Posted by: msgruntled on: November 19, 2009
Ah, the always-enlightened commonwealth of Virginia. Unemployment keeps going up. The Federal government offers to extend unemployment benefits via the stimulus plan. What does Virginia decide: No thanks, because that would raise the cost to businesses when the stimulus plan ends.
What’s appalling, though not surprising from this state, is that the additional cost amounts to [...]
Posted by: msgruntled on: September 18, 2008
I’m not an economist. I am a working professional. And here’s my woman-in-the-street feelings on the whole mess America’s economy is in circa September, 2008: Free-market capitalism is the philosophy of the rich and greedy and it’s time to bury it.