Obama Has Lost 4 Million Jobs

After one full year in office, the results of Barack Obama’s jobs stimulus program are finally in. In the 12-month period starting with February 2009 through January 2010, the nation saw a net loss of 4.022 million jobs, according to the latest figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (www.bls.gov). The unemployment rate stands at 9.7%, a full 2% higher than it was when Obama took office. And the only solution that Obama seems to have is to throw another $100 billion into another failed jobs stimulus package.

He still finds himself in the catch-22 of defending the results of the previous stimulus package and yet professing the urgent need for a second one. The American people were fooled by the rhetoric last year. It is increasingly evident that they will not be fooled again.

Given the results of recent elections in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts, it certainly appears that they are no longer supportive of the Democrats’ policy proposals.

Obama and others in his administration still claim that his policies are working as intended and that they have saved or created anywhere from 600,000 to 2 million jobs (depending on what day it is and who is speaking). So if that is true then the true job losses would have to be from 4.6 million to 6 million in order to net out at the 4 million job loss figured provided by the BLS. If that is an example of his policies working as intended then it is really no wonder why the American people have started electing candidates who do not support those policies.

There are no easy answers to the question of how to create more jobs, but clearly throwing more money at the problem has not worked for Obama, just as it did not work for Bush. One thing that is very clear though is that employers are worried about what more is to come from this administration. Fearing a federal mandate to provide health coverage for all employees or face still fines and penalties for failing to do so is certainly a deterrent for some companies to hire more employees. Fearing huge increases in energy bills is another. And fearing increased interest costs and inflation due to a ballooning national debt is still another.

Those fears are justified given the reckless healthcare reform package, cost-increasing cap-and-trade bill and deficit-ballooning budget which have been proposed by Obama and his fellow Democrats. Reducing those fears will be the best way to increase jobs. For employers, the decision to hire new employees is always a long-term one, but before making that decision there must be a high level of predictability about the future.

With so many disastrous policy proposals on the horizon, employers cannot make any solid long-term plans, including those regarding hiring new employees. By now Obama and the Democrats should have learned that lesson, but given their recent statements and actions, clearly they have not. As a result, the near-term outlook for jobs looks just as bleak as the near-term past.

Canadian Premier Turns to US Health Care System

Socialist health care system fails another Canadian.

It seems in spite of the claims that government run health care is superior those who must live with it tell a far different tale. In this case, Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams will undergo heart surgery later this week. Not in Canada, but in the United States.

Deputy premier Kathy Dunderdale confirmed the treatment at a news conference Tuesday, but would not reveal the location of the operation or how it would be paid for.

“He has gone to a renowned expert in the procedure that he needs to have done,” said Ms. Dunderdale, who will become acting premier while Mr. Williams is away for three to 12 weeks.

“In consultation with his own doctors, he’s decided to go that route.”

Mr. Williams’ decision to leave Canada for the surgery has raised eyebrows over his apparent shunning of Canada’s health-care system.

“It was never an option offered to him to have this procedure done in this province,” said Ms. Dunderdale, refusing to answer whether the procedure could be done elsewhere in Canada.

Mr. Williams, 59, has said nothing of his health in the media.

“The premier has made a commitment that once he’s through this procedure and he’s well enough, he’s going to talk about the whole process and share as much detail with you as he’s comfortable to do at that time,” she said.

The lesson here is that Politicians always find a way to bypass what they force on everyone else. The vulgar part about it is that the taxpayers always get stuck with the bill.

Obama Bows to Tampa Mayor

What is wrong with this guy?

Maybe it’s not so much of something being wrong with Obama as much as there is very little right about him.

Let’s see, first it was the Saudi King, then the Japanese Emperor, then the Chinese Premier and now the Mayor of Tampa?

Could this be a direct result of Miz Michelle requiring him to bow to her?

Whatever the reason I never tire of watching the stand-up comedy of the Obamanation. This particular act shows what happens  when you don’t have a backbone.

Al Gore and Osama bin Laden Become Strange Bedfellows

The unlikely combination of  eco-terrorist  and Islamic terrorist join forces against freedom.

Global warming fanatics have a new and unwelcome ally, Osama bin Laden. Unlike enviro-leftists, the terror master recognizes that the green agenda can cripple the U.S. economy.

In the Obama worldview, fighting climate change will “finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America.” In the Osama worldview, it will “bring the wheels of the American economy” to a halt.

