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Sunday, June 3rd, 2012

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The truth behind the unemployment numbers

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012

Arnold Ahlert points out the reality behind the employment numbers over at FrontPage Mag.

When the jobs data were released last week, it was revealed that only 115,000 new jobs were created, well below the 165,000 predicted by the media-anointed economic “experts,” and significantly below the 125,000 jobs-per-month pace required just to keep pace with the number of people entering the work force. Yet in an apparent paradox, the unemployment rate dropped from 8.2 percent to 8.1 percent. Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney explains half of it. “There is something about that 8.1 percent figure you ought to know,” he told a crowd at a town hall-style meeting in Cleveland yesterday. “You might assume that that number came down from 10 percent to 8.1 percent because of all the jobs that were created, and that assumption would be wrong. The reason that percent came down was because of all the people that dropped out of the workforce.”

Read the whole thing.

 

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Can we learn from history?

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

First, let’s review a post I made back in July 2008:

Oil down, dollar up since Bush rescinded drilling restrictions

Remember the leftist mantra about how “if we started drilling now, it wouldn’t effect prices for 10 years.” Well, they got that wrong too, just like Barak Obama’s predictions about the Troop Surge in Iraq. 100%, flat out wrong again. Yes, there is a pattern here.

Then, lets review the current President’s energy policy of restricting domestic energy production and the results of those polices, i.e. steadily rising gas prices and the dollar losing value.

I’m pretty sure those lefties who called GW Bush “the worst President ever” got it seriously wrong.  Our Dear Leader has clearly claimed that title.

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Roundup Post

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Calls Senator Inhofe a ‘Prostitute’ and a ‘Call Girl’ – Will Media Be Outraged?

I’m thinking no.  It’s a leftist insulting a conservative.  No foul in the liberal media’s view.

The BCC reports on the effect the Obama economy is having on Americans.

… Tent cities have sprung up in and around at least 55 American cities – they represent the bleak reality of America’s poverty crisis.

… One of the largest tented camps is in Florida and is now home to around 300 people. Others have sprung up in New Jersey and Portland.

… There are an estimated 5,000 people living in the dozens of camps that have sprung up across America

The largest camp, Pinella’s Hope in central Florida – a region better known for the glamour of Disneyworld – is made up of neat rows of tents spread out across a 13-acre plot.

… The stark reality is that many of them are people who very recently lived comfortable middle-class lives

For them, the economic downturn came too fast and many have been forced to trade their middle-class homes for lives in shelters, motels and at the far extreme, tented encampments.

Obama To Congressional Democrats: Yeah, I Could Have As Much As $1 Billion in Campaign Cash But I’m Not Giving You A Dime Of It…

WHOM DO YOU BELIEVE? HBO OR GALLUP?

Mary Katharine Ham on leftist hypocrisy.

Cindy Sheehan on the democrat’s dishonest use of the anti-war movement for their political gain.
I’m betting that you never heard one peep from the liberal media about her being arrested, twice, protesting outside the White House, after GW Bush left and Barack Hussein Obama moved in.

Three Occupy Oakland protesters arrested for robbery and a hate crime, both felonies

“Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. — Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of America

“[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.” — Orson Scott Card

AFFORDABLE” OMAMACARE JUST GOT $111 BILLION MORE EXPENSIVE

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Factual Observations about the US Federal Debt

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Let’s look at this data and what it shows.

• The vaunted “Clinton Surplus” was, in fact, the work of a GOP House that was willing to fight for fiscal sanity (current Ohio Governor John Kasich was one of the architects of the surplus); in addition, two events conspired toturbocharge the economy — in spite of Clinton, not because of him.

• Liberals like to talk about Reagan’s deficits, but they ignore the fact that every budget Reagan ever sent to the Democrat-controlled House was declared “dead on arrival”. Reagan supported a Balanced Budget Amendment, sought to eliminate useless agencies like the Department of Education, and otherwise believed in the U.S. spending within its means.

• Since the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007, they have jammed through the most fiscally irresponsible spending programs in world history (I won’t use the word “budget”, because they’ve refused to propose a budget for roughly 1,029 days).

