First, LOWER the pharmaceutical companies profits and the physicians salaries!

GET THESE PEOPLE BACK TO REALITY!

"Altogether, 38 percent cited the economy or an economic issue
when asked what they would most like to see the government
accomplish this year. Fully 31 percent said health care is the No.
1 issue to tackle - regardless of whether they favor or oppose the
law - and 21 percent cited the budget. Among economic concerns,
jobs topped the list."-RNN

This simply illustrates the issues are tied together. If we have an abundance of decent jobs with good wages and good health benefits, then concern for health care issues will be much lower.

We seem to think the health care issue was strictly Democrats verses Republicans but we should not forget that the majority of Americans at the time, were against the bill. Obama will be working on his re-election. It is not going to be about whether he sides with Democrats or Republicans but whether he sides with the MAJORITY of Americans. That is the direction he will need to go toward, in order to be re-elected and I think he will attempt to go in that direction.

Author of FRANKENSTEIN, Mary Shelley, wrote “No man chooses evil BECAUSE it is evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” Saying that someone can see evil as good is not the same as saying that there is no evil, that it is merely a mote in the eye of the beholder, that it’s situational, or relative. Rather, it’s saying that the interests of the short-term, the short-sighted, the tribal, the sectarian, the partisan, can seem like a good thing, when it may well not be.

Now, not to revisit old issues, but to illustrate a point: Even though Al Gore presented every fact and figure and policy explanation any reasonable voter could ask for in making the decision to vote definitely Democratic in 2000, Bush swayed 50% of the voters with sly aspersions against egg-headedness. By a sour-grapes appeal to resentment, Bush brought all those millions onboard the anti-reality-based-community bandwagon. Which 50% was a proud display of the wisdom of an informed electorate? This is where Mary Shelley’s evil comes in. If all the detailed explanations and verifiable facts could be disdained and dismissed through the use of innuendo and other dishonest emotional subterfuge, can that be called good, even if it brought a kind of happiness to the millions who voted emotionally?

I can hope, anyway, that people's actions and language become less emotionally driven than they have been.

I believe mike g is correct in that if obama goes in the direction of the majority of americans he will be reelected. Our state of the union is in terrible shape because of the economy. If they could get the jobless rate to 8% it would be a big improvement. What I am fearful of is that it will end up with the same bickering between the parties and nothing will be resolved.

"What I am fearful of is that it will end up with the same bickering between the parties and nothing will be resolved." Peter

I still contend that the main reason for the bickering was that the dominant party was trying to usurp their power, against the majority. Now that we have a more balanced congress, I don't see that happening. Sure, I expect there to be a line in the sand for some issues but there will also be concessions for one party or another, like "don't ask don't tell" and "tax cuts for the rich". If more often then not, our government reflects the will of the people in the policies they bring forth, then our Representative, Democracy is working as best it can. Of Course, not everyone will agree but if the majority does, then what more could we expect?

Another 4 years of the clueless Obama admin? You've got to be kidding.


http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/49822/

Mike Q - sometimes off subject, often controversial but always thought provoking.

In the Christian faith, good vs evil has certain characteristics. Evil is associated with selfishness,lustful desires, pride and lies:

"Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” Matthew 4: 8,9

"But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Genesis 3:4

Good is associated with the willingness for self sacrifice, such as the example of the cross. Also associated with good is truth and humility:

“Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me." Luke 9:23

"Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me."John 14:6

It occurs to me the devil spoke in half-truths. We know the difference between good and evil but because of that, "we WILL surely die" someday.
We were tricked to "think" things would be better because of our own selfish desire for power and riches.

What politician is "good" as defined by the Bible? How do we trust those who preach about "certain verifiable facts" when they refuse to live by them? Certainly, leading by example goes a long way in trusting the elected to keep their promises. Talking about "facts" is meaningless.

What does Richard (Dick) think about Baba Booey running for president?

FAFA FLOHI FOR EL PRESIDENTE!

MikeG & MikeQ: Pure excellence!!! Bravo!!!

Rahms world

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-rahm-emanuel-profit-26-mar26,0,5682373.story?page=1

"Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it

mike g I hope you are righ in the assumption that both parties will walk arm and arm into the sunset and create a new era in american politics. Again I hope you are right but I doubt it. After tonights speech by the president the knives will come out again and it will be who makes the most points for the 2012 election. Since the house has been in session there only items on the agenda have been to defeat the health care bill and reduce spending. There has not been one bill on job creation on either side. It was as bad when the dems were in power and they were proposing the health bill and spending more monies and raising the deficit. Its a sad state of affairs when the congress is looking for the next election and not creating jobs. The average person is concerned about whether they can find a job if they are unemployed and keep their house from foreclosure and keeping food on the table and care less about who makes the most points in congress. In the next election the dems will be at a disadvantage thanks to chief justice roberts,the poster boy of the right wing for giving unlimited power to corporations to spend unlimited spending to corporations. In the future rep and senators will favor legislation for corporations. Again I believe congress is more interested in scoring points for the 2012 elections instead off improving the economy. Mike I would appreciate your comments on this subject and again hope you are right in believing congress can work on problems. I have not heard one work on either side about creating jobs except what obama has said and will reinterate this subject in tonight speech

A politician can tell the truth once he or she leaves office and doesn't take a Lobbying job.

