3 September 2010 - Granite Grok

September 3, 2010

Obama’s “Real” Katrina

For the record, unemployment is being reported at 9.6%;they are saying that 54,000 fewer people are working than in July. But that’s not quite as interesting as this tidbit. Roughly 352,000 people (according to BLS) have stopped looking for work altogether since August of 2009. That’s the same as if Obama had put the entire city of New Orleans not just out of work, but out of the urge to even look for work–for at lest twelve months. Talk about Obama’s Katrina.  Where’s the media outrage?

The Bill Binnie of NH CD-1?

Sean Mahoney is so politically popular that he has apparently had to loan himself some more money.  The Bill Binnie of NH-01 will have given his own campaign close to one million dollars.  Will that push him over the 90% self funded mark?  He was at 86% last time I did the math.  We’ll have …

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Well Isn’t This ‘Rich’

As a follow up to this after doing some more digging here, I think that Cd-1 candidate Richard Ashooh must have taken out another mortgage on his home.  Interest rates are at historical lows!  I suspect this must be the case because he is reporting a loan to his campaign of $25,000.00 (here) but according …

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The Ruling Class Starts Beating the Drums…

We’re all going to hear a lot about this in the months ahead…. With government spending in Gusher Mode and with the U.S. teetering on the edge of a historic fiscal implosion leading to a full-blown depression (if we’re not there already), you KNOW the political/government/ruling class is searching desperately for ways to extract MORE …

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