In typical Obama Administration style this story has now effectively been buried. How did we elect this man? We watch the official propaganda television stations -CNN - ABC - CBS - NBC - (basically every shrinking station hoping for a Government bailout at taxpayer expense) - everybody but Fox News Network and all the other networks make a concerted effort to demonize Fox
Hillary Clinton faints, has concussion reads the CNN story
No mention of witnesses - the former "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" theorist - did not go to the hospital and has never apparently had a concussion before.
But good news - she's recovering nicely.
However - she won't be able to testify this week about what happened when 4 American's were murdered in a Terrorist attack in Libya on 9-11-2012
She is sending William Burns and Thomas Nides, both Deputy Secretaries of State to testify before that committee instead
Senator John Swift-boat Kerry - the soon to be nominated replacement as Secretary of State - is now apparently also a medical expert. He issued his own statement that Hillary's health that "given her condition, she could not and should not appear on Thursday as previously planned"
So the wagons are nicely circled. Secretary Clinton will not have to answer the hard questions and her substitutes will no doubt give a lot of "we don't know the answer to that question" or "yes to my second hand knowledge that is correct"
I still think we let those American's die for political reasons but I'm more and more convinced we will never know
Monday, December 17, 2012
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Benghazi Gate - the real question
Update 12-13-2012 What are they hiding? Chaffetz: State Dept Hiding Benghazi Survivors http://ibourl.com/1brs
I'm not concerned about Political Correctness anymore
It's become a "gotcha game" that the left uses to demonize anyone that disagrees with perpetual increase in the size of the bureaucracy.
The administration with the help of a pandering media continues to ignore answering questions about what happened when 4 Americans were killed in Libya just days before an election
Now we are being led into a protracted propaganda campaign that has been brilliantly orchestrated by our own Government to focus our attention on minutia involving the tragedy
It's amazing that while other countries heeded the warnings and moved their diplomats out of Benghazi our administration - State Department - White House - CIA - the whole bunch of them - were too stupid to protect our diplomats. But they were...
At the end of the day let's not forget that many of us will continue to believe - until proven otherwise that it's entirely plausible that the following happened that tragic day
During a "full court press" to make sure that President Obama won re-election all attention to the business of the nation - the responsibility of the Executive branch of Government was ignored
It was even more than that - filtered - no news would be allowed to be reported that would cast any negative light on President Obama with any voter block he saw as critical to his re-election
One big US voter block the Muslim voter block was part of the myriad critical niches that the President had to win - at any cost
When the stuff hit the fan that day - September 11th - the anniversary of the New York Terrorist attacks I think a worried group consisting of the President Obama - Secretary Clinton and all their key advisers watched the drone tapes live and made a political decision and it was...
"Hey Guys - Let's Hope our people live and Let's Hope this situation Changes... but let's not intervene with force because we MIGHT kill innocent civilians and that MIGHT affect our US Muslim vote and besides if it goes bad for our diplomats the "main stream" media will help cover us until after the election"
Was that said?
That's my opinion - but I doubt we will ever get the truth
I'm not concerned about Political Correctness anymore
It's become a "gotcha game" that the left uses to demonize anyone that disagrees with perpetual increase in the size of the bureaucracy.
The administration with the help of a pandering media continues to ignore answering questions about what happened when 4 Americans were killed in Libya just days before an election
Now we are being led into a protracted propaganda campaign that has been brilliantly orchestrated by our own Government to focus our attention on minutia involving the tragedy
It's amazing that while other countries heeded the warnings and moved their diplomats out of Benghazi our administration - State Department - White House - CIA - the whole bunch of them - were too stupid to protect our diplomats. But they were...
At the end of the day let's not forget that many of us will continue to believe - until proven otherwise that it's entirely plausible that the following happened that tragic day
During a "full court press" to make sure that President Obama won re-election all attention to the business of the nation - the responsibility of the Executive branch of Government was ignored
It was even more than that - filtered - no news would be allowed to be reported that would cast any negative light on President Obama with any voter block he saw as critical to his re-election
One big US voter block the Muslim voter block was part of the myriad critical niches that the President had to win - at any cost
When the stuff hit the fan that day - September 11th - the anniversary of the New York Terrorist attacks I think a worried group consisting of the President Obama - Secretary Clinton and all their key advisers watched the drone tapes live and made a political decision and it was...
