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…then why is the percentage of Americans living in “extreme poverty” at an all-time high?
Nothing says economic recovery like rising poverty. Not just poverty but extreme poverty. What, you hadn’t heard about that?
Then maybe you hadn’t heard this either. Joblessness begets dependence, begets poverty, begets slaves to the will of the government. Big brother doesn’t have to spy on you, he’s controlling your income. If that isn’t a clear enough map how about this one.
The federal government is spending over a trillion dollars into debt every year—a trillion dollar deficit every year!—and Sen. Ayotte wants more federal money spent on a “job corps center” in Manchester…just without the unions getting their place at the trough. She misses the point: The “job corps center” shouldn’t be built at all. We … Read more
You want to register? No ID needed. Even if you use the names of star quarterbacks! Lovely! “We are not the police“…… Who else is getting disenfranchised today? After what happened here in NH, why hasn’t the MSM been digging into this with all of their armies of investigative reporters, fact checkers, editors, and political … Read more
Forbes.com’s Kurt Badenhausen detailed America’s Most Miserable Cities, 2012 last week. In formulating his thesis, Badenhausen writes,
We looked at the 200 largest metropolitan statistical areas and divisions in the U.S. to determine America’s Most Miserable Cities. The minimum population to be eligible was 256,000. We ranked each area on 10 factors, including average unemployment rate between 2009 and 2011; median commute times to work for 2010 based on U.S. Census data; violent crimes per capita from the FBI’s 2010 Uniform Crime Report; and how pro sports teams fared in the area over the past three completed seasons.
…then why has the number of Americans on food stamps increased by 3 million since this time last year and by more than 14 million since Barack Obama entered the White House?
There’s something to put on your resume.
“When I was President (pause) we created or saved (pause) a kajillion billion jobs (pause) but somehow (pause) put 14 million people on food stamps in the process.” (applause from adoring media, I mean Democrats–eh, same thing.)
How does that work?
OK, this video is politically incorrect and NRSFW (Not Really Safe For Work). Done by a rapper “Chapter”, I just thought it fit in well with my post on NH HB1658 (“limiting financial assistance for mothers who have additional children while receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF).”). Do I consider it a parody or satire of the subject?
No. Again, at the risk of continuously sounding like a broken record (yeah, old school here), I heard it personally: have a baby, get a check. and if you notice in the video, the rather stark absence of men – mothers and their children, but where are the baby daddies (as to, you know, real husbands and fathers):
“We earnestly hope that you will put women’s health before partisan politics and reconsider this decision for the sake of the women who depend on both your organizations for access to the health care they need.”
One of the saddest (or is that sadistic?) things I have watched this week has been the pilloring of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure – private charity that specializes in fighting breast cancer. Simply by stating that they were going to withdraw their $600,000 or so donation that they have given to the abortion mill Planned Parenthood, all heck has broken loose on the Left – how DARE a private charity stop funding one of Holy Chalices of Secular Progressivism? As this snippet from Hot Air points out, it isn’t about the good they have done over the years (about $2 billion in charitable giving) but who it was that was no longer going to get their donation:
I could not believe my ears and eyes when I watched this video of her giving advice to the Egyptians as their “Arab Spring” moment moves onward and they begin the process of creating a their new Mubarek-less State (will that be a great tradeoff for the US with the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists controlling 75% of the new Parliament? Does anyone disagree that the operative phrase is going to be “Shar’iah Law”?). Given Bader Ginsburg’s status as one of THE defenders of the US Constitution, I could only shake my head. I expected more – much more. Sure, if one is a law lecturer, a legal scholar (which the Justices are, no doubt), I would not have been as surprised (slightly annoyed, but not surprised). But not only did I (and I would posit most Americans as well), expect her to be that scholar and more, and one that would have been championing the checks and balances, the simplicity of our Constitution.
From MEMRI, the short form:
Here is a longer version that was posted by the US Embassy in Cairo of the interview:
…then why is the average duration of unemployment in this country close to an all-time record high?
With six million less jobs, thanks to Obama’s so-called recovery policies, should we be surprised that the average duration of unemployment is at or near a record high? If you pollute the employment market, making it inhospitable to job creation–lets call it Obamagenic Employment Cooling–you have fertilized the field for long term despair.
(Full size Graph on the jump.)
