Statements about Economy
My office is about a 300-step walk to the governor's office.
The federal government could save $500 million annually by circulating $1 coins instead of $1 bills.
In just six years, Georgia has dropped from first in the nation from a business-friendly legal climate to 24th.
Georgia loses "millions of dollars of revenue because people go out of state to buy fireworks."
"[T]he Georgia Dome has returned $10 billion in economic impact to the state of Georgia."
The Georgia Department of Economic Development assisted with the creation of 28,776 jobs, an increase of 29 percent from last fiscal year, and $5.97 billion in investments, a 32 percent increase.
"There are close to 900,000 unemployed veterans in America right now."
"[E]mployment in Gwinnett is up more than 3 percent over last year, and unemployment is the lowest of the five core metro counties."
"The biggest contribution" behind a decrease in U.S. unemployment "was 1.2 million people leaving the workforce"
"Twenty-five or 24 million people" are "out of work or stopped looking for work."
Since President Barack Obama took office, "2 million more Americans are out of work."
"Unemployment has fallen from 10 percent during the president’s first year in office to 8.5 percent today."
Savannah is home to "the fastest-growing port in the nation."
Siemens has been unable to fill approximately 200 skilled trade positions in metro Atlanta.
"The latest unemployment numbers have shown that nearly 315,000 Americans have simply given up hope when it comes to finding a job."
"If our recovery were more typical of the postwar era . . . we would have 14 million more jobs today."
"This is the worst jobs recovery since the Great Depression."
Ben Bernanke has been the most "inflationary" chairman in the history of the Federal Reserve.
"The U.S. won't default, because default means that you don't pay your creditors. And it takes about 10 percent of the money that's coming in right now" to pay interest to bondholders.
If today's economy was rebounding at the rate of the "Reagan recovery," it would have created the equivalent of 25 million new jobs and raised federal revenue by $800 billion a year.
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