Reagan Created More Jobs in Single Month Than Obama Has All Year
In 1983, as President Ronald Reagan's economic policies took hold, the American recovery started to roar back to life. This was thanks to Reagan's across-the-board tax cuts and an overall philosophy of getting government out of the way of American ingenuity. The result was that the entire dynamic of an economy that had been in a malaise for nearly a decade completely turned around.
In one month, September of 1983, the Reagan Recovery created 1,114 MILLION jobs.
This was no fluke, either. The next 15 months saw amazing job growth (in thousands): 271, 352, 356, 447, 479, 275, 363, 308, 379, 312, 241, 311, 286, 349, 127.
By contrast, President Obama attacked his inherited recession in the exact opposite way Reagan did. Obama passed onerous regulations, including Dodd-Frank and ObamaCare. Worse, his class warfare rhetoric demanding higher taxes and even more regulation, has never ceased. The uncertainty he creates in the labor market in unprecedented.
Despite the media's spin, the results have been disastrous for the American people. Thus far, all year, the Obama Recovery has created fewer jobs than Raegan's recovery created in that single month.
Over 7 full months in 2013, only 953,000 jobs have been created.(77% of those part-time)
What the media won't tell you as they say things like, "Well, we are growing, just not fast enough," is that it did not have to be like this.
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/08/02/Reagan-Recovery-Created-More-Jobs-in-One-Month-Than-Obama-Has-All-Year
Issa to subpoena IRS documents
Another investigation, another stonewall by the administration. I'm sorry, but if the IRS has nothing to hide, why drag their feet on requests from committees for documents?The Hill:
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said Friday that he would subpoena documents from the IRS over its scrutiny of Tea Party groups, accusing the agency of stonewalling its requests.
At a Friday hearing, Issa said that the IRS had been slow to give up documents to congressional committees, and that many of the materials the Oversight panel had received were unusable due to redactions.
The California Republican, in a tense exchange with the interim leader of the IRS, Danny Werfel, also said that the agency's chief counsel's office had been compromised and should no longer be taking part in the investigation.
"Apparently, you were put in by the administration to run cover until somebody new would come in," Issa told Werfel, who took over the agency less than two weeks after the IRS disclosed and apologized for singling out Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status.
In a release, the Oversight panel said the subpoena to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew would seek all the emails sent and received by Lois Lerner and Holly Paz, two IRS officials who dealt with exempt organizations and are at the center of the controversy.
Issa is also looking for all the emails involving William Wilkins, the IRS chief counsel and one of two political appointees at the agency. Issa and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) have raised concerns that Wilkins's office, which has some 1,600 attorneys, showed unusual interest in Tea Party applications.
The IRS has said that Wilkins himself played no part in the vetting of tax-exempt applications.
In all, Oversight says, the IRS has given the committee roughly 12,500 pages out of some 64 million documents the agency originally thought to be relevant.
Around 2,500 pages of those are fully redacted, the committee says, all part of what Issa called a "systematic effort to delay, frustrate, impede, and obstruct" in a Friday letter to Lew. Camp has also complained about the pace of the IRS's response, and also suggested the agency was obstructing the congressional investigation.
"I've asked you for information. You're not forthcoming," Issa told Werfel. "You are leaving me no choice."We already know that the IRS chief counsel was in phone contact with employees involved in vetting tea party applications. Those emails requested by Issa may be follow ups to those phone calls and thus reveal what the chief counsel was up to.
There is also the question of double teaming tea party groups with the IRS and FEC going after them cooperatively. This "phony" scandal has no bottom to it yet as revelations continue to leak out and IRS officials look more guilty all the time.
Our leadership class’s real accomplishment is résumé padding.
By Mark SteynLet us put aside, as he so rarely does, Anthony Weiner’s spambot penis, and consider his wife and putative first lady. By universal consent, Huma Abedin is “smart, accomplished” (the Guardian), “whip-smart” (The Week), “accomplished” (Time), “smart and accomplished” (the Daily News) — oh, and did I mention “accomplished” (Forbes)?
So, if she’s so smart, what has she accomplished? Let us put aside her Muslim Brotherhood family background — let us put it aside in the same corner as Anthony Weiner’s infidel penis, the Muslim Brotherhood being one of the few things on the planet rising even more spectacularly than Anthony. Instead, consider merely the official résumé. Huma Abedin’s present employment is as “head of Hillary Clinton’s transition team.” Mrs Clinton, you may recall, was once secretary of state. This was way back in January. Since then, she has been “transitioning away from government to become more involved in her family’s charitable foundation.” You can’t make a “transition” without a “transition team.” Well, not in America. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands recently abdicated and managed to transition away from being queen back to the non-queen sector without benefit of a “transition team.” But it would be entirely unreasonable to expect U.S. cabinet officials to attempt the same tricky maneuver.
