by Robert Scott | Feb 3, 2014 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
In his State of the Union Address, President Obama said that because “ninety-eight percent of our exporters are small businesses, new trade partnerships with Europe and the Asia-Pacific will help them create more jobs.” This suggests that small businesses will benefit...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 31, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Nothing drives conservatives around the bend like a speech by Barack Obama. So, thanks to the president’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, there’s no shortage of wingnuttery this week. A Grimm Encounter The most unhinged moment on the right this week was when...
by Clyde Prestowitz | Jan 31, 2014 | Economy, The Jobs Challenge, Trans-Pacific Partnership
In his State of the Union message, President Obama suggested apprenticeships, tax reductions on new investments, and building new infrastructure as ways to increase jobs and reduce inequality in America. But he said virtually nothing about what is probably the single...
by Celeste Drake | Jan 31, 2014 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
For more than 20 years (including in Tuesday night's State of the Union address), America’s workers have heard that we need new trade agreements so we can export more and create jobs. It’s a great theory. It’s just that—because of the way our trade deals are...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 30, 2014 | Economy, This Is The GOP
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is caught in a time warp. During an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Paul went back more than 20 years to the Clinton sex scandal in an attempt tot blunt Democrats’ claims that the GOP is waging a “war on women.” Following President...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 30, 2014 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Obama cited a plan to promote "manufacturing hubs" in Tuesday's State of the Union address as one of the ways he would use his executive power to get around the Republican strategy of obstruction and sabotaging the economy. On manufacturing, the president...