The president spoke those words to Congress last week during his State of the Union message; the head of al-Qaida was delivering his latest rant for broadcast to his followers.

The president and the Democrats running Congress fail to see the dangers that environmentalist extremism poses to the U.S. But bin Laden has concluded it is a powerful weapon that can destroy us.

The Saudi-born patriarch of Islamist terrorism, from whatever cave he currently calls home, devoted his entire latest audiotape message to global warming. “Talk about climate change is not an ideological luxury but a reality,” bin Laden declared. “All of the industrialized countries, especially the big ones, bear responsibility for the global warming crisis.”

Bin Laden even bashed ex-President George W. Bush for opposing the Kyoto Protocol at the behest of big business; he must have gotten hold of the Democratic National Committee’s talking points.

How do we prevent the promised worldwide calamity of temperatures going up and up? “Drastic solutions” are in order according to the reclusive al-Qaida chief, as opposed to “solutions that partially reduce the effect of climate change.”

The world must “stop consuming American products,” he advised, and “we should stop dealings with the dollar and get rid of it as soon as possible.”

That will have “grave ramifications,” bin Laden admitted, “but it is the only means to liberate humanity from slavery and dependence on America.” Doing so would have the added bonus of hurting U.S. operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, he added.

So it looks like the old saying, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” has come true making allies of Al Gore and Osama bin Laden. Bet you didn’t see that one coming.

Obama’s Top 25 Records Hidden From The Public

Top 25 records Barack Hussein Obama is hiding from the public.

1 Certified copy of original birth certificate
2 Columbia University transcripts
3 Columbia thesis paper
4 Campaign donor analysis requested by 7 major watchdog groups
5 Harvard University transcripts
6 Illinois State Senate records
7 Illinois State Senate schedule
8 Law practice client list and billing records/summary
9 Locations and names of all half-siblings and step-mother
10 Medical records (only the one page summary released so far)
11 Occidental College Transcripts
12 Parent’s marriage Certificate
13 Record of baptism
14 Selective Service registration records
15 Schedules for trips outside of the United States before 2007
16 Passport records for all passports
17 Scholarly articles
18 SAT and LSAT test scores
19 Access to his grandmother in Kenya
20 List of all campaign workers that are lobbyists
21 Punahou grade school records
22 Noelani Kindergarten records are oddly missing from the the State of Hawaii Department of Education.
23 Page 11 of Stanley Ann Dunham’s divorce decree.
24 Why did Barack Obama resign from the Illinois bar and where are all of the relevant documents?
25 Why did Michelle Obama resign from the Illinois bar after only about four years of practice and where are all of the relevant documents?

You gotta admit this is a lot of hidden information concerning the life of a sitting President. It’s only natural to wonder why Obama and his handlers consider it vital to hide so much personal information from the public.

You might even get the idea that a little skulduggery is afoot.

Indonesia Ponders Tearing Down Obama Statue

Indonesian authorities said they are considering a petition to tear down a statue of US President Barack Obama as a boy, only a month after the bronze was unveiled in Jakarta.

The statue of “Little Barry” — as Obama was known when he lived in the capital in the late 1960s — stands in central Jakarta’s Menteng Park, a short walk from the US president’s former elementary school.

Critics say the site should have been used to honor an Indonesian and 55,000 people have joined a page on social networking website Facebook calling for the statue to be removed.

“We’ve been discussing for the past two weeks what to do with the statue… whether to take it down, move it elsewhere or retain it. We’re finding the best solution,” Jakarta parks agency official Dwi Bintarto said.

Obama, who was born in Hawaii, lived for four years as a child in Jakarta from 1967 after his divorced mother married an Indonesian.

The bronze was designed by Indonesian artists and depicts the boy Obama dressed in shorts and a T-shirt with a butterfly perched on his hand.

Members of the “Take Down the Barack Obama Statue in Menteng Park” group on Facebook say Obama has done nothing for Indonesia.

“Barack Obama has yet to make a significant contribution to the Indonesian nation. We could say Obama only ate and s (expletive) in Menteng. He spent his subsequent days living as an American,” the web page says.

“For the dignity of a sovereign nation, Barack Obama’s monument in Menteng Park must be removed immediately.”

The popularity of Obama continues to fade in the US and around the world. It looks like reciting bumper sticker slogans and blaming Bush has its limits before people finally catch on that Obama is all teleprompter and no substance.

