by J.D. Tuccille. Serial failed businessman Samuel Clemens might have a lesson or two to offer to his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri. Thwarted in his riverboat-piloting career, unsuccessful as a miner, and disappointed (to put it mildly) in his investments in an automated typesetting machine, "Mark Twain" could have told officials in his old stomping ground ... MORE
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J. D. Tucille: Red Tape And Licensing Remain Powerful Deterrents To Starting Businesses And Creating Jobs
by J.D. Tuccille. Serial failed businessman Samuel Clemens might have a lesson or two to offer to his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri. Thwarted in his riverboat-piloting career, unsuccessful as a miner, and disappointed (to put it mildly) in his investments in an automated typesetting machine, "Mark Twain" could have told officials in his old stomping ground ... MOREStephen Moore: America's $12 Trillion House of Cards
A precarious situation indeed. What is the price tag for the audacious Obamanomics experiment? How much has it all cost — the bailouts, the debt, the stimulus plans, the printing of cheap money, Obamacare and all the rest? The answer to that question is just shy of $12 trillion. That's the sum of the $8.3 trillion added to the national ... MORE
Greg Corombos: 'Most Expensive Regulation In History' - New Obama Power Grab Set To Kill 1.4 Million Jobs
Obama, the job killer, strikes again. The Obama administration is just weeks
away from imposing a new ozone particulate standard that manufacturers
say will cripple jobs and productivity in the U.S. and leave some firms
and industries clinging to life. The National Association of Manufacturers released a study suggesting
the standard would ... MORERecord 93,770,000 Americans Not In Labor Force
by Caroline May. The number of people not in the labor force reached another record high in July, according to new jobs data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS reports that 93,770,000 people (16 and older) were neither employed last month nor had made specific efforts to find work in the prior four weeks. The number of people ... MOREMimi Walters: A Fix To California's Man-Made Drought
Politicians can start prioritizing the people. This year marks California’s fourth consecutive year of drought. To break it down, nearly 99 percent of California is in “moderate drought,” 71 percent is in “extreme drought,” and approximately 47 percent is in “exceptional drought” – the most severe category. In California alone, over ... MOREMcDonald’s Response To $15 An Hour Minimum Wage
by Farley Elliott. It seems that most of the online restaurant platforms looking to deliver us into the future are primarily aimed at just getting the world to interact less and less in person. Food delivery and personal meal apps are all the rage — and allow anyone to just sit at home in soiled sweatpants forever — as are reservation systems and payment ... MORENew York Democrats Begin To Realize Minimum Wage Means Maximum Unemployment For Low-Skill Workers
by Novell Rose. It is not about politics, it is about math. It happened in Seattle — pay goes up, business goes down. As Western Journalism reported about the city’s $15-per-hour minimum wage law, an article in Seattle Magazine raised the red flag about the red ink a number of local restaurants would be facing because of the increasing labor ... MOREJohn Stossel: What Creates Jobs
Regulation kills options. I took a camera to Times Square this week and asked people, "What creates jobs?" Most had no answer. One said, "stimulus!" What? Government creates jobs? No! I suppose it's natural that people think government creates jobs because politicians always say that. "We've now created more than 10 million," said President ... MOREJ.D. Tuccille: Will The Minimum Wage Protesters Order Fries From Their Burger-Flipping Robot Replacements?
Going the way of gas attendants and theater ushers. The Momentum Machines website is low-key right now, but that may have something to do with high-profile arguments in the press and protests in the streets
demanding that fast-food chains pay workers $15 an hour to do the job
the company's robots are designed to fill. Even before ... MORERick Moran: Obama's 'Record-Breaking' Economy
What happened to the labor force? Corporate profits are sky-high, Wall Street is on an historic winning streak – and President Obama must be extremely grateful that commentary about his framework nuclear deal with Iran sucked up all the media oxygen so that the terrible jobs report that came out on Friday was largely ignored. Zero Hedge gives ... MORE6 Ridiculous Myths About Legal Internet Gambling Busted
by Michelle Minton. Should the United States government ban online poker? One billionaire casino owner thinks so. In the quest to convince Americans that they shouldn't be able to do what they want with their own money in their own homes, proponents of the ban have spent big bucks and spread big lies. Below are some of the biggest whoppers. ... MOREStephen Moore: Freedom Not To Choose
The right-to-work proliferates. My first job as a teenager back in 1976 was working as a blue-suited Andy Frain usher at sporting events at places like Wrigley Field in Chicago. When I took the job, I was required to join the local union and pay dues. My co-workers and I used to endlessly complain that the union was snatching money from our paychecks ... MOREThomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
The musings of a genius. When President Obama keeps talking about "violent extremists" in the abstract, you might wonder whether Presbyterians are running amok. The mainstream media seem desperate to try to find something to undermine Republican governor Scott Walker's rise in the polls. The worst they have come up with is that he ... MOREKilling Jobs & Closing Doors — A Minimum-Wage Warning
by Michael Saltsman. NY needs to take note of SF. Couples across the country spent Valentine’s Day watching the rom-com “You’ve Got Mail,” where Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan fight over customers as his bookstore behemoth threatens to gobble up her neighborhood Shop Around The Corner. That storyline resonated with viewers in 1998, and ... MORE
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