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They're All Against Jobs
by Sen. Fritz Hollings / December 20, 2009 / http://tinyurl.com/ydr27ze
Who is against jobs in the United States? The big banks, Wall Street, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Business Roundtable, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the National Retail Federation, Corporate America, the President of the United States, Congress of the United States. Everyone is crying for jobs, but no one seems to understand why there aren't any. And the reason for those opposing jobs is money.
Beginning in 1973, big banks made most of their profit outside of the United States. Industries off-shoring, investing, banks financing the investments, transfer fees, fees and interest on the loans made for bigger profits. Long since, the big banks under the leadership of David Rockefeller have led the way to off-shore and make a bigger profit. Goldman Sachs, AIG, Citicorp and Wall Street, conspiring for a bailout and now using it for bonuses, make more money from the off-shored operations.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/20-6

Bush On Jobs: The Worst Track Record On Record
January 9, 2009 / http://tinyurl.com/9ylluu
President George W. Bush entered office in 2001 just as a recession was starting, and is preparing to leave in the middle of a long one. That’s almost 22 months of recession during his 96 months in office.
His job-creation record won’t look much better. The Bush administration created about three million jobs (net) over its eight years, a fraction of the 23 million jobs created under President Bill Clinton’s administration and only slightly better than President George H.W. Bush did in his four years in office.
Here’s a look at job creation under each president since the Labor Department started keeping payroll records in 1939. The counts are based on total payrolls between the start of the month the president took office (using the final payroll count for the end of the prior December) and his final December in office.
Because the size of the economy and labor force varies, we also calculate in percentage terms how much the total payroll count expanded under each president. The current President Bush, once taking account how long he’s been in office, shows the worst track record for job creation since the government began keeping records
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/01/09/bush-on-jobs-the-worst-track-record-on-record/

BABA BOOEY! Fafa Flohi should be giving the State of the Union Address tonight!

Anyone see Baba Booeys first pitch? BOOEY FOR PRESIDENT!

Caspian ,BINGO--thanks for posting it



A politician can tell the truth once he or she leaves office and doesn't take a Lobbying job.

How come people cannot call Richard Dick on the air? If the people on the show are unaware Dick is a nickname for Richard.

Why..How would you like to go through life with a name like Dick French? No wonder he is an angry little man who prositutes himself for political brownie points.

MikeG: re: Peter's query. Where's the "private sector" jobs or the bill that insures that they private sector jobs are definitely forthcoming? Obama has already extended the olive branch to Republican strongarming and capulated to their elitist/corporate "tax break" demands. Where's their program? Where's any program? Where's the beef???

Now, its time for the megas, and the banking financials to put up or reap the whirlwinds already blowing as you know in Greece, Tunisia and now Egypt. Word to the wise who are orchestrating this national fiscal dilemma and hardships here around the world that have been holding back 2trillion of the 3million they were fronted by the Fed.
It's time to put up or else pay in full for the military that is protecting their foreign interests- themselves. And while they are at it, they'd better start learning to man these armies that are funded with dwindling taxpayer earnings.
Mike, I know this is getting way ahead of the game and tonights feel good get together moment but, the rest of the world is way further advanced in the knowledge of who and what has caused and orchestrated all of these financial collapses and losses of income and investment and they are as far as we all can see by these recent election clashes, rebelling against almost every ELITIST/CORPORATE APPOINTED AUTOCRACY the world over.

That's my assessment. Obama can say anything at this point and it won't change the world dynamic or make a bit of difference here- unless, it puts us at the forefront of their investments and the rest of the world sees the correction as a positive indication that will transcend to them. The world people are in a tizzy, they can't and won't buy the concept of globalism when they see how poorly we've already been treated and how badly it is affecting us.
They saw their leaders complicit, and corrupted by these same influences, and they don't care how change comes now they are demanding they get back to work with jobs that provide adequate, not losing earnings income.
Our own middle class and 20million plus poor and the measure by which foreign workforces will conclude their decisions in their home countries- do not have any margin of error at this point, they have no cushion to await slow or measured progression.
That, ... when you take the time to estimate the possible damage to the dollar, and worldwide fiscal markets makes Obam's task tonight far greater than govt vs "private" sector head butting when it comes to job creation that must be immediate, sustaining, and increase our self proficiency- just in case in a worst case scenerio, order in these nations is not restored and the chaos and disruption were to spread.

As we have discussed many times prior- ...before, the private sector can proceed to venture on the thin ice of putting their investment under this contracted consumer spending, there has to be an expansion of the consumer/work base able and willing to BUY their projected wares.
Right now, there is no earth shaking new advancements in the private sector or its products that merits such expectation by its expansion or creation that will protract into the millions idled. *More than 1/5 unemployed, another large percentage retired, and yet another 1/4 underaged dependents. Where's the spending going to come from?
Therefore, once again, I will tell you that the only answer is in infrastructure revitalization and energy/scientific research. That my friend, unless you can see a way to make it profitable FOR THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO ADVANCE without crushing the taxpayer falls LIKE IT OR NOT under the heading... ---> GOV'T JOBS AND PROJECTS.
Yes we can, Yes we can, monitor and audit all books so that we don't wind up paying RANSOM PRICES as we are already mandated to do through private sectors gasoline and heating oil cartels cloaking themselves in gov't garb or to the *private sector no bidder who arbitrarily charges $1000 for the shovels, then gets that capricious penny on the dollar slap on the wrist from the gov't they bought and paid for with our earnings.
Is that waste and corruption a fault of gov't, the private sector or is it us for accepting it?
*Why is it that nobody has exposed that sector, ---> "private" when it comes to alluding to the most rampant forms of government waste that is killing the taxpayer and increasing the debt?

Now magnify the exposure into the realms of the DOD, corporate welfare, Fed loans to bankers who havern't lent, etc. AREN'T THESE RECIPIENTS ALL "PRIVATE SECTOR"? ISN'T WHAT THEY'VE DONE- TREASONOUS HIGH CRIMES ...AND NOT, WHAT CAN BE SWALLOWED AS PAT ON THE BACK, "BOYS WILL BE BOYS" MISDEMEANORS. These are insiders, "private sector" and granted immunity, subsidized in full by public money.... and the tabs are $1trillion dollars plus per year all placed on the gov'ts ledgers.

IN ILLUSTRATING THIS POINT AND FOLLOWING THE MONEY TO ITS FINAL DESTINATIONS CAN WE NOW CONCLUDE- THAT THE PRIVATE SECTOR IS ALMOST ALWAYS IN ONE FORM OR AN OTHER THE RECIPIENT OR PRIMARY BENEFICIARY IN THESE COLLUSIONS.

