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financially as the U.S., the two most
feasible ways to spur economic de
velopment are Improving the in
frastructure and allowing research
and development grants to univer
sities to create new technologies
that would in turn produce jobs.
“One big thing, too, that would
take very little money is there’s a
huge backlog of patents at the pat
ent office,” Turner said. “You could
probably generate one or two mil
lion jobs by just funding the patent
department correctly”
But Turner’s basic mantra for
most issues dealing with econom
ics is that there isn’t one easy an
swer.
“It took us 30 years to get here,
and you’re not going to have a quick
fix,” he said. “It’s going to take any
where from another three to five
years to dig out of this hole.”
A simfiar problem faces the ques
tion of national debt. Turner says
the country spent 30 years buUding
up that debt, and two years aren’t
going to magically repair that.
“We need to at least freeze spend
ing where it’s at, and maybe infla
tion can cut away at the deficit,” he
said. “My position on the debt is
you can’t do it with tax cuts. That’s
ridiculous. You have to have spend
ing cuts and tax cuts.”
Coble, a fiscal conservative, also
believes cuts are necessary. Mc
Donald says Coble’s slogan has
long been a pencil, representing
the sharp cuts the representative
would like to make in government
spending.
“He thinks the spending is way
too high,” McDonald said. “It al
ways has been. He looks first at
what is the cost for the taxpayers.”
One huge cost has been military
expenses for the War in Afghani
stan, a conflict that seems to have
no end in sight. Though Coble has
voted to dispatch troops in the past,
McDonald says the Congressman
would like to see the soldiers draw
out as soon as possible,
“He thought we never had an exit
strategy,” McDonald said. “He vot
ed to dispatch the troops, and still
supports that, but he says looking
back now that he regrets that since
we didn’t have an exit strategy.”
Turner actually sits on the same
page as Coble on this issue, empha
sizing the need for a plan.
“We need to pull out of there to
tally by next summer, have a nice
timetable of removing the troops,”
he said. “We went there to deny A1
Qaeda a base, but those guys don’t
need real estate to operate.”
When the mission expanded to
creating a democratic state. Turn
er says the country doesn’t have
the time or the resources to invest
in such a drastic goal.
On offshore drUling, Turner says
he doesn’t support it, but until
the U.S. finds alternative energy
sources the nation’s addiction to
oil leaves little choice, he says. Co
ble on the other hand supports off
shore drfiling but thinks the deci
sion should be left up to individual
states.
Coble says he wUl continue to
oppose government-run health
care but wUl seek to achieve health
care reform, while Turner says the
health care reform package didn’t
go far enough and that a single-pay
er health care system is needed.
Staff Writer Erin Wiltgen can be
reached at 888-3576or at newsdesk®
tvilletimes.com.
Mollohan graduates basic training
TIMES Staff Report
Army Reserve Spec. Joseph W. Mollohan has gradu
ated from basic infantry training at Fort Benning, Co
lumbus, Ga.
During the nine weeks of training, the soldier re
ceived training in drUl and ceremonies, weapons,
map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military jus
tice, physical fitness, first aid, and Army history, core
values and traditions. Additional training included
development of basic combat skills and battlefield op
erations and tactics, and experiencing use of various
weapons and weapons defenses available to the infan
try crewman.
He is the son of Tammy Large of S. Cox Street,
Asheboro, N.C., and grandson of Sarah Haire of Pop
lar Street, Lexington, N.C.
Mollohan is a 2010 graduate of Central Davidson
High School, Lexington.
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help people find work and not just take care of unem
ployment benefits.
“We are the employment security commission, not
the unemployment security commission,” Michael
said. “People should be encouraged that jobs are out
there. Davidson County had a bigger drop [in unem
ployment] than most of the other counties in North
Carolina.”
The unemployment rates in Guilford County and
Randolph County also dropped to 9.8 and 9.2 percent,
respectively Scotland County registered the state’s
highest unemployment rate at 14.8 percent with Cur
rituck County reporting the lowest at 4.1 percent.
Staff Writer Eliot Duke can be reached at 888-3578, or
duke@tvilletimes.com.
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