{"id":352,"date":"2009-05-15T10:40:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T14:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=352"},"modified":"2009-05-15T10:40:55","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T14:40:55","slug":"the-obama-administration-doesnt-meet-the-standards-of-breakfast-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/the-obama-administration-doesnt-meet-the-standards-of-breakfast-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obama administration doesn&#8217;t meet the standards of breakfast foods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2009\/05\/15\/washington-cant-meet-the-cheerios-standard\/\">Michelle Malkin has a very informative article detailing how our <em>Dear Leader<\/em>&#8216;s administration fails to meet the standards they want a breakfast cereal to meet<\/a>.<br \/>\nHere are some of the highlights:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The White House claims 150,000 jobs have been \u201ccreated or saved.\u201d But since February, the nation has lost more than 1.3 million jobs. The current 8.9 percent unemployment rate in the wake of stimulus passage is worse than the 8.8 percent unemployment figure Obama\u2019s economists darkly predicted if Congress didn\u2019t immediately adopt their recovery plan. (<a href=\"http:\/\/michaelscomments.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/08\/the-april-numbers-are-in-its-official\/\">See Innocent Bystanders.<\/a>)<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWashington told us the \u201cstimulus\u201d projects were \u201cshovel-ready\u201d and would provide immediate relief. They\u2019re not. The New York Times notes that the program \u201chas paid out less than 6 percent of the money, largely in the form of social service payments to states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrat leaders baldly claimed that \u201cThere are no earmarks\u201d in the bill. But untold tens of millions of dollars are headed to pet projects such as skateboard parks, tennis and basketball court renovation, the National Zoo, the $11 million Bridge to Microsoft, and Pennsylvania King of Pork Rep. John Murtha\u2019s ghost airport to nowhere.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nHow about \u201cSocial Security?\u201d There\u2019s nothing secure about it. While Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid scoffed during the Bush years that \u201cthe so-called Security crisis exists in only one place \u2013 the minds of the Republicans,\u201d the insolvency problem festered. Now, the Obama administration reports that both Social (In)security and Medicare are hurtling toward bankruptcy far sooner than previously estimated. The \u201ctrust funds\u201d exist only in the minds of the deluded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yup, that&#8217;s right, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/polyticks\/democrats.html\">democrat<\/a> Senator Harry Reid lied to the American people.  Instead of telling the truth, he used Social Security as a political tool to attack his enemies rather than do what is best for America.  Nobody paying attention should be surprised by this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Malkin has a very informative article detailing how our Dear Leader&#8216;s administration fails to meet the standards they want a breakfast cereal to meet. Here are some of the highlights: The White House claims 150,000 jobs have been \u201ccreated or saved.\u201d But since February, the nation has lost more than 1.3 million jobs. 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