Commentary

A Conservative’s Guide to Obama’s Flawed Jobs Proposal

By Troy Senik
Thursday, September 15 2011

When President Obama appeared before a joint session of Congress last week, he pitched his newest supposed economic panacea – the American Jobs Act – as a plan to “provide a jolt to an economy that has stalled, and give companies confidence that if they invest and if they hire, there will be customers for their products and services.”

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