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Folks, I don’t know how else to categorize this but we are living in a dying country.  Only 88,000 new jobs were added last month when we were expecting more like 188,000.  The unemployment rate, because of this terrible statistic, is down to 7.6% because so many people are no longer counted as if they [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/gopweeklyaddress   ‘Now, it is true that my blueprint does not rely on new mandates or new regulations to achieve these goals.  And it doesn’t drive up taxes or energy prices.  It doesn’t limit choice or lavish subsidies.  Now, there are some who continue to believe that those options represent the best or perhaps the [...]

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Two Years After Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Crowed That America Is ‘On The Road To Recovery,’ The Economy Continues To Sputter   SEC. TIM GEITHNER: “Welcome to the recovery … a review of recent data on the American economy shows that we are on a path back to growth … on the road to recovery” (Sec. Geithner, [...]

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Disappointing reports about the state of the American economy are filling the news today.   The AP reports, “The U.S. economy suddenly looks a lot weaker. U.S. employers created only 69,000 jobs in May, the fewest in a year, and the unemployment rate ticked up. The dismal jobs data will fan fears that the economy is sputtering. . [...]

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‘One In Three’ Underemployed, More Than Half ‘Disappointed,’ ‘Worried’ Or ‘Angry’ With The Obama Presidency   GALLUP: ‘A Disaster For… Younger Americans As A Group’   “Today’s slow economic growth is a disaster for those unemployed and underemployed as they look for jobs when so few new jobs are being created. For younger Americans as [...]

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Henrico, VA– George Allen released the following statement regarding President Obama’s push for $1.5 trillion in higher taxes. “The American people should not be punished with a $1.5 trillion tax increase to pay for this Administration’s record-setting deficits and second round of stimulus spending.  These are the same recycled tax hikes that President Obama has [...]

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Same Failed Approach, New Spin   President Obama’s speech proves one fact: He doesn’t understand how to get government out of the way of job creators. So he’s trying the same old approach that he already tried and that already failed and is just putting a new spin on it. He’s chasing the wrong rabbit. [...]

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Henrico, VA–George Allen released the following statement in response to President Obama’s speech on the economy: “Tonight Virginia families heard a political speech from President Obama calling for more of the same big spending stimulus proposals and job-crushing tax hikes.  It’s been nearly three years, and Washington big government liberals have learned nothing from the [...]

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Yesterday, President Obama told a crowd of workers in Michigan, “Send a message to Congress to come to an agreement on trade deals that will level the playing field and open markets to our businesses –- so we can sell more goods to countries around the world. . . . Those trade bills are teed [...]

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On the heels of a May jobs report showing “anemic” growth and higher unemployment, Gallup writes today, “[H]iring remains seven to eight points below early 2008. That is, current job creation has not returned to its levels of nearly 3 ½ years ago, when the recession got underway. On an absolute basis, job creation in [...]

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The video is below the transcript. Senator McConnell does a great job explaining the Democrat’s failure to address the expiration of the Bush tax cuts. This failure will raise taxes on every taxpayer. Lowest income taxpayers will see a 50% increase in their taxes, and small businesses will struggle even more to provide new jobs. [...]

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Senator Mike Johanns (R) from Nebraska gives President Obama some wisw advice in the GOP weekly address. Senator Johanns speaks to the job killing agenda the Obama administration has pushed. Read the transcript, or view the video at the end of this post. Full transcript of Senator Johanns’ Address: Hello, I’m Senator Mike Johanns from [...]

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From Virginia Lt. Governor Bill Bolling: When Governor McDonnell and I took office in January, we set two key goals for our first year in office: Getting Virginia’s economy moving again and creating jobs for Virginia’s families, and Eliminating the $4.2B budget shortfall we inherited and turning our budget shortfalls into surpluses again. This week [...]

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The Department of Energy has dumped $2 Billion of taxpayer money into another boondoggle that will not see a return on the investment for over 50 years. The good news is that this money will create 5,000 new jobs – at only $392,000 PER JOB! Of course the employees will not see most of this [...]

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Barack Obama has been in office 504 days and oil has been spewing into the Gulf with no end in sight. Now a second oil platform has begun to leak.

This is what we call Trickle Down Incompetence. The lackadaisical and cavalier attitude Obama has taken with this spill is astonishing. His administration has failed to perform the required inspections of oil platforms, granted environmental waivers and taken an active role in causing this disaster. It may be decades before the Gulf of Mexico can recover.

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The swelling ranks of a rapidly growing Federal Government is the only sector of the economy creating new jobs. And I am sure we can find some “saved” jobs among the Federal free for all, too. These jobs are not economy supporting jobs, rather they are a further drain on taxpayer debt.

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When did the “In The Tank” Media switch the statistical calculations to Jobs Created or Saved? Obviously, about one year ago. But is that a fair assessment of what is really going on with employment?

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