"Hey Guys - Let's Hope our people live and Let's Hope this situation Changes... but let's not intervene with force because we MIGHT kill innocent civilians and that MIGHT affect our US Muslim vote and besides if it goes bad for our diplomats the "main stream" media will help cover us until after the election"
Was that said?
That's my opinion - but I doubt we will ever get the truth
Friday, November 9, 2012
Elections have Consequences
You will hear - once again - the Obama Administration repeatedly tell their friends in the liberal media that "Elections have consequences" - or words to that affect.
All the platitudes about hope and change and compromise that we heard the last few days leading up to the election are now being purged from the memory of all of the liberal media and the administration talking points.
Since the President's reelection there have been lot's of lay-offs in anticipation that some industries - like the Coal Industry - will be further attacked by their own Government and other companies in many industries are cutting back employment knowing that the unaffordable Obamacare will be fully implemented
Today the President held a press conference where he claimed that the vast majority of American's had agreed with him that tax increases were the right thing to do.
“A majority of Americans agree with my approach,” he said at the White House, citing his victory over Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday. “We can’t just cut our way to prosperity. The wealthiest Americans have to pay a little more in taxes.”
That's not true on several levels
24 states voted for Mitt Romney out of 50 - that's hardly a mandate
The popular vote will ended up being about 51% to 49% Obama versus Romney.
That's hardly a mandate to do anything
Harry Reid's Senate has managed not to come up with a budget in 4 years. That's unprecedented - but the President has not applied any pressure to get the Senator to get that fixed.
Now the talking heads at ABC - CBS - CNN - MSNBC will begin the mantra that it's the selfish Republicans in the House who are holding the country hostage. While the President takes off on another "tour" - this time Southeast Asia for 4 days.
I hope the Republican controlled House stands firmly on the side of jobs and does not cave in regarding raising taxes. It's the right thing to do. Even it means going off the "fiscal cliff"
All the platitudes about hope and change and compromise that we heard the last few days leading up to the election are now being purged from the memory of all of the liberal media and the administration talking points.
Since the President's reelection there have been lot's of lay-offs in anticipation that some industries - like the Coal Industry - will be further attacked by their own Government and other companies in many industries are cutting back employment knowing that the unaffordable Obamacare will be fully implemented
Today the President held a press conference where he claimed that the vast majority of American's had agreed with him that tax increases were the right thing to do.
“A majority of Americans agree with my approach,” he said at the White House, citing his victory over Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday. “We can’t just cut our way to prosperity. The wealthiest Americans have to pay a little more in taxes.”
That's not true on several levels
24 states voted for Mitt Romney out of 50 - that's hardly a mandate
The popular vote will ended up being about 51% to 49% Obama versus Romney.
That's hardly a mandate to do anything
Harry Reid's Senate has managed not to come up with a budget in 4 years. That's unprecedented - but the President has not applied any pressure to get the Senator to get that fixed.
Now the talking heads at ABC - CBS - CNN - MSNBC will begin the mantra that it's the selfish Republicans in the House who are holding the country hostage. While the President takes off on another "tour" - this time Southeast Asia for 4 days.
I hope the Republican controlled House stands firmly on the side of jobs and does not cave in regarding raising taxes. It's the right thing to do. Even it means going off the "fiscal cliff"
Saturday, November 3, 2012
A 2nd Obama Term?
Well it's just a couple short days before we elect a President of the United States
I hope the level of contentiousness subsides early and I hope it's because Mitt Romney has an overwhelming - stunning victory - a surprise mandate and loud repudiation of the governing style of Harry Reid - Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama. I hope
But if it doesn't happen. If President Obama wins a second term....
Be prepared for life with a second term...
Obamacare
Full implementation of the Health Care Law means with it we will begin to see rationing. Already kidney transplant procedures have changed to discriminate against elderly. More doctors will retire then enter medicine and it's likely that medical colleges will see declines in enrollment. Medical Insurance costs will go up and your private medical information will become part of the Government's database.
Cap and trade and Fuel Costs
You can already hear the repeated "global warming" cries coming from Al Gore and the radical left. A second term President Obama won't get congressional approval for new legislation but he doesn't need it. He can simply use the EPA as he has to ratchet up the regulation and continue to increase fuel cost
Supreme Court
Impossible to predict but interesting to consider. If we swap one liberal judge for another - no big deal. But if the court drifts further left it has decades of affects.
