Our government doesn’t work. Shocking. But before we shut it down, the least those Bozos on Capitol Hill should do is to vote to fund the military whether the government is shutdown or not; then just lock the doors. Just […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posts Tagged u.s. economy
While the Obama administration is out touting that unemployment grew at a slower rate, i.e. the number of new applications for unemployment benefits were less than anticipated, a much gloomier set of economic figures came out that signals the U.S. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tea Party be damned! The Democrats and Republicans will spend with abandon this Holiday season to avoid being labeled uncaring. The House and Senate are set to spend approximately $120 billion to extend the payroll tax “holiday,” plus up to $50 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the news broke today that President Barack Obama was pushing the European Union (EU) leaders to hasten their actions to address the euro-zone debt crisis you could almost hear the European snickers all the way over here. Who are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s not that the economy is so bad, it’s that you’re slacking; at least that’s what the president of the United States thinks. In an interview on WESH of Orlando, Florida, President Obama said, “The way I think about it is, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As dismal as the polls have been for Mr. Obama it’s not too late for a turn-around. The President’s problem is that what it would take to stem the inevitable descent into a double-dip recession is so foreign to his […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Stokely Carmichael once said, “We must destroy the capitalistic system which enslaves us.” In 1967 Carmichael left the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC,) an organization dedicated to the nonviolent political reformation of society advocated by Martin Luther King and joined […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When Rep. Gabby Giffords was shot in Arizona earlier this year a number of Democrats were quick to blame right-wing extremists; of course nothing could be farther from the truth. Jared Lee Loughner was a sick person with no political point-of-view; yet […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
How many American’s skipped their annual summer vacation this year? How many are wondering how they’re going to make their next mortgage payment? After the better part of a week holding staged “listening” sessions, President Obama left today for his […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…