Let's get on with the show and concede that "jobs" in whatever form they may take FROM HERE ON IN helps the entire economy, ...reduces unemployment, ... increases consumer spending, ...makes it possible to pay for healthcare, insurance and college for America's all of us and provides a solid base and platform for tomorrows immediate future generations in a better tomorrow.

"We the people" united as one are obligated to defend our nation against all tyranny... foreign and domestic
GOD BLESS AMERICA! LET'S LEAD THE WORLD INTO TOMORROW. UNITED WE STAND! FOR PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING RIGHT HERE ON EARTH.
Have a great day! We'll talk later.

MikeG: re: Peter's query. Where's the "private sector" jobs or the bill from Republicans that insures that they private sector jobs are definitely forthcoming after receiving in full fromn this President their $700b tax breaks for the uber Rich & Greedy? Damning into serfdom their own jobless, and under educated constituents left holding the entire bag for their extravaganza with our credit nations card. (*plus interest) to China our arch competitor, jobs drainer, and #1 threat to our nations financial security.
Obama has already extended the olive branch to Republican strongarming and capulated to their elitist/corporate "tax break" demands. Where's their "private sector" program? Where's any program? Where's the beef???

Now, its time for the megas, and the banking financials to put up or reap the whirlwind already blowing as you know in Greece, Tunisia and now Egypt. Word to the wise, who are orchestrating this national fiscal dilemma and unpardonable hardships here around the world that have been holding back 2trillion of the 3trillion they were fronted by the Fed before the inception of this administration.
It's time for them to man up, put up the jobs from which taxes for their extended hubris can be collected- or else pay in full for the military that is protecting their foreign interests and their debts themselves. And while they are at it, they'd better start learning to man these armies that are funded with dwindling taxpayer earnings.
Mike, I know this is getting way ahead of the game and tonights feel good get together moment but, the rest of the world is way further advanced in the knowledge of who and what has caused and orchestrated all of these financial collapses and losses of income and investment and they are as far as we all can see by these recent election clashes, rebelling against almost every ELITIST/CORPORATE APPOINTED AUTOCRACY the world over.

That's my assessment. Obama can say anything at this point and it won't change the world dynamic or make a bit of difference here- unless, it puts us at the forefront of their investments and the rest of the world sees the correction as a positive indication that will transcend to them. The world people are in a tizzy, they can't and won't buy the concept of globalism when they see how poorly we've already been treated and how badly it is affecting us.
They saw their leaders complicit, and corrupted by these same influences, and they don't care how change comes now they are demanding they get back to work with jobs that provide adequate, not losing earnings income.
Our own middle class and 20million plus poor and the measure by which foreign workforces will conclude their decisions in their home countries- do not have any margin of error at this point, they have no cushion to await slow or measured progression.
That, ... when you take the time to estimate the possible damage to the dollar, and worldwide fiscal markets makes Obam's task tonight far greater than govt vs "private" sector head butting when it comes to job creation that must be immediate, sustaining, and increase our self proficiency- just in case in a worst case scenerio, order in these nations is not restored and the chaos and disruption were to spread.

As we have discussed many times prior- ...before, the private sector can proceed to venture on the thin ice of putting their investment under this contracted consumer spending, there has to be an expansion of the consumer/work base able and willing to BUY their projected wares.
Right now, there is no earth shaking new advancements in the private sector or its products that merits such expectation by its expansion or creation that will protract into the millions idled. *More than 1/5 unemployed, another large percentage retired, and yet another 1/4 underaged dependents. Where's the spending going to come from?
Therefore, once again, I will tell you that the only answer is in infrastructure revitalization and energy/scientific research. That my friend, unless you can see a way to make it profitable FOR THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO ADVANCE without crushing the taxpayer falls LIKE IT OR NOT under the heading... ---> GOV'T JOBS AND PROJECTS.
Yes we can, Yes we can, monitor and audit all books so that we don't wind up paying RANSOM PRICES as we are already mandated to do through private sectors gasoline and heating oil cartels cloaking themselves in gov't garb or to the *private sector no bidder who arbitrarily charges $1000 for the shovels, then gets that capricious penny on the dollar slap on the wrist from the gov't they bought and paid for with our earnings.
Is that waste and corruption a fault of gov't, the private sector or is it us for accepting it?
*Why is it that nobody has exposed that sector, ---> "private" when it comes to alluding to the most rampant forms of government waste that is killing the taxpayer and increasing the debt?

Now magnify the exposure into the realms of the DOD, corporate welfare, Fed loans to bankers who havern't lent, etc. AREN'T THESE RECIPIENTS ALL "PRIVATE SECTOR"? ISN'T WHAT THEY'VE DONE- TREASONOUS HIGH CRIMES ...AND NOT, WHAT CAN BE SWALLOWED AS PAT ON THE BACK, "BOYS WILL BE BOYS" MISDEMEANORS. These are insiders, "private sector" and granted immunity, subsidized in full by public money.... and the tabs are $1trillion dollars plus per year all placed on the gov'ts ledgers.

IN ILLUSTRATING THIS POINT AND FOLLOWING THE MONEY TO ITS FINAL DESTINATIONS CAN WE NOW CONCLUDE- THAT THE PRIVATE SECTOR IS ALMOST ALWAYS IN ONE FORM OR AN OTHER THE RECIPIENT OR PRIMARY BENEFICIARY IN THESE COLLUSIONS.

Let's get on with the show and concede that "jobs" in whatever form they may take FROM HERE ON IN helps the entire economy, ...reduces unemployment, ... increases consumer spending, ...makes it possible to pay for healthcare, insurance and college for America's all of us and provides a solid base and platform for tomorrows immediate future generations in a better tomorrow.

"We the people" united as one are obligated to defend our nation against all tyranny... foreign and domestic
GOD BLESS AMERICA! LET'S LEAD THE WORLD INTO TOMORROW. UNITED WE STAND! FOR PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING RIGHT HERE ON EARTH.
Have a great day! We'll talk later.