Debt
The President's own budget office predicts he will oversea an increase in the national debt to $20 trillion. That means
Unemployment
More Americans are going to be unemployed with the combination of Energy job losses and jobs that will be exported out of the US to avoid the expense and effect of ObamaCare. It's inevitable.
Inflation & Currency
With 4 more years of a weak economy it's conceivable that a 2nd Obama term could avoid severe inflation because employment will be so weak but one thing is for sure. Eventually the debt will have to be repaid and the only way a government can do that is to inflate the currency - increase taxes significantly or a combination of the two.
Miscellaneous
After 4 years of declining birth rates during the President's first term I'd expect that trend to continue. Couples will be reluctant to bring children into this economy. Who can blame them. My guess is that means an increase in abortion and the continued likelihood of future generational conflict in the US's future. At some point young people - with too many old mouths to feed and too little income to do it with will have to make changes
Go Mitt Romney
I hope the level of contentiousness subsides early and I hope it's because Mitt Romney has an overwhelming - stunning victory - a surprise mandate and loud repudiation of the governing style of Harry Reid - Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama. I hope
But if it doesn't happen. If President Obama wins a second term....
Be prepared for life with a second term...
Obamacare
Full implementation of the Health Care Law means with it we will begin to see rationing. Already kidney transplant procedures have changed to discriminate against elderly. More doctors will retire then enter medicine and it's likely that medical colleges will see declines in enrollment. Medical Insurance costs will go up and your private medical information will become part of the Government's database.
Cap and trade and Fuel Costs
You can already hear the repeated "global warming" cries coming from Al Gore and the radical left. A second term President Obama won't get congressional approval for new legislation but he doesn't need it. He can simply use the EPA as he has to ratchet up the regulation and continue to increase fuel cost
Supreme Court
Impossible to predict but interesting to consider. If we swap one liberal judge for another - no big deal. But if the court drifts further left it has decades of affects.
Debt
The President's own budget office predicts he will oversea an increase in the national debt to $20 trillion. That means
Unemployment
More Americans are going to be unemployed with the combination of Energy job losses and jobs that will be exported out of the US to avoid the expense and effect of ObamaCare. It's inevitable.
Inflation & Currency
With 4 more years of a weak economy it's conceivable that a 2nd Obama term could avoid severe inflation because employment will be so weak but one thing is for sure. Eventually the debt will have to be repaid and the only way a government can do that is to inflate the currency - increase taxes significantly or a combination of the two.
Miscellaneous
After 4 years of declining birth rates during the President's first term I'd expect that trend to continue. Couples will be reluctant to bring children into this economy. Who can blame them. My guess is that means an increase in abortion and the continued likelihood of future generational conflict in the US's future. At some point young people - with too many old mouths to feed and too little income to do it with will have to make changes
Go Mitt Romney
Friday, November 2, 2012
Northeast Tragedy - New Political Low
My heart - and my prayers - goes out to the people in the Northeast affected by the storm that hit the east coast a couple days ago.
It's a tragedy that's just unfolding and by the looks of it will go on for weeks if not months. Projections I've seen on power outages are going to continue until well into next week. People are without lights, heat, food and gasoline. The few people I know personally in that area that I've been able to reach by phone are getting anxious.
4,000,000 homes and businesses are still in the dark and the death toll is now near 100.
Help is on the way and we owe gratitude to every one of those first responders but...
