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11.24.2009 6:20 pm

We can’t grow the economy without health care reform

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Politicians on both sides of the aisle are fighting to preserve the current system of employer-provided health insurance.  But the current system of buying insurance is part of the problem.  Just one example: as an agent several years ago I…
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11.19.2009 7:03 pm

Consumers have choices, as do companies

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Wednesday’s editorial page printed letters regarding Emerson Electric Company, more specific, letters regarding the Company’s CEO’s decision. It isn’t often that letters illustrate two sides to an issue.

Both sides of the issue are right. Mel Appleman states that it is…

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11.18.2009 5:19 pm

Welfare reform should focus on eliminating poverty

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The focus of “welfare reform” being primarily on the reduction and limitations of cash benefits is unfortunate.  Too often it appears as though we are blaming the victims.  This is not to say every TANF (Temporary Aid to Needy Families)…

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11.17.2009 6:06 pm

A CEO’s job is about more than cash flow

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I was shocked by the comments of Emerson CEO David Farr as reported in the Post on 11/13.  Mr. Farr indicates he wants to move–perhaps he should move to about a hundred years ago.  Then it was OK to pillage…
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11.13.2009 5:34 pm

Get America back on track with Amtrak

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It is high time that America’s policy makers thought big about how to get the country through the current economic downturn. Last month, Amtrak posted the second highest ridership in its history with 27.2 million passengers in fiscal year 2009…

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10.20.2009 2:50 pm

Let’s talk about how to make the economy better

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I didn’t find your piece on “The Un-recovery” either very helpful in understanding our current economic problems or very balanced in coverage of the crisis.  As credit disappeared due to the unconscionable acts of the mortgage bankers and insurers of…
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07.14.2009 4:34 pm

So, the plan was 9.5 percent unemployment?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
We were told that the $700+Billion plan was required to get the economy fixed. President Obama said this week that the plan was on schedule and was “doing what it was supposed to do”. Are we to understand that the…
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03.18.2009 4:54 pm

Conservatives expect Obama to fix in 8 weeks what was messed up over 8 years

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I find it laughable that conservatives expect President Obama to fix everything the previous administration took 8 yrs to ruin in the 8 wks he’s been in office.

Where were they when the vice president was holding close door meetings with…

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01.20.2009 4:57 pm

Message to the president: Made in the USA

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I have a message for the new President. I’ve been preaching it since I became a Teamster in 1970. Here it is.
MADE IN USA MEANS JOBS IN USA

Timothy C Donahue
St. Louis

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01.19.2009 5:12 pm

Private-sector jobs (not government handouts) will save the economy

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

While government is convinced the way to get the American economy rolling again is to dish out more government spending I think people need to realize that for many years now it isn’t the government spending that has made our…

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