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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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From: Brumar898/26/2013 1:10:52 PM
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Unemployment rates by county July 2012- June 2013



Texas and North Dakota accounted for only 8% of all U.S. jobs in 2009, but between them produced 18% of the increase in employment between 2009 and 2013. And the energy boom in these states has clearly benefited their neighbors as well. For example, on a visit to St. Cloud Minnesota last year, I was told that many of the local carpenters and plumbers were commuting to perform work in North Dakota.

Two years ago, I proposed that supply-side policies could be key for future U.S. economic growth. The response of many people was that our economic problem was one of inadequate demand for workers and products rather than inability to produce more on the supply side. But I think the record of the last two years has shown that I was right. Demand for workers and products derives fundamentally from an opportunity for mutually advantageous production and exchange. Finding new ways to produce energy at prices consumers are able to pay is itself an effective program for getting people back to work.

Of course, it helps to have rich hydrocarbon deposits inside your borders, and most states don't have that. But the declines in production from Alaska, California, and offshore were all the results of deliberate policy choices. Permit delays are one reason Shell's $5 B investment in Alaska has yet to produce oil, and developing the potential of ANWR has yet to be approved. Some analysts think that California's Monterey Shale has even more potential than Texas's Eagle Ford or North Dakota's Bakken, though the political challenges are daunting. The big losses in offshore U.S. production were another deliberate policy decision.

I continue to urge that those who want to help more Americans find jobs should begin with the basic question, what could America be good at?

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