I'm ashamed to hear that politics has been inserted into the tragedy
Here are my 3 main "Shame on you's" so far
#1 President Obama
President Obama's close personal confidant - former White House staffer - current Mayor of Chicago - Rahm Emanuel - famously said during the fiscal crisis "You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before" and once again we see that philosophy in play
Why did the President take up valuable resources to go do a Press opportunity with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie The obvious answer was he values the public relations value of having himself on center stage with a popular governor - More - than he cares about the number of first responders that had to be diverted to Presidential guard duty
It's a crisis - the President took advantage - that's what he's done for 4 years
Shame on you Mr President
#2 Mayor Bloomberg
What the heck is he thinking diverting huge generators for the public relations value of the New York Marathon? I'm in favor of emaciated athletes running for hours through the streets of the Big Apple as much as the next guy - but I'd rather see 400 homes with 400 families have heat in their homes and I'd rather see the athletes stay out of the congested airports and roads
Shame on you Mr Mayor
#3 The not so magnificent 7 - Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Sting, Jimmy Fallon, Brian Williams and Matt Lauer
Enabled by what increasingly looks like the office Obama campaign channel - NBC - these numbskulls are having what they want us to believe is a charity event for the victims
It's a tragedy that's just unfolding and by the looks of it will go on for weeks if not months. Projections I've seen on power outages are going to continue until well into next week. People are without lights, heat, food and gasoline. The few people I know personally in that area that I've been able to reach by phone are getting anxious.
4,000,000 homes and businesses are still in the dark and the death toll is now near 100.
Help is on the way and we owe gratitude to every one of those first responders but...
I'm ashamed to hear that politics has been inserted into the tragedy
Here are my 3 main "Shame on you's" so far
#1 President Obama
President Obama's close personal confidant - former White House staffer - current Mayor of Chicago - Rahm Emanuel - famously said during the fiscal crisis "You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before" and once again we see that philosophy in play
Why did the President take up valuable resources to go do a Press opportunity with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie The obvious answer was he values the public relations value of having himself on center stage with a popular governor - More - than he cares about the number of first responders that had to be diverted to Presidential guard duty
It's a crisis - the President took advantage - that's what he's done for 4 years
Shame on you Mr President
#2 Mayor Bloomberg
What the heck is he thinking diverting huge generators for the public relations value of the New York Marathon? I'm in favor of emaciated athletes running for hours through the streets of the Big Apple as much as the next guy - but I'd rather see 400 homes with 400 families have heat in their homes and I'd rather see the athletes stay out of the congested airports and roads
Shame on you Mr Mayor
#3 The not so magnificent 7 - Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Sting, Jimmy Fallon, Brian Williams and Matt Lauer
Enabled by what increasingly looks like the office Obama campaign channel - NBC - these numbskulls are having what they want us to believe is a charity event for the victims
News flash gang of 7 - it would be best if the people in crisis were out of crisis before you did a last minute campaign event. Once again you see the lack of compassion. This event will take up LOTS of resources that hurting Americans could use - security - power - manpower in general
Shame on the bunch of you
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Lemonade Entrepreneur?
All of us Positive Mental Attitude - PMA - aficionados - believers - "freaks" have heard the mantra of turning life's Lemons into Lemonade...
We also believe Entrepreneur's "Find a need and fill it"...
"Ask 'em what they want...& Give it to them..."
“We stand at the dawn of a new era. Before us is the most important decade in the history of civilization” - so wrote John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene in the introduction to their classic work “Megatrends 2000”...
A decade later that may be even more prophetic...
I'm a big fan of "trends"...
Here's where I'm going with this...
Depending on who wins the next Presidential election I suggest that Many job creating - Entrepreneurial Americans - will move out of the state they reside in or the US or at least consider it...
The Upper Middle Income with Young Family Demographic
This demographic - want their kids to be raised in a Christian friendly - Self Sufficient - Small Government environment ....
These families are very concerned about the obvious move towards Socialism and Government Dependency and higher taxes and out-of-control Federal Spending that will burden their children with crushing amounts of debt....
You can consider my family as an example...
We are seriously exploring - doing our homework by looking at Costa Rica - Ecuador - Australia - Panama - New Zealand...
So if we did decide to move to another country we will need the following types of products and services...
Sell our Home
Sell our personal possessions
Obtain International Health Insurance
Obtain Tax Services
Get new Telephone Services
Get Educational Services for our kids
Many other services...
Do your homework - this is a Real Opportunity - the "prospects" are the 5 to 10 percent of Americans who realize they will be punished for being Entrepreneurial in a 2nd President Obama administration term...
These folks have HAD it - they are your "Lemons" - help them on their way... and keep in touch - someday you may need an exit strategy too...
Change is good - if you embrace it - To your great Success..
Bill Bateman - that's like Batman with an E in the middle - 21st Century Financial
We also believe Entrepreneur's "Find a need and fill it"...
"Ask 'em what they want...& Give it to them..."