Let's get on with the show and concede that "jobs" in whatever form they may take FROM HERE ON IN helps the entire economy, ...reduces unemployment, ... increases consumer spending, ...makes it possible to pay for healthcare, insurance and college for America's all of us and provides a solid base and platform for tomorrows immediate future generations in a better tomorrow. IT ALSO BROADENS THE DOOR OPENINGS FOR GREATER CHANCES OF PRIVATE SECTOR PROFITABILITY BOTH SHORT AND LONG TERM.

"There has not been one bill on job creation on either side". - Peter

"A politician can tell the truth once he or she leaves office and doesn't take a Lobbying job."- Caspian

"Where's the "private sector" jobs or the bill that insures that they private sector jobs are definitely forthcoming?" -John

From the comments here, most of us already know the truth. Our hearts our telling us we will be disappointed. That government will fail us. That politicians can't be trusted. That their self interests will rule the day and we will be left with nothing. YET, many here still look toward government to lead us to a better life.

How does public government create private jobs, by spending more money? Why is there still a job problem because of a recession OR because government allowed manufacturing to go over seas, not enough incentive to keep jobs here, 13 million illegals, a huge deficit that forces us kiss China butt?

We need to get back to basics. Cut the deficit to make us more independent. Provide incentive to Corporations to keep jobs here. Protect our borders. Instead of simply extending unemployment benefits use some of that money to invest in specific job related education. Provide opportunity for "the people" to effect their own difference, instead of "the people" relying on government, who so far has failed us.

"$700b tax breaks for the uber Rich & Greedy? Damning into serfdom their own jobless, and under educated constituents left holding the entire bag for their extravaganza with our credit nations card. (*plus interest) to China our arch competitor, jobs drainer, and #1 threat to our nations financial security." - John

John, we seem to agree that cutting the deficit is important for the same reason. So I will also agree I want that 700B to go toward that cause BUT not until our big spenders in Washington attend Gamblers anonymous. Once I am convinced they can be more responsible, then and only then, should they be trusted with more of "the people" money.

Deficit??? I couldn't care less about the deficit. China can get on line anhs wait along with the rest of thiose nations that we've floated through those assinine Free Trade predestined deficit inducing agreements.
First: we create the jobs that reform our manufacturing base with state of the art, cutting edge products that the rest of the world will envy along with all the other suggestions including education, that were left here earlier.
Once that job creation has manifested and begins to bear fruit, infrastructure goods and service booming and moving full bore, then we can go on to deficit reduction. Ok?

"First: we create the jobs that reform our manufacturing base with state of the art, cutting edge products that the rest of the world will envy along with all the other suggestions including education, that were left here earlier. Once that job creation has manifested and begins to bear fruit, infrastructure goods and service booming and moving full bore, then we can go on to deficit reduction. Ok?"

But John, how does Government create private sectors jobs? Please don't tell me more spending with "job creation bills". They are a temporary band aide at best. If we could sustain decent jobs and real job growth first, then I am okay with the deficit second. However, I contend that part of the job problem is the deficit because we are dependent on China, which is tying our hands and forcing policy that is not in the best interest of American jobs.

Killing jobs, Obama-style:
The president admits that green policies hurt business

December 8, 2009


The Obama administration used last week's jobs summit to promote policies the president admits will kill jobs.

In case no one in the White House has noticed, unemployment has become a bit of a pressing issue. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of jobs lost in 2009 far surpasses the number in any other year since World War II. More than 3 million jobs have evaporated into the ozone layer since President Obama took office.

Everything the administration is doing threatens to dig that hole deeper. Mr. Obama has never hidden his anti-business agenda. When running for president last year, he told a group of journalists at the San Francisco Chronicle: "We would put a cap-and-trade system in place that is aggressive if not more aggressive than anybody else's that is out there. I was the first to call for a 100 percent auction on the cap-and-trade system. ... So if somebody wants to build a power plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all the greenhouse gas that is being emitted."

At the jobs summit, the president promised to keep working on that plan to bankrupt the coal industry. He joined a clean-energy breakout session and emphasized that the cap-and-trade bill still needs to pass the Senate. In case you're curious where this administration draws the line between style and substance on purported global warming, Mr. Obama made it clear: "The most important thing we talked about here is packaging and marketing." He then went on to repeat the canard that the cap-and-trade bill was "not a jobs killer but a jobs grower." Packaging and marketing, indeed.

As the recent scandal about fudged global-warming data has proved, it can be tricky trying to market baloney because facts have a way of bubbling to the surface. For example, Mr. Obama warned that "as you know the unit costs on a lot of these renewable energies, if you're not factoring carbon in, you are not going to be able to catch up to coal. You just can't. Coal is going to be substantially cheaper for the duration unless people take into account the externalities the industry produces."

Translation of that wonkery is fairly simple. The price of coal needs to be jacked up so government-favored but wildly inefficient energy sources can compete. When the price of coal goes through the roof, the number of jobs related to coal will go through the floor. Every business in America will have to pay higher energy costs, making it harder for all employers - from the corner dry cleaners to automakers to international consultants - to hire new workers and retain current staff.

There's no way Mr. Obama's promised boom in green jobs can compensate for the unemployment that will result in traditional industries if his draconian energy policy becomes the law of the land. Contrary to some claims, Mr. Obama does have a jobs plan. The problem is it kills jobs rather than creates them.

How many more jobs will Obama kill?

November 6, 2009

Unemployment has hit 10.2 percent, the highest level since the 1983 recession. Obama administration officials will no doubt try to spin this latest bad economic news by noting that unemployment is typically a “lagging indicator.” That was true in the old days, but it won’t cut it in the age of the global economy and Internet-driven 24/7 news cycle. Unemployment may now be something of a leading indicator because business executives make decisions about whether to invest in new jobs much more quickly and based on vastly more data.

