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This 34 second web ad on You Tube lays out how worse off Americans are today on the issue of jobs, income, gas prices, and more compared to the Bush Era. Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y6uslrvlZYg

Obama and the Democrats told us that HCR (Health Care Reform) has a net savings of over $100 billion when in fact the added cost for the first twelve years is more than $1.7 trillion and the net cost is $900 billion in the same period. The only reason why HCR ‘saves’ some money is because it raises taxes and cuts Medicare by over $400 billion each over the first ten years, yet Obama and Dems claim with Chutzpa that Republicans, who all opposed Obamacare, are the ones cutting Medicare! Within months of signing HCR, the Dem Congress voted and...

> Hourly earnings in 2007 went up by 3.3% and increased by another 3.5% in 2008. However, in the last twelve months it increased by only 1.9%. In fact, the strongest twelve months period for hourly earnings under Obama was a gain of 2.2%; which is weaker than in any time of Bush’s last two years in office. > After adjusting for inflation (BLS.gov uses 1982-1984 dollars for this), average hourly earnings in Bush’s last full twelve months in office went from $10.05 to $10.41. In the just concluded twelve months, it dropped from $10.27 to $10.20. > In actual...

President Obama tonight sharply criticized the field of Republican presidential candidates for remaining silent after the booing of a gay soldier by members of the audience at the most recent GOP presidential debate.

The NY Post wrote last Wednesday that no one told its reporter “she had to move to the back” nor did the driver in the NY World reporter incident take a stand one way or another. Additionally, the NYT in its own report writes that “no male passengers sitting at the front of the bus explicitly told a female reporter to move, but several riders said women did not belong there.” All three instances show that this policy is NOT forced on by the company nor is it forced by those riding. Instead, it is a self imposed and self...

Mitt Romney said at the debate last week Thursday that the Texas in-state tuition rates made available for children of illegals who want a higher education, encourages illegal immigration. Chris Christie said Tuesday Evening at the Reagan Library that he supports giving an education for children of illegals but in the samesentence he took a swipe at Texas Governor Rick Perry for proving education for children of illegals at reduced rates. The website of the University of Texas states clearly that to “be classified as a Texas residents and entitled to pay resident tuition,” meaning, the same rate that any...

A creek running toward the Hudson River became a river of destruction, sweeping away several businesses and hundreds of badly needed jobs in Orange County, CBS 2′s Lou Young reports. The flood waters rushed into a creek-side complex of businesses in Cornwall, New York reducing it to rubble. “All the businesses that were down here have been wiped out,” said Bill Diamond. On one end of the scale is a candle-maker who picked through the mud for remnants of his livelihood. At the other end, a processed food wrapping firm that still has Welch’s fruit rolls that were on the...

The USA lost 178 troops in Afghanistan in the almost four months since the capture of OBL. This is more than the 170 US troops that were killed in Iraq during the last nine months of the Bush Presidency. (This includes the full month January 2009. Obama was inaugurated on the 20’th of that month). US Afghan losses in the last four months (178) are five times larger than the Iraq losses (35) of the last four months Bush was in office. Additionally, the last four month period in Afghanistan is the second worst four-month period for US troops there...

Democrats claim that the $17.1 billion in Stimulus Funds that Texas received is largely the reason why that state created forty percent of net jobs gained in the USA the last two years. Well, if this critic is true, then the full Stimulus should have been only $42.75 billion. Right? $17.1 billion gives us 40% jobs; another $17.1 billion would give us another forty percent, and then half of another $17.1 would give us another twenty percent, and we would be where we are now with $42.75 billion instead of a $787 billion bill. No? While I am at it,...

On Thursday September 12 2008, just days before the September 15, 2008 Lehman collapse, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 11,421. More than two weeks later on September 30, the Dow closed at 10,850; a drop of only 571 points. But we all know that the 571 point drop was only the beginning! Did we have some hefty down days in the two weeks following the Lehman collapse? Indeed, but half the trading days in the two weeks after Lehman, the Dow ended up by an average of 287 points per up day. Here is the breakdown: Up 142...