“We stand at the dawn of a new era. Before us is the most important decade in the history of civilization” - so wrote John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene in the introduction to their classic work “Megatrends 2000”...
A decade later that may be even more prophetic...
I'm a big fan of "trends"...
Here's where I'm going with this...
Depending on who wins the next Presidential election I suggest that Many job creating - Entrepreneurial Americans - will move out of the state they reside in or the US or at least consider it...
The Upper Middle Income with Young Family Demographic
This demographic - want their kids to be raised in a Christian friendly - Self Sufficient - Small Government environment ....
These families are very concerned about the obvious move towards Socialism and Government Dependency and higher taxes and out-of-control Federal Spending that will burden their children with crushing amounts of debt....
You can consider my family as an example...
We are seriously exploring - doing our homework by looking at Costa Rica - Ecuador - Australia - Panama - New Zealand...
So if we did decide to move to another country we will need the following types of products and services...
Sell our Home
Sell our personal possessions
Obtain International Health Insurance
Obtain Tax Services
Get new Telephone Services
Get Educational Services for our kids
Many other services...
Do your homework - this is a Real Opportunity - the "prospects" are the 5 to 10 percent of Americans who realize they will be punished for being Entrepreneurial in a 2nd President Obama administration term...
These folks have HAD it - they are your "Lemons" - help them on their way... and keep in touch - someday you may need an exit strategy too...
Change is good - if you embrace it - To your great Success..
Bill Bateman - that's like Batman with an E in the middle - 21st Century Financial
Sunday, October 14, 2012
2016 The Movie - my review
Dinesh D'Souza is an Indian American conservative political commentator, public intellectual and author who is currently the President of The King's College in New York City...
He is about the same age as President Obama - but Mr D'Souza took a very different path - politically - than Barack Obama since he moved to the USA ...
Gerald Molen - who co-produced the movie Schindler's List - produced the movie 2016
I watched 2016 a couple weeks ago - looking for answers about the President I felt cautiously optimistic about 4 years ago...
No I didn't vote for President Obama 4 years ago and I was pretty concerned beforehand about his intentions regarding health care but I hoped that he would make an effort to bring the parties together and make some tough financial decisions.
But I digress - back to the movie
After 90 minutes I left feeling both sad for Barack Obama the person and disappointed that the mainstream media had SOOO not reported anything about his youth and had even gone further to distort his childhood as being something it was not.
Here is what I came away with...
Barack Obama lived a childhood of privilege. Private schools - affluent family. Not what you are still being led to believe. Even at the most recent Democratic Convention Barack Obama was portrayed as growing up disadvantaged...
That's a lie
He is staunchly "anti colonial" - unlike his younger brother George - whom he has nothing to do with. That attitude explains much about our President - like why he returned the bust of Winston Churchill - shortly after he took office.
President Obama grew up with really bad male role models and a mother who apparently dictated to her husbands how Barack would be raised...
His mother Ann Dunham was talked about in the movie briefly. The impression was that she clearly made the family decisions with both his father Barack Obama Sr and his second father - Lolo Soetoro who drew her ire when he - Soetoro - moved towards Capitalism while he - Barack and Ann were living in Indonesia. So...
Young Barack was sent back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. Almost immediately he was "mentored" in his teenage years by radical Frank Davis Marshall . It's interesting in the Wikipedia post on him you won't find mention of his mentoring duties. But the Telegraph - United Kingdom media did in August 2008.
Then as a young adult he was "handed off" to the Chicago Political Machine... radical terrorists like Bill Ayres became his next mentors from the age of 18 (ish) to the time he...
Became a Senator...
Became the President of the United States of America
Mr Obama will go down in history as the first "black" US President - even though his white mother controlled his entire youth - & that's fine - color is not an issue with most Americans but....
Watching that movie I felt sad for him personally. I thought he should be - in therapy - not President of the United States.
I hope that the press hid all of this information from us because they so desperately loved the idea of having a first Black President - I hope.
If you have time to go see it on the big screen I encourage you do it Now - before you vote
Amazon also has it - 2016 Obama's America - watch it with as many of your friends as you can - I think you'll end up wondering how we elected him in the first place - seriously
That's my opinion
Bill Bateman
He is about the same age as President Obama - but Mr D'Souza took a very different path - politically - than Barack Obama since he moved to the USA ...
