When Obama is before a friendly audience, he acts as though someone else has been president for the past four years and he’s running against that phantom leader. Post-debate, the president talked to a crowd of supporters about holding Romney accountable—as if Romney had been the one in the Oval Office. This is an implicit admission that the president can’t tout his own record, which is strewn with economic failures. At some point, Romney might want to say this outright—that the president acts as if he’s the challenger running against a sitting president. With all due respect, Mr. Obama, you are the sitting president. You have a record of your own you should be held accountable for, and that’s what this election is really about. Did you fulfill your promises, did you lead the country down the right path, or are things still bad and getting worse?
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2012/10/05/the-zombie-apocalypse-town-hall-debate-is-coming/
Unemployment is
at 7.8% in September. Except it really wasn't. It is much higher, with
underemployed and those who stopped looking. What
this .03% drop means is that the number of unemployed people dropped by 456,000
when only 114k jobs were created--well below the monthly average, and below
population growth. Where did 342k people go to lower the number so dramatically
just 31 days before a presidential election? Did they retire, leave the planet,
die of old age in the unemployment office?
The numbers, however, are perplexing to CNBC, which notes that there are some oddities:
·
The report presented a slew of contradictory
data points, with the total employment level soaring despite the low net
number.
·
The falling jobless rate had been a function as
much of the continued shrinking in the labor force as it was an increase in new
positions.
·
But the government said the total number of jobs
employed surged by 873,000, the highest one-month jump in 29 years. The total
of unemployed people tumbled by 456,000.
·
The labor force participation rate, which
reflects those working as well as looking for work, edged higher to 63.6
percent but remained around 30-year lows. The total labor force grew by
418,000, possibly accounting for the relatively modest net level of job growth.
·
Economists were expecting 113,000 more jobs and
the rate to rise to 8.2 percent. Last month saw 142,000 new jobs as the rate
dropped from 8.3 percent in July.
Finanical guru Jack Welch sent a tweet alleging
the numbers were politically motivated.
Well of course they were. Mitt Romney was quick to respond, saying “This is not what a real recovery looks like” and that if not for all those who have dropped out of the workforce, “the real unemployment rate would be closer to 11%.” His full statement is below:
“This is not what a real recovery looks
like. We created fewer jobs in September than in August, and fewer jobs in
August than in July, and we’ve lost over 600,000 manufacturing jobs since
President Obama took office. If not for all the people who have simply dropped
out of the labor force, the real unemployment rate would be closer to 11%. The
results of President Obama’s failed policies are staggering – 23 million
Americans struggling for work, nearly one in six living in poverty and 47
million people dependent on food stamps to feed themselves and their families.
The choice in this election is clear. Under President Obama, we’ll get another
four years like the last four years. If I’m elected, we will have a real
recovery with pro-growth policies that will create 12 million new jobs and
rising incomes for everyone.”
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
receives about $450million from Congress each year. About $280million goes to
PBS and the local stations. Federal funding makes up about 12 per cent of the
PBS budget. According to
Senator Jim DeMint: “Shows like Sesame
Street are multi-million dollar enterprises
capable of thriving in the private market. According to the 990 tax form all
nonprofits are required to file, Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell
received $956,513 -- nearly a million dollars -- in compensation in 2008. And,
from 2003 to 2006, "Sesame
Street" made more than $211 million from toy
and consumer product sales.”
If you break that down, it works out to
over $50 million a year "Sesame
Street" is taking in from all that
merchandising. Yep, that one-percenter Big Bird makes about four times what
Mitt Romney does annually and yet Barack Obama still wants you and I to still
carry his freight. I guess that's Obama's idea of "economic patriotism."
PBS statement boasts that 91% of all U.S.
television households tune in to their local PBS station each year, and that
their service is viewed by 81% of all children between the ages of 2 and 8. If
the network is that popular, they should have no trouble finding sponsorship on
commercial television.
Democratic Pennsylvania State Representative Babette Josephs, whose
stance on the Pledge of Allegiance is creating controversy. Josephs refused to
lead fellow politicians in the Pledge on Wednesday. ”Based on my First
Amendment rights and based on the fact that I really think it’s a prayer. I
don’t pray in public.”
Josephs attempted to further explain her reasoning for not
uttering the so-called prayer. The politician referenced the decision, in 1954,
by Congress to add the words “under God” to the national declaration and said
that the action — which was taken when she was just 14-years-old — makes the
Pledge a prayer.
True colors.
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