Showing posts with label Barack Obama 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barack Obama 2014. Show all posts
Monday, December 29, 2014

You could almost say the few people Obama's added to the labor force he's sent straight to the unemployment lines

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The lowest jobless claims yet still don't yield the lowest unemployment levels under Bush. As I pointed out here , jobless claim...

Obama's civilian labor force has only grown 1.7 million since 11/2008, 1.3 million of which came in the last year!

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The civilian labor force grew by 1.3 million 11/13-11/14 By contrast George Bush's civilian labor force grew by 11.8 million over ...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

Jeb Bush pocketed $1.4 million in 2013 working for ObamaCare profiteer Tenet Healthcare of Dallas

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So says the LA Times, here : And on Wednesday, Bush resigned from the board of directors of Tenet Healthcare Corp., also effective Dec...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

If Obama had wanted to "rescue" the economy in 2009, he should have ramped-up the wars as he's doing now

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If Obama had really wanted to rescue the economy in 2009, he would have ramped up dramatically the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan instead of...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Zero Hedge gets ObamaCare spending all wrong, again

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The latest screed is here , claiming that healthcare spending is "the reason" behind the surge in Q3 GDP. From the BEA here ...

To date current dollar GDP under Obama is running 9.6% behind Bush every year

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Bush nominal GDP increased 43% over his term. To date nominal GDP under Obama is up less than 20%. Bush nomin...

Republican enthusiasm for the Line Item Veto began under Reagan and was their version of the imperial presidency

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No different than Reagan's enthusiasm for federal mandates like EMTALA, which is the proximate cause of ObamaCare. But J. T. Young doe...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

Obama says you're better off than when he took office, except you are not

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click to enlarge Obama says, quoted here : "Like the rest of America, black America in the aggregate is better off now than i...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Amounts allocated for retirement soar to $24.2 trillion in 3Q2014

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The Investment Company Institute reports, here . IRA-type instruments continue to lead the way with 30% of the total amount saved, f...
Friday, December 19, 2014

Average food stamp participation under Obama is 43.2 million annually to date, 84% higher than under Bush

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Under Bush it was 23.5 million on average, and under Clinton 23.1 million.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Was the valet driving?

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Obama was mistaken for a valet?

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He's also been mistaken for a president, an American and a golfer, but who's counting? The story in People here is making a...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Gas for $2.50: What Obama called a phony promise in 2012 is now the reality, without him, without Gingrich, without government

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Gasoline nationally just now averages $2.50/gallon without Newt Gingrich's help, or Obama's

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See  here  for the controversy over Newt's faith in his drilling program in March 2012, which materialized without him, and without ...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

Stupid things heard on the Steve Gruber Show radio program last week

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Both the AM drive-time host, Steve Gruber, a libertarian for whom every opponent is taken as a challenge to his manhood, and his weekly ...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

Obama's war on growth: Per capita measure shows GDP didn't recover to 2007 level until 3Q2013

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So says Ironman, here : "Going by this measure we see that it wasn't until the third quarter of 2013 that the U.S. economy ...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

The Heritage Foundation didn't repudiate the individual mandate until long after the Tea Party did

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Ramesh Ponnuru  here in March 2012 in the wake of both Romney and Gingrich putting the finger on Heritage for the individual mandate in...

Flashback to October 2011: Romney and Gingrich agree ObamaCare's individual mandate idea came from the Heritage Foundation

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From the Western Republican Leadership Conference Presidential Debate interchange in October 2011 between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Flashback to Feb. 2012: Newt Gingrich was mocked and worse by Obama and company for saying $2.50 gas was possible, but it's happening right now

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Newt, deservedly doin' The Mussolini Obama called Gingrich's promise of $2.50/gallon gas a "phony election-year promise...

About 20 million Americans have dropped out of the middle class under Obama as lower class explodes by 50 million

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In 2008 53% of the population considered itself middle class, about 161 million Americans, according to the Pew data referenced here an...