Gerald Molen - who co-produced the movie Schindler's List - produced the movie 2016
I watched 2016 a couple weeks ago - looking for answers about the President I felt cautiously optimistic about 4 years ago...
No I didn't vote for President Obama 4 years ago and I was pretty concerned beforehand about his intentions regarding health care but I hoped that he would make an effort to bring the parties together and make some tough financial decisions.
But I digress - back to the movie
After 90 minutes I left feeling both sad for Barack Obama the person and disappointed that the mainstream media had SOOO not reported anything about his youth and had even gone further to distort his childhood as being something it was not.
Here is what I came away with...
Barack Obama lived a childhood of privilege. Private schools - affluent family. Not what you are still being led to believe. Even at the most recent Democratic Convention Barack Obama was portrayed as growing up disadvantaged...
That's a lie
He is staunchly "anti colonial" - unlike his younger brother George - whom he has nothing to do with. That attitude explains much about our President - like why he returned the bust of Winston Churchill - shortly after he took office.
President Obama grew up with really bad male role models and a mother who apparently dictated to her husbands how Barack would be raised...
His mother Ann Dunham was talked about in the movie briefly. The impression was that she clearly made the family decisions with both his father Barack Obama Sr and his second father - Lolo Soetoro who drew her ire when he - Soetoro - moved towards Capitalism while he - Barack and Ann were living in Indonesia. So...
Young Barack was sent back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. Almost immediately he was "mentored" in his teenage years by radical Frank Davis Marshall . It's interesting in the Wikipedia post on him you won't find mention of his mentoring duties. But the Telegraph - United Kingdom media did in August 2008.
Then as a young adult he was "handed off" to the Chicago Political Machine... radical terrorists like Bill Ayres became his next mentors from the age of 18 (ish) to the time he...
Became a Senator...
Became the President of the United States of America
Mr Obama will go down in history as the first "black" US President - even though his white mother controlled his entire youth - & that's fine - color is not an issue with most Americans but....
Watching that movie I felt sad for him personally. I thought he should be - in therapy - not President of the United States.
I hope that the press hid all of this information from us because they so desperately loved the idea of having a first Black President - I hope.
If you have time to go see it on the big screen I encourage you do it Now - before you vote
Amazon also has it - 2016 Obama's America - watch it with as many of your friends as you can - I think you'll end up wondering how we elected him in the first place - seriously
That's my opinion
Bill Bateman
Friday, October 5, 2012
Unemployment - the Spin cometh
The unemployment report was released a few hours ago
With an election 30 days out and early voting already starting the Democratic Party machine is going all out to spin todays' announced reduction in unemployment as proof that the Obama Administration is doing well.
I don't think so...
43 months of President Obama's term we have had more than 8 percent unemployment - nearly his whole term - You can find the chart on the US Government Bureau of Labor Statistics site
In contrast we have had 39 months above 8 percent between 1948 and 2008 under 11 different Presidents. 1948 was the year we began keeping track of unemployment in the USA
That's correct 11 Presidents versus this President covering 724 months with 39 months of high unemployment everyone before Obama - 43 months of high unemployment out of 44 months of Obama
Now in Obama month 44 - the rate drops to 7.8 percent. My guess is - if it hasn't already happened - one of the left wing Obama campaign affiliates - ABC - NBC - CBS - CNN will take the the 2/10ths "reduction" and run a headline that says "Unemployment drops Two and a half Percent"
Would that be a lie? Yes & No
Mathematically 2/10ths is 2.5% of 8
But it's a LOT worse than the spin tells you
Because more people join the working age population each month the economy needs to add about 180,000 jobs a month just to keep up with population growth - that's only happened 11 months out of the 44 months under this administration and many of those jobs during the 11 months were "stimulus" temporary jobs - like Solyndra and other failed "Green Jobs" & that borrowed money has been added to our children's "IOU"
And it's worse than that...
We don't count people as "unemployed" if they have become so discouraged that they don't look for work anymore - - which means the real unemployment in the USA is about 5.5 million more people than we report - around 3 percent more - an 11% rate
And it's worse than that... If you are Hispanic the unemployment rates is 10.2 % Black 14.1 % or between the ages of 16 and 19 a whopping 24.6%
And it's worse than that...
