Economic Issues

The Civil War was

The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was added at a later time to turn it into a moral crusade. G. Edward Griffin

Women tend to vote

Women tend to vote the economic interests of their families and to speak out on family economic issues. For men, there’s often much more focus on the idea of personal failure: \”If I’m not winning this great economic game, it must be my fault.\” Elizabeth Warren

Anybody who imagines that

Anybody who imagines that an election can be won under these circumstances by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is … to put it mildly … severely under-estimating the electoral importance of pocketbook issues. We conservatives are sending a powerful, inadvertent message with this negative campaign against Barack Obama’s associations and former associations: … Read more

I’m a latecomer to

I’m a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment. David Frum

We need to use

We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize behavior that will move us to a post-carbon, post-animal agriculture world, and make our societies more resilient to the shocks that are already baked into the system. But that doesn’t make climate change … Read more

If you think about

If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the middle class, dealing with the perennial problem of health care in the United States. He talked a lot about the budget deficit, about the need to transition to clean energy. Christina Romer

What we are going

What we are going to do as Democrats is put together a really strong platform that focuses on jobs and economic issues. Charles Schumer

These are economic issues

These are economic issues that should get resolved. There are creative solutions to every problem. Hopefully between the lending institutions and the city, we’ll be able to find creative solutions. Bob DuPuy

There’s no question that

There’s no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black underclass that does not have access to jobs. If there’s no clear road to income and status except crime, we should expect social problems. You can’t solve this problem without addressing the economic … Read more

I think people cast

I think people cast their votes for a number of reasons. I think if you look at your polls, you’ll probably find that many, many people think that our views are closer to what they believe the future of America should be. That our views are closer on economic issues. And a lot of those … Read more