Unemployment up – nothing to see here… move along, shows over.

Private Sector Adds 67,000 Jobs

U.S. Economy Lost 54,000 Jobs in August; Unemployment Rate Rises to 9.6%

WASHINGTON — Job losses continued to mount in the U.S. economy last month, though at a more modest pace than expected, putting further pressure on policy makers to take action to spur growth and employment.

Nonfarm payrolls fell by 54,000 last month, matching the level of revised losses recorded the previous month, the U.S. Labor Department said Friday. The revision in July layoffs to 54,000 followed an original estimate of a 131,000 drop in payrolls.

Really are you shocked we’re still losing jobs under Obama? I know of no employer brave enough to add jobs or expand operations – most are hoarding what little money that are making along with doing the hide and watch – no one I know feels the economy is healthy enough to invest in or grow business in.

But don’t you worry this is the SUMMER OF RECOVERY! We are on the road to wealth and riches beyond our wildest dreams – the TRILLION dollar stimulus is working and if you believe in of that I have some swamp land land in Texas to sell you – cheap.

You know what can I say that hasn’t been said? Obama couldn’t effectively run a lemonade stand better yet the American economy so all we can do is keep him from reaping anymore damage on the country and try an fix it when he is tossed from office and yet this White house still wants you to believe that what they are doing is working? Please…

More here…

Economy LOST 283,000 jobs during ‘Recovery Summer’ months…
NPR: ‘Recovery Summer’ Ends With Economic Pothole…
President Claims Job Creation; Doesn’t Mention Net Job Loss of 54K…
Unemployment rises to 9.6%, 54,000 jobs lost

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AWG, September 3rd 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
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Beck’s 8-28 Rally thoughts and things

So did you go to or watch the 8-28 event that Glenn Beck had? I watched it on C-SPAN – I would have liked to have gone but time, money and scheduling wouldn’t permit it, but as soon as I’m caught up I will have nothing to do which is the joy and stress of self employment – and I DO NOT need any more stress right now, but that’s a story for another day.

So anyway I’m watching Glenn on TV  Saturday and Glenn being Glenn was choking back tears and putting forth the doctrine that we need to get back to God – I’m not one to talk a lot about God and religion after all it is said you never talk about religion and politics and I’ve alienated enough people talking about both, so I tend to stick to just one volatile subject – politics. As you know Glenn’s rally was more about faith and religion than it was politics and that’s fine. His current mission is “faith, hope and charity” and I get how those play into rebuilding America. Then Monday morning I was going to stay home a little later and work on my books – so I when to “Streaming Radio Guide” to stream Glenn’s show and it wasn’t there. Well it was there under conservative shows as it had been for years and at the top of the page I saw a link to a post from the guy (Art Stone) that started Streaming Radio Guide…

Where did Glenn Beck go?

Today Glenn told us we have to choose.  Either you believe that the U.S. is based on Deuteronomy and the Law of Moses or you are an enemy of God and the United States.

When any group or person says “You’re with me or you’re against me”, I’m against you.   Glenn is now way over the line in turning his program into a religious preaching forum.

You can now find his program under the category Religion.

Well I watched the rally and that is not the message I came away with and judging by the 100′s of comments to the post he made I’d say a lot of other people failed to hear that message too. While I could go back and quote sections of Glenn’s rally and say I THINK he meant this or that it would be pointless. My take on the rally was that we as a nation regardless of religious or non-religious beliefs need to get back to the fundamental principles that made this country great in the first place.

So based on Art Stone’s rather rigid ideology of “You’re with me or you’re against me” … I think Streaming Radio Guide is the great site ever and you are either with me or against me on that.” What say you Art? (Art by default would have to be against me – it’s you’re own words.)

I digress…

Now granted it at times I think Beck wanders too far down the preaching path and injects more religion than politics into his show but it’s his show he can do what he want’s… the irony is that a so called Preacher Al “Not-So” Sharpton had a rally too and claimed that Glenn Beck was desecrating the day. Disrespecting the day? That 8-28 was their day, that Beck was destroying the honor of Martin Luther King Jr – and to add to the irony Beck had one of King’s relatives speak at the Restoring Honor Rally – there were no King’s relatives at Sharpton’s Rally and just what does ‘Not-So’ Sharpton mean when he refers to 8-28 as “their” day? Who are “they”? The blacks? Somehow I don’t think that was Dr King’s message – one of division and separation in fact I thought that was what he was against. Maybe Sharpton knows more than every one else does, but I doubt it.

Sharpton and the Main Stream Media went on to criticize Beck and Sharpton appeared on O-Reilly and for once Bill called Sharpton on his BS… complaining that there were to many White people at Becks Rally – but no one pointed out that Sharpton’s Rally was predominately Black – but really would you expect racial diversity in a rally from a well known poverty pimp and race hustler.

