Did Mitt Romney and Bain Capital help office-supply retailer Staples create 88,000 jobs? 43,000? 252? Actually, Staples probably destroyed 100,000 jobs while creating millions of new ones.
Since 1986, Staples has opened 2,000 stores, eliminating the jobs of distributors and brokers who charged nasty markups for paper and office supplies. But it enabled hundreds of thousands of small (and not so small) businesses to stock themselves cheaply and conveniently and expand their operations.
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Monday, February 14, 2011
Feb. 18: President Obama coming to Oregon
PORTLAND TRIBUNE, 2/11/2011 by By Jim Redden - "Governor says trip will spotlight high-tech future: President Obama will travel to Oregon and visit the Intel Corp. campus in Hillsboro on Friday, Feb. 18. ∴ Gov. John Kitzhaber welcomed the visit, saying it demonstrated the president’s interest in the state’s new strategies for job creation and ensuring long-term competitiveness."Read more at the Portland Tribune...
- COMMENT: Re: Obama coming to Oregon ∴ Why am I NOT overjoyed? ∴ Others will say this far better than I, but I must say it. And I cannot say this strongly enough. ∴ This city is considered the Bluest of the Blue, only because the rest of the state and a great portion of the local electorate are totally dismissed and even worked over by Portland's local, state, and regional governments. ∴ A great many of the people I meet will open up to tell me they believe, they know and fully understand, that we live in not just a liberal, but a hostile-liberal environment. ∴ You cannot have a real "conversation with Oregon" if you lock half the people out, and meet with your own clique behind the closed doors of your echo chamber. ∴ Frankly, that is not American. It is not like really the Oregon I knew and loved. ∴ This has come a long way, and cannot be corrected by a couple of group hugs. "We" have crossed too many big rivers for that. ∴ But it is what we've had these last couple of decades. --Jerry
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