In short, Democrats never propose less spending than Republicans — unless we’re talking about defense. And now, after four years of Democrat-controlled spending, the federal government is forced to borrow 40 cents for every dollar it spends.

HT to Doug Ross

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Friday Roundup

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Here are a few thing that just may have flew under your radar.

Obama is admired by just 4 percent of Middle East Arabs in the new survey  released by the Brookings Institution and University of Maryland. I seem to recall the lefties telling everyone that Barack Hussein Obama understood the Muslim world and would improve our standing there.  Silly lefties, as TalkStraight correctly summed it up, “[The] Arab World does not admire people they consider weak.”

Our Dear Leader is continuing his version of a “jobs program”, by being on track to kill a potential 120,000 American jobs by stonewalling the Keystone Pipeline Project. Just what does he have against inexpensive, non-oil tanker required, conflict free, oil being available to the American people? It is almost as if he wants higher energy prices, rising inflation and an American economy stuck in a ditch.

Since QE1 and QE2 have been such dismal failures, Obama’s pick to head the Fed,Ben Bernanke, is looking to inflict QE3 on the American people.  For those of you who forget just what “Quantitative Easing” is, here is an instructional video.

Chicago democrat, and old Obama buddy Tony Rezko gets a ten and half year prison term for “extorting millions of dollars from firms seeking state business or regulatory approval.” Ya, it does sorta sound like the Obama administration funneling “green investment” money to big democrat donors.

 

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Business & Politics

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

Usually not a good mix for conversation, and certainly not a good mix where our Dear Leader is concerned.

His job killing policies are striking home at small businesses, which are usually the engine that drives job growth.

One small business has publicly stated it is in a hiring freeze until Obama is out of office.  It’s not that they don’t want to hire, it is just that they can’t afford to between an economy where inflation is double the economic growth and oppressive government regulations drive the cost of doing business up.

Another important indicator is the falling support of blue collar democrats for the President. This was core demographic for him back in 2008. Without their support, his odds in 2012 are being coming even more anorexic.

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Three years of Obama “promises” on jobs

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

Perhaps the majority of those who have opposed our Dear Leader since he first appeared on the national scene are right, he is dangerously incompetent, and is completely lacking in any private sector experience.

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AP fact checks Obama’s speech and finds it comes up short on actual facts

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Here is the fact checking article in full.  I’ll just list some of the highlights

Essentially, the jobs plan is an IOU from a president and lawmakers who may not even be in office down the road when the bills come due. Today’s Congress cannot bind a later one for future spending. A future Congress could simply reverse it.

THE FACTS: It’s hard to see how the program would not raise the deficit over the next year or two because most of the envisioned spending cuts and tax increases are designed to come later rather than now, when they could jeopardize the fragile recovery.

THE FACTS: Not all of the president’s major proposals are likely to yield quick job growth if adopted. One is to set up a national infrastructure bank to raise private capital for roads, rail, bridges, airports and waterways. Even supporters of such a bank doubt it could have much impact on jobs in the next two years because it takes time to set up.

Bottom line, our Dear Leader asked for more of his failed policies.  More and more of the American people, especially registered voters, are seeing the truth behind his rhetoric.

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Reality is clearly not her strong point

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

The DNC’s so called “spokesperson” Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is still on her long term vacation from reality.

The latest example is her claiming that “We’ve Really Begun To Turn The Economy Around.”

If she means that the democrats have turned the economy around by wedging it even further in the ditch he and the congressional democrats have wedged into with their Keynesian policies, then ya, she could be inhabiting the shared reality of rational adults, but I really don’t think that is the case.

Let’s review a couple of recent indicators of just how the American economy is doing.

Unemployment rose in more than 90 percent of U.S. cities in June

An increase in layoffs in the sector helped push the number of announced U.S. jobs cuts to a 16-month high.

There is also the decrease in demand for manufactured goods, the recent downgrades in the GDP for the past year, and rising inflation.

If you want to spot check this, drive around your local town and see how many empty store fronts and office buildings there are.  Are there more or less than there were a year ago?  Unless you live in Texas, the answer is probably more.

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