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...INDICATORS The Santa Effect? A closely watched index of U.S. manufacturing activity showed the sector leapt to its highest level in 20 years last December, maintaining growth for the sixth straight month...
...described a rosy picture of the resurgence of jobs, but too many of them are in the service sector and have poor pay. Newly created jobs will not be enough to counterbalance the large number of old ones that have taken a one-way trip to Asia. Unless the hemorrhage of well-paid work to foreign countries is stopped, the U.S. is heading toward Third World status. EDWARD J. MASON El Lago, Texas...
Second, I’d close the revolving door between lobbyist shops and top government jobs. Just recently we’ve seen administration officials like former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Joe M. Allbaugh moving into the private sector to set up lobbying shops and profit from their insider connections. At the same time, President Bush has appointed top lobbyists to government positions where they are supposed to regulate their former clients. I’d close this revolving door by barring former top officials from lobbying the government for five years, and stopping lobbyists from taking high-level...
...reason for that: George W. Bush has no strategy for steady, healthy, long-term growth and job-creation. And it shows—he’s presided over the loss of more than 2.5 million private sector jobs over the last three years. In the process, he has run up a big debt your generation will have to pay off, tightened the squeeze on middle class families and failed to open the doors of educational opportunity to more young people...
...government has an important part to play. It must create the conditions for growth. When it does and the private sector responds, everyone wins. That’s exactly what happened during the Clinton administration: good government policies encouraged and unleashed the genius of American enterprise...