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Doubling exports or double-talk?
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
So President Obama wants to "double our exports over the next five years" in order to "support 2 million jobs in America." I'd have greater-than-zero confidence in this State of the Union goal being reached if I saw any evidence that the president knew anything about exports, employment, and the relationship between them. Tragically, that evidence is nowhere to be found.

The president doesn't even start off on the right foot. It may seem the soul of logic that "the more products we make and sell to other countries, the more jobs we support right here in America."

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