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Dem Rep. A Grayson says "die quickly" is the Repub health care plan. and the leftists plan is... don't even be born! (Abortion)

Obama and the Dems credit the recent better job market to the Stimulus bill, but defend the-still-week job market by saying that jobs are a “lagging indicator,” it lags the rest of the economy when it comes to improvements, therefore the Stimulus does not yet fully reflect in the job market.

The Problem is this: February, the month the stimulus was signed and before any stimulus money was dished out, the economy lost 60,000 jobs less than in January, and in March the economy lost even less jobs than in February. If the “logging indicator” excuse is true, why did the economy in March, the month stimulus money merely started rolling out, lose less jobs than it did in each of the two months before it? The March improvement cannot be attributed to the stimulus considering jobs are a lagging indicator. Right? It takes time for the Stimulus to reflect in the market. Aint it so?

Whichever way you will cook it, you are toast: if you use “lagging” is a factor, how/why did we get the March improvements? You will of course have to agree that some (or most) of March happened on its own (just as February certainly did happen on its own because it was before the Stimulus). If so, how much of the general improved job markets since then took place on its own independent of Obama? And if you will say logging is not a factor and the better March number IS a direct result of the stimulus, why is the job market now, a half year later, still not doing better than it is?

Side Note:  if you wonder why February saw improvements even before the Stimulus, go back to Katrina for the answer: the New Orleans waters receded before the Bush team took any action. Why? because there is this much havoc that panic can cause before things get less bad on its own. The same is with the job market: it started getting less bad on its own, back in February.

(This writing was posted here too)

Yes dear reader, I am admitting to you that I am a racist! I don’t like President Obama, nor do I like my state’s governor Paterson, both of them are African American.

You see, I am totally in favor of the U.S. losing control of the situation in Iraq; the military having its worst months ever in Afghanistan, and the world’s most unpredictable nations moving ahead with WMD programs, while the U.S. gives up its plan for a land-based missile defense system in Eastern Europe. In addition, I am all for the Labor Unions, who ran to the ground the U.S. auto industry, getting a bigger piece of the Auto pie than did the secure creditors, and the unions having their bullies run Town Hall meetings rather than peaceful citizens having their say. I am all for this. Furthermore, I support the U.S. running up deficits 40%-50% bigger than what was expected back in December, and how can I be against the national unemployment rate that is now at just 9.7%? I also support a stimulus bill that six months later still has the economy losing more jobs than the economy lost before the panic of the Lehman collapse gripped the nation.

But despite being in support of all these policies, I still do not approve of the job President Obama is doing. You sure wonder why, right? Well simple, I am racist! I cannot stand African Americans in leadership positions. Why do you all think I hate Clarence Thomas as a Supreme Court Justice, and Condi Rice being a few years ago the first female African American secretary of state? Simple: I hate African Americans. Ooops, my mistake. I just noticed that I actually love the fact that Mr. Thomas is on the court, and I still like how Ms. Rice spoke in public on vital issues.

Here in NY is the same thing. I am so proud of my state, between others how the Legislator was the laughing stock of the world without the governor having a clue how to get things under control, and how in this recession Governor Paterson used most of the Stimulus money for increased spending rather than covering current expenditures. I am so proud of this state’s motor vehicle administration, where it takes a damn few hours to change a stupid address on a driver’s license. I am SO in love with all this, but I still don’t want Governor Paterson to run for reelection next year. You know why? You got it: because he is black. Ill rather have a state with such weird things like a functioning Legislator and motor vehicle system; lower taxes, and lower unemployment rate, than actually having an African American as my governor for one more day.

Until a short while ago, I lived in New York’s Village of Spring Valley where village tax under the current Mayer’s eight year administration went up almost double than under his predecessor, yet the village still doesn’t have an extra dime in its coffers. In addition, the Police harass people for miner things, and one of the most important roads in the area is locked down for almost two years due to a stretch of less than two-hundred feet that the village still didn’t figure out how to fix. I would have given the current mayor high marks for his great work, if not for the fact that he is African American.

You see, I liked his predecessor. You know why? Because he was a White man. Oops, wrong again, he is actually Black too. So why did I like the predecessor’s  work so much that I would want him back controlling the village where I grew up in? ah, I get it. He balanced budgets, cut wasteful spending and had a friendly Police Department.

I am so filled with hate, that I don’t even know what I support and why I support it.

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In his CNN interview this Sunday, President Obama said that people should expect a weak job market. He claimed that an economy adding 150,000 jobs a month is needed to keep up with the current population growth, but for now people should not expect such job numbers.

This is a little confusing, because less than a month ago, the White House economic team proclaimed that the Stimulus bill “created or saved” 1 million jobs. Considering that only six full monthly job reports were published since the signing of the stimulus, it means that an average of 166,666 jobs were “created or saved” on a monthly basis.

So Mr. President, make up your mind: is our economy getting the needed 150,000 jobs per month, or not?

(This thought was also posted this morning on my webpage, here)

Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, and Sean Haniti cannot be pushed aside as just “right wingers” with no voice. It’s their work, and the work of some on the internet, and mainly Fox News (which includes Haniti and Beck), that gave President Obama and the left the run for their money in recent weeks, despite the tireless attempts of the old media outlets to ignore it.

Following are just a few instances where Fox News and others held President Obama accountable, and/or had the power to adjust the state of affairs in this country. More so: it forced the old media to report news that they otherwise ignored.

Here it is:

       The White House had an email address where people from all over the country had the chance of reporting “fishy” activities against the WH agenda of Health Care Reform. After an outcry from the right, the email address was scrapped.

       President Obama was about to give a speech to school kids. From my perspective, I didn’t see any problem with it. However, some on the right did, and had the administration and its apologists in the media sweat about it a few days.

       A self-admitted communist racist served as the so-called Jobs Zar for Obama. After the right pounced on it and the old media ignored it for weeks, Jones resigned in shame.

      ACORN was busted time and again by a crew of two and was reported and debated by the right wingers. The old media had limited to no mention of it, yet before anyone (relying on the old media for information) knew, the House voted overwhelmingly to strip that fraudster group from getting federal funds.

All these instances took place in a matter of weeks. It proves clearly that the old media no more controls the minds of the American people, or the discourse of this nation. Better yet, it is “the right” that creates news these days and the old media need to follow inline, sooner rather than later.