:: Use It or Lose It: We Can’t Wait – By: Larry Walker, Jr. – According to unelected hoodlums within the Obama Administration, from 2003 to 2006, Congress set aside $473 million in earmark transportation funds that have never been spent. “These idle earmarks have sat on the shelf as our infrastructure continued to age … Continue reading Obama’s Loot-and-Plunder Theory on Steroids
Break Out the Fairy Dust – “The largest single barrier to full employment of our manpower and resources and to a higher rate of economic growth is the unrealistically heavy drag of federal income taxes on private purchasing power, initiative and incentive.” ~ John F. Kennedy, Jan. 24, 1963, special message to Congress on tax … Continue reading U.S. Jobs Deficit Holds at 11,760,000 in July
Going Around in Circles ~ “If you’re lost in the woods and you feel like you’re walking in circles, you probably are.” ~ Discovery News – By: Larry Walker, Jr. – According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the U.S. economy needs to create a minimum of 127,000 each month in order to keep pace … Continue reading U.S. Jobs Deficit Grows by 47,000 in June
* Continued from Part 1 * School #2 – Higher Income Tax Rates Within the second school of thought, Barack H. Obama speaks as though something most of us believe in no longer exists, or is at threat of extinction. According to Obama, ‘the idea that if you work hard, you can do well enough … Continue reading Economic Dependence vs. Independence, Part 2
“Every time in this century we’ve lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.” ~ Jack Kemp * By: Larry Walker, Jr. * A total of 3,514,000 Nonfarm jobs had already been lost by the time President Bush handed the keys … Continue reading The Real Jobs Deficit | Moving in the wrong direction.
“53 Percent of All Young College Graduates in America are either Unemployed or Underemployed” ~ The Economic Collapse * By: Larry Walker, Jr. * It is a fact that the U.S. economy has lost a total of 4,884,000 Nonfarm jobs since the beginning of the Great Recession. But according to the National Bureau of Economic … Continue reading Obama Jobs Scorecard, Part 3 : The American Dream
According to Barack Obama, “We’ve created 4.3 million new jobs over the last 27 months, over 800,000 just this year alone. The private sector is doing fine.” But what he failed to mention is what any American paying attention already knows, that we lost 5.0 million jobs during the first 14 months of his 41-month … Continue reading Obama Jobs Scorecard, Part 1 : The Private Sector
* By: Larry Walker, Jr. * “The Private Sector is doing fine.” ~ Barack Obama * A couple days ago, Joe Weisenthal wrote an article, inappropriately entitled, “Here’s What’s Really Happened to the Private Sector Under Obama”, in which he sought to prove why Mr. Obama will be reelected. His premise, like Obama’s, is that … Continue reading The Private Sector is NOT Doing Fine | How’s the Federal Government Doing?
Repetitious Rhetoric vs. Genuine Policies * By: Larry Walker, Jr. * According to Barack Obama, “the President’s job is to make sure everyone has a fair shot.” But as I explained in Part I, the United States Constitution declares that a President’s real job is, “to the best of his/her Ability, to preserve, protect and … Continue reading Adventures in Politicking II : No Shot
* By: Larry Walker, Jr. * “Our economy’s now created more than 4 million private sector jobs over the past 2 years. And more than 600,000 in the past 3 months alone,” Mr. Obama boasted to a forum at the White House on women and the economy, on Friday (CBS News). And in related news, … Continue reading The Real Employment Situation – January 2009 through March 2012
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