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Sunday, September 11, 2011

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The Number One Reason President Obama’s Re-Election is Doomed
Published Wed, Sep 7th, 2011 Louis Basenese

9 I know we’re 419 days away from the 2012 Presidential election. But President Obama’s bid for re-election officially ends tomorrow night.

Why? Because the only thing that matters to Americans right now, based on the latest Gallup polling, is the economy and jobs.

And the President is about to deliver a jobs proposal to a joint session of Congress, which, based on early indications, can’t possibly mend the labor market.

Before you resort to political name-calling, at least check out the proof…

Talking Shop on Labor Day

“We’ve got roads and bridges across this country that need rebuilding. We’ve got more than one million unemployed construction workers ready to get dirty right now.”

That’s what Obama said at a union rally in Detroit, Michigan on Monday. And as CBS News reports, he wants to start “with a two-year, $109 billion [infrastructure] spending package.”

But we’ve already been down this road before (pun intended). You’ll recall that the 2009 stimulus package disbursed $20.9 billion toward infrastructure projects.

And guess what? At the peak – in the third quarter of 2010 – those funds only created a whopping 53,648 jobs, according to the official government website, Recovery.gov.

So even if we spend about five times as much money this go-round, even in a best-case scenario, we’re talking about creating approximately 300,000 jobs.

And if you think that’s going to put a dent in our unemployment problem, I suggest you try peeing into the ocean and seeing how quickly it turns yellow.

Will Work… Period!

The problem is no single initiative – and certainly not another infrastructure program – is going to fix our country’s jobs problem.

Not when there are 14 million unemployed Americans… 8.8 million underemployed Americans (part-timers that want to work full-time)… and roughly 2.6 million Americans that have just given up looking for a job.

Add it all up, and the real unemployment rate isn’t the 9.1% most widely cited. It’s actually 16.2%!

So you see, creating 300,000 jobs might make those 300,000 people very happy. But it’s not going to do a thing to lower the unemployment rate.

In fact, 51 economists surveyed by Bloomberg predict that the unemployment rate will still stand at 8.5% at the end of next year. And that’s terrible news for President Obama.

Since World War II, no president has ever won re-election with unemployment above 6%, except for Ronald Reagan. And the only reason he was able to pull off the impossible is because he had momentum on his side. The unemployment rate dropped more than three percentage points in the two years before Americans cast their ballots in 1984.

However, President Obama lacks any jobs momentum right now. Literally.

Last Friday’s jobs report revealed that hiring completely stalled out in August. That’s right. The U.S. economy added zero jobs last month.

I hate to tell you this. But the infrastructure spending and the other measures reportedly included in President Obama’s proposal, per Labor Secretary Hilda Solis – like helping people that are out of work for more than six months, tax breaks for middle-class people and payroll tax reductions – won’t jumpstart the jobs market, either.

Why? Because these are the same initiatives our government already tried earlier in the recovery. With no success.

Bottom Line: The presidential candidate with the best plan to stimulate job growth – ASAP – is going to win the White House in 2012. And that’s not going to be President Obama, unless he changes his plans drastically in the next 24 hours.

Ahead of the tape,

Louis Basenese

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Under my bus

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Monday, September 5, 2011

Headline Shocker: 'Solyndra Filing a Disaster for Obama'

Headline Shocker: 'Solyndra Filing a Disaster for Obama'


As NewsBusters reported moments ago, a solar company the Obama administration loaned 535 million taxpayer dollars to as part of the 2009 stimulus plan filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday.

Although it's still too early to gauge how the rest of the president's fans in the media will cover this if at all, NBCBayArea.com reported the local event in a rather shocking fashion under the headline "Solyndra Filing a Disaster for Obama":

President Obama faces political catastrophe in the form of Solyndra -- a San Francisco Bay area solar company that he touted as a gleaming example of green technology. It has announced it will declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy. [...]

During a visit to the Fremont facility in spring of 2010, the President said the factory "is just a testament to American ingenuity and dynamism and the fact that we continue to have the best universities in the world, the best technology in the world, and most importantly the best workers in the world. "

Headline Shocker: 'Solyndra Filing a Disaster for Obama'
By Noel Sheppard | August 31, 2011 | 18:08

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As NewsBusters reported moments ago, a solar company the Obama administration loaned 535 million taxpayer dollars to as part of the 2009 stimulus plan filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday.

Although it's still too early to gauge how the rest of the president's fans in the media will cover this if at all, NBCBayArea.com reported the local event in a rather shocking fashion under the headline "Solyndra Filing a Disaster for Obama":

President Obama faces political catastrophe in the form of Solyndra -- a San Francisco Bay area solar company that he touted as a gleaming example of green technology. It has announced it will declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy. [...]

During a visit to the Fremont facility in spring of 2010, the President said the factory "is just a testament to American ingenuity and dynamism and the fact that we continue to have the best universities in the world, the best technology in the world, and most importantly the best workers in the world. "


Talk about instant karma getting you: included in this announcement was a layoff of more than 1,100 Solyndra workers.

But of potentially greater consequence to Obama was a loan his administration made to the now failing Solyndra:

The President was celebrating $535 million in federal promises from the Department of Energy to the solar startup. The administration didn't do its due diligence, says the Government Accountability Office. "There's a consequence if you don't follow a rigorous process that's transparent," Franklin Rusco of GAO told the website iWatch News.

A rigorous process that's transparent? Does the current White House resident have a clue what that is?
That aside, it's going to be fascinating to see how this matter gets covered in the coming days, especially with a jobs speech coming from the President next week.

Stay tuned.

For more on the lack of coverage given to disappointments over the creation of so-called "green jobs" please see Julia Seymour's "Networks Barely Criticize Obama's Disastrous 'Green Jobs' Policies."



Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/08/31/headline-shocker-solyndra-filing-disaster-obama#ixzz1X7HXaawS


Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/08/31/headline-shocker-solyndra-filing-disaster-obama#ixzz1X7HRhihU

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Subject: Math Teacher Arrested



A public school teacher was arrested today at John F Kennedy International airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, a slide-rule and a calculator. At a morning press conference, Attorney General Eric Holder said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.

"Al-Gebra is a problem for us", the Attorney General said. "They derive solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values. They use secret code names like 'X' and 'Y' and refer to themselves as 'unknowns', but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, 'There are 3 sides to every triangle".

When asked to comment on the arrest, President Obama said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes.'" White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound statement by the President. It is believed that another Nobel Prize will follow.

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