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Obama’s Job Killing Policies by the Numbers

January 20, 2013 By 4 Comments

 

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89,000:

 The Number Of Stimulus Checks Sent To Dead Or Incarcerated People. (The Wall Street Journal, 10/7/10)

72,000:

 Projected Shrinkage In Army Soldiers Due To Obama’s Budget. (McClatchy, 2/13/12)

67,000:

 Number Of Homeless Veterans. (Reuters, 7/26/12)

62,900:

 Shortage Of Doctors By 2015 Due To ObamaCare. (The New York Times, 7/28/12)

$53,224:

 Your Share Of The National Debt. (U.S. Treasury Department Accessed 1/17/13; U.S. Census Bureau, Accessed 1/17/13)

45,696:

 Pages Of New Rules Added To The Federal Register During Obama’s First Two Years In Office. (Competitive Enterprise Institute, 2011)

23,000:

 The Number Of Jobs Obama Knew His Drilling Moratorium Would Kill. ( The Wall Street Journal ,8/21/10)

20,000:

 Projected Shrinkage Of Marine Force Due To Obama’s Budget. (McClatchy, 2/13/12)

$18,804:

 Increase In Your Share Of The National Debt Since Obama Took Office. (U.S. Treasury Department Accessed 1/17/13; U.S. Census Bureau, Accessed 1/17/13)

$15,745:

 Average Cost Of Family Health Care Premiums, A $3,065 Increase Since Obama Took Office. (The Kaiser Family Foundation, 2012)

$15,500:

 Annual Cost Per Household From Federal Regulations. (Small Business Administration, September 2010)

$10,585:

 Cost Per Employee That Federal Regulations Place On Small Businesses. (Small Business Administration, September 2010)

$6,200:

 Projected Shrinkage In Navy Personnel Due To Obama’s Budget. (McClatchy, 2/13/12)

$4,520:

 Decline In Real Median Household Income Since Obama Took Office. (“Household Income Trends, August 2012,”Sentier Research , 9/25/12)

$4,200:

 Projected Shrinkage In Air Force Personnel Due To Obama’s Budget. (McClatchy, 2/13/12)

$4,153:

 Wind Turbines Awarded Stimulus Grants That Were Manufactured By Foreign Companies.(Analysis Of 1603 Award Information From TheU.S. Department Of Treasury; And Wind Market Reports By The American Wind Energy Association, Accessed 11/3/12)

$3,700:

 Number Of Tax Delinquents Who Received Stimulus Funds. (Government Accountability Office, April 2011)

2060:

 Year Federal Spending Will Reach 50 Percent Of GDP. (CBO, 6/22/11)

2037:

 Year That Federal Debt Will Reach 200 Percent Of GDP. (CBO, 6/22/11)

2036:

 Year That The Social Security Trust Fund Will Be Exhausted. (The Trustees Of Social Security & Medicare, 4/23/12)

2024:

 Year That Medicare’s Trust Fund Will Be Exhausted. (The Trustees Of Social Security & Medicare, 4/23/12)

1,722:

 Number Of Waivers Granted To Unions And Businesses So That ObamaCare Would Not Outlaw Their Health Care Plans. (HHS.gov, Accessed 1/17/13)

1,603:

 Number Of Regulations That Would Impact Small Businesses Proposed By Obama Administration In First Two Years In Office.(Competitive Enterprise Institute, 2011)

1,360:

 Days Since Harry Reid’s Senate Has Passed A Budget Resolution. (S. Con. Res. 13, Roll Call 173; 4/29/09)

$859.40:

 The Current Monthly Price Of A Moderate-Cost Food Plan For A Family Of Four With Young Children, Up From $819.40 Since Obama Became President. (USDA , 2/09; USDA, 11/12)

758:

 Number Of Bundlers Who Have Brought In At Least $180.1 Million Of Obama’s Total Haul.(Center For Responsive Politics, Accessed 1/17/13)

408:

 Number Of Regulations Proposed By Obama During First Two Years That Have An Economic Impact Of Over $100 Million. (Competitive Enterprise Institute, 2011)

75%:

 Increase In The Average Price Per Gallon Of Gas Since Obama Took Office. (U.S. Energy And Information Administration, Accessed 1/17/13)

80%:

 Small Businesses That Could Be Forced To Change Health Care Plans As A Result Of ObamaCare. (NFIB, 7/11)

73.5%:

 Federal Debt Held By The Public As Share Of GDP By End Of FY2012. (OMB, 7/27/12)

61%:

 The Amount By Which New Offshore Leases For Oil And Natural Gas Drilling Has Declined Under Obama. (FactCheck.org, 10/19/12)

54.3%:

 The Share Of Young Adults 18-24 Currently Employed, The “Lowest Since The Government Began Collecting These Data In 1948.” (Pew Research Center, 2/9/12)

49.1%:

 “Percent Of The Population That Lives In A Household Where At Least One Member Received Some Type Of Government Benefit In The First Quarter Of 2011.” (The Wall Street Journal, 5/26/12)

