AP explores why firms aren't hiring

Slowly, the mainstream media is slipping from Team Obama's hands. AP is the latest defection. Close to home for me is Jason Speer, a vice president of Quality Float Works of Schaumburg, Illinois.

Speer says he'd feel a lot better about hiring later this year if it weren't for the uncertainty about federal taxes. Unable to anticipate his company's costs, Speer says he can't make decisions about growth and hiring.

"We don't know if there's something around the corner that's going to hurt our business," Speer says.

Obama says he will veto an extension of the Bush tax cuts.

Also weighing on the minds of business leaders are the costs associated with ObamaCare.

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