Sometimes you have to take out your political lenses and look at the actual statistics to get a true picture of the health of the American economy. Right now, those statistics are saying a... full-fledged, V-shaped, recovery boom between now and year-end. Conservatives shouldn’t trash it. I’m aiming this thought especially at many of my conservative friends who seem to be trashing the improving economic outlook — largely, it would appear, to discredit the Obama administration. Don’t do it folks. It’s a mistake. The numbers are the numbers

New economic stats today on retail sales from both China and the U.S. show there’s no double-dip recession out there — no matter what the bears-gone-viral may be telling you. No Armageddon. And no stock market crash either

Sales of business jets worldwide were down 22% in the first quarter of 2011 compared to the same period a year earlier, according to date provided by General Aviation Manufacturers Association, an industry trade group. Sales of business jets by American manufacturers in the first quarter of 2011 totaled 75, similar to the 74 in Q1 of 2010. These numbers are lower by a staggering 39% from the 124 business jets shipped in the first quarter of 2009. For all of 2010, only 364 business jets were shipped by American manufacturers, down 29% from 2009 – the year the Stimulus...

Funny how the world works: The NYT broke the story June 30 that the DSK case is falling apart and suddenly major media, press and tabloids are filled with “scoops” and “inside information” as to why this case stinks and how rotten the accusing Maid is. These reports are available, at CNBC, AP, Reuters, New York Post, the New York Daily News, and I only named a half a dozen. My question is: Where was all this digging back in mid-May when the story first broke? Where were all these inside info of the incompetence of the Manhattan DA that...

Newsweek has former President Bill Clinton on its cover with Fourteen Ways how to Save Jobs. I didn’t read it yet, but are they referring to the following fourteen ways? 1) Declare your candidacy for the White House only after the economy is out of recession. 2) Win your election at a time when the economy is gaining monthly approximately 100,000 jobs and when the Unemployment Rate is already decreasing. 3) Walk into the Oval Office when the economy is gaining 200,000 jobs monthly and increasing before you put one of your finger prints on the economy. 4) Raise tax...

In only four of the 38 elections since 1860 did the incumbent party lose the White House after holding it for only one term. Three of them took place in the 1888-1896 era when Republican Harrison won the WH against incumbent Democrat Cleveland in 1888; then Cleveland won it back in 1892, and then Republican McKinley won in 1896. The next time the White House flipped after a party held it for only one full term, was in 1980 when Republican Reagan defeated one-termer Democrat Carter. Despite the extremely bad economy and hostage situation of 1980, Reagan won less than...

In its editorial this week, Dee Tzeitung Editor – between others – asks something along this line: ‘Who is the real Taliban: us Orthodox Jews/Hasidim who don’t dictate how other people should lead their lives, or is it those who jump up and down to dictate how Hasidim should or should not lead their lives?’ Indeed, he makes a good point. And again, from the strom regarding the photo, few would know that the Editor’s wife is the one that mostly runs the paper, and that the Editor was all for Hill in 2008 vs. Obama…

If as many reports suggested that Di Tzeitung removed the two women (including Hillary) from the photo because the paper “has an issue” with women in power, can we ask if Obama has an issue with women and minorities in positions of power? After all, few of them made it to the photo in the first place… Of the fifteen-sixteen people in the photo, only two are women; one (the President) is half Black, and I did not see a Hispanic there either.

Following the news of killing Osama Bin Laden, the approval rating of President Obama increased eleven points in the New York Times Poll. It went from 46% in mid-April to 57% post OBL. I am sure that the Leftists hosts on MSNBC who say that people in the South and Republicans in general hate President Obama because of race, missed this one: Obama’s strongest bounce is from Republicans and from Southerners! Support for Obama between Dems is up seven points to 86%; Support between Independents is up eleven points to 52%; but support between Republicans jumped fifteen points: From nine...

There was more bad news than met the eye to Friday’s jobs report, even beyond the bump up in the unemployment rate. While the top-line number of 244,000 jobs created sounded great when it came off the tape, the internals were somewhat weaker. In particular, the household survey, which is an actual head count, suggested that the job creation barely kept up with the expansion of the labor force.