    

Republican Party of Texas Statement on Initial Jobless Claims Rising To 500,000

The following is a statement that came in from the Republican Party of Texas:

Today we learned that initial jobless claims jumped to 500,000. That's a half million American families who are struggling to make ends meet in Obama's flagging economy,   Read more »

    

After 19 Months In Office, It's Time Obama Takes Some Blame for Struggling Economy

Paul Gigot from The Wall Street Journal joins Fox News to discuss the state of our economy and who exactly is to blame. The Democrats are notorious for pinning all the blame on Bush, but after 19 months of Obama's presidency, it's time he accept some of the blame. Obama's policies have passed, and the country continues to go deeper and deeper into debt. In 2007, the deficit was $161 billion, while the 2011 projected deficit is $1.3 trillion.  Read more »

    

National Employment Situation for July

The July national unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.5 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Data from the payroll survey showed total nonfarm employment suffered a net loss of 131,000 largely due to declines in government jobs (143,000 temporary census positions were terminated last month).  Read more »

    

Poll: Any Republican would beat Obama in 2012

From July 13 - 19, Quinnipiac University surveyed 2,181 registered voters nationwide with a margin of error of +/- 2.1 percentage points. Below is a sample of some of the questions asked and results obtained:

The country would be better off if John McCain had won the 2008 election: 37% yes, 35% no.  Read more »

    

Freeing Louisiana, Helping Texas and Saving America

Lafayette, Louisiana is a friendly place in the heart of Cajun country. Good people. Fun people. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and lots who don’t care much about politics at all. A not-so-small college.

An astounding event happened there this week. They held a political rally. Not for a candidate. Not even for a political party. For their jobs and for common sense to return to America.  Read more »

    

Congress Ranks Last in Confidence in Institutions, Confidence in the Presidency Drops 15%

Gallup has just come out with its newest 2010 Confidence in Institution poll. Congress is ranking at a all-time low - no surprises here! Only 11% of the people polled trust Congress. Sean Hannity quoted:   Read more »