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33 Shocking Facts Which Show How Badly The Economy Has Tanked Under Obama | Zero Hedge - 0 views

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shared by Brian R on 15 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • #1 When Barack Obama entered the White House, 60.6 percent of working age Americans had a job.  Today, only 58.7 percent of working age Americans have a job. #2 Since Obama has been president, seven out of every eight jobs that have been "created" in the U.S. economy have been part-time jobs. #3 The number of full-time workers in the United States is still nearly 6 million below the old record that was set back in 2007. #4 It is hard to believe, but an astounding 53 percent of all American workers now make less than $30,000 a year. #5 40 percent of all workers in the United States actually make less than what a full-time minimum wage worker made back in 1968. #6 When the Obama era began, the average duration of unemployment in this country was 19.8 weeks.  Today, it is 36.6 weeks. #7 During the first four years of Obama, the number of Americans "not in the labor force" soared by an astounding 8,332,000.  That far exceeds any previous four year total.
  • Brian R on 15 Oct 13
     
    "Barack Obama has been running around the country taking credit for an "economic recovery", but the truth is that things have not gotten better under Obama.  Compared to when he first took office, a smaller percentage of the working age population is employed, the quality of our jobs has declined substantially and the middle class has been absolutely shredded.  If we are really in the middle of an "economic recovery", why is the homeownership rate the lowest that it has been in 18 years?  Why has the number of Americans on food stamps increased by nearly 50 percent while Obama has been in the White House?  Why has the national debt gotten more than 6 trillion dollars larger during the Obama era?  Obama should not be "taking credit" for anything when it comes to the economy.  In fact, he should be deeply apologizing to the American people. And of course Obama is being delusional if he thinks that he is actually "running the economy".  The Federal Reserve has far more power over the U.S. economy and the U.S. financial system than he does.  But the mainstream media loves to fixate on the presidency, so presidents always get far too much credit or far too much blame for economic conditions. But if you do want to focus on "the change" that has taken place since Barack Obama entered the White House, there is no way in the world that you can claim that things have actually gotten better during that time frame.  The cold, hard reality of the matter is that the U.S. economy has been steadily declining for over a decade, and this decline has continued while Obama has been living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It is getting very tiring listening to Obama supporters try to claim that Obama has improved the economy.  That is a false claim that is not even remotely close to reality.  The following are 33 shocking facts which show how badly the U.S. economy has tanked since Obama became president... #1 When Barack Obama entered the White House, 60.6 percent of working
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The gathering revolt against government spending | Washington Examiner - 0 views

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michael Barone government spending revolt politics teaparty elections

shared by Brian R on 24 May 10 - Cached
  • Now the political scientists' maxim seems out of date. The Democrat who won the Pennsylvania 12th Congressional District special election opposed the Democrats' health care law and cap-and-trade bills. The Tea Party-loving Republican who won the Senate nomination in Kentucky jumped out to a big lead. The defeat of the three appropriators, who among them have served 76 years in Congress (and whose fathers served another 42), is the canary that stopped singing in the coal mine
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      Brian R on 24 May 10
       
      Democrat victories were by those who oppossed Obamacare and the Cap and Trade bills.
  • Brian R on 24 May 10
     
    "This month three members of Congress have been beaten in their bids for re-election -- a Republican senator from Utah, a Democratic congressman from West Virginia and a Republican-turned-Democrat senator from Pennsylvania. Their records and their curricula vitae are different. But they all have one thing in common: They are members of an Appropriations Committee."
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American Thinker Blog: Obama Administration Planning to Circumvent Congress on Amnesty - 0 views

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shared by Brian R on 25 Jun 10 - Cached
  • In one of his final moves to fundamentally change how America operates, the Obama Administration appears to be circumventing regular congressional procedures on immigration reform by considering deferred action or parole on a massive scale for the more than ten million illegal aliens in the U.S. Typically these actions are carried out on a case by case basis, but Obama is anything but typical. From Fox News:Numbers USA , an organization that presses for lower immigration levels along with humanitarian treatment of illegal immigrants, has started a petition to the president expressing "outrage" at the alleged plan.  Rosemary Jenks, director of government relations with Numbers USA, said she's been hearing for weeks from "sources close to the Democratic leadership" in both chambers that administration officials are discussing whether the Department of Homeland Security could direct staff to grant "amnesty" for all illegal immigrants in the country.  "They're trying to figure out ways around a vote," she said. [snip] Jenks said illegal immigrants granted parole are often allowed to seek permanent legal status.  The President and his team of progressives see their popularity fading every day, and are cranking their bulldozer into high gear. Granting amnesty to millions of illegals may cause an untenable overload of processing them into the system, but who cares? The administration must complete its goal of collapsing the economy, and dividing the country by the November elections. Nothing like a perfect leftist storm before the Tsunami of 2010.
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Poll: Trouble for Dems in Vulnerable Districts - Daniel Foster - The Corner on National... - 0 views

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shared by Brian R on 15 Jun 10 - Cached
  • NPR commissioned a bipartisan poll of the 70 House districts viewed as most unfriendly to incumbents. 60 of those seats are currently held by Democrats, and the news just gets worse from there. In the 70 swing districts, Republicans hold an eight-point advantage over Democrats on a generic ballot. Poll directors Stan Greenberg (Democrat) and Glen Bolger (Republican) put the data in context: "In a year where voters want change and in which Democrats are seen to be in power, this is a tough poll — about as tough as you get," Greenberg said. Bolger said the poll results will be a wake-up call for Democrats, who were stunned at the beginning of the year when Republican Scott Brown won the U.S. Senate seat held for years by the late Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. "If Massachusetts was the first wake-up call, this is was the snooze alarm going off," Bolger said.
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Pajamas Media » American Hero: Coates Negates a Year of Justice Department Sp... - 0 views

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shared by Brian R on 26 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • [There is a] deep-seated opposition to the race-neutral enforcement of the Voting Rights Act against racial minorities and for the protection of whites who have been discriminated against.
  • The opposition within the Voting Section to taking actions on behalf of white voters in Noxubee County, Mississippi, … was widespread.
  • The Deputy Chief who was leading that election coverage asked me: “can you believe that we are going to Mississippi to protect white voters?”
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  • King took offense that I was asking such a question of job applicants and directed me not to ask it again because she does not support equal enforcement of the provisions of the Voting Rights Act.
  • [An attorney told Coates in] no uncertain terms that he had not come to the Voting Section to sue African American defendants. … One of the social scientists who worked in the Voting Section and whose responsibility it was to do past and present research into a local jurisdiction’s history flatly refused to participate in the investigation. On another occasion, a Voting Section career attorney informed me that he was opposed to bringing voting rights cases against African American defendants … until we reached the day when the socio-economic status of blacks in Mississippi was the same as the socio-economic status of whites living there. All of the employees Coates discusses here are still employed by the Civil Rights Division.
  • Brian R on 26 Sep 10
     
    DOJ intentionally drops case against voter intimidation by the black panthers on basis of race
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