What a sad bunch of foolish, prejudiced people are running the Concord Monitor these days. They seem to bend over ever more readily to lick the shoes of their friends in the New Hampshire Democrat Party. Here’s the latest prevarication from the Monitor, which every day looks more and more like nothing more than a … Read more
Yeah, pretty much as expected: when voting on an amendment that would have banned earmarks (and hopefully, the corruption and self-serving pandering that often comes from it), we had a disparity in voting from our two US Senators. As far as I am concerned, earmarks are nothing but giveaways to the politically connected. Beseech a … Read more
“In the grey line, Nomura economists have adjusted the unemployment rate for the number of discouraged workers who have left the labor force and therefore count as unemployed in this alternative measure. (And yes, they do take into account demographic trends by age group that would influence those leaving, the largest of which is retiring … Read more
(H/T: ohgizmo)
Dr. Leo Sandy (aka “the nutty professor”), I guess, had a problem with my rebuttal in the Laconia Daily Sun and decided to try to lambast me (his full Letter after the jump):
U.S. Public Law 107-243 is as invalid as the Jim Crow laws of the south used to be because both are based on false premises. History is full of bad laws that were changed only after being broken. I’m sure the Saudis who attacked the World Trade Center had their own versions of these laws as well, and their cause was equally unjustified.
Mr. Murphy is engaging in concrete, black/white, either/or, dualistic thinking that is one of the greatest obstacle to world peace. Absolute sovereignty and total world government are both abhorrent structures as far as I’m concerned.
He seems to have a problem when things are the way he wishes (really, a Congressional Law is “Jim Crow”….so of course, I answered!
(H/T: Powerline)
In my opinion, public education has gone down a path of disaster in many ways – too many teaching methodologies that are not much more than somebody’s fad idea instead of being verifiably certified effective, teachers who believe their mission is to indoctrinate students with “a worldview” instead of teaching subject basics well, and unions that want you to simply believe that higher salaries and perks are an instant panacea to what they’ve been doing the last 30 years.
So, DO watch this of a high school student asking other students some simple, basic American Civics and geography questions. Watch the utter cluelessness (with the exception of one young lady) and the blank stares of these high schoolers when the mic is offered in their general direction.
(H/T: The Blaze)
Well prepared and taught by their teachers, eh? The problem for parents and taxpayers is…
…then why are there 6 million less jobs in America today than there were before the recession started?
This is a serious problem. The people inside the blue bubbles and left wing ghettos can shout whatever number they want, but people are still out of work and underemployed. Their quality of life, and standard of living are in shambles. People who did not lose their jobs are trying to make stagnant or declining wages go further as inflation rises. Claiming the unemployment rate has dropped makes for a great sound bite, but it doesn’t pay the bills, and neither do government hand outs.
GOP Rep. John Hikel has sponsored a bill that will allow bottled spirits of all types to be sold in markets, grocery stores, convenience stores, and other outlets. This change in the law will obviously benefit the free market and consumers in New Hampshire, but it will also result in the creation of lots of jobs, and lots more work for truckers, delivery people, stockers, etc. A Commerce Committee hearing will be held this coming Tuesday, February 7th, at 2:15 p.m. in Room 302 of the Legislative Office Building in Concord. You should be there and testify in FAVOR of the bill.
But wait! There’s a problem! To understand it, consider the famous picture above. You thought it was a raucous party of drunks in Concord, right? What might result if we allow expanded consumer choice and convenience in New Hampshire, and pass Rep. Hikel’s bill? No, you idiot. Read on to find out what the real problem will be….
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NEW HAMPSHIRE PLANNED PARENTHOOD HEALTH CENTERS DO NOT PROVIDE MAMMOGRAMS February, 2, 2012 – In the face of massive defunding and decreasing public opinion, Planned Parenthood and their allies have spent the past two weeks attacking the New Hampshire state legislature and the Susan G. Komen Foundation. They have falsely claimed that … Read more
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That 9:30 press conference, the one at which Zandra Rice Crispy Treats Hawkins (ZRCTH) was supposed to unleash the fury of over 100,000 signed petitions, started a little late. Something to do with the lack of actual press. As of 10:00 Zandra was still there, as the typical day’s traffic wandered in and out of the Legislative office Building, paying little or no attention to the tiny knot of people behind the podium.