Archive for Category: "Economy"

July 16, 2012 14:23

Sacred Cows and Bipartisan B.S. In Farm Bill

Taxpayers continue to bear the heavy burden of subsidizing campaign contributors, the rich and corporations under the cover of a nostalgic vision of farming. “Farmers” who receive about 80 percent of government subsidies are multimillionaires whose incomes put them in Obama’s definition of the rich.

July 16, 2012 09:06

Obama’s green jobs lie – massive spending yields few jobs and higher electric rates

Obama touted his “green jobs” spending program as a way to create jobs. Now the DOE admits it was never about jobs. At cost per job between $9 million and $13 million it’s insane to think it was a job program. It was really about funneling taxpayer money to Obama campaign donors. Over $16 BILLION has gone to companies with ties to Obama contributors.

July 16, 2012 09:02

King Obama rewrites law – guts welfare reform

Not content to stop at rewriting immigration policy, education policy and energy policy, yesterday, President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an official policy directive rewriting the welfare reform law of 1996. The new policy guts the federal work requirements that were the foundation of the Clinton-era reform.

July 16, 2012 07:04

Dems bailing out on convention and Obama policies

With friends like these …. Obama’s failed and costly policies are even leading his supporters to abandon ship. Who in their right mind can endorse four more years of economic suicide?

July 16, 2012 06:12

USDA making Spanish soap operas to push food stamps

There is a plan from uber leftists Cloward and Piven to overwhelm the system so that it collapses. Obama seems to be making it work as food stamp use has almost doubled under his administration and now they are running radio ads to encourage people to sign up for food stamps and even making Spanish soap operas to push the program.

July 16, 2012 06:09

Rising prices to drag down economy

Funny how food and fuel are excluded from the inflation numbers. Consumers are getting hammered by the twin screws of inflation in food and fuel while deflation is driving down home prices and wages. Welcome to Jimmy Carter redux – stagflation. Can we afford four more years of economic suicide?

July 12, 2012 17:44

Rule of the Blob

The Obama administration has put us under rule of the Blob — the bureaucracy has become indescribable, indestructible, and it seems like nothing can stop it from engulfing us all. – Sen. DeMint

July 12, 2012 16:48

Obama green jobs cost over $13 million each – that’s a jobs plan

An Obama DOE cabinet member admits that Obama’s multi-billion dollar “green jobs” stimulus is not really about jobs. So Obama lied about creating “green jobs?”

July 12, 2012 09:01

Obama’s High Speed Money Pit

China’s attempt at a high-speed rail network is fraught with corrupt officials, impossible costs, and deadly safety failures. But [Obama’s] Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wishes America would follow it as a model.

July 12, 2012 08:07

Women in trouble with Obama economy

The Obama campaign launched a new ad, saying that women are “troubled” with Mitt Romney. But the real trouble women are having in 2012 is with the Obama Economy.