Bill Hobbs' ongoing investigation in the explosive growth in small businesses continues, his tally now showing record small business growth in 22 out of 25 states in the last year, and the three remaining still showing strong growth.
These jobs don't generally make it into the "jobs growth" figures the government currently puts out. Which would go a long way toward explaining why unemployment is low and getting lower, but "jobs" supposedly aren't being created.
Hobbs also pointed me to this unauthorized Bush economic ad which probably deserves wider exposure. If you keep constantly tell people that the economy is in the tank and falling apart, pretty soon they'll start to believe it. "Talking down the economy," as some would put it, can be pretty destructive for no good reason.
Here we go again:
FROM AgNews:
CONSUMER FINANCIAL CRISIS: NON-BUSINESS BANKRUPTCIES INCREASING
Damn, I'm really going to have to sit down and crunch the numbers again. I'll be back....
Snipe amoungst yourselves:
I'm sorry, I'm just so fed up with the administration's Snow Job over the economy.
Don't get me wrong. The GOP's business-friendly attitude is fine, it has it's place. It just should not be the end-all of the economic function of government. There is a Commerce Secretary AND a Labor Secretary. Protection of US worker's is just as important as protection of US companies. No more and no less. The pure supply-side religion is as extreme as Marxist Kool Aide.
Um, Mark, isn't that first article you linked to about personal bankruptcy?
So too many people maxed out their credit cards; this proves what? ;)
I, to a small extent, agree with your second post. I decided several years ago that pure laissez-faire isn't healthy for the entire country, at least in American history.
I would like to suggest that (from their point of view) the supply-siders feel that they have to work harder, in order to fight back against increasing state intervention in things that do not (or at least should not) concern the Feds.
But then you're talking to a man who would like to shoot the secretaries of Labor, Education, and Fatherland (er...)Homeland Defense, just to start, while eliminating BATF and TSA.
I don't think Bush cut taxes enough to be considered a devout supply-sider. Real supply siders are the ones talking about flat taxes and stuff.
I say cut we taxes to zero and borrow the entire cost of government.