Social Security has a disability program which without any significant reporting is inexplicably at an all time high.
More Americans are getting a disability check since President Obama took office. Social Security Disability Recipients have soared under the Obama Administration from 7,427,000 to 8,767,000
That increase of a million 300 thousand people are NOT COUNTED as unemployed - and - If YOU are employed and paying taxes YOU get to pay their checks too...
It's easy to distort "Facts"
Here's a shameless example - just in case you are actually buying into the rhetoric coming from the Administration and still don't get my point...
If 100 people are working in month #1 but only 90 people in month #2 you would say unemployment increased by 10%
If in month #3 you have 92 people working you CAN SAY unemployment dropped about 2% - but you still have 8 people without jobs that used to have them...
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand reality. Everybody knows friends - family - relatives - kids - grandkids that are unemployed and/or underemployed that were NOT in that position before the last election
We can't afford this administration anymore - like a friend of mine says - we need a Workhorse in the White House - not a Showhorse
With an election 30 days out and early voting already starting the Democratic Party machine is going all out to spin todays' announced reduction in unemployment as proof that the Obama Administration is doing well.
I don't think so...
43 months of President Obama's term we have had more than 8 percent unemployment - nearly his whole term - You can find the chart on the US Government Bureau of Labor Statistics site
In contrast we have had 39 months above 8 percent between 1948 and 2008 under 11 different Presidents. 1948 was the year we began keeping track of unemployment in the USA
That's correct 11 Presidents versus this President covering 724 months with 39 months of high unemployment everyone before Obama - 43 months of high unemployment out of 44 months of Obama
Now in Obama month 44 - the rate drops to 7.8 percent. My guess is - if it hasn't already happened - one of the left wing Obama campaign affiliates - ABC - NBC - CBS - CNN will take the the 2/10ths "reduction" and run a headline that says "Unemployment drops Two and a half Percent"
Would that be a lie? Yes & No
Mathematically 2/10ths is 2.5% of 8
But it's a LOT worse than the spin tells you
Because more people join the working age population each month the economy needs to add about 180,000 jobs a month just to keep up with population growth - that's only happened 11 months out of the 44 months under this administration and many of those jobs during the 11 months were "stimulus" temporary jobs - like Solyndra and other failed "Green Jobs" & that borrowed money has been added to our children's "IOU"
And it's worse than that...
We don't count people as "unemployed" if they have become so discouraged that they don't look for work anymore - - which means the real unemployment in the USA is about 5.5 million more people than we report - around 3 percent more - an 11% rate
And it's worse than that... If you are Hispanic the unemployment rates is 10.2 % Black 14.1 % or between the ages of 16 and 19 a whopping 24.6%
And it's worse than that...
Social Security has a disability program which without any significant reporting is inexplicably at an all time high.
More Americans are getting a disability check since President Obama took office. Social Security Disability Recipients have soared under the Obama Administration from 7,427,000 to 8,767,000
That increase of a million 300 thousand people are NOT COUNTED as unemployed - and - If YOU are employed and paying taxes YOU get to pay their checks too...
It's easy to distort "Facts"
Here's a shameless example - just in case you are actually buying into the rhetoric coming from the Administration and still don't get my point...
If 100 people are working in month #1 but only 90 people in month #2 you would say unemployment increased by 10%
If in month #3 you have 92 people working you CAN SAY unemployment dropped about 2% - but you still have 8 people without jobs that used to have them...
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand reality. Everybody knows friends - family - relatives - kids - grandkids that are unemployed and/or underemployed that were NOT in that position before the last election
We can't afford this administration anymore - like a friend of mine says - we need a Workhorse in the White House - not a Showhorse
Saturday, September 29, 2012
We the People - Have had enough
I'll never be able to watch another Samuel Jackson film after today -
If you are one half of the voting public who is considering re-electing President Barack Obama I implore you to consider the factual record of our first "black" President...
Debt - way up - to historic levels - multiple times what he was left with
The Bible says the borrower is the slave to the lender. Our kids and grandkids are being sentenced to lives of slavery to the communist Chinese - that's who we are borrowing the money from - have you seen this video?