Does The End Justify The Means?

A very ugly trend is emerging from the ranks of both the political and scientific world. In the past, fudging the number was done by the most unscrupulous in both worlds. Now, it is an epidemic. We are witnessing trends that reveal those who don’t like what the data shows will simply change the numbers.

The reason stems from the old adage, the end justifies the means. As it turns out, the end for which the numbers are being massaged and the reason bean counters are willing to sell their souls is – socialism, global climate regulation, health-care legislation, repudiating debt commitments and the list goes on.

At first glance, it appears no number is immune. Numbers also falling prey to manipulation is the GDP, inflation, unemployment and even temperature.

Politicians continue to clamor and even threaten for alternative numbers that will make them look better. A call for a new, socialist-friendly way to measure the economy is in the wind. You might consider that “crazy talk” but there is historical precedent for a “socialist GDP.” It turns out that Mikhail Gorbachev kept Soviet statistics in two sets of books: those they published, and those they actually believed. Stalin did the same thing when he was alive.

America is not immune. We now have the king of liars and manipulators in the White House. Barack Hussein Obama has certainly taken lying and number manipulation to a new level. For a guy that promised transparency, he hides the numbers pretty good don’t you think?

Instead of counting unemployment numbers, he stands proudly and touts some imaginary number about the number of jobs “created or saved” by the stimulus bill. If you stop to think about that for a minute you might feel insulted that Obama would think you so stupid as to believe such nonsense. I’ve heard of taking credit where there is none, but this is ridiculous.

You might also notice the congressional leadership tends to hype the number of green jobs “likely” to be created from the explosion of spending, subsidies, loans and mandates, while ignoring the job losses caused by its taxes, debt, regulations and diktats.

The president and his advisers have lied or exaggerated since day one. Obama claimed his radical attempt to regulate energy and the environment with the cap-and-trade bill would boost the economy. After confronted with economic reality, we discover another lie and his attempt to manipulate the numbers. He claims “all” their trillion dollar spending created jobs and spending more will create even more jobs. This is fine except why is the promised no higher than 8% unemployment rate now over 10%?

Environmentalists have descended into a separate reality where only green counts. Scientists from the University of East Anglia were caught manipulating, hiding or deleting data as to arrive at some predetermined consensus. Oh, there are also the attempts to squelch publication of studies coming to different conclusions.

What about the the most dubious lie of all – ObamaCare?

What can only be classified as a bad joke are the numbers used to justify health-insurance reform legislation. You must wonder how it is possible for the government to expand coverage and at the same time reduce the deficit. You manipulate the numbers. Didn’t you know that you can make anything sound good if only you have the numbers to back it up? Yep, any number that sells the lie will do because to socialist, the end justifies the means.

The good news is that the public doesn’t believe the Washington spin. Large majorities believe the health-care legislation will raise their insurance costs and increase the budget deficit. Most Americans are highly skeptical of the claims of climate extremists. And they have a more realistic reaction to the extraordinary deterioration in our public finances than do the President and Congress.

Those in Washington are greedy and live for power. The best way to shock them back into reality is vote out as many as possible. That, or string them up on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

OK, OK – we’ll  save that for later, if necessary.

The Religion of Climate Change

The main feature of any religion or cult is that in the absence of hard evidence its pronouncements must be accepted by faith. By questioning these pronouncements you are considered a heretic or denier.

The Earth-Worshipers of the world, commonly known as Environmentalist, accept and promote man-made global warming. Not from hard evidence, but through faith. Oh wait, it’s now “Climate Change” since all this cold weather is spoiling the warming portion of the claim.

The fact is that the Earth’s temperature does change. From the ice age to now we can conclude that there must have been some global warming or there would be a lot more ice.

The problem with the Earth-Worshipers reason for faith is that the ice began melting long before there were SUVs, coal-fired power plants, incandescent light bulbs, and a conspiracy of cows farting in the wind.

The simple truth is man can’t change anything about the design of the Earth. Man can’t control the orbit or rotation – can’t change the timing or direction of the tides – can’t stop a hurricane or control its temperature. These are parameters out of our control and from what I can tell about the arrogance of man – it’s just as well.

The greatest reason government gets people to subscribe to the hoax of global warming is money, control and power. Scientist fall prey to manipulating climate data and engaging in criminal activity because they are slaves of the government grant. The recent “Climategate” scandal proves this to be true.