As Examiner columnist and practicing economist Irwin M. Stelzer notes in today’s edition, some of the traditional signs of recovery look positive. But businesses aren’t investing in new jobs, they are instead hoarding cash, waiting for the next shoe to drop in Washington on such issues as health care reform, cap-and-trade, and federal taxes, spending and deficits. ”There is a nagging fear among those who closely watch not only the econmy but govenment policy that these nascent economic forces might be murdered in their crib by the current administration,” Stelzer notes.

It's time for Obama and Democratic congressional leaders Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to step back from their radical plans to vastly expand federal power, spending, deficits and taxes, and instead reach out to conservatives in both parties who understand how to make the economy grow with tax cuts, reduced bureaucracy, and lower government spending. They also understand the urgency of achieving U.S. energy independence by quickly adopting the "all-of-the-above" policy of freeing America's abundant conventional energy resources while encouraging alternative sources. In other words, stop playing ideological games and get serious about restoring economic growth before millions more jobs are lost.

New Obama 'green jobs' to cost $135,295 each:

01/08/10

President Obama's announcement earlier today of an additional $2.3 billion in federal tax credits for creating approximately 17,000 subsidized temporary jobs in the green energy industry is drawing a less than enthusiastic response from Thomas J. Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research:

"Show me one other industry that requests and receives a nearly 30 percent taxpayer subsidy. That's what the wind and solar industries require - at a minimum - to exist. All the president did today is throw more money at an unproven technology that is not economically viable in the marketplace. Unfortunately, the only winners in this latest taxpayer giveaway will be Wall Street money managers and corporate interests in the wind and solar industry.

"If the president really wants to create an environment that will foster economic growth and job creation, he need not look any further than the domestic oil, gas and coal industries. These three industries and energy sources built this nation. For the administration to continue to ignore this fact and to keep the vast resources that taxpayers own under lock and key at the Department of Interior is irresponsible and a disservice to the American people.

"The Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), if opened for business, would create over 1 million high-wage jobs. It would reduce our dangerous dependence on hostile nations for their energy resources and spur economic growth across all 50 states. Development of these energy resources will create sustainable employment, not taxpayer dependent make-work jobs."

The White House said the tax credits will go to 183 projects in 43 states under the $787 billion economic recovery stimulus program approved last year by Congress. The announcement came the same day as the Bureau of Labor Statistics announed that the unemployment rate remained at 10 percent, and that approximately 85,000 jobs hadbeen lost in December.

Saving Obama from Himself :

Obama’s campaign attacks against Bush now apply to his presidency.

June 24, 2010


Do you remember candidate Barack Obama offering his hope-and-change platitudes in front of the fake Greek columns during the Democratic convention? Or, earlier, pontificating at the Victory Monument in Berlin?

Why didn’t an old cigar-chomping Democratic pro take him aside and warn him about offending Nemesis? She is the dreaded goddess who brings divine retribution in ironic fashion to overweening arrogance.

Or maybe a friend could have whispered to Senator Obama to tone it down when he was merciless in damning the Bush administration for its supposedly slow response to Hurricane Katrina.

Obama railed that Bush showed “unconscionable ineptitude.” Obama further charged that Bush’s response was “achingly slow,” a result of “passive indifference,” and that his team was rife with “corruption and cronyism.”

Those phrases now apply to Obama himself, as he seems lost amid his own disaster — eerily, in about the same Gulf environs. Adding insult to injury, a recent poll revealed that Louisiana residents thought Bush had done a better job with Katrina than Obama has with BP.

Couldn’t one of Obama’s many handlers have warned him to ignore the media’s tingling-leg gaga worship, or their nonsense that Obama is “a god”?

Didn’t Team Obama ever suspect that such an unhinged press, in the manner of a Greek chorus, could just as easily sour on their prophet once his poll ratings fell as quickly as they had soared?

Couldn’t David Axelrod have admonished his candidate to cut out the creepy stuff about himself and his throng being “the ones we’ve been waiting for”? Why was there a need for all that megalomaniac hocus-pocus about slowing the “rise of the oceans” and healing the planet? Sure enough, Nemesis ensured that instead of Lord Poseidon lowering the seas, Obama is a smoky Hephaestus fouling them up.
Did the Nobel Committee members really think they were doing their post-national, post-racial heartthrob any good by giving him a peace prize even though he lacked any record of foreign-policy accomplishment? Didn’t his Scandinavian admirers grasp that prophets suffer the wages of hypocrisy far more readily than mere mortals when things go badly, as they inevitably do? Jay Leno is now more likely to use the phrase “Nobel Laureate Obama” than a serious diplomat.

For nearly two years, Senator, Candidate, and Freshman President Obama ridiculed his predecessor — as if running the executive were as easy a job as community organizing, serving a couple of years in the Senate, or campaigning for president.

But now the once-enthralled electorate is starting to tire of the hope-and-change platitudes, and even of the easy blame-gaming of his predecessor, mostly because almost everything Obama once demagogued is in weird fashion now coming back to haunt him.

Obama easily damned everything from Guantanamo Bay to Predator drone attacks in Afghanistan to the war in Iraq, only to adopt those policies and more from Bush.

He sermonized about the morals of a corrupt Republican Congress, only to keep quiet about earmarks, lobbyists, and the sins of Democratic cronies such as Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. Charles Rangel.

Deficits were once supposed proof of Bush’s out-of-control spending. What does far greater red ink say about Obama?

If only swaggering George W. Bush could have been smart enough to reach out to Cuba, Iran, and Syria. Then Obama did just that, only to make bad things even worse.

And remember the Obama comment about an arrogant Bush turning off our allies? Why, then, does an aloof Obama seem to alienate them even more?

The reality of Barack Obama is that he was an inexperienced community organizer with an undistinguished record as a Senate newcomer. A perfect storm of popular anger at eight years of George Bush, a lackluster John McCain campaign, Obama’s landmark candidacy as a black American, a disingenuous campaign promising centrist and bipartisan governance, and the financial meltdown in 2008 got the relatively untried and unknown Obama elected.

