Biden Employs Indian Accent During NH Speech. h/t WZ
January 26, 2012
Another fine moment in Joe’s repertoire of gaggles and gaffes.
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January 24, 2012
Read it all, don’t skip over anything. Tickerguy says what we know is true.
…those who you vote for are incapable of telling you the truth.
via Tickerguy’s State Of The Union Address. Not that we need examples of fibbing, but this is over the top.
STFU (Anthony clearly defined the speech) or SOTU address? I think it’s more of a STFU kind of address. He doesn’t really want to talk about what he has done to this country. If he did, he would have to talk about some of these minor details.
The unemployment rate when Mr. Obama was elected was 6.8 percent; today it is 8.5 percent — at least that’s the official number. In reality, the Financial Times writes, “if the same number of people were seeking work today as in 2007, the jobless rate would be 11 percent.”
In addition, there are now fewer payroll jobs in America than there were in 2000 — 12 years ago — and now, 40 percent of those jobs are considered “low paying,” up 10 percent from when President Reagan took office. The number of self-employed has dropped 2 million to 14.5 million in just six years.
Regular gasoline per gallon cost $1.68 in January 2009. Today, it’s $3.39 — that’s a 102 percent increase in just three years. (By the way, if you’re keeping score at home, gas was $1.40 a gallon when George W. Bush took office in 2001, $1.68 when he left office — a 20 percent increase.)
Electricity bills have also skyrocketed, with households now paying a record $1,420 annually on average, up some $300.
Some 48 percent of all Americans — 146.4 million — are considered by the Census Bureau either as “low-income” or living in poverty, up 4 million from when Mr. Obama took office; 57 percent of all children in America now live in such homes.
Since December 2008, a month before Mr. Obama took office, food-stamp use has increased 46 percent. Total spending has more than doubled in just four years to a record high of $75 billion. In 2011, more than 46 million people — about one in seven Americans — got food stamps. That’s 14 million more than when Mr. Obama took office.
Median household income has dropped nearly 7 percent in the last six years, taking inflation into account. What’s more, nearly 20 percent of males age 25 to 34 now live with their parents.
Low- and middle-income Americans 65 and older now hold more than $10,000 in credit card debt, up 26 percent since 2005. The average age of the American car is 10 years; in 1990, it was 6.5 years old (by the way, in 1985, Americans bought 11 million cars; in 2009, less than half that, 5.4 million).
On the macro side, America’s annual budget has jumped to $3.8 trillion — and yet the United States brings in only about $2.1 trillion in revenue. The U.S. trade deficit for 2011 was $558 billion. America’s total public debt stands at $15.23 trillion; in January 2009, the debt was $10.62 trillion. Mr. Obama is on pace to borrow $6.2 trillion in just one term — more debt than was amassed by all presidents from Washington through Bill Clinton combined. The debt is rising by $4.2 billion every day — $175 million per hour, nearly $3 million per minute.
Perhaps Barack should take a lesson and learn from a predecessor? Here’s to sloshing it up. h/t Brenda
Rehash…
January 22, 2012
Outstanding just doesn’t cut it. A must see. I printed in color and posted it on my fridge.
Just a teaser…
Of course it’s The Sybil’s work. Heads up: don’t read it while munching or drinking.
January 21, 2012
January 18, 2012
Ya’ Think It Could Be Them Working On This Side?
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Expert Says Beheadings in U.S. Look Like Work of Cartels .
Three beheadings in two different states and they happened here in the United States, not Mexico.
Former DEA supervisor Phil Jordan says all three beheadings have cartel written all over them. They happened in Arizona and Oklahoma in the past year.
A murder mystery is now unraveling on a stretch of North Reservation Road in Tucson, Ariz. County workers found a headless man lying on the side of the road Jan. 6. The man’s hands and feet were reportedly missing, too.
“It would lead me to believe the message wanted to be sent. This is one of the ways they do it in Mexico, Colombia and other places,” says Jordan.
Jordan says the cartels are getting bolder in carrying out their beheadings across the border. He says we only used to see these crimes in Mexico.
“They don’t have any borders,” says Jordan.
Profound. No, they don’t have any borders. They don’t want any borders either. Security be damned.
More than 600 miles from the border, a 19-year-old human trafficking victim was found beheaded in Oklahoma. Carina Saunders was stuffed into a bag and left in a grocery store parking lot.
“People know if they get on the wrong side of the fence, they’ll be dealt with,” says Jordan.
I remember the eighties when Colombian neckties were first noticed. Anyone paying attention? Carina Saunders certainly knew this was a whole different kind of Hell.
January 18, 2012
Treasury dips into pension funds to avoid debt.
The Treasury on Tuesday started dipping into federal pension funds in order to give the Obama administration more credit to pay government bills.
“I will be unable to invest fully” the federal employees retirement system fund beginning Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in a letter to Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress.
Yeah, the money that was to be for later is now being taken. Who gave the okay? Why, none other than POTUS directing TurboTax Timmy. They know better because you and I are DUMB. This guy also thinks he can get away with a whopper.
