Posts Tagged 'Job Creation'

Made in America Panel Proposes that Obamacare Startup Woes Underscore the Problem with Government Run Programs

Made in America Panel Proposes that Obamacare Startup Woes Underscore the Problem with Government Run Programs

Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America (now on 47 stations) by proposing that after spending $634 million to create a website for Obamacare enrollment, the system crashed on day one. This was another indication that the administration rushed into Obamacare without appropriate planning.

“Even Wolf Blitzer asked a leading Democrat to consider postponing Obamacare.   It is obvious that Obama intended to launch the Affordable Care Act whether the American public liked it ...

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Missing the Boat on ‘Near-Sourcing’

Missing the Boat on ‘Near-Sourcing’

After years of building what they hoped would boost profits by enhancing overseas operations, many U.S. manufacturers have become disillusioned by the lack of the return on investment they had anticipated.

Instead of finding cost-saving benefits overseas, they are finding headaches, which have spurred a growing number of American companies to head home and build upon the sturdy and sure bedrock of American stability and predictability. This has come to be known as “near-sourcing.”

Near-sourcing has been defined in professional publications as ...

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Made in America Panel Admonishes the Obama Administration for Turning Immigrants into a Foreign Peasant Class

Made in America Panel Admonishes the Obama Administration for Turning Immigrants into a Foreign Peasant Class

Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America (now on 44 stations) by accusing the federal government of continuing their ongoing propensity for wasting tax payers’ money.

“What a big difference it would make to our economy if we invested in good programs that created jobs and raised revenue, instead of wasting money on needless programs.  Even if we can’t stop waste completely, we should be able to slow it down,” proposed Neal, who ...

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Small Business Uncertainty Crushes Job Creation

Small Business Uncertainty Crushes Job Creation

If you want to know one of the biggest reasons there are no jobs, it starts with the plight of our small businesses, which account for some 80 percent of all new jobs. The latest economic figures indicate that since February 2010, the number of firms with fewer than 20 employees has grown a scant 3.6 percent. Employment growth is not possible with this sort of statistic.

The dismal growth in entrepreneurship not only impacts employment, it prevents innovation and ...

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Raising the Minimum Wage Brings Minimum Benefits

Raising the Minimum Wage Brings Minimum Benefits

The president made the case during his most recent State of the Union address that the way to prosperity was to raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour by 2015, from $7.25, where it has been since 2009. The rationale is that raising the minimum wage would help the middle class and businesses alike.

If that were the case, how do we explain the fact that since the federal minimum wage was instituted in 1938, it has been raised ...

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