Obama Tax Plan – and Economic Stimulus

 Video | Obama on Stimulating the Economy
A top presidential campaign adviser to Sen. Barack Obama , D-Ill., was on Capitol Hill recently for private discussions with Democratic lawmakers about Obama’s economic plans. Taxes were a major subject of the discussions. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center recently released an analysis that included Obama’s tax plans.
Partial extension of the [...]

The Green Entrepreneurial Revolution – Time to Think Fertile

 Video | T. BOONE PICKENS: THE PICKENS PLAN
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 Video | AL GORE ENERGY CHALLENGE: TRANSFORMATIVE
By Bill Roth
Download |Intro to the Going Green Handbook
“Don’t miss out on a green collar economy projected to grow to more than $4 trillion.”
Going green is a trillion dollar industry propelled by the energy independence and global warming solutions [...]

Obama defends tour, says McCain shifting on war ~ Weekend

LONDON (AP) — Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama brushed aside Republican criticism of his overseas trip on Saturday and stood outside the famed 10 Downing Street to say that both President Bush and Sen. John McCain were moving his way on the key issues of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Hours before flying home, Obama also suggested his [...]

Generation Y Leadership – Seeking their own Counsel ~ Weekend

“…46 percent of the Gen Y gang believe the next president “should stay in touch with the nation through online sources,” and they don’t mean using AT&T and Verizon to wiretap their e-mails.“

By Roy Mark
From the 8-PAC Editor – “Roy thanks for sharing!”
Dear Senators McCain & Obama -
I’ve just read a press release and visited [...]

Is Obama being compared to Reagan a Double Entendre?

Note: A double entendre is a figure of speech similar to the pun, in which a spoken phrase can be understood in either of two ways.
Barack Obama’s comparison to Ronald Reagan has created quite a bit controversy and the statements meaning of implied similarity is perceived in different ways; so, in the spirit of Hamlet, [...]

Obama urges Europeans, Americans to defeat terror ~ Post No. 072408-2

 Video | Senator Obama in Berlin
BERLIN (AP) — Cheered by an enormous international crowd, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Thursday summoned Europeans and Americans together to “defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it” as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago.
Obama said he was speaking as a citizen, [...]

SBA Faces Credibility Gap ~ Post No. 072408-1

 ”This latest report adds to the pile of evidence that the administration has failed to conduct adequate oversight of small business programs,” - Senate, Small Business committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass.

Capitol Hill’s two top lawmakers on small business have lashed out at President Bush for lapses at the Small Business Administration that exposed the agency to [...]

Women Speaking out: CNN Promotes Confusion regarding Impact of Obama Presidency ~ SEM

“Systemic racism is a form of racism that’s entrenched in institutions. Some argue that it’s the primary cause for intractable problems in the African-American community that range from substandard public schools to disproportionate rates of imprisonment, she says.
Electing a black president does not mean that America is ready to take on systemic racism” – Andra [...]

Freddie, Fannie Rescue Could Cost $25 Billion ~ Post No. 072208-1

Price Tags For Rescue Plans
(NPR) Keeping Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac afloat could set taxpayers back as much as $25 billion, a congressional budget analyst said today.But if history is any indicator, that estimate might turn out to be chump change. Initial projections by the General Accounting Office in 1988 of the savings and loan [...]

Federal Minimum Wage To Increase By 70 Cents ~ Post No. 072108-1

 
Question: Will Small Businesses have to cut staff?
Monday, July 21, 2008
(NPR) More than a million low-wage workers will get a pay raise this week. The federal government’s minimum wage is set to jump by 70 cents to $6.55 an hour on Thursday. The hike is the second of three annual increases in the minimum wage that [...]

Kerry Holds SBA Accountable for Disadvantaged Business Fraud ~ Post No. 072008-1

Senator Kerry issued the following statement in response to two Government Accountability Office reports that concluded that the Small Business Administration has failed to conduct proper oversight over a program meant to help businesses located in historically disadvantaged neighborhoods access government contracts. The reports on Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZones) can be accessed here:
“Congress created this [...]

HUBZone | Fraud Rampant in Billion Dollar Contracting Program ~ Post No. 071808-1

Click here to view witness testimony.
Click here to view video of the hearing.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -  The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released an extensive review of the Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) program. Their findings point to extensive fraud in the eight-billion dollar initiative. “You have to wonder about a system that lets individuals self-qualify for a [...]

Senator Barack Obama’s New Strategy for a New World ~ Washington D.C.

Video | Senator Barack Obama’s New Strategy for a New World
Washington, D.C. 
July 15, 2008
Sixty-one years ago, George Marshall announced the plan that would come to bear his name. Much of Europe lay in ruins. The United States faced a powerful and ideological enemy intent on world domination. This menace was magnified by the recently discovered [...]

Obama’s Speech @ the NAACP convention in Ohio

Video | Obama’s Speech @ the NAACP convention
CINCINNATI (AP) – Democrat Barack Obama received a prideful welcome from the annual NAACP convention Monday night, but in a stirring speech to the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, he nonetheless insisted blacks must show greater responsibility for improving their own lives.
The man who could become the first black [...]

WIPP APPLAUDS SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE ACTION ~ Post No. 071408

WASHINGTON, D.C. – July 11, 2008 Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), the nation’s leading public policy organization representing women business owners, applauds the action taken yesterday by the Senate Appropriations Committee to stop the implementation of the SBA’s proposed women’s procurement rule. The prohibition on funding to implement the proposed rule was included as part [...]

$107 Million Budget Increase for SBA, Small Business Programs Passes Committee ~ Post No. 071208

WASHINGTON -The Senate Appropriations Committee passed the Financial Services Appropriations Bill, which provides $107 million in additional funding for the Small Business Administration (SBA) and its small business programs that will benefit America’s entrepreneurs late Thursday. Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine), the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on [...]

Is Obama the New Reagan? – Post No. 071008-1

 
By Darrell M. West, Vice President and Director, Governance Studies
The youthful and charismatic Barack Obama may often be compared to John F. Kennedy, but Ronald Reagan poses the more interesting parallel. Like the Republican who swept into the White House in 1980, Obama is an outstanding orator whose national political rise coincides with a grass-roots [...]

8-PAC Economic Policy Apparatus – the Fundamentals

Our foundational analytic apparatus perpetuates the simple ISLM framework:

net investment (I)

must equal net saving (S)

and the demand for liquidity (L)

must be accommodated by the supply of money (M)

However, whereas Freidman disciples continue to believe that [...]

Neo Keynesian Capitalism – Government Policy to Build Small Business in America

FUNDAMENTALS OF OUR PLATFORM
Let us start by saying; we are intellectual architects and evangelists for Neo Keynesian Capitalism ideation. By effecting current economic policy, we can change the structure of the environment and ecosystem that small businesses incubate and grow in.
So, we begin this dialogue – agnostic of the stale clichés of yesterday; the school [...]