Comments on: Is the U.S. facing a productivity crisis?

By: GaveUpOnTV

GaveUpOnTV — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:12:23 +0000

Great comment about corporate tax rates. Japan is lowering it’s corporate tax rate this year, and then the US (at 35%)will be the worlds highest.
If they would made it easier and cheaper to hire workers….
If we could drill for oil in this country…..
If we could REFINE oil in this country so that one hurricane doesn’t knock off the whole US production….
Just obama’s edict stopping oil drilling (that was overturned at least TWICE) cost thousands and thousands of jobs, a lot of which are not coming back. Even though permits had already been granted after YEARS of delays by environmentalists, he stopped the permits. Those oil rigs that left ARE NOT COMING BACK anytime soon.
If obama (who ran as a conservative) would slash government spending so that the world wouldn’t worry if we can pay they money that we’ve borrowed……
The good thing is that we can reverse a lot of the bottlenecks that hinder growth in the US, and the bad news is that obama will put up MORE ROADBLOCKS (while talking out the ‘other side of his mouth’)and the US economy is not going to turn around until there is another election, and we get some fiscal conservatism.

By: frank654

frank654 — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:24:01 +0000

The article is about productivity not about jobs. I heard last week that Ireland and Norway recently passed the US in worker’s productivity. At the same time as this was happening both of those countries passed the US in per capita college graduates.

By: robb1

robb1 — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:34:47 +0000

Lower corporate tax to Singapore equivalent rate, 12 to 15% max and u will see foreign corporations invest in manufacturing in the US lifting demand for workers. Make outsourcing outside the US non tax deductible, will bring back a lot of work and quit teaching other countries how to do business and paying them to learn it.