56% of California small business owners say they lack the resources to expand their operations. This according to a report released Wednesday by the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University, which surveyed almost 2,000 California small business owners.
As the California Academy of the Sciences hosted a prominent climate change conference this week, organizer and Governor Jerry Brown criticized his political opponents at the event, an event that could ultimately hinder his case for moving forward on the issue.
It’s easy to be sympathetic with calls to “get the bums out” of our federal and state legislative bodies; or to seek out a third party solution; or even to call for the end of the two-party system. But I don’t happen to believe any of these actions will – over the long haul – have the intended affect.
Let’s take a look at the numbers…
Number of independents increased by 3.4%, or 254,310 voters
Number of Democratic registration decreased by 5.4%, or 825,708 voters
Number of Republicans decreased by 3.1%, or 378,835
…instead of plugging in the headphones, entering an Internet-induced fugue state and quietly giving in to hopelessness, they used the Internet to find one another and take to the streets to insist on fairness and (in the Arab world) freedom.
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Having long been ignored by the mainstream media, Ron Paul's campaign for the Republican party's presidential nomination appears to be surging in Iowa, just three weeks ahead of the state's 2012 caucuses on January 3rd. Indeed, some polls are now placing the Texas Congressman in a statistical tie with the race's most recent front-runner, former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich.
