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House Chamber, Washington, D.C. October 26, 2011 M. Speaker: The government’s continuing failure to address our nation’s gut-wrenching unemployment stems from a fundamental disagreement over how jobs are created in the first place. We are now in the third year of policies predicated on the assumption that government spending creates jobs. We have squandered three years and trillions of dollars of the nation’s wealth on such policies, and they have not worked because they cannot work. Government cannot inject a single dollar into the economy until it has first taken that same dollar OUT of the economy. True, we can...

The Burmese government imposed more restrictions on the access of internet from yesterday morning. "Almost all of the sites, including the one I am using are banned and nobody is getting access", said a Rangoon resident. The Bagan Cybertech, the main internet service provider, however, announced that it was because of "internet backbone down". But many do not believe the reason given by Bagan Cybertech. "It is just to make sure the all websites are blocked and the traffic is filtered," a user said. Only the ISP owned by Myanmar Post and Telecommunication is now running. With the purge of...