Kyle Bell

Democrats and Republicans often get into arguments about the size and role of government. Liberals believe in a strong role to protect the most vulnerable in society while conservatives favor the private sector, stressing personal responsibility. Both sides should at least agree that fixing America’s broken economy is the country’s top priority and that an [...]

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The DNC has come out with a series of brutal new ads highlighting the endless flip-flops that Mitt Romney has taken over his political career – from his pro-choice position when running for the Senate against Ted Kennedy to his support for economic stimulus (before he was against it, of course). His healthcare flip-flop is [...]

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Have you heard ads on TV blaming the country’s deficits on President Obama? You likely have if you’ve watched cable news in the past couple weeks. They are being blanketed nationwide in a $20 million effort by a conservative group known as Crossroads GPS. Working behind the scenes is Karl Rove, the former political mastermind [...]

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The American economy is bouncing back. The Labor Department reported that 162,000 jobs were added in the month of March, the highest number in three years. It also marks the third month since November to post job gains, a strong sign that the recession is ending and that employers are looking to hire again. The [...]

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The Obama administration has been building up its contention that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the stimulus, saved the economy from economic depression. The numbers lay this out clearly. During the last months of the Bush administration, the economy was shedding 800,000 jobs a month. After the stimulus passed and began [...]

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President Obama went full steam into the lion’s den on Friday as he joined Republicans at their annual retreat in Baltimore, Maryland. While he gave a speech that sounded similar themes to his State of the Union, such as a shared burden on solving America’s problems, he also took questions from House Republicans. It was [...]

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We’ve done a lot of reporting about Elkhart and the state of the economy on this blog. President Obama of course brought national attention when he visited the city twice, once to announce an electric vehicle that would be made in the city. Another electric car company will be moving to town in the near [...]

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As the townhall protests extend through August, many of the protesters are aiming their anger at a man that had nothing to do with the economic woes that the country now faces today. The policies of the Bush administration got us to the point where we have nearly 10% unemployment, an over trillion dollar deficit [...]

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Yesterday, President Obama paid his seventh visit to the South Bend area (his third as president) in a speech in Wakarusa, Indiana in Elkhart County. Elkhart County, which is just east of South Bend, is nationally known for its incredibly high unemployment of nearly 17 percent. It actually peaked earlier this year and has come [...]

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You can now track where your stimulus dollars are going. The Obama administration has just launched a website that will allow you to keep track of where the money in the recently passed stimulus bill is going. According to the administration they will update it to allow taxpayers to drill down to specific projects in [...]

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