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Obama’s housing market lies, chart edition
Here is your chart for the day:
Burn this chart into your brain. Revert back to it whenever you hear the line of BS coming from the Obama administration, Democrats in general, and their propaganda stooges in the media, about how they and their policies “averted disaster” during the mortgage crisis, and how they saved our lives.
[Hat Tip: Zero Hedge]
“Kinetic Military Action”
That’s the Obama administration’s new moniker for starting a war with Libya and hoping nobody notices:
In a briefing on board Air Force One Wednesday, deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes took a crack at an answer. “I think what we are doing is enforcing a resolution that has a very clear set of goals, which is protecting the Libyan people, averting a humanitarian crisis, and setting up a no-fly zone,” Rhodes said. “Obviously that involves kinetic military action, particularly on the front end.”
Rhodes’ words echoed a description by national security adviser Tom Donilon in a briefing with reporters two weeks ago as the administration contemplated action in Libya. “Military steps — and they can be kinetic and non-kinetic, obviously the full range — are not the only method by which we and the international community are pressuring Gadhafi,” Donilon said.
The Bush administration tried a similar tactic in 2005, with the War on Terror, but was quickly dropped.
Both instances are equally dumb in their own way, and insulting too. The implication being that the American people won’t consider American jets bombing Libya as what it is–a military action, a war, if we just call it something else. Will the left step up and renounce this hypocrisy by their beloved Obama administration?
Average American workers still getting the shaft in the Obama era
It wasn’t supposed to be this way:
A study done for the Wall Street Journal, found that incentive pay for the chief executive officers of 50 major corporations jumped 30% in 2010. That’s on top of their base pay. And it also doesn’t include a whole bunch of other things, like generous retirement packages, gold-plated healthcare plans and use of the corporate jets. Remember how the financial crisis was supposed to wipe away the bonus culture of pay for short-term performance in corporate America. Yes. Well, not so much.
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Of course, the news of higher pay for top executives comes at a time when pay for the rest of us seems to be stagnating. Yesterday, the government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that average hourly compensation for American workers fell 0.5% in February. The average worker now makes $40,672 a year. What we all make is up from a year ago, but by just 2%. Factor in inflation, and the average worker makes just $0.58 more a week, than they did a year ago.
Aren’t Democrats supposed to have the solution to the income gap in America? Weren’t the President’s policies going to put an end to this disparity?
Democrats have been in control of our government for the better part of four years and the problem is as bad as ever. A message to Democrat voters: President Obama will not solve this problem, nor will Democrats. The only solutions they have involve taking more and more of your money, and I seriously doubt that will alleviate the problem.
Obama administration inchoerent again
From the Energy Department, there’s nothing to fear about radiation wafting in from Japan:
“I think there’s essentially no concern in terms of the health effects on American shores,” Secretary of Energy Steven Chu told reporters after testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on his department’s budget.
At the White House, spokesman Jay Carney made the same point, repeating a statement made earlier by a top Nuclear Regulatory Commission official.
“You aren’t going to have any radiological material that, by the time that it traveled those large distances, could present any risk to the American public,” said Mr. Carney.
We are not going to have radiological material that could present any risk to Americans.
Meanwhile, the US Surgeon General tells Californians to buy up them iodide pills as a “precaution”. Precaution for what?
Good grief people, let’s pretend for a little while that you’re not a group of incompetent boobs–can you at least trade notes in the morning?
[Hat Tip: Allahpundit]
Chucky Schumer to Speaker Boehner: Hey, Americans voted for change, so ignore those Tea Baggers
It’s almost as if Democrats weren’t in power for four years:
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday advised House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to ignore conservative members of his conference in order to hammer out a long-term spending proposal with Democrats.
The third-ranking Senate Democrat said a growing number of Tea Party-backed Republicans are putting too much pressure on the top Republican to push for deep spending cuts that cannot clear the Democratic-controlled upper chamber, increasing the likelihood of a government shutdown.
“It is becoming clear that the path to a bipartisan budget deal may not go through the Tea Party at all,” he said. “In order to avert a shutdown, Speaker Boehner should consider leaving the Tea Party behind and instead seek a consensus in the House among moderate Republicans and a group of Democrats.”
Stories like this is what make most Americans despondent over elected officials who apparently are content to sit around, bitch and do nothing about our problems.
The only reason why the Congress is even debating a continuing resolution in March of 2011 in the first place, is because when they had control of both chambers last year, Pelosi and Reid and all the rest decided to shirk their duties as elected representatives and run for political cover from a coming election and sit around not passing a budget. Kicking the can down the road, giving the next Congress the problems. Cowardly buffoons are what they are.
What a Milwaukee teacher earns vs everyone else
With benefits, they make approximately $100,000 and the average teachers’ salary is $56,000. Per capita income in Milwaukee barely breaks $20,000:
The superintendent who’s been in the school district for nearly forty years remarks at around the 1:26 mark:
“This is the worst financial condition that I’ve seen in the district…the costs are way outpacing the amount of money that we have…”
If you see nothing wrong with what’s in that video, then you’re part of the problem.
My sentiments exactly
On MSNBC last night, Michael Moore, the corpulent millionaire filmmaker, speaking on behalf of “workers”, declares “war”. On what or whom, is not clear. But why does MSNBC continue to condone such violent, angry rhetoric?
The appropriate response to Mr. Moore’s asshattery is made:
You want war? Bring it, Lardbutt. You are the biggest talking, good for nothing little piece of Communist filth this country has produced in decades. You suck up to backward brutes and thugs like Castro while you castigate the American engines of the world’s economy. You trash this country and our people and belittle our values every chance you get, you cynical black hole of a human being. The worst words I can think of are too good to use to describe you. You are a buffoon, a hypocrite, and really of no use to civilization whatsoever.
[Hat Tip: Instapundit]
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