Pandering - President Obama paid off the Unions - his political contributors - voting block lobbies he used to say he disagreed with - all with more of the debt that our children and grandchildren will have to pay back
Inflation - A cruel tax that doesn't show up in your tax return - Groceries and Utilities cost are way up while the President has quietly changed the rules of how our Government reports inflation so the things we really have to pay for don't count - it's one of the many "gotcha" games this administration plays - it's not Presidential - it's "reframing" the discussion - it's hoping we are dumb enough not to understand reality...
Personal habits - this 1st family - like none before in my 53 year lifetime - has lived a life of privlage while the country struggles. If you were the head of a struggling company would you spend on the extravagances of having your wife take the kids to London for a shopping day trip? Would you Golf 4 times a week at the best country clubs in America while your employees lost their homes?
Employment - it's awful - especially among the core voter blocks that the President relies on to be re-elected - Black - Hispanic and Female unemployment are at record levels. Middle age white guys - my demographic - will never return to employment - college kids are graduating with record debt only to move back home with mom and dad where - thank you Mr President - they can stay on their parents health plan until they are 25
Our Safety - This President has resolutely used the Eric Holder led Justice department to make it easier for people to illegally enter this country instead of using the legal system that for centuries has been admired by the world. We haven't had an Ambassador killed in decades - until last week. We've apologized to countries we've liberated from dictators and encouraged "bad guys" world wide that the USA wants to - metaphorically - jump out of our cars and hand them our car keys - (the first metaphor I thought of was about grabbing our ankles)...
Wake up America - it's not too late to shake our heads - smile and do the right thing - Harry Truman - John Kennedy - who do you think they would vote for in this election?
Mitt Romney is not perfect - he's not a Hollywood photo op - He's not a guy you'll have a beer with - he doesn't drink - He's the kind of guy I'd hire to run my company...
I'm a fan of celebrities - I'm just tired of them pretending to run the country
Monday, September 24, 2012
New Mexico Senate Race 2012
The Senate race in New Mexico
The current senator, Jeff Bingaman, is a Democrat. He is retiring
Martin Heinrich is the Democrat candidate and Heather Wilson the Republican in the race. New Mexico voter registration leans Democrat so Wilson has an uphill battle
Heinrich is currently in the House of Representatives, and Wilson used to be
The Democratic candidate: Martin Heinrich
Heinrich was born in Fallon, Nevada, the son of Shirley A. (née Bybee) and Pete C. Heinrich.[1] Heinrich graduated from the University of Missouri in 1995 with a Bachelor's degree in Science and Engineering, and later took graduate courses at the University of New Mexico.[2] He served as Executive Director of the Cottonwood Gulch Foundation, a New Mexico non-profit organization dedicated to educating young people on natural science and the environment, and founded his own public affairs consulting firm
In the core issues Mr Heinrich has been a staunch supporter of Barack Obama's agenda. He has been a clever voter - as are many politicians - he's "failed to vote" on many controversial issues - see his Voting Record
My analysis of his voting record is that he is very liberal on most social issues and has the same confidence that President Obama does that Government can grow jobs and business better than business and individuals
The Republican candidate: Heather Wilson
Heather Ann Wilson[1] (born December 30, 1960) is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing New Mexico's 1st congressional district from 1998 to 2009. She is the first female military veteran elected to a full term in Congress.[2]
While in Congress, Wilson focused on national security issues, serving on the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the United States House Committee on Armed Services.[3] She also focused on health care, energy, manufacturing and trade, and telecommunication, serving on the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce.[3]
She opted not to run for re-election to the House in 2008 and sought the U.S. Senate seat of retiring Senator Pete Domenici but finished second in the Republican primary to Congressman Steve Pearce, who then lost the general election to Democrat Tom Udall. On March 7, 2011, she announced another run for Senate in 2012 to replace retiring Senator Jeff Bingaman
My analysis of her past record is that she has been very centrist on social issues but very conservative on Military and Financial issues. She has stated that she would vote to repeal Obamacare and would have voted against the Stimulus
Left Wing National Special Interest Groups seem to be picking up the advertising for Heinrich and against Wilson - particularly Environmental Groups.
This is a very interesting race for the Country - Wilson has a huge challenge - Heinrich has more money and strong ties to President Obama. On the other hand if enough people really have had enough of the failed Washington policies that Obama passed with Heinrich's help...
The underdog Heather Wilson could surprise the elite
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