The local news for unemployment in the city is not good. The University of New Mexico’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research is projecting a .8 percentage point job loss in 2010 for the state and that the City of Albuquerque will mirror those same results. At present unemployment rates for the state is 8.7 percent. Admittedly places outside of the larger cities in this state are being harder hit.
City Councilman Dan Lewis who is well known for his racist approach to illegal immigration is now spending taxpayers dollars by sending faxes promoting fast food restaurant openings. Chick-fil-A which is owned by a friend of his was promoted this week for it’s 60 minimum wage jobs that were brought to his city council district.
The interesting fact of this is that if it had been a democratic city councilman that engaged in this activity then the mayor, republican councilmen and the Republican Party would have been screaming for him to step down for using city funded equipment to promote a friend’s business. Perhaps someone should look into this issue to see just how often Lewis has been using public equipment for personal use.
As for the issue of promoting small businesses in our local city small businesses do need the support of their local city councilman I for one would prefer that support to go to local business leaders instead of national fast food chains. We should be looking at ways to promote all small businesses in this city and not just ones that are personal friends of republican city councilmen.
Mayor Berry is failing miserable to bring in any new businesses for this city and pretty much stays in his office coming up with new ways to drive away businesses by attacking unions and immigrates. His inability to promote job growth in this city will most likely end up causing a higher unemployment rate in the long run even if the nation starts to recover faster.
We need someone in this city that understands how to promote small business and also how to promote green energy jobs.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Unknown
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Will Rogers
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President John F. Kennedy, Democrat
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Lora O'Brien
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C. S. Lewis
"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die."
The O'Coilean (O'Collins)
'A great host with whom it is not fortunate to contend, the battle-trooped host of the O'Coileain."
Abraham Lincoln
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
From NPR Radio
"Rosa sat so Martin could walk.
Martin walked so Obama could run.
Obama ran so our children can fly!"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
Unknown
"Friendship is loving someone no matter what is in their past. It is accepting the fact that they are human and that they have made their share of mistakes over a life time. Trust is being able to tell your friend the most private secret knowing that they will not judge you. A life is not lived well without that one true and trusted friendship."
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
"My job is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable"
Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Will Rogers
"I don't belong to an organized party--I'm a democrat."
President John F. Kennedy, Democrat
“If by a ‘liberal’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people—their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties—someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a ‘Liberal,’ then I’m proud to say I’m a ‘Liberal.’”
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Lora O'Brien
"All I can do is share one person's experiences on her own path, not tell you how to walk yours. If a guru is what you are looking for, find another! If I am a teacher, it is because I am already walking the path that you, Dear Reader, may wish to be on. Although each of us must make our own way, I can put up signs at least, and make the way slightly less hazardous for those who wish to walk a similar path."
C. S. Lewis
"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
A Female Democrat
1/1/10 A new year and a number of future elections to cover. The budget will be a major issue this year and we must work hard to protect the core values of our party.