Comments on: They Produced a Budget

By: DD More

DD More — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:07:49 +0000

“Obama counts only the jobs created each month, neglecting to subtract the growth in the population and the growth in the numbers of people who have dropped out of the labor force, so it looks like there has been real progress in putting people back to work, when that is not the case.”

Not the mention that first time unemployment number has always been bigger than the jobs created number.

“In the week ending March 9, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 332,000, a decrease of 10,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 342,000. The 4-week moving average was 346,750, a decrease of 2,750 from the previous week’s revised average of 349,500.” http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/ui/current.htm

“The February jobs report showed that the U.S. added 236,000 new jobs while the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in four years. The unemployment rate was 7.9 percent in January.” http://washingtonexaminer.com/white-house-says-jobs-report-shows-recovery-gaining-traction/article/2523671

Yet the unemployment number keeps dropping??

By: Lon Mead

Lon Mead — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:01:33 +0000

It’s okay… All of them are pretty far around the bend as far as I’m concerned. If you seriously challenge their ideas, they react as if it were a personal attack (witness Sen. Feinstein’s reaction to Sen Cruz questioning her over her gun ban). Rude, mean-spirited, intellectually bankrupt, devoid of new ideas (can’t have new ideas until you get the old ones to work, you see), and dishonest on a fundamental level.

By: The Elephant's Child

The Elephant's Child — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 07:31:19 +0000

Well, I’m thinking of Pelosi, Schumer, Harry Reid, Steny Hoyer, Dianne Feinstein, Maxine Waters, the old tired movers and shakers whose names and faces we all recognize, not the younger people. Aren’t they the Sixties people? I wasn’t thinking of Obama and his crowd, who were students, and learned so little. Probably never read anything seriously by anyone with whom they disagree. They have such weird ideas about Republicans in all our versions, are so incredibly ignorant about history and economics. I’ll try to avoid the phrase.You are not the first who has questioned my use of it

By: Lon Mead

Lon Mead — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 06:17:29 +0000

My only correction to that is that we not dealing with the 60′s generation, but rather their students (Obama sat at the feet of Frank Marshall Davis), and they learned their lessons all too well. What Obama and other far-left liberals have been taught is all they know, and these good students defer to their teachers.

By: The Elephant's Child

The Elephant's Child — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 05:32:17 +0000

You’re right of course. Patty Murray is one of my two senators. Murray has been voted dullest knife several times by the aides (though how they can tell, I’m not sure, and Maria Cantwell has been voted least effective). I’ve been redistricted into Adam Smith’s district, so I am essentially without representation. The general consensus among calmer Republicans seems to be that the Democrat party has been taken over by the sixties generation who are intent upon social justice, political correctness, ever growing government to accommodate them all and reorder society so it is nicer and more amenable to instruction from their betters. We’ve got an interesting number of committed Socialists in Congress and the administration. They really want the Republican Party to collapse or disappear, but they don’t want to overthrow the government, just improve on it. (Not too well thought out)I have never heard any Republican suggest that we would be better off without an opposing party.

By: Lon Mead

Lon Mead — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 05:18:21 +0000

S’alright.

I’ve never considered Patty Murray to be the sharpest spoon in the drawer, so I for one am glad that the Dems gave her a job she didn’t have to really work at (at least for the past few years).

I think one of the problems Obama is facing is one that several far-lefty types are experiencing. They can see that what they are doing just isn’t working, but they have to keep plugging away at it because there is NO WAY that they could POSSIBLY be WRONG all this time, is there? They believe they’re smart, and smart people are NEVER wrong, are they?

By: The Elephant's Child

The Elephant's Child — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:28:11 +0000

OMG Another brain freeze! Thanks Lon, of course I did.

By: Lon Mead

Lon Mead — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:24:08 +0000

“After Four Years, Congressional Republicans finally decided to obey the law.”

Or did you mean Senate Democrats?