Category Archives: Economy

Team Obama Attempts To Deflect Jobs Report To Romney

Typically pathetic (Daily Caller) Gov. Mitt Romney quickly dismissed today’s effort by President Barack Obama’s campaign to downplay the bad news in the June jobs-report issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics at 8.30 a.m. Obama’s chief strategist, David Axelrod, tweeted out a diversion at 9:01 a.m. that showcased a June 2006 video of Massachusetts […]

10 Ways Obama Is Killing The American Economy

The websites of Alex Jones can often be a beehive of conspiracy theories, and were the favorites of liberals who bought into the whole 9/11 Truth derangement. However, mixed between the conspiracy stories, some of which are legitimate, there are some great stories. Like this one Have you ever heard the old saying “the beatings […]

Sidecar Highlights Just What Is Wrong With Big Government

Here’s an interesting one, via Grist In theory, Sidecar is about sharing. Here’s how it’s supposed to work: You’re headed downtown in your car, but before you leave you check your Sidecar app. A user a few blocks down is looking for a ride in the same direction. You swing by, pick her up, and […]

Obama: What We Need Is “Bottom-Up” Economics

Because, you know, it’s all those people with no freaking money who make the economy run, create jobs, and open businesses. After his Typical Whining about Republicans, mischaracterizing the proposals, we get (UPI) “I believe we should do everything we can to help our entrepreneurs succeed,” the president said. “I want our companies to be […]

ObamaEconomy: Underemployed And Underpaid

Even the NY Times is forced to admit what everyone else except President “The private sector is doing fine” knows: the economy under Obama’s stewardship stinks at all levels Throughout the Great Recession and the not-so-great recovery, the most commonly discussed measure of misery has been unemployment. But many middle-class and working-class people who are […]

Dana Milbank On Obama Speech: “Skip The Falsehoods, Mr. Obama”

So, Thursday, Obama gave his big “rebooting” speech, which amounted to a hodge podge of every other speech he’s given over the last 5 years, including his election 2008 speeches. He offered nothing new, including his whining. Politicker has a selection of media tweets, which includes MSNBC’s Mike O’Brien begging Obama to stop after 20 […]

Obama To Give Major Economic Campaign Speech, Which Contains Nothing New

It’s been a bad few weeks months years for Obama on the economy. Nothing seems to be working. And it seems that every week over the last few months has been labeled as a “really bad week” by, well, everyone, including the MSM and Democrat pundits. We were treated to O’s “the private sector is […]

Obamanomics: Most Now See China As World Economic Powerhouse

Before we get to the money quote, which happens to be the 2nd to last paragraph of this Politico story, we learn, via a Pew Global Attitudes Survey, that people around the world have cooled on Obama’s foreign policy Global opinion of President Barack Obama has declined dramatically since 2009, according to a new survey […]

Obama Retreats On “Private Sector Doing Fine” Comment

For those who missed it, here’s the Democrats clueless, completely out of touch President Of course, after getting slapped around by Romney, the GOP, and pretty much everyone else (The Hill) The verbal gaffe offered a political gift to Republicans and capped a miserable week for the president, who was on the losing side of […]

Obama-Economy: Only 9 States Have Turned The Corner

The recession officially ended in June 2009, before the policies of Obama and the Democrat controlled Congress could truly kick in. We’ve discussed many a time what effects this continued malaise have occurred within the states, effects such as low income, sales, and property tax rates because so many people are out of work or […]

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