Most mortals in Obama’s position would have treaded lightly. They would have kept promises, steered a moderate course, and listened more than lectured until they won over the public with concrete achievement.

But headstrong tragic figures do not do that. They neither welcome in critics nor would listen to them if they did. They impute their unforeseen temporary success to their own brilliance — and expect it to continue forever. So would-be gods set themselves up for a fall far harder than what happens to the rest of us.

That’s about where we are now, with our president playing a character right out of Greek tragedy who, true to form, is railing about the unfairness of it all.

Barack Obama: The great jobs killer

Jul. 4, 2010

As former President Ronald Reagan might have said, "Obama, there you go again."

The current occupant of the White House claims to know how to create jobs. He claims jobs have been created. But so far the score is Great Obama Depression 2.2 million lost jobs, Obama 0 -- a blowout.

Obama is as hopeless, helpless, clueless and bankrupt of good ideas as the manager of the Chicago Cubs in late September. This "community organizer" knows as much about private-sector jobs as Pamela Anderson knows about nuclear physics.

It's time to call Obama what he is: The Great Jobs Killer. With his massive spending and tax hikes -- rewarding big government and big unions, while punishing taxpayers and business owners -- Obama has killed jobs, he has killed motivation to create new jobs, he has killed the motivation to invest in new businesses, or expand old ones. With all this killing, Obama should be given the top spot on the FBI's Most Wanted List.

Meanwhile, he has kept the union workers of GM and Chrysler employed (with taxpayer money). He has made sure that most government employee union members got their annual raises for sleeping on the job (with taxpayer money). He made sure that his voters got handouts mislabeled as "tax cuts" even though they never paid taxes (with taxpayer money). And he made sure that major campaign contributors collected billions off government stimulus (with taxpayer money).

As far as the taxpayers -- the people who actually take risks with our own money to create small businesses and jobs and pay most of the taxes -- we require protection under the Endangered Species Act.

You won't find proof of the damage Obama is doing on Wall Street, but rather on Main Street. My friends are all part of the economic engine of America: Small business. Small business creates 75 percent of new jobs (and a majority of all jobs). I called one friend who was a wealthy restaurant owner. He says business is off by 60 percent. He's drowning in debt. He won't last much longer. His wealth is gone.

I called another friend in the business of home improvement. He says business is off 90 percent from two years ago. My contractor just filed personal bankruptcy. She won't be building any more homes. The hair salon where I've had my hair cut for years closed earlier this year. Bankrupt. But here's the clincher -- ESPN Zone just closed all their restaurants across the country. If they can't make it selling cheap food and overpriced beer with 100 big screens blaring every sporting event on the planet to a sports-crazed society, we are all in deep, deep trouble.

I've polled all my friends who own small businesses -- many of them in the Internet and high-tech fields. They all agree that in this new Obama world of high business taxes, income taxes, payroll taxes, capital gains taxes, and workers compensation taxes, the key to success is to avoid employees. The only way to survive as a business owner today is by keeping the payroll very low and by hiring only independent contractors or part-time employees provided by temp agencies.

The days of jobs in the private sector with big salaries, full benefits, and pensions are over. We've all seen where those kinds of jobs get you as a business owner -- in Bankruptcy Court or surviving on government welfare like GM and Chrysler. Or in the case of government itself -- completely insolvent, but surviving by ripping off taxpayers and fraudulently running printing presses at the Fed all day and night to print money by the trillions.

Unfortunately, small businesses don't have the power to impose taxes or print money. So unlike government, we'll just have to cut employees and run lean and mean.

It has now become clear that, outside of the burgeoning field of Census takers, there will be no major increase in new jobs for years to come. Outside government, Obama has created a wasteland of economic ruin and depression that looks much like the landscape of Mel Gibson's first movie "Mad Max." Without a printing press in Obama's world, you're just plain out of luck.

The days of believing the Obama propaganda about a jobs recovery are over. The trillion-dollar corporate handouts (neatly named "stimulus") may have kept big business in the money for the past 18 months, and artificially propped up the stock market, but small business is the real canary in the coal mine.

My small business-owning friends aren't creating one job. Not one. They are shedding jobs. They are learning to do more with fewer employees. They are creating high-tech businesses that don't need employees. And many business owners are making plans to leave the country. In a high-tech world where businesses can be run from anywhere, Obama has a problem. His one-trick pony -- raise taxes, raise taxes, raising taxes -- is chasing away the business owners he desperately needs to pay his bills.

So who is going to pay Obama's taxes? Not his voters. They want government to pay them. Who is going to create Obama's jobs? Not his voters -- they've never created a job in their lives.

So what is Obama going to do? Maybe he can get Pamela Anderson on the line.

President Barack Obama: Job Killer

November 25, 2010

President Barack Obama walked into the Oval Office in January 2009 during a severe economic downturn led by a meltdown in housing prices -- and promptly made things worse.

By bailing out banks, insurance companies and auto firms -- done to a lesser extent by the previous administration -- Obama rewarded poor performers and punished their better-managed competitors. Prevented from pouncing on wounded rivals and thus increasing market share or buying the assets of the wounded at fire sale prices, Ford, for example, watched GM and Chrysler get a cash infusion from taxpayers. Despite GM's recent "successful" public offering, taxpayers lost billions of dollars.


Obama and the Democratic congressional supermajorities passed a nearly trillion-dollar economic "stimulus" package and then proceeded to award fiscally irresponsible states with "stimulus" funds, helping postpone the day of reckoning when states must meet their budgets by reducing spending and cutting the size of government. Stimulus supposedly "saved or created" 3.5 million jobs, but it merely succeeded in transferring money from the pockets of producer taxpayers into the pockets of others.