In 2001, Bill Clinton was struggling with his own “transition back to private life.” He was reported by his ever reliable New York Times stenographer Adam Nagourney to be having difficulty “trying to place his own telephone calls.” The telephone is a technology many older people can have problems with, particularly if they had a full-time staff to place their calls throughout the Nineties. The 1890s, that is. So, alone in retirement at Chappaqua, a bewildered Bill would pick up the speaking tube and bark, “Hello, Central, get me Gennifer Flowers.” Fortunately, he was able to make a full recovery, and has since earned (according to CNN) $89 million in “speaking fees.” But few others could manage their “transition” quite that adroitly. So for the last six months the smart, accomplished Huma Abedin has been the executive supremo of Mrs. Clinton’s “transition team.”
Is this a grueling, time-consuming burden? Is this why Anthony Weiner’s shorts find themselves alone in the small hours burning the midnight oil? No. Politico’s Maggie Haberman recently broke the exclusive news that Ms. Abedin is taking “extended vacation time from her job.” This is not because the Clintons are naturally revolted at having their good name sullied by association with a sick pervert and his creepy enabling wife, but because, as you eventually discover if you plough deep into Miss Haberman’s story, “Hillary Clinton has close to no schedule next month.” She is now transitioning from her transition to her summer in the Hamptons, and presumably that requires an entirely different kind of transition team, to bring the beach towels and mix the margaritas.
Let us take it as read that “Head of Hillary Clinton’s Transition Team” is a meaningless title. Many societies have offices of state whose origins are lost in the mists of time. In London, David Cameron’s cabinet includes a man who holds the position of Lord Privy Seal. “Lord Privy Seal” would make an excellent ceremonial title for Anthony Weiner’s penis, but is in fact one of the most ancient gigs on the planet. Prior to 1307, his job was done by the Keeper of the Wardrobe. But the Keeper of the Wardrobe felt that, what with having to keep the wardrobe, he didn’t also have time to keep the privy seal, so a new post was created. Today, the Lord Privy Seal is a position reserved for a valued confidant the prime minister wants in his cabinet but without a department to run. Someone “smart” and “accomplished,” so to speak. But it’s one thing to have a job title rendered meaningless by the intervening seven centuries, and another to invent it out of whole cloth the day before yesterday, and have the media pass it off to their readers with a straight face. Presumably, Ye Lord Keeper of Ye Transition provides some valuable service for Mrs. Clinton, but, if so, it would be nice if Maggie Haberman could let us in on it.
What else has Huma Abedin accomplished? She was Hillary’s right-hand gal in the 2008 campaign for the Democratic nomination. Which Hillary lost. So not much of an accomplishment there. Subsequently, she was deputy chief of staff at the State Department, a job so demanding she latterly combined it with some private-sector consulting. What accomplishments does the State Department have to show for the Clinton-Abedin years? Secretary Clinton, as her supporters like to brag, “traveled a million miles.” “One is always nearer by not keeping still,” wrote the poet Thom Gunn. So Mrs. Clinton flew a million miles — to “reset” our relationship with Russia, and lead from behind in the Arab Spring. This weekend, America’s embassies in Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan, and a bunch of other places will be shut down because everybody hates us. Meanwhile, Putin has embraced the first American defector to Moscow in decades, and is all but egging Obama to pull out of the G20 Summit and the insufficiently LGBT-friendly Russian Olympics. As Hillary in her more reflective moments must surely wonder about those million miles, “What difference, at this point, does it make?”
What accomplishments does Ms. Abedin’s husband have for his lifetime in “public service”? Other than the $3 million Park Avenue apartment that mysteriously came his way after his enforced return to the private sector. Carlos Danger’s pitch to the electors of New York is that they need him: His gifts are so extraordinary, his talent so prodigious, his skill set so indispensable that, like all great men weighed in the scales of history, he must be taken, as Cromwell said, warts and all. Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Yet his time in Congress left no trace whatsoever. The most ridiculous thing about Anthony Weiner is not the tumescence of his Tweets but the flaccidness of his résumé.
Any day now, Hillary Clinton, having spent 20 minutes in the private sector, will be needing a new “transition team” to help her transition into replacing President Obama. He’s “smart” and “accomplished,” too. He had a million bucks of elite education — Occidental College, Columbia University, Harvard Law School — and became a “community organizer.” His wife went to Princeton and became a 350-grand-a-year diversity-outreach coordinator, a job so vital to the University of Chicago Hospitals that when she quit to become first lady they didn’t bother replacing her. This is what it means to be “smart” and “accomplished” in the hyperpower at twilight.
