Green Jobs? We Don’t Make No Stinkin’ Green Jobs.

Did anyone tell Jeanne “The Greene” Shaheen that all that Taxpayer investment in the Green Energy economy was not really about creating good, permanent, American jobs?  If I recall correctly she ran on that, has repeatedly suggested it, and in the wake of a domino effect of green energy loan failures, managed to avoid any … Read more

Obama to Blame if Social Security Checks Withheld

President Obama recently tried to scare seniors by claiming that he wasn’t sure social security checks could be sent to seniors unless Republicans raise the debt ceiling on his terms.  This, of course, is a lie.

On average every month the US Treasury collects about $186 billion.  
Social security payments are about $49.2 billion monthly.  Even adding Medicare and Medicaid costs ($50 billion), military salaries ($2.9 billion), interest on the national debt ($29 billion), Veterans affairs funding ($2.9 billion), and federal employee salaries and benefits ($14.2 billion), there is almost another $40 billion left for other programs. 
 

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