Obama spends billions to "invest" in mythical "green jobs of the future." Investing is the job of the private sector, which uses private funds to produce a product that addresses a need or desire. Success is determined by the willingness of the consumer to pay good money for said product. A bad bet means somebody loses his own money -- a possibility that the private investor weighed before he chose to risk his capital.

But government "investments" are driven by politics, with decisions made by bureaucrats operating under rosy scenarios with romantic wish lists. When taxpayer money goes down a rathole -- as is far more likely than with privately invested money -- nobody gets fired, but the country is impoverished a little bit more.

ObamaCare puts 30 million Americans on the rolls of the medically insured. Since its passage, insurance companies -- citing the cost of ObamaCare mandates, rules and regulations -- jacked up their premiums and cut coverage. Over 100 waivers have been granted to companies and organizations that, but for these waivers, would have had to drop coverage, increase copays or reduce medical benefits. Nice to have friends in high places.

The AARP, a staunch proponent of ObamaCare, announced a reduction in benefits for its own employees, lest the tax kick in for so-called "Cadillac plans." To "bend the cost curve," ObamaCare promised cuts in Medicare reimbursement. So doctors are dropping their Medicare patients.

The administration signed into law new banking and financial regulations that keep intact the very government agencies that helped precipitate the housing meltdown -- Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Under policies aimed at allowing everyone with a pulse and a dream to buy a home, these "government-sponsored entities" allowed the players in the housing market -- banks, borrowers, investment banks and buyers of "exotic securities" -- to play with taxpayer money.

The Obama administration's various government efforts to "keep homeowners in their homes" are floundering, serving only to postpone the necessary market re-pricing of homes that are now worth less than they once were. Cash for Clunkers induced people who were going to buy cars anyway into making their purchases earlier. When the program ended, car buying slumped. The result was more taxpayer dollars removed from the hands of producers and put into the hands of recipients.

The administration, with some Republican support, increased the minimum wage and several times extended unemployment compensation -- both well-intended policies, but job killers nonetheless.

Obama promised to raise taxes on the rich, who, under Bush, got tax cuts they "didn't need" and "didn't ask for." So the rich sit on their money, not knowing whether they will be allowed to spend or save or invest it -- or whether Washington has other ideas. Most Bush-era tax cuts expire at the end of the year, and if not extended, rates will go up on income, capital gains, dividends and estates.

The recent Republican takeover of the House and loss of the Senate's Democratic supermajority likely mean that the rates will be extended for all -- including the dastardly, job-creating rich. But businesspeople cannot plan -- and are thus reluctant to hire -- until they know whether their taxes are going to increase.

Candidate Obama demagogued against trade agreements that "shipped jobs overseas," and promised to tweak the Bush administration-negotiated treaty with South Korea. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the pact would create 250,000 jobs in America and it would open up exports to a NAFTA-sized market. But during his recent trip to Asia, Obama failed to get the South Koreans to go along with his changes aimed at benefiting the American auto and beef industries. The South Koreans said no, insisting that they had a deal and that if the U.S. won't do business with them, other countries will.

For two years, Obama has practiced Obamalism: Spread the wealth; redistribute income; punish success; reward ineptitude; and encourage the victicrat-entitlement mentality by making the lack of health insurance the responsibility of others.

Do you really think that retrofitting our nations infrastructure is merely a a temporary committment to employment?
No its is a total committment to America and all of our people. Right now the private sector has no answers other than to try to usurp and takeover those categories now manned by government workers such as in the following that will be bound to add to more agregious violations than currently exist.
Privatization of the penal system. Bring on the bounty hunters and unwarranted prosecution just to fill quotas.
Privatization of water supplys. Imagine the cost of taking a shower when that occurs.
Privatization of roads bringing us back to the good old days of toll booths or worst yet foreign ownership.
What else do you know of that can immediately employ the mass numbers of unemployed without re-education?
What products and where is the consumer base to buy other products from the new unformed businesses that have yet to locate or establish its production machinery, in this flat economy that is guaranteed or has a fair chance of several given todays present consumer base? Now, shrink whats left of that base still further once the Republicans sink their teeth into government positions and their services that serrve no other real time purpose than to grind the economy to a shreiking halt. Add wait one to two years for the construction, then hiring... by then it will be all but over. CHINA WINS!!!
Got it?
My way calls for us to commit to infrastructure jobs. Right now! damn the costs!
Taxes will be collected from those salaries immediately. Instead of all of this massive borrowing in order to supplement unemployment. Win/Win
Bonus: Within the year and coming years the consumer base expands greatly and the privates come in "knowing" what areas the new consumer market will be chomping at the bit to endorse, fund market and consume. WIN/WIN FOR INVESTORS AND BUSINESS ENTREPENEURS.
Making the correct first step is tantamount in making the transition from being SUCKERS of the parental controls sold to you by elitists and their talking head minions.
Keep the faith. The faith is not true if it resides in those whose power lies in their ability to manipulate truth without honor in order to control lives.
Love thy neighbor, and respect his right to exist and prosper along with you and that love and respect as well as security will be your bond and returned tenfold. Believe!

