Dedicated To Restoring Our Government to Citizens' Control

Jobs

Over 400,000 Lost Again Last Week

For the thirteenth straight week over 400,000 Americans lost their jobs. The failed economic policies of the Obama Administration have led America down a path where losing over 400,000 jobs a week has become the new normal. President Obama has not led on the economy and refuses to produce a new plan that will create […]

Bad News On The Jobs Front

The government announced this morning that new unemployment claims rose more than expected last week to 429,000. This is the 11th week in a row that the new unemployment claims were over 400,000. The Obama Administration said last year would be a “Recovery Summer.” That obviously did not pan out and America’s economic engine is […]

Unemployment Back Up To 9 Percent

The unemployment rate rose to 9 percent for the month of April. There was some job growth but a large percentage of that number can be attributed to a mass hiring of 62,000 by McDonald’s. A staggering total of one million people applied for those McDonalds jobs. When the largest section of job growth is […]

Obama’s Failure to Create Jobs

Only 45.4 percent of Americans were employed in 2010 according to a USA Today analysis. If the American people wanted a report card on the first two years of the Obama presidency, 45.4 percent should be an indicator that the failed liberal policies of the Obama Administration have done real harm to America’s workers. President […]

Big Government Run Amok

A Wall Street Journal editorial today, highlights how the government job sector employs nearly twice as many people than in the manufacturing sector. When you combine the manufacturing, construction, farming, fishing, forestry, mining, and utilities industries you still do not eclipse the number of Americans who work for the government. Big government is draining the […]

36,000 Jobs Created

Only 36,000 jobs were created in January according to a new jobs report by the Labor Department this morning. That is nowhere near the amount of jobs needed to be created to sustain an economic recovery. President Obama’s policies have not helped get Americans back to work. He has focused on a big government, job killing […]

American Spectator: A Conservative Communique for 2011

Citizens United joined with many other conservative organizations to sign the Conservative Communique of 2011: Along with nearly 100 conservative leaders and tea party activists we gather to reaffirm our principles of constitutional limited government and economic freedom and our belief in a strong national security and traditional American values. In the recent election, the […]

Daily Caller: An open letter to Speaker Boehner

An open letter to Speaker Boehner on his new responsibility, by David N. Bossie: Dear Speaker Boehner, Congratulations on your new Republican majority and your election as the 61st Speaker of the House! We conservatives have been given a tremendous opportunity to make the responsible and positive changes America so desperately needs at this consequential […]