My old boss Conrad Black recently pointed out that “the economy can’t recover as it did in the past until more people are adding value” — making and doing something real. Instead, 40 percent of Americans perform minimal-skilled service jobs about to be rendered obsolete by technology, and almost as many pass their productive years shuffling paperwork from one corner of the land to another in various “professional services” jobs that exist to in order to facilitate compliance with the unceasing demands of the microregulatory state. The daily Obamacare fixes — which are nothing to do with “health” “care” but only with navigating an impenetrable bureaucracy — are the perfect embodiment of the Republic of Paperwork.
But nobody adds lack of value like America’s present leadership class — diversicrats, community organizers, and “power couples” comprising somebody handling the transition of a government official and somebody handling the transition in his boxers. If this is “smart” and “accomplished,” no wonder Putin’s laughing his head off.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/355061/lords-transition-team-mark-steyn
Obamacare Supporters On Tape Supportive of Mandatory Euthanasia for Seniors
A video clip posted to YouTube by activist Mark Dice shows supporters of Obamacare blindly signing a petition calling for “mandatory euthanasia” under the new health law.
Dice was able to gather several signatures for the fake petition, telling people in San Diego that they were signing to support putting senior citizens “to sleep” in order to save healthcare costs.
“All I needed to do was mention the key words ‘Will you help Obama’ and people sign just about anything,” Dice noted.
In one exchange with a young male passer by, the Social commentator states “This is supporting a euthanasia program to kill senior citizens.” The man responds with the question “if I sign this am I helping to kill old people or helping not to kill them? When Dice explained that “yeah, you’re going to help put them down like you put down your dog,” the man grabbed the petition and said “yeah lets do this,” signing his name with glee and telling Dice “awesome, thank you.”
Another woman questioned Dice saying “wait, we’re signing to put them to sleep?” before signing anyway when Dice explained it would “keep costs down."
Another passer by signed the petition saying “I’m cool with that, I don’t wanna hang around with people like that if there ‘aint no reason.”
http://www.reagancoalition.com/articles/2013/20130801001-obamacare-euth.html
What the Benghazi Leaks Mean
Image this. It was well-known that in 2011 the United States was facilitating the weapons supply to Syrian rebels. The weapons were paid for by Qatar and Saudi Arabia and delivered through Turkey.
We have known for more than a year about this traffic. There were two big UN reports on this traffic. (By the way, this meant that the United States was arming Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist groups.)
What wasn’t known was a simple detail: the United States was also collecting and shipping the weapons.
That’s it! This is what was being concealed. After all, it was openly known previously that the Libyan rebels against Gaddafi were armed by the United States.
The whole mess was unnecessary!
If it had been known that the CIA guys in Turkey weren’t just watching the weapons supply but delivering it, to quote Clinton, what difference would it have made?
Would Congress have stopped the weapons traffic? No. After all, they wouldn’t even do anything about the arms to Mexican drug gangs that killed Americans.
Would Americans have revolted? No.
Would it have cost one percent of the votes in the election? No.
Sure, some bloggers would have talked about parallels to Iran-Contra and a handful of members of Congress would have complained, but the massive media machine would have ignored it and the majority of Republicans would have snored.
Did President Obama have to lie in a UN speech, saying the ambassador was just there to supervise a hospital and a school? No.
Did a video have to be blamed so as to blame Americans and Islamophobia for the attack? No
Was the cover-up necessary even to defend the administration’s “perfect” record against terrorist attacks on Americans”? No.
The expose of this arms-supply channel would have bothered few and changed nothing. But since we knew already that the administration was helping arm anti-American, antisemitic, anti-Christian, homophobic, and anti-women Islamist terrorists, I don’t think the difference was huge.
Did the cover-up have to lead to the refusal to defend properly American personnel to prevent what they were doing from leaking out? No
In short this program of lies, deception, and coverup wasn’t even necessary. Those Americans may have been rescued and those lies might have been avoided with no harm to the administration.
I think that tells a lot about how the Obama Administration treats and manipulates the American people. And it also tells us about its very profound incompetence and ignorance.
http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2013/08/02/what-the-benghazi-leaks-mean-what-difference-would-it-have-made/?singlepage=true
The 5 Attitudes That Will Cause You To Fail at Life In America
"The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?" -- Thomas Sowell
"Long ago, I realized that success leaves clues, and that people who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results." -- Tony RobbinsNot only does success leave clues, failure leaves clues as well. That's how the average person, using nothing more than common sense, can correctly answer certain questions about success and failure in America. For example, who's more likely to pay his rent on time: a 19 year old kid wearing a suit or a 19 year old kid who looks like an extra in a rap video? Who's more likely to be a hard worker for your business? Someone who hasn't had a steady job in five years or someone who has been working two jobs to save up money? Who is more likely to be financially successful over the next decade? Someone who has been on welfare for the last decade or someone who'd rather starve to death than take welfare?
