1 November 2012 - Granite Grok

November 1, 2012

Data Points – various sundry stats

Welfare (via Heritage): Over half of the US thinks we spend too much for welfare Over half thinks Govt spends too much on poverty programs Only 22% believe that poverty programs reduce poverty 84% believe work should be mandatory to receive welfare Jobs according to ADP: Revised last month’s job advance – from 162, 000 …

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Will the Obama (er, Government Motor’s) Car go down in history as the ObamaYugo?

Hey, it IS election time, and I just wanted to shine a flashlight on one of Obama’s sterling success stories!  Yessir, the car that, Obama said, Detroit didn’t want to make (so he bought the UAW and GM (selling Chrysler to Fiat for a $buck along the way)) just to make sure that the car …

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Benghazi – All about “the video”? Or is this all about covering up Obama’s “Mission Accomplished” moment?

…which ended up not supporting 4 Americans that ended up being murdered? And not only by our government, but by the so called Press that are supposed to, in their own words, “afflict the comfortable”?  The info-nuggets are starting to spill out – it wasn’t about the video.  The Big Problem, is the absolute craven …

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IF You Can’t Take The Heat – Surround Yourself With More Bureaucrats

The Obama Czars exist to do Obama’s job. They are also there to deflect blame into the warren of unaccountable bureaucrats that have exploded around the Czars and cabinet agencies.  Bureaucrats are as nameless and faceless as the people whose lives they try to direct without fear of reprisal.  Bureaucrats don’t stand for re-election, nor …

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Porter Stansberry Makes Businesses An Offer They Can’t Refuse

Guess who your “partner” really is as this video unfolds… Meanwhile, the WSJ explains our “Chronic Fatigue Economy” – can you say “Going Galt”? An even bigger worry is that private investment tanked in the quarter….[which] signals a capital strike and a return to pessimism. Business investment is a leading indicator of future job and …

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Notice us up there, in the upper right corner?

Below is a map showing the “business tax climate” in all 50 states. The worst such states are in dark blue. The best states are shown in white. Notice that there’s not one “small business friendly” state in the entire northeast? Other than New Hampshire, that is! And notice that four of the worst 10 states for small business are …

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A Scary Pre-Election Government Run Health Care Update

I’m not sure I need to remind anyone of this but if we don’t let Republicans run state Government, and don’t elect Republicans to Washington, no one steps up to stop Obama Care.  The Federal health care-control apparatus, already a leviathan at the doorway, comes crashing in to our lives, never likely to leave.  There …

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Obama’s “Brown Shirts”

“I think when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody.”—Barack Hussein Obama This is beginning to be scary stuff. The President of the nation has us all on a socialist track; He is driving the country into chaos and disorder; too many people do not have jobs;  He is increasing the grasp of …

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