When you thought, “If you like your plan,
or doctor, you can keep your plan, or doctor,” were the biggest lies ever told
by an American President you missed the big one that beats those every
month in the Department of Labor employment report.
The Obama Administration says unemployment is 6.7% because millions “dropped out of the workforce.” Isn't the issue whether or not they are working? Were they asked? Where is the documentation. Is this more Obama propaganda and lies?
In the graph above note the "Labor Force Participation Rate" went into a nosedive the month Obama became President and has been in free fall ever since. Note that it was headed up during the term of George W. Bush and rose every period when Republicans controlled the House which is responsible for budgets and the national checkbook.
The Obama Administration says unemployment is 6.7% because millions “dropped out of the workforce.” Isn't the issue whether or not they are working? Were they asked? Where is the documentation. Is this more Obama propaganda and lies?
In the graph above note the "Labor Force Participation Rate" went into a nosedive the month Obama became President and has been in free fall ever since. Note that it was headed up during the term of George W. Bush and rose every period when Republicans controlled the House which is responsible for budgets and the national checkbook.
The Department of Labor counts “the
workforce” as those from age 16 to 65 years.
We have about four million people in every age/year or 196 million
potential workers, but in that number we have ten million stay-at-home mothers
of children under the age of six. Some
work by hiring child care, but the largest fraction do not. That leaves 186 million potential workers,
but we also have two million in prison and ten million in colleges and trade schools. So we are
left with 174 million possible workers with 89,967,000 not working. That is 52%!
Of course we may have two percent trust
fund kids, lottery and Publishers Clearing House winners so the unemployed are only
50%, twice that of the Great Depression!
May we now call this the Greatest Depression? Or The Great Obama Curse?
Republicans should call for an investigation of the
Department of Labor Statistics to determine whether if the Obama
Administration ordered the “dropped out” sham, or accept Washington, DC is
totally corrupt with people who want government to grow at any cost and intuitively
know to jigger these figures for the President.
We will never get Congress to investigate
this matter on the fear it could point to the President and he’s black! (gasp)
The men of Congress live in trembling fear of being called
“racist!” They awaken in the night, sit
bolt upright having dreamed of bony fingers of indignation aimed at them in a
town meeting as they stand there wetting their stripped pants.
Why, pray tell, are there no Republicans
with their fangs deep in this matter? Are they all that stupid or have they gone to
the other side, set up fictitious name tax free number accounts where funds are
deposited only to be moved off to personal number accounts in secrecy? How can it be that a witless corpulent gland like
Dennis Hastert could come to Washington, DC with a net worth of $250,000 and
leave 20 years later with $22 million never having made more
than $174,000? We wonder how much more was in Switzerland or any of the 120 countries with secret bank accounts.
We the people have one weapon left in our
nearly empty quiver and that is our votes in all future elections: Vote them out! Every one; every time. Flush Congress: Stop them shucking us and telling lies
like 6.7%.
Adrian Vance
Dennis Hastert is easy to explain. He never spent more than $60,000 a year to live. I'm sure we paid for everything else. He also had the opportunity to indulge in insider trading and ensure his companies got contracts with the Feds.
ReplyDeleteHe also steered some Federal Highway money into roads running across Illinois that nobody use as all the traffic is going to or coming from Chicago. He would buy cheap land in anticipation of his bill passing and then sell it to the government for huge amounts of money. But, I think a lot of other stuff was going on, frankly. I grew up in Illinois and in the midst of several political families and it was clear even then that the whole thing was corrupt. My sister has run for office in Illinois.
DeleteAnother good example is POTUS, he's now worth over $12 million, after only working 5 years as President and a couple of years as Senator. The "bennies" are enormous and the vacations are spectacular!
DeleteYes, and in "Barack and Michelle" the author included an interview with Bill Ayers where he claimed outright that he wrote "Dreams of my Father" as Obama panicked when he did not have the abilities to do the book. A team of five English literary analysts, where they have very strict plagiarism laws, concluded that Ayers did write the book as his style, idioms and phrasing were common with his other published works and were unlike anything Obama had ever done. As well the book showed the hand of a pro as they do things that first timers never do unless their books are essentially re-written by pros. Where his book royalties could account for a few million Dollars I very much doubt they could generate $12 million, but that is only an opinion. He did get $1 million from a Nobel Prize, but I think that may be taxed. It was not in the past, but the IRS has changed that, I do believe.
DeleteYou read (and hear) that congressional approval ratings are at an all time low. Low approval ratings have been the norm for quite a spell now. But every election cycle the same people keep getting elected! That leads me to believe that people give low approval rates to other people's districts and states but they like their own legislators. With Congressional districts gerrymandered to make sure they keep getting re-elected, it's no wonder nothing changes. In the Senate races we all know how the large metro areas are the big deciding factor. In my particular state, the Puget Sound area (Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia) do all of the decision making and the more conservative leaning rest of the state is SOL!
ReplyDeleteThe House members appear to have a lock on the hall, but I think it is breakable with the simple idea, "VOTE OUT," that we have to flush the toilet.
DeleteThe House is locked for two reasons: The members have big staffs that concentrate on "constitute services." They will do something for you in the name of their boss and you are not only grateful, but tell everyone. That is powerful. And...
In the Democratic party they are very good at keeping all the old myths of the Democrats "being for the little guy," and "Republicans are evil," etc., etc, ad nauseam, and bringing home the bacon in "free" parks, libraries, bridges, public toilets and rest stops with their names on them. It all helps, but we can beat it if we can sell "VOTE OUT!"
Hard to vote out when they're all crooks.
DeleteUnless they can maintain by rigging elections it should be easier to remove them. But, I believe the real solution is to VOTE OUT every election: Flush the toilet that Capitol Hill has become.
DeleteIf only that would happen. I doubt it! I think the only solution is amendments to the Constitution! #1 - A balanced budget amendment. #2 - Term limits amendment. We HAVE to rest control back from the career pols and we MUST make the Govt. live within it's means! Constitutional amendments are not something to be taken lightly. But our Republic stands at the edge of the proverbial cliff! What we've been doing, lately, hasn't been working. We have to get people working and off the Govt. teat!
DeleteThey will never give up power: Not a "millisquidgin," as Barry Farber says, but we can "VOTE OUT" with a simple Internet campaign and just let it arrize from the people.
DeleteA Constitutional amendment takes 34 states and we may have enough Republican Governors to make that happen, but it will take at least seven years and some have taken 150 years! I agree that something has to happen.
The last amendment didn't take that long (giving 18 year olds the right to vote). I believe it was something like 18 months.
DeleteTrue, but stop and think about the nature of this: We are trying to get an elected ruling class to limit the power of an elected ruling class. That is going to about as popular with them as a skunk at a church picnic.
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