I really believe, as Senator Brownback said, the uncertainty; cap and trade, tax increases, health care mandates, all that they are seeing up here is having a dramatic effect on businesses' decisions to invest capital, make that expansion decision, bring back an old worker, hire a new.
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I don't mean to be too blunt, but raising taxes on the consumers and small businesses we depend on the most to put this economy back on track is a dumb economic move.
However, this report tells only one-half of the story. Actually, manufacturing payroll jobs have decreased by 660,000 since the Obama stimulus was enacted.
The beauty of what this job has been I think under the prior administration and this one is that there are contentious issues that people do not agree upon.
Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid prefer to let taxes increase on all Americans rather than see the defeat of their 'divide and rule' strategy of class warfare.
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