Do you really think that retrofitting our nations infrastructure is merely a a temporary committment to employment?
No its is a total committment to America and all of our people. Right now the private sector has no answers other than to try to usurp and takeover those categories now manned by government workers such as in the following that will be bound to add to more agregious violations than currently exist.
Privatization of the penal system. Bring on the bounty hunters and unwarranted prosecution just to fill quotas.
Privatization of water supplys. Imagine the cost of taking a shower when that occurs.
Privatization of roads bringing us back to the good old days of toll booths or worst yet foreign ownership.
What else do you know about that can immediately employ the mass numbers of unemployed without re-education that the private sector has ready for marketing and investment?
What products and where is the consumer base to buy new or other products from the unformed businesses that have yet to locate or establish its production machinery, in this flat economy- that is guaranteed to tred water or has even a fair chance of "survival" given todays present consumer base and flattened scaled wages?
Now, shrink whats left of that base still further once the Republicans sink their teeth into government positions and their services that serve no other real time purpose than to grind the economy to a shreiking halt.
Add wait one to two years for the construction, tooling, then hiring... by then it will be all but over. CHINA WINS!!!
Got it?
AMERICA AND THE RAPIDLY INCREASING UNEMPLOYED CANNOT AFFORD ANOTHER TWO YEARS OF STAGNATION THAT DECREASES OUR PURCHASING POWER AWAITING THE PRIVATE SECTOR. -PERIOD.
My way calls for us to commit to infrastructure jobs. Right now! damn the costs!
Taxes will be collected from those salaries immediately. Instead of all of this massive borrowing in order to supplement unemployment. Win/Win
Bonus: Within the year and coming years the consumer base expands greatly and the privates come in timing and "knowing" when and in what areas to inject themselves into the new consumer/investor markets which will be chomping at the bit to endorse, fund market and consume. WIN/WIN FOR INVESTORS AND BUSINESS ENTREPENEURS.
Making the correct first step is tantamount in making the transition from being SUCKERS of the parental controls sold to you by elitists and their talking head minions.
Keep the faith. The faith is not true if it resides in those whose power lies in their ability to manipulate truth without honor in order to control lives.
Love thy neighbor, and respect his right to exist and prosper along with you and that love and respect as well as security will be your bond and returned tenfold. Believe!

Obama should thank George Bush:

The mission is still accomplished in Iraq

March 9, 2010

President Obama praised the Iraqi people on Sunday on the occasion of their parliamentary elections. "The future of Iraq belongs to the people of Iraq," Mr. Obama said. That progress is no thanks to him.

Sunday's election was the third since Iraq's liberation in 2003 from Saddam Hussein's dictatorial rule. The event lacked much of the drama of the January 2005 National Assembly election, when the war was hotter and risks were higher. Five years ago, insurgents vowed that they would see to it that the election would fail. "We have declared a fierce war on this evil principle of democracy and those who follow this wrong ideology," Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi stated. But the people defied the terrorists, and Iraq's first free election proceeded with little disruption. Eleven months later, the country held another successful election under its new constitution. Six months after that, al-Zarqawi was dead.

The images from Sunday's polling evoked 2005, with long lines of resolute voters, scattered low-level violence and the ubiquitous purple fingers inked to show an individual had voted. But the sense of threat was reduced, and the press coverage was less intense. The most noteworthy factor about the election was the feeling that the process was becoming routine. Iraq is well on the way to being a functioning democracy. The big news was the relative lack of news. Nothing says "mission accomplished" more than a low-key election in a country recently beset by nationwide conflict.

Mr. Obama took the opportunity to reiterate that U.S. troops were meeting their timetable for withdrawal, yet failed to mention that he was executing a policy put in place by the George W. Bush administration. The president is quick to blame his predecessor for various supposed problems he inherited, but the O Force is noticeably stingy when it comes to expressing appreciation for the things the previous administration demonstrably got right. The policies President Bush pursued that then-Sen. Obama opposed, denounced and fought against have made it possible for Mr. Obama effortlessly to preside over the successful conclusion of a hard-fought struggle for freedom.

Last month, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who shepherded the Iraq war authorization through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2002, said that ending the conflict in Iraq would be one of the Obama administration's great achievements. But Mr. Obama's principal contribution to the Iraq effort has been to resist his impulses to pursue the policies he advocated when he was a senator. Had the United States followed the course Mr. Obama was counseling in 2007, there likely would have been no election last weekend, terror would reign in Baghdad, and the Iraqi people's future would be grim. A little gratitude would be appropriate.

Obama administration takes credit for Bush success in Iraq:

Feb. 11, 2010

In the midst of weak polls numbers, the Obama administration is grabbing on to anything that will boost the image of a flailing presidency. Everyone from President Obama to Vice President Joe Biden to White House Press Secretary Joe Gibbs are more than willing to say the successes in Iraq are due to Obama administration policies without crediting the President Bush's foundational groundwork, like the surge (which Obama and Biden opposed) and setting up the military drawdown in Iraq with Prime Minister Maliki before he left the White House. The Fox News Channel details further the Obama administration's attempt to call any success in Iraq their own, while trashing the Bush administration in the process.

It remains amusing that the White House will continue to repeat they "inherited" the Bush economy, when Obama's economic policies continue to fail, while embracing any victory in Iraq that rightfully belongs to the prior administration's work with the U.S. Military and Iraqi government.

This is sort of like beating up on the class nerd everyday, demand he does your class work, score straight A's, still beat up on the class nerd, and truly believe you are some kind of genius for getting good grades. Unfortunately for President Obama, the teachers are the American people. He has not paid attention to them, and stealing the credit for someone else's hard work will not bring up his poll numbers.

"My way calls for us to commit to infrastructure jobs. Right now! damn the costs!" -John

Our goals our similar but our political philosophies are vastly different. We are trillions and trillions in an ever growing debt, with seemingly less to show for it. Our great Space program has been reduced to a skeleton of what it was. Why don't we have the fastest trains, the best infrastructure, the fastest computer? You seem to think it's because government needs to spend more money it does not have. I seem to think it's because we allowed other countries like China, to manufacture for us. Next time you are in a store take any product off the shelf and read where it is made. You will be hard pressed to find "made in the USA"

Even still, I question, where is our tax dollars going? Why are we in such debt with little to show for it? Is it fraud? High Entitlements? Military spending? Is it bad, wrong headed policy. Is it simply a mindset that thinks, sue for anything to make money, win the lottery rather then work, let government help you, rather then try and help yourself. That mindset takes away from the ones that really need it and forces us to grow government even bigger. Whatever the real reason is, we must change and not throw more money at it.

The successful immigrant stories of the past, all sound the same. I came here with nothing. I struggled to learn the language. I took whatever job I could find. I wanted to do better so I learned the business. I eventually started my own and it is not easy but now I am happy.

Even still, I question, where is our tax dollars going?-mike g

interest and principal. -fred

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