At Lincoln Memorial, a Call for Religious Rebirth

Across town, several hundred people, most of them black, packed a football field at Dunbar High School to commemorate Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

“We come here because the dream has not been achieved,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton, the civil rights activist. “We’ve had a lot of progress. But we have a long way to go.”

Referring to Mr. Beck’s event, he added, “They want to disgrace this day.”

Glenn Beck crowd: Not so white as advertised

Here is a question – MLK spoke 47 years ago and I was 3 days old so I didn’t go – Sharpton has had 47 year to hold a rally and he hasn’t until Beck held his – why?

Al Sharpton aside I think something like a half a million people attended Beck Rally (Sharpton had a few 100) another 100,000 plus watched in on UpStream and I have no idea how many watched on C-SPAN as I did – make note that C-SPAN was real careful not to show the size of the crowd. But aside from not hearing about one single arrest it would seem that those evil right-wing conservatives that attended Beck’s rally left the DC Mall cleaning than they found it.

Glenn Beck’s Happy Warriors

After the event, walking from the Lincoln Memorial’s reflecting pool through Constitution Gardens, this reporter scanned 360 degrees and could not see a scrap of trash anywhere. Participants and volunteers had collected all their refuse and left it piled neatly in bags around the public garbage cans. Near Constitution Avenue, I did encounter one stray piece of paper—but too old and faded to have been left that day.

How dare they pick up after themselves – remember what the mall looked like after Obama love fest in Jan 2009 – remember? Check out the way-back machine to see. Quite the difference between tax paying conservatives and handout hippies of progressive liberals isn’t it?

All in all the Beck rally was in my opinion anticlimactic on TV as most events are it was just one of those things that you really had to be at to get the full effect – the real entertainment has been watching the left try and make head or tails out of the event all these people being nice to one another and not demanding handouts… crazy.

Oh one last thought – Obama said he didn’t pay any attention to the rally, but the people that attended are full of anxiety – whatever Barry. You know this event made Dopey drop a load in his Huggies.

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AWG, September 1st 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , ,
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It just my damn luck

Sort of politics and current events and sort of not…

I’ve never been very lucky, I could buy 5 scratch offs lottery tickets with the odds of 1 in 4 winning and I’ll loose on all 5 – likely why I rarely ever play the lottery. As a result I’ve worked for everything I have and nothing has been given to me – no handouts here. Right now I am in need of a vacation – it might be this year it might be next year it might be never and I was looking at vacation deals online because I have a knack for finding deals – it’s not luck of finding deals, it’s looking high and low for them – so I just don’t stumble across deals nor do they fall in my lap. I hunt them down like the deals they are. Oh you can go use Hotwire, Priceline, Orbitz, Travelocity or any of those discount sites but if you know where to look and how to look you can find some real deals out there a lot better than theirs. However, you have to be flexible and ready to go at a moment notice or wait a long time to go because you’re banking on a down economy that you have the money and they want it. Keep in mind you don’t have to stay in their hotel, but they have to fill rooms to stay in business. Same goes for products – use the attitude that you don’t have to buy it, but they have to sell it and you’re in the bargaining drivers seat.

Anyway I digress, I’ve been all over the world and those I travel with have not and I’ve seen most of this great country blah, blah, blah – long story short I was randomly looking for deals online earlier this week (Aug 24) I do that sometimes for fun – some people plays games I look for deals and I came across this great deal to go to a foreign tropical beach and stay in a 5 star hotel with a free room upgrade to a deluxe suite and it was for 8 days and 7 night including round trip airfare all taxes and fees included for just $711.00 per person! Now that’s a deal – 2 people at $711 – that’s $1422 – toss in an another $1000 for meals, shopping, shows, local transportation etc and you’ve got a pretty decent get away for about $2500.00 – not cheap, but not outrageous either. Hell, we spent nearly that much going to a beachfront resort in Florida panhandle for less than a week last year.

Now, I know what you’re thinking ‘damn man book it!’ Well I was seriously thinking about it, but it was in Acapulco, Mexico! I use to work a lot in Mexico and I have no problem with the Mexican people or the ones here LEGALLY and truthfully I enjoy their culture, their food, the ruins and the beaches – not to mention the exchange rate is now 13 peso to a dollar. I also figured that Acapulco was far enough removed from the border that perhaps it’s was safe(r) there and I wouldn’t have to worry about the drug wars and all that crap – after all you can’t write off all of America just because San Francisco full of nuts nor can you write off any other country because of a given area.

Well I was still thinking about it this week and still thinking of booking it then I got home late Friday and what was the headline on Drudge?

