But I believe it's the best possible plan that could be reached swiftly, under challenging circumstances" (quoted in Dervarics 2009:6). Indeed, part of the president's approach to improving conditions for the business community are far-sighted and will in fact take years to achieve their full impact, with other aspects of the stimulus package will have a more immediate effect. For instance, according to Dervarics, "With unemployment rising, community colleges and others will see a spike in the number of individuals coming back for job-related training programs. The bill has $3.95 billion in additional funding for adult and youth programs, including $1.2 billion to create an estimated 1 million summer jobs for youth" (2009:6).
Despite the modest gains in employment in the construction, energy and information technology as well as the other sectors listed above to date and the anticipated addition of more to come in the near-term, the American economy continues to experience some of the highest levels of unemployment since the Great Depression, and pundits are placing the blame squarely on the president and his team of economic advisors, blame that is somewhat misplaced. For instance, Pfeiffer recently observed that in his remarks commemorating the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, "The President once again discussed his proposals to boost America's economic recovery -- from rebuilding America's roads and bridges, to giving businesses incentives to invest, to help for small business" (2010:3).
Unfortunately for the business community, though, many of the president's initiatives have been derailed by overriding partisanship in the U.S. Congress. In this regard, Pfeiffer emphasizes that, "If one sat back and tried to think of the most bipartisan idea the President could possibly propose to boost job creation, it would probably be providing tax breaks for small businesses, and yet even this has been blocked by the partisan Republican minority from even coming up for an up-or-down vote for months" (2010:4). In fact, cutting taxes for small businesses was one of the fundamental planks of Obama's election campaign (Fehr 2009). Because small business have been shown to be the engine of economic...
). Can Afghanistan be part of a containment process that is developed in parallel with a dialogue with Russia? There is no straight answer to this question, but one has reasons to believe that this is potentially an approach used by the new administration. One should note, however, also the fact that stability in Afghanistan is of great interest to Russia as well, which is why the administration in Moscow has
While people who work with these kinds of issues can present their best guesses, they cannot actually provide proof that the Obama Administration's health care plan is good or bad, or how much it will cost. The 'if only' propositions that are in much of the plan tend to make statisticians and fact-checkers nervous, simply because of the nature of these kinds of propositions -- they rely on the
Immigration between the Obama Administration and Congress: United States immigration policy has been an issue of major political debates and controversies for several decades. The controversy surrounding the nation's immigration policy is partly because policymakers are increasingly considering the need to maintain global competitiveness through attracting top overseas talent against the need to curtail illegal immigration and secure the country's borders (Lee par, 1). In the past few years, the
U.S. And Russian atomic armories still surpass what is vital to deter atomic attacks. Currently, the United States deploys 1800 strategic warheads while Russia sends 1550 strategic warheads. Both countries have many warheads in reserve. No other atomic equipped nation deploys more than three hundred strategic warheads. China has close to forty to fifty warheads on intercontinental-range rockets (Art, 2012). Both nations have focused in their financial and security
In the course of his campaign, Obama inspired millions of Americans - young and old, rich and poor, rural and urban, and from every racial and ethnic background. When Obama walked into the room. . The crowd was transfixed (Tufankjuan, 2008). The goal, of course, is that in politics, as well as society, race plays no part in the decision process. Thanks to previous Civil Rights advocates, and people
The administration's disregard for international norms led to the excesses at Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq, and attempts to circumvent congressional oversight over the activities of the Administration backfired. Faced with increasing criticism at home and the inability to stabilize Iraq, the Bush Administration began to temper its approach with realism. The Administration agreed to a bipartisan Iraq Study Group, led by former Secretary of State James Baker and
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