One in ten Ohioans receives food stamps; obviously a signal of tough times.
It is also obvious that if we want to bring back the state economy, we need an enormous state tax increase. That will be just the stimulus this area needs to bring jobs back to Ohio. Along with the tax increase, we also need some serious business regulations; like they have over there in France (or Michigan).
For instance, if Ohio shortens the required work week to 32 hours, that means employers will have to hire more employees to do the work that was done with the previous workforce.
Let's not forget things like mandatory health coverage, vacation pay, another increase in the minimum wage, mandatory union membership, etc.; those things are sure to bring about an ample supply of jobs to the area.
If we can just create an environment in this state where employers are forced to pay more to their employees, we'll solve this whole dilemma.
Boy, how is it things haven't worked according to the DNC road map to recovery.
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I know of no conservative nor tea partier disappointed in Obama. Our expectations that government was going to solve this economic mess started out at dismal. Obama has met those dismal expectations with flying colors.
Now I can't believe he has met the towering expectations of the Hope-n-Changers. The question is how much longer will the typical Obama voter put the man on a pedestal while living in an economy far more hostile than the Bush economy they maligned for 8 years.
For now they are in denial. But poverty has a way of eventually changing people's minds.
I saw this today...
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=11477735
It's about a shortage (!) of trade laborers. A shortage?!? This just didn't jive with the economic/employment figures we've been seeing for over 2 years year now.
But then it occurred to me what might be going on. Where are the biggest employment issues? I would say it would have to be union factory positions. I don't see major unemployment in non-union professions. And not in the trades, according to this.
What is the common thread? The laborers that are in demand are those who depend on themselves, not a union. Yes, plumbers are in a union, but plumbers, welders, carpenters, and electricians are often go-getters. They know if they don't work, they don't eat.
On the other hand, union workers at large factories know they are going to get paid the same no matter how hard they work. The combined slowdown of a large union shop makes their factory inefficient. And our government has coddled these large groups to the point where that whole section of the ecomomy is simply uncompetitive. That uncometitiveness has been exposed in a major way during this recession. We have created an army of union wussies. We need to be more like the trade contractors and less like the factory union members if these wussies want to get a paycheck.
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