38.1:

 Average Number Of Weeks That It Takes To Find A Job. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 1/17/13)

27.6%:

 Unemployed Workers Out Of Work For Over A Year. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 1/17/13)

27%:

 Student Loan Borrowers That Have Past Due Balances. (Federal Reserve Bank Of New York, 3/5/12)

25%:

 Increase In The Average Cost Of In-State Tuition At A Four Year College Since President Obama Took Office. (College Board, 2011)

24.2%:

 Increase In The Average Cost Of Family Health Care Premiums Under Obama. (The Kaiser Family Foundation, 2012)

17%:

 Cut To Medicare Benefits When Trust Fund Is Exhausted. (House Ways & Means Committee Hearing, 6/22/11)

14.4%:

 Real (U-6) Unemployment Rate. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 1/17/13)

14%:

 African American Unemployment Rate. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 1/17/13)

14%:

 Seniors That Believe They Can Retire Comfortably. (Reuters, 5/15/12)

7.8%:

 Unemployment Rate, Same As When Obama Took Office. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 1/17/13)

4:

 Record Number Of Years Of +$1 Trillion Deficits On Obama’s Watch. (The Hill, 9/10/12)

0:

 Number Of Democrats In The House And Senate, Including Obama, Who Voted To Increase The Debt Ceiling In 2005-2006, When The Debt Was Half What It Is Now. (H. Con. Res. 95; Roll Call Vote 88; Passed 218-214; R 218-12; D 0-201; I 0-1, 3/17/05; H.J. Res 47: Adopted 52-48: R 52-3; D 0-44; I 0-1, 3/16/06, Obama Voted Nay)
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Don’t Be Fooled Again. This is Not Change You can believe in.

April 26, 2011 By 6 Comments

The  International Monetary Fund or the IMF said “The U.S. is set to have the largest budget deficit of major developed economies this year and should narrow it now rather than face tough adjustments in the next two years.”

The U.S. shortfall will reach 10.8 percent of its gross domestic product this year, ahead of Japan and the U.K., the Washington-based IMF said in a report released on April 8,2011. It estimates that President Barack Obama will need to cut the deficit by 5 percentage points of GDP in the next two fiscal years, the largest adjustment in “at least half a century,” to meet his pledge of cutting the deficit in half by the end of his four-year term, a promise no one believes he is capable of.

“Market concerns about sustainability remain subdued in the U.S., but a further delay of action could be fiscally costly, with deficit increases exacerbated by rising yields,” the IMF wrote in its Fiscal Monitor report, published several times a year to analyze public finance development.

The IMF recommended “a down payment” in the form of deficit reduction this year that would make the government goal “compatible with a less abrupt withdrawal of stimulus later.” Given the budget battle over a paltry $38.5 billion where the Democrats threatened to shut down the government. It seems this Congress is not serious about doing the hard things to tackle this budget deficit.

Obama was expected to announce long-term proposals for cutting the federal deficit on April 13th, following a budget deal he reached with congressional leaders last week that averted a government shutdown. In May, the government may be forced to increase the $14.3 trillion federal debt ceiling to ensure the U.S. will meet its financial obligations. There’s an oxymoron in there somewhere.

The IMF also called for U.S. commitment to a medium-term debt target “as an anchor for fiscal policy.” but it seems our Congress has adopted a wait and see attitude as they continued to fuss and fight amongst themselves during the budget battle of earlier this month, where little if anything was really accomplished. China is the biggest foreign holder of U.S. Treasuries with a portfolio of $1.15 trillion in January, according to U.S. government data. Japan is the second-largest with $885.9 billion. We have yet to realize what the Tsunami/earthquake effects on Japan will mean for us or the world for that matter when it comes to Japans GDP. It is very probable the U.S stock market will be greatly effected negatively when the GDP report is out in July of 2011.

‘Prudent’ Debt

A few days after Europe’s Greek-born debt crisis forced Portugal to seek financial aid from the European Union and the IMF, the fund said it is “essential” for all advanced economies to start bringing their debt to “prudent levels” in the medium term. However I didn’t see President Obama seek to reign in spending. Instead he talks of spending, as investment. I doubt any other countries are thinking in these terms when it comes to the U.S over spending.

It forecast that the average gross domestic debt ratio in advanced economies (aka the U.S) will breach the threshold of 100 percent of GDP for the first time since the years after World War II. Debt will peak at 107 percent of GDP in 2016, 34 percentage points above levels before the global financial crisis, the report said.

The IMF estimates that financing needs in the richest nations will continue to rise this year after surging in 2010, and will remain high in 2012.

Japan has the highest financing requirements for its deficit and its maturing debt this year, with the total amounting for 56 percent of its GDP. The U.S. is second, with needs at 29 percent of GDP, followed by Greece, Italy, Belgium, Portugal and France, which all have needs above 20 percent of their GDP, according to the IMF report. As my mother used to say “You are the company you keep”

 

Euro Members

In the European region, market conditions remain tense in several smaller countries, in part due to ongoing concerns about possible financial issues. As the region narrows its deficit, investors are “discriminating in favor of countries with credible policy frameworks,” according to the IMF.