We see many “honest” climatologists intimidated into silence. The result is the public is bombarded with more propaganda than truth. You know there is something fishy when the very CO2 all living mammals exhale is suddenly harmful to the planet. Yes, the same CO2 plants and trees need to survive and convert back into oxygen.

Over long periods of time, there is absolutely no close relationship between C02 levels and temperature. Humans contribute approximately 3.4 percent of annual C02 levels compared to 96.6 percent by nature.

There was an explosion of life forms 550 million years ago (Cambrian Period) when CO2 levels were 18 times higher than today. During the Jurassic Period, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, CO2 levels were as much as nine times higher than today. Contrary to what educators are brainwashing our children with, polar bear numbers increased dramatically from around 5,000 in 1950 to as many as 25,000 today, higher than any time in the 20th century.

Government champions the global warming hoax because it gives them seemingly endless reasons to tax and control the masses. It provides the ruling class more power, which in their mind is reason enough.

Political commentator Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) warned that “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

The greatest danger to man is not CO2, but a tyrannical government.

Illegal Immigrants Sentenced for Child Rape

Two men have been sentenced to consecutive life sentences for the kidnapping and rape a 12 year old girl. On February 5, 2009 the young victim was standing at her Florida bus stop when Juan Hernandez-Monzalvo and Richard Morales-Marin kidnapped her at knife point and raped her.

During their trial, both men tried to blame each other for the crime, but in the end a jury found them both guilty. While in court for sentencing Hernandez-Monzalvo was extremely emotional as an interpreter read his letter to the judge, where he pleaded for mercy and asked to be with his family.

Morales-Marin was forced to face court alone. He had no supporters and even smirked while being sentenced. The brutal rape of the 12 year old girl early last year was no laughing matter for Circuit Judge Walter Komanski.

“I am making a recommendation to the Department of Corrections that at the conclusion of the service of your portion of the sentence, at such point that you die, that the recommendation is for the Department of Corrections that they transport your body to the immigration and naturalization service for deportation back to your own country,” said Judge Komanski. “That neither of you are worthy to be buried in this country.”

Hernandez-Monzalvo and Morales-Marin have 30 days to appeal their sentences.

Good luck in prison guys. They say what goes around, comes around… and a child rapist… well?

Democrats Defend Harry Reid’s Racist Statement

Senator Harry Reid, a key figure in pushing Obama’s agenda through Congress, apologized to the president over remarks published in a new book calling Obama a “light-skinned” black man “with no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one.”

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said Reid should step aside as Senate majority leader, saying if a Republican made the same remarks Democrats would be “screaming for his head.”

“Oh yeah, there’s a big double standard here,” Steele, who is black, said on the NBC program “Meet the Press.”

“There is this standard where the Democrats feel that they can say these things and they can apologize when it comes from the mouths of their own. But if it comes from anyone else, it’s racism,” Steele added on “Fox News Sunday.”

Reid on Saturday apologized for “using such a poor choice of words.” Obama issued a statement accepting the apology.

“I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words,” said Reid in a statement. “I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African Americans for my improper comments.”

President Obama said in a statement that he and Reid had spoken about the matter on Saturday afternoon. “I accepted Harry’s apology without question because I’ve known him for years, I’ve seen the passionate leadership he’s shown on issues of social justice and I know what’s in his heart,” said Obama. “As far as I am concerned, the book is closed.”

Democratic Party chairman Tim Kaine said “the comments were unfortunate and they were insensitive,” but he said there is no reason for Reid to step down as majority leader.

“I think the case is closed because President Obama has spoken directly with the leader (Reid) and accepted his apology. We’re moving on,” Kaine told “Meet the Press.”

“Harry Reid made a misstatement. He owned up to it. He apologized. I think he is mortified by the statement he’s made. And I don’t think he should step down,” Democratic Senator Jack Reed told “Fox News Sunday.”

Republicans compared Reid’s remarks to those made in 2002 by Republican Trent Lott, praising former segregationist presidential candidate and long-time senator Strom Thurmond. Lott stepped down as Senate majority leader over the comments.

“If he (Lott) should resign, then Harry Reid should,” Republican Senator Jon Kyl told “Fox News Sunday.”

The controversy should help undermine Reid’s influence in the Senate and his re-election battle in Nevada this November.