Well what the $&%*!! Acapulco – that’s just my luck.

Actually it was 15 murdered – 15 Slain in Acapulco, Mexico

MEXICO CITY – Fifteen people were found shot to death Friday in and around the Pacific coast resort town of Acapulco, authorities in the southern state of Guerrero said.
Acting on an anonymous telephone tip, police discovered the bodies of six men along the highway linking Acapulco with Mexico City.
The victims’ hands and feet were tied and their eyes covered with duct tape, Guerrero police said, and beside the bodies were messages from the killers to rival criminal groups.

So it’s either my luck that I saw the headline before I booked the trip or it’s my luck that this happened thus killing a great deal… then again maybe that’s why they had such great deals in the first place or I could risk it and the deals would be even better – if I was soloing a trip you can bet your ass I’d shoot (no pun intended) for a better deal. Hell it can’t be any worse than staying in a run down motel in Compton, CA like I once did, but I doubt the other travelers would go for that.

So if you are wondering about deals and how to get them – I went directly to the website for the Festiva Americana which are really great hotels for the price in Mexico, Central and South America and clicked on “book a package” then pick some dates, but you have to play with the dates and as you do the price changes and make sure you play with the airlines to -  BTW SCREW Continental Airline those bastards have lost my luggage more than any other airline I’ve flown and that’s a lot and they’re rude asses too. You’re best prices are on Delta normally (at least from here) which also brings up your departing airport it can make a huge difference in the overall price – fly out of a international hub if you can – for me it means driving 3 hours to Nashville to an major airport but that 3 hour drive saves me over a $1000 in airfare that I’d pay flying out of a regional airport, it’s a drive I can make for a $1000.00!

A word about hotels – I like nice hotels but I don’t like fancy expensive hotels after all you’re on vacation and you aren’t going to be spending a lot time in the room and if you are all you need is a bed (knowhatImean) – so while there are some really great hotels out there I’d rather spend my money on something better than a room I’m rarely in – I generally leave the hotel in the morning and I don’t return until midnight or so/ So why waste my money on a overpriced fancy hotel? Who am I trying to impress the hotel staff?

Acapulco Beach

Oh and I checked around on the regular travel deals sites for 8 days and 7 nights with round trip airfare and the rates ranged from $2800-$5000 … none of them getting close to the $1411.00 for two people I got by looking around – I also found so good deals at East Travel Resorts – I’ve never used them, I can’t endorse them and I know nothing about them other than their prices look good -  BUT they have fixed packages and I don’t like those much, maybe you do. I want to do what I want to do and not what some tour guide thinks I should do.

Safe to say I’m not going to Acapulco anytime soon so I can’t be like Elvis and have “Fun in Acapulco” – maybe Belize or Costa Rica? By the way you can rent a nice condo in Costa Rica for $400 a week. (That’s what they are asking – I bet you can bargain for less or get some perks thrown in too if you try.)

(Final note: For those of you that think I should stay here and spend my money on an America vacation – I spend my money in America every day and I my very well end up taking an American vacation but sometimes you just need to get away from everything – the news, the phone, the language, the culture all of it and do something different.)

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AWG, August 28th 2010 | Tags: , , , , , ,
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Let them eat Spam

Obamas Depleting U.S. Lobster Supply

So how much lobster are you having during these precarious economic times? What? You’ve had to cut back? No longer ordering it stuffed with crab meat, at least?

Well, if you happen to be the President of the United States or the First Lady, your lobster consumption is continuing at a robust pace.

I don’t know what it is in Obama’s world but around here lobster is about $10/lbs and you know this guy isn’t cooking his own – oh no you’re paying for it, to be bought, cooked and served. So let me ask you – when was the last time you had lobster? I mean a big meaty tail and claws – not some little bits served up in a Chinese dinner. For me and I love lobster – I could eat it every week, but I don’t think I could pin point the last time I had a lobster if I had to guess it was over a year ago in Florida and that was a Caribbean spiny lobster which lacks the big juicy meaty claws and this clown is eating it all the time – and lets not forget the Kobe beef too.

It goes on…

According to ABC’s Jake Tapper, the president savored some lobster tempura at the trendy State Road Restaurant in West Tisbury on Martha’s Vineyard. Oh, just the thought of it. If he brings some back to the White House for me, I’ll write whatever he wants.

Lobster tempura? You don’t do that to lobster – you don’t batter up and deep fry lobster and then drown it in some over powering soy based dipping sauce! That’s just wrong! For God sake it’s lobster, not popcorn shrimp.

Monday night at The Sweet Life Cafe in Oak Bluffs on the Vineyard it was the lobster pasta appetizer for the