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Something Obama Can Do For Workers Without Republicans Stopping Him
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By: Sam Seder

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Delivering the Republican party's weekly radio remarks last week, Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio reminded us that 11 million Americans have become so discouraged they've given up looking for work altogether, and that while poverty rates have gone up, the average family is now bringing home $4,000 less than they did just five years ago.

And in an interview with Sen. Marco Rubio this past week, I heard a number of strong growth ideas. For instance, building a national infrastructure network of interstate pipelineslike Keystoneto expedite the boom in oil and natural-gas shale development. This building can include rapid permitting for liquid natural gas (LNG) projects. As Rep. Paul Ryan noted in another interview, the energy play for making and exporting LNG would remove Vladimir Putin's energy death grip on Ukraine and the rest of Europe.

(Read more: Democrats more vulnerable ahead of elections)

On corporate tax reform, Rubio wants the immediate expensing of any business investment, as well as an end to the double tax on American corporate profits made overseas. He also proposes greater tax relief for families with children and a refundable credit to offset payroll-tax liabilities.

Of course, Paul Ryan is a longtime tax reformer. And he notes that even the flawed tax-reform plan from Rep. Dave Camp was scored by the Joint Tax Committee as adding $1,300 in annual take-home pay for individual families, 20 percent more in economic growth, and 1.8 million new jobs.

Ryan also has been criticizing the 50-year war on poverty, where perverse incentives have "isolated the poor from the rest of America in so many ways." According to Ryan, we now have "intergenerational poverty and people are trapped in poverty."

Ryan argues that government programs have created huge barriers to work. For those trying to get out of poverty, high marginal tax rates can run upwards of 80 to 100 percent. Such is the case with Obamacare, where the CBO has estimated an equivalent loss of 2.5 million jobs. It's the same for other social programs, where those who try to climb the ladder of success quickly lose the government benefits and may be pushed into a higher tax bracket.

(Read more: Rep. Ryan: Need to reintegrate people from poverty)

This all has to be changed.

Bizarrely, Ryan's courageous analysis and proposals to solve inner-city poverty have been labeled "racist" by a number of left-wing bloggers and writers. This is nuts. The Left keeps throwing money at poverty that keeps getting worse. But if a Republican tries to solve the problem with a new incentive structure, the Left pulls out the race card.

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The All Progressives Congress recently held its inaugural national summit and unveiled a draft code of ethics/manifesto, which may serve as a new beginning for opposition politics in the country, writes JOHN ALECHENU

The opposition All Progressives Congress recently stirred up a controversy when it announced the findings of an opinion poll, conducted on its behalf by KA Research Limited, a privately owned international campaign strategist/research company, based in Brussels, Belgium, as well as Istanbul, Turkey.

Its revelation that the poll scored the President Goodluck Jonathan-administration low on key indices of governance led to a war of words between the opposition and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party. Apart from knocks on the Jonathan administration, the poll revealed areas of APCs strengths and weaknesses. The document also exposed the party to what members of the public think about its activities. The polls results also highlight what Nigerians desire most from the government on a scale of preference.

APCs Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who presented the key findings of the opinion polls to the media, described the report as an eyeopener.

He said, The APC candidate held a 10-point lead over the President. By a margin of 44 per cent to 34 per cent (with 22 per cent undecided), the APC candidate was the clear national choice. When asked, In general, do you think things in Nigeria are going in a good direction or bad direction, Nigerians responded that the country was going in a bad direction by more than two-to-one margin (50%-24%).

When asked, What issue would you like the President and National Assembly to focus on most, an overwhelming majority (60%) identified job creation as the dominant issue that the government should address.

When the respondents were asked if Goodluck Jonathan has done nothing to create jobs, and far too many people are still unemployed, decisively, 58 per cent of Nigerians found the position about Jonathan convincing.

The poll revealed that 59 per cent of Nigerians believed Jonathan was doing a bad job in the fight against corruption.

The ruling PDP has since dismissed the contents of the report, describing the outcome of the polls as a prejudiced piece of document, prepared to massage the egos of opposition leaders.

However, what appeared lost in the maze of the debate was the real reason why the APC engaged consultants for this assignment. The party tried to explain that it engaged (foreign) consultants, to improve its electoral fortunes. To achieve this objective, it realised that the old way of doing things would no longer suffice, hence the resort to seeking expert advice.

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APC and road map for a new Nigeria

Interim National Publicity Secretary, All Progressives Congress, Lai Mohammed

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has expressed worries over what it called avoidable deficiencies in the handling of the ongoing voter registration in the state by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

It described the exercise as shoddy, noting that it was a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise the people of the state from participating in the June 21 governorship election.

The party, in a release signed by the Director of Publicity and Media of the party in the state, Segun Dipe, noted that the shortcomings observed in the handling of the registration exercise in most of the designated centres showed lack of adequate preparation by INEC.

The APC noted that it was a deliberate attempt to short-change the people, stressing that the outcry was based on the facts on the ground.

The APC also blamed INEC for the use of obsolete equipment and inadequacy of staff and materials, noting that the current happenings ran contrary to INECs promise to get it right with the Ekiti governorship election.

The statement reads in part, This is not about one party; it is about a people who want INEC to conduct a credible election for them to have a democratically elected governor in the saddle. It is about a people who do not want to relive their past experience. And it is about a people who do not want to be short-changed by anyone. They deserve to be duly registered without hiccups. They should be encouraged, not discouraged.

The use of faulty or obsolete systems was noticed right from the first day of the exercise in some of the designated centres, where data collected could not be stored in the systems and thus got wiped off immediately. It is, therefore, possible that those whose registration have been concluded and issued the temporary cards may still have their names missing from INECs list. This is likened to the Anambra experience, where the names of those that began with alphabets O-Z could not be found.

Another show of shame is the noticeable skill deficiency displayed by the so called INEC officials. We observed that they most times fidget with the equipment, without readily knowing what to press or how to manipulate them. They even vent their frustration on the innocent citizens. Most times, they would ask impending registrants to wait for hours before they could be registered, if at all. The result of such endless wait is impatience and agitation.

Meanwhile, some politicians in Ikole-Ekiti on Thursday embarked on house-to-house sensitisation of residents, as the continuous voter registration entered its second day.

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