Wrong Track
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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Our golf-playing, fund-raising, speech making, vacationing president must not be aware of our financial problems.
He has time to try to sell his unpopular 2,300 page health care bill and must feel that when the 113 agencies in the bill are staffed that our unemployment problems will be solved.
He was quite pleased that 71,000 private sector jobs were added last month even though our normal population growth requires 125,000 to keep even. He has told us that we are in our "Summer of Recovery", that "things are getting better" and that we are on the "right track" even though there were 500,000 more filing for unemployment last week. He feels that we are in such good shape that he can impose a moratorium on drilling for oil in the Gulf and thus eliminate another 23,000 high-paying jobs.
Someone should tell him that our unemployment numbers are still at 9.5 percent and even higher if we count those who are not employed and are no longer looking for work. He has invented a way to measure our economy with a new category of "jobs saved" for which there is no means of accurately determining the number which means they can guess at some amount and tell us what a good job they are doing.
He doesn't have a clue and the Democrats have decided not to pass a budget so it is obvious that they don't know what to do either. Our only hope is to throw them out in November and replace them with politicians who will stop this wild spending, enabling us to reduce taxes and start a recovery.
Keith Snelson
Goshen, Via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
Our golf-playing, fund-raising, speech making, vacationing president must not be aware of our financial problems.
He has time to try to sell his unpopular 2,300 page health care bill and must feel that when the 113 agencies in the bill are staffed that our unemployment problems will be solved.
He was quite pleased that 71,000 private sector jobs were added last month even though our normal population growth requires 125,000 to keep even. He has told us that we are in our "Summer of Recovery", that "things are getting better" and that we are on the "right track" even though there were 500,000 more filing for unemployment last week. He feels that we are in such good shape that he can impose a moratorium on drilling for oil in the Gulf and thus eliminate another 23,000 high-paying jobs.
Someone should tell him that our unemployment numbers are still at 9.5 percent and even higher if we count those who are not employed and are no longer looking for work. He has invented a way to measure our economy with a new category of "jobs saved" for which there is no means of accurately determining the number which means they can guess at some amount and tell us what a good job they are doing.
He doesn't have a clue and the Democrats have decided not to pass a budget so it is obvious that they don't know what to do either. Our only hope is to throw them out in November and replace them with politicians who will stop this wild spending, enabling us to reduce taxes and start a recovery.
Keith Snelson
Goshen, Via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
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