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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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Bad economic news continues to roll in. AP reports today, “U.S. industrial production fell in August by the largest amount in more than three years as factories produced fewer cars and other manufactured goods and Hurricane Isaac triggered shutdowns along the Gulf Coast. Industrial production dropped 1.2 percent last month compared to July, the Federal Reserve said [...]

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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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CNN Money sums up today’s Labor Department report for April: “Hiring slowed in April and workers dropped out of the labor force in droves — not a good sign for the job market going forward.”   According to The New York Times, “The United States had another month of disappointing job growth in April. The [...]

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During the 2008 election campaign, Candidate Barack Obama was fond of using the analogy that George Bush “drove the car in a ditch” to pertray an image that Bush had carelessly and perhaps recklessly caused the financial crisis in which America found itself. Here we are nearly four years later and the economy has yet [...]

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The Greek elections come up a week from today (May 5) and the people are wise to the fact the major parties, whether left or right, are the handmaidens of the EU elite: He [another young Greek voter] and his friend Christos Spulas, 25, broke out in laughter when asked if they would vote for [...]

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced the employment numbers for March today, but news reports suggest they’re disappointing. The Wall Street Journal writes, “U.S. job growth slowed in March, and the labor force shrank, signaling that the economy could be losing momentum. Jobs outside of agriculture grew by 120,000 last month—half the number that the [...]

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It might not seem probable that Obamacare could cause more foreclosures, particularly among the middle class, but these are not normal times. When the Progressives decided to force an unwanted bill and unaffordable entitlements down America’s collective throats, they had a particularly copious amount of disdain for anyone who declined to purchase Health Insurance because [...]

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President Obama’s Stimulus Package Has Not Delivered The Jobs His White House Claimed It Would   5 Million Jobs Short Of White House Stimulus Claim   WHITE HOUSE REPORT: “Aggregate Effect of the Recovery Package on GDP and Jobs in 2010Q4 … With Stimulus … Payroll Employment: 137,550,000.” (Christina Romer & Jared Bernstein, “The Job [...]

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At a press conference on Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), a key member of Senate Democrats’ leadership, took to the podium to criticize something Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN) said in his Republican Address the night before. Gov. Daniels said, “On these evenings, Presidents naturally seek to find the sunny side of our national condition.  But [...]

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Editor’s Note: This Guest Post post was written by Melody Scalley, an entrepreneur and talk-radio show host in Virginia. I met Melody at the 2009 Republican Convention when she was a candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates. She is a rock solid Conservative and a powerful voice for the right out of the beautiful [...]

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As I explained last month, there are two ways to get the unemployment rate down. And since the Obama Administration is well aware that a jobless rate of 8% or more historically spells doom for a second term, he is doing what he can to lower that number. The best way to shrink the number [...]

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New Stimulus, Same Old Promises There Are At Least 1.7 Million Reasons To Be Skeptical Of President Obama’s Latest Jobs Prediction   1,705,000 Fewer Jobs Since The First Stimulus Passed In February 2009 (U.S. Dept. Of Labor, “Employment, Hour, And Earnings From The Current Employment Statistics Survey (National),” Total Nonfarm, Accessed 9/6/11)   NEW STIMULUS [...]

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‘I remain very optimistic about our future. Americans are the hardest working, most industrious, and innovative, most entrepreneurial people in the world. And if we just let them, they will build more factories, start more businesses, hire more workers, produce more goods, and create more inventions. But first, government has to get out of the [...]

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This is the biggest swing I have seen in the daily Gallup poll. President Obama’s Approval dropped 4 points and his disapproval jumped 5 – in one day. He now stands at 45% Approve and 48% Disapprove. A good part of this drop has to be the economy. But more than that, this marks the [...]

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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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With the uncertainty at every turn caused by the confused Obama Administration’s policies and attitude towards businesses evaporated by the Republican gains in November, employment numbers showed a sharp improvement in numbers released today. The Democrats, led by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi failed to act on the expiration of the “Bush” tax cuts until [...]

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« « Watcher’s Council Nominations – Pre New Years Eve Edition | main | The Council Has Spoken..New Years Eve Edition JoshuaPundit on Dec 31 2010 at 2:20 am | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken! Welcome to the results of the last Watcher’s Council contest of 2010. And it’s been quite a year, hasn’t [...]

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On November 2 Obama’s Boots will be Removed From the Economy’s Throat The change America was promised in 2008 has not been delivered by President Obama. Americans wanted change. We wanted change from the rising unemployment, the declining economy and the erosion of the American Dream. In fairness, these things will not happen overnight, nor [...]

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