Recovery… Except for…

Have you heard the news?  The Great Recession’s over!  We’re in full-on RECOVERY MODE!  Yay! Well, except for the crippling 19.9% underemployment rate, where nearly 1 in 5 Americans is “working less than they want to” – or in other words, out of work.  Again, since the Democrats took control of Congress (you know – [...]

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Fishy Unemployment Numbers

OK…  you know the mainstream media will be trumpeting this particular success: Unemployment rate drops from 10% to 9.7%.  Better yet, the seaonally-adjusted underemployment rate dropped from 17.3% to 16.5%.  In the article I linked, economists are sighing with relief, saying that maybe – just maybe, the long winter of the Great Recession is over. [...]

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How Many Jobs Again?

The White House Corps keeps screwing up the message. Well, kinda.  What’s really screwing up the White House message is the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  According to the government itself, the seasonally-adjusted underemployment rate for December 2009 is 17.3% (the “official” rate – non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate – is 10%).  As we’ve discussed earlier, the [...]

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The Unexpected Recession

January 21, 2010: Jobless claims “unexpectedly” rise. January 14, 201o: Retail sales drop “unexpectedly”. December 10, 2009: Jobless claims “unexpectedly” rise. October 28, 2009: New home sales “unexpectedly tumble. October 2, 2009: Jobless claims rose “higher than forecast”. August 20, 2009: Jobless claims “unexpectedly” rise. June 25, 2009: Jobless claims “unexpectedly” rise. And now for [...]

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Most Ethical and Open Congress Ever, Part 12489 In an Ongoing Series

Remember this? Yeah…  she was full o’ crap, and we know it.  Kinda like when Harry Reid complained about the GOP-led congress “sneaking bills” through.  Yeah.  They were both 100%, totally, completely full o’ crap.  The fact that they were full o’ crap was what led Joe Wilson (Hero-SC) to publicly call Barack Hussein Obama [...]

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Feelin’ Stimulated Yet?

Ever wonder where some of that stimulus money that Obama and the Dems swore upon stacks and stacks of copies of “Earth in the Balance” and “The Audacity of Hope” that we needed desperately or all the children of the world would die in a cauldron filled with boiling pig poop? Or something like that? [...]

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Obscene Liberal Profits

The mainstream media has finally gotten around to fact-checking some of the claims being made by the left on health care.  The latest…    the “health insurance industry makes obscene profits” line. Now, I’m not one to be overly upset over profits.  Typically, I prefer profitable companies to non-profitable companies.  Much like with successful individuals and [...]

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Paulsen and Bernanke’s Stimulus Lies

Today, we learned that we weren’t being told then entire truth when it came to the Bank Bailout Stimulus Crap Sandwich. In other shocking developments: water is wet.  Details at 11. When the bailout circus began last September, fiscal conservatives around the country screamed at the top of their lungs that this was the dumbest [...]

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Obama is a Liar, Part 53924 in an ongoing series

First, Obama claimed that illegal aliens wouldn’t be covered in the Health Care Monster.  Joe Wilson yelled “You Lie” at THE ONE.  THE ONE gave him a gaze and the left howled like monkeys all too eager to toss their feces at zoo visitors.  How DARE he call THE ONE a liar!  THE ONE would [...]

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Puppetry in Action Part 1: The Media

So there I was…  looking directly into the gaping void of ratings and intellect that was the CNN website.  On the front page, right at the top, was the following headline: “Death Panel Rumors False”.  I found this interesting, since I’ve actually read the bill and, including pages 425-431 about the nonexistent death panels.  Apparently, [...]

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