Too often we focus on the small number of exceptions to the rule instead of acknowledging that the rule is the rule for a reason. Even with the worst President in history ensconced in the White House, anybody can still have a very good life in America, but unless your last name is Kennedy, it's unlikely that anyone is going to hand it to you on a silver platter. It's even less likely that you're going to succeed at life if you....
1) Expect a politician to fix your problems: If there wasn't a difference between politicians, then politics would be about as controversial as knitting. Still, if you're expecting a politician to fix problems in your life, then, wow, are you barking up the wrong tree. Politicians don't care about fixing your problems; they care about fixing their biggest problem, which is making sure that they continue to have access to their cushy jobs in Washington. So, your problems and their problems are not the same. Additionally, the Founding Fathers recognized that most members of Congress in the future would be excitable dimwits that make a lot of bad decisions and so, they deliberately designed our system of government to move very slowly so that we could yell at them until they make slightly less of a mess of things with their dumb decisions. That means even if a politician wants to fix YOUR problems, it could take him decades to get it done. Unless you're immortal, you don't have that kind of time to wait and if you are immortal, you've probably already figured this out.
2) Demand that the world change to suit you: Do you know how slowly the wheels of time actually turn? Just to give you one example, Republicans won the Civil War in 1865. Republican Dwight Eisenhower forcibly integrated the schools in 1957. Percentage wise, more Republicans than Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and today, almost 150 years after the end of the Civil War, you still have liberals like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton crying "Selma, Alabama" and "Emmett Till" every time Dominos shows up five minutes late with a pizza. In other words, the world does change and it's fine to do your part in trying to make it happen, but if you need that to happen in order to be successful, you're going to be as sad as Barack Obama would be if he went two months without an extravagant vacation.
3) Rely on the government to take care of you: Programs like welfare, food stamps, free lunch, government housing are ultimately harmful to the people that are on them. Not only do those programs barely keep your head above water, they actually incentivize you to stay poor. After all, if you make too much money, you're out of the program. Furthermore, there's a stigma attached to those programs that makes successful people less likely to want to be around you. On top of all that, human beings can get used to anything. The longer you remain dependent on the government, the more likely you are to find that meager life of dependency tolerable. If you do feel forced to rely on the government, you should keep the exposure as short and limited as possible, just as if you are getting an X-Ray. Just as getting too much exposure to radiation will make your body sick, becoming dependent on the government will make your spirit sick.
4) Focus on pulling everyone else down instead of raising yourself up: The single greatest moment in the history of the pathetic, whiny Occupy Movement was when hundreds of McDonalds’ applications were dumped on them from the windows of the Chicago Board of Trade building. Not only was it delicious mockery of people who richly deserved it, it was actually good advice. Working at McDonald's for a month would have been more productive than camping in a park eating catered food. As a matter of fact, if you think bankers and hedge fund managers are outrageously overpaid, it makes even more sense to try to become a banker or hedge fund manager rather than complaining about their salaries. Winners adapt while losers complain and people who spend their lives obsessing over what's fair and unfair usually turn out to be miserable, while people who have good lives don't give up until they find a way to achieve.
5) Think of yourself as a victim: The patriarchy isn't keeping you down. Racism isn't stopping you from being successful. All those awful straight, gay, men, women, black, white, Hispanics, rich people, poor people, etc., etc. aren't messing up your life. You are not a victim. In fact, if you think of yourself as a victim, you're probably worse than the people you think are victimizing you because one of the many unpleasant traits of people who think they're getting a raw deal is that they tend to feel entitled to treat other people poorly because of their victimhood. Victims also have the awful tendency to wait for someone or something to save them from their victimization. No matter how you look at yourself, in America, there are enormous numbers of people just like you who have made great lives for themselves. It's not hard to learn from their example if you ever call off your own personal pity party and start paying attention.
None of this is rocket science. In fact, almost everybody reading this has heard similar things from his parents or teachers or at church while growing up. The problem we now have as a society is that there are a lot of people who have figured out that it's easier and more profitable to pander to people at their worst than it is to encourage them to be their best. Yet, the truth is that even in the age of Obama, you can still have a great life in America if you're smart, responsible, and work hard. That doesn't mean it'll be easy or that there won't be some big bumps in the road, but the promise of America is still out there for people who want to grab it instead of obsessing over "fairness," "income inequality," and how they're supposedly being "victimized" by society.
http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2013/08/03/the-5-attitudes-that-will-cause-you-to-fail-at-life-in-america-n1655400/page/full
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