Tom Pauken

By John Hendrickson

The United States is at both an economic and cultural crossroads. The economy is still suffering from the “Great Recession” with slow economic growth and 9.1 percent unemployment. The credit rating of the nation has recently been lowered because of the failure of policymakers to appropriately address the spending problem. Our national debt is over $14 trillion and the federal government has been running trillion-dollar deficits, while entitlement programs threaten to consume the entire budget unless reformed. The traditional values and Christian heritage of the nation is also under attack by secular worldviews. Conservatives are fighting a war on a thousand fronts, from restoring the economy and constitutional government to preserving our heritage from a growing secular and relativistic culture. Conservatives who are looking (Continue reading on p. 5 of Sept. edition of LIMITS here)

By KRISTI NIX

Texas Workforce Commission Chairman Tom Pauken said Thursday (Sept. 29) that America has seen zero private-sector job growth over the last decade due to the national corporate tax structure.

“The current U.S. corporate tax system basically exports American prosperity and jobs overseas and we need to change that,” Pauken said in an exclusive interview with The Journal. “We have the most onerous corporate tax system in the world and so over the last decade there has been zero private-sector job growth in the country. Continue reading →

The interview can also be watched here.

It’s unclear who President Barack Obama is listening to lately— some days, it’s as if he’s deaf to the real concerns of the country. Putting off his “jobs speech” until after Labor Day — in favor of a vacation in Martha’s Vineyard — was a political misstep that will likely haunt him in 2012.

But there’s one voice he should listen to — a man who can take some responsibility for the tremendous job creation numbers in Texas, Workforce Commission Chairman Tom Pauken.

“National unemployment remains stubbornly high, with the latest figures for July showing 9.1 percent unemployment,” Pauken says. “Even Texas — which has done better than any other state in the nation in adding private sector jobs over the past decade — saw its unemployment rate increase to 8.4 percent in July. If present trends continue, our nation will continue to suffer from ‘structural unemployment’ and the hollowing out of our manufacturing base.” Continue reading →

More than six hours before former Ronald Reagan staffer and Texas Workforce Commission Chairman Tom Pauken was to speak on the Newton Campus of Des Moines Area Community College, members of the Boone Rotary Club were given a preview as Pauken spoke to the group about the task of bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States.

Pauken was in Iowa for the talk in Newton Wednesday evening, where he was on a panel discussion along with Newton Mayor Chaz Allen, Iowa State University economist Mark Edelman, Iowa Business Council member Elliot Smith and Jasper County Treasurer Doug Bishop. Speaking to Rotarians at their noon meeting that day, after a brief introduction by Eric Woolson, a long-time Iowa political strategist, Pauken began by mentioning that he hadn’t known Boone was the birthplace of Mamie Eisenhower and spoke a bit of his time working in the Reagan administration for the ACTION Agency, as well as a bit about meeting President Eisenhower when he was young. (Read the entire article here)

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