And one of the things that really struck me was how little our elected officials really know about the issues that affect our economy.
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The question is how we do it and do we do it in a way that does not negatively affect our economy and our capacity to grow, or negatively affect our capacity to create jobs.
So the fact that in a global economy a problem in Europe could affect our economy only reminds us and reinforces the fact that we need to take every measure we can on the issues that we control, to ensure that our economy keeps growing and it keeps creating jobs.
We need to do it urgently, even as we contend with some of these other issues that affect our economy that either we have limited control over or no control over, like the effect that the Arab uprisings had on oil prices or the effect that the earthquake and tsunami had on the economy because of disrupted supply chains.
Understanding the ripple a reallocation of resources can cause, we must also make changes that have the least detrimental affect to our economy.
One last piece of the puzzle, a substantial reduction in spending and tax benefits is likely to have a significant negative affect on our economy and Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
We look forward to a time when elections will just be an event, a formality that does not affect normalcy and our economy and when politics will be issue-based.
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But there are what I -- the point I want to make very clearly is that we believe we can work together with Congress to avoid a shutdown because we all agree that a shutdown would be disruptive to the economy, affect our capacity to grow and create jobs.
At present, local currencies don't affect the conventional economy--our dollar economy--much, because they have such limited circulation.
Mr. LIBUTTI: Essentially, it's kill people, destroy our way of life and affect the economy in ways that would not simply be a recovery period of a couple of weeks but much longer in terms of months and years.
"If enacted, UCITA would increase our cost of doing business and adversely affect the economy of the states in which we operate, " the letter states.
So how will that very big plan to stimulate the Chinese economy affect other economies around the world, including our own?
We've also made clear that we can't support arbitrary or irresponsible cuts that affect the essential functions of the government or hurt our ability to grow the economy, create jobs.
Here I think people feel like there is a real opportunity to affect the success of students, of hardworking American families and, ultimately, the global family of our economy.
President GEORGE W. BUSH: This growth package must be built on broad-based tax relief that will directly affect economic growth, and not the kind of spending projects that would have little immediate impact on our economy.
However, given that this problem of underemployment seems to particularly affect the poorer parts of society, you would clearly not want this to become a permanent feature of our economy.
This growth package must be built on broad-based tax relief that will directly affect economic growth--and not the kind of spending projects that would have little immediate impact on our economy.
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