In the U.S., the stronger economic outlook “has been reflected in higher real yields, leading towards more normal interest rate levels,” the report said. At the same time, the Federal Reserve’s latest bond purchase program is likely to have lowered them it said. In other words; When the U.S has higher real yields leading to normal interest rates the economic outlook is strong, but the Federal Reserve Bank bond purchase program lowers the U.S economies outlook. Still, the pace of fiscal tightening is short of what is needed and the U.S should refrain from increasing spending in the near term and rebuild fiscal space, said the IMF. Just one more reason why the S & P ‘s outlook for our economy is a lowered credit rating within the next two years. I fear if Obama is re-elected president these things will only get worse. I for one have no faith in his ability to effect change I can believe in. Obama will cut half the deficit in 1st Term

 

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Is it Planned Parenthood, Family Planning, or is it Racism?

March 24, 2011 By 12 Comments

There’s a dirty little secret the Dems in leadership don’t want you to know. Politicians who vote to fund Planned Parenthood are either racist, or have no knowledge of the truth of planned parenthood’s racist past. To add insult to injury they fund their agenda with taxpayer money. Folks I am not making this up. They do not hide their agenda.

Last year on January 25,2009;  Nancy Pelosi explained in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC This Week , why increased abortion funding is a necessary part of Obama’s economic stimulus package she further went on to say that it was the state’s fiscal responsibility. The then Speaker of the House went on to tell us she wants us to ” embark upon a population control program in the U.S to drive down the birth rate  because it costs the states money.”  After analysis of her voting record it’s easy to understand her desire to add hundreds of millions of dollars of so called “family planning” spending to the stimulus package.
Not long ago the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised Margaret Sanger, by saying “she is one of my heroes, I look up to her”. Mrs. Clinton was accepting the Margaret Sanger award named for the organization’s founder.

It is no secret Margaret Sanger was a noted eugenicist, she is the founder of Planned Parenthood. This namesake award was presented to Mrs. Clinton on March 27, 2009. One has to wonder was
Mrs. Clinton aware of Margaret Sangers racist past?

To further prove this is a liberal agenda shared by many in power listen to this – When interviewed by New York Times Magazine on July 12, 2009, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, said the following about the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion:  ”Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. ” Who was the Supreme Court Justice referring to when she said that? If a right leaning Justice had said this they would have been tar, and feathered and hung by their thumbs while ridiculed by every news outlet in the country. Yet not much was made about this comment.

Google the name Margaret Sanger you may find an altered biography extolling the virtues of a woman born on September 14, 1879 who was a nurse in the poor neighborhoods of New York City, and founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. in 1916. At the time it was illegal to publish and distribute information on contraception. That she was an advocate for birth control and women’s rights, that she founded the American Birth Control League in 1921 which later became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America now known as Planned Parenthood. The thing which offends me the most is that many are not willing to call a spade a spade. Planned Parenthood pretends to be about one thing when in fact it is entirely about something else. Planned Parenthood is not about a woman’s right to choose. It is not about legalizing an unsafe procedure, therefore making it safe for women. It is not about healthcare for the poor, and it certainly is NOT about family planning. What you never hear about is that Planned Parenthood has a long history of racism, and population control.  Planned Parenthood was founded by a woman who clearly said on many occasions she wanted to stop poor people from having babies. She was a self proclaimed progressive, who believed in eugenics, and population control.

Little known facts regarding Margaret Sanger the founder of Planned Parenthood:
On blacks, immigrants and the indigents:  Sanger wrote in her book Pivot of Civilization, when referring to immigrants and poor people she said “… they are human weeds,’ ‘reckless breeders,’ ‘spawning human beings who never should have been born.”
On the right of married couples to bear children:  Sanger said Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child, she wrote that in her “Plan for Peace.” (Eugenics -April of 1932) Birth Control Review.
On the purpose of birth control:  Margaret Sanger said “The purpose in promoting birth control was “to create a race of thoroughbreds,” she wrote in the Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921 (p. 2)

If I am wrong about politicians who vote to promote, fund, and support Planned Parenthood being racist then given these facts why would such prominent democrats like our previous Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Gingsberg, along with so many liberals continue to support Planned Parenthood, and sing Margaret Sanger’s praises? A better question would be why would Planned Parenthood an organization whose sole purpose is to effectually exterminate blacks, and the poor be so well funded by the government? Why does the NAACP, and the African American community support Planned Parenthood? I can only guess they are misinformed.  I personally believe it’s not the governments business to fund such projects but the facts speak for themselves. The purpose of this article is to spread these little known about facts.  I want the world to know I object to the use of public funds for Planned Parenthood primarily because it is an immoral, racist organization which should not only be defunded by our government but given the true purpose behind Planned Parenthood it should be shut down forever.

 

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