The House has created a new consumer agency to oversee the banking sector and gives new powers to the government to break up big companies that threaten the health of the economy.
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With the federal government hiring it does help bring down the jobless rate by a few tenths of a percentage. Well, at least it's going in the right direction. Just a few months ago, we were bleeding 700,000 jobs lost a month when Obama came into office. By November that number had dropped down to 11,000 jobs lost. Of course, it does make you wonder if there are any jobs left to lose in America.
As to so-called American companies taxing tax breaks and then not hiring Americans, hiring overseas, and then returning products to be sold here at a high rate, well, these guys need a rude awakening. Time to start taxing American companies who refuse to hire 80% of their work force in America. It's either that or we start treating them like a foreign country, for all intents and purposes, and put tariffs on their goods sold in America.
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