Nov
19
2009
We have sadly not hit bottom on the jobs situation. This week’s jobs numbers might seem to have some green shoots to the casual (math challenged) liberal news media reporter. But the news is indeed really bad.
This week the first time jobless claims did not change – did not grow and did not shrink. Might [...]
Nov
17
2009
I don’t have the stomach to go over the whole mess again with the fake stimulus bill the liberals crammed down our throats (along with its massive debt). I’ll let others explain:
Ed Morrissey notes this great news piece in San Diego with Barbara Boxer and the ONE real job created from millions of dollars in [...]
Nov
13
2009
Ed Morrissey caught my eye with this post on October’s mind boggling deficit number:
The federal government busted the budget worse than last October by $20 billion with a deficit of $176.36 billion for the month. That used to be considered a decent deficit target … for an entire year …
…
It’s roughly four times as large [...]
Nov
06
2009
As I noted yesterday the topic driving the electorate is the unemployment, which shot up dramatically again in October:
The United States economy shed 190,000 jobs in October, and the unemployment rate reached a 26-year high of 10.2 percent, up from 9.8 percent in September, the Department of Labor said Friday in its monthly economic appraisal.
While [...]
Nov
05
2009
What was driving the wave of elections in VA and NJ this week? The deteriorating jobs market was and is the driver, which is where the average American voter connects to the ‘economy’ in a visceral way. The crux of the Democrats’ problem with the voters is they have failed miserably on this matter.
I predicted [...]
Oct
30
2009
A follow up to my previous post. The BS keeps flowing from Team Obama with their false jobs claims (sorry I cannot link to the data, the map only allows for displaying the information – I cannot even copy it, I have to retype it).
From California:
Prime Recipient: Jason A ColemanAmount: $21,843Jobs Created/Saved: 4
Cost per job: [...]
Oct
30
2009
You can tell in blogging when there is some low hanging fruit for you to post on. The bogus jobs claims by the administration today is just one such case. First, let me set this up with a CBS News clip on the shoddy statistics used to produce those fictional ‘created or saved’ jobs (H/T [...]
Oct
22
2009
Alternate title: Liberal Stimulus Bill Puts 2 million Additional People on Emergency Unemployment
The state by state unemployment figures came out yesterday and it is not a very pretty sight. There is no recovery in progress, not for most of America, because the job losses keepl piling up (albeit at a slower rate):
Unemployment rose in 23 states [...]
Oct
19
2009
Major Update Below
Remember the rush last February to get a stimulus package through Congress so the Democrats could turn the economy around and start creating jobs? Remember almost 8 months ago, when it passed, all the hype and promises spewed by the Democrats?
Here we sit 8 months later, with unemployment and underemployment creeping ever higher, [...]
Oct
12
2009
Let’s just take off the partisan glasses for a few moments and note that current economic trouble actually began years ago with a terrible idea to risk the stability of the real estate market (what could go wrong, they can’t make more land?) by loosening all the controls for ensuring people who buy can afford [...]
Oct
07
2009
[Optional Subtitle: Obama's 1 Million 'Saved' Jobs Discovered?
Below I think we have found Obama's mythical 1 million 'saved' jobs. They are a statistical 'adjustment' made to the unemployment data by bureaucrats that add tens of thousands of phantom jobs to the unemployment data each month]
The unemployment numbers that came out for September were pretty bad [...]
Oct
02
2009
Well, here we are a little over 7 months since the faux liberal stimulus bill went into effect (2/17/09) and there has been absolutely no job stimulus. The latest unemployment numbers are out and we still see ever increasing unemployment (U3: now at a 26 year high) and underemployment (U6: reaching a staggering 17%). The [...]
Sep
27
2009
The bad economic news keeps rolling in this weekend as we learn a generation of young people may have permanent scars as a result of the failed liberal stimulus bill and its moronic reliance on government jobs programs to lift this nation out of the Great Recession:
The unemployment rate for young Americans has exploded to [...]
Sep
25
2009
There are indicators all over the place flashing red on the Democrats as they rush headlong into political implosion. By being hell bent on pushing through partisan, hyper-liberal policies that the broad center of America opposes, they will make themselves the nation’s lightening rod for all their frustration and anger built up over decades in [...]
Sep
15
2009
It’s the economy, stupid.
A famous one-liner from James Carville that reminded the last Democrat administration that ideology is all well and good, but if the economy is not performing the voters will not tolerate or accept a bunch of ideology in place of jobs and financial security.
In 1994 the last attempt by liberals to destroy [...]