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Obama Has No Clue How to Create Jobs

By Ashton Ellis
Wednesday, October 12 2011

Thank goodness all Senate Democrats aren’t as economically suicidal as the man who leads their party. On Tuesday, President Barack Obama’s onetime colleagues defeated his latest attempt to dictate jobs into creation with taxpayer money. The price tag for the American Jobs Act was a cool $447 billion, doling out a mix of payroll tax holidays and new spending sprees. Though the job gains would be by definition temporary, Obama guaranteed the bill would add 1.9 million jobs and increase gross domestic product by 2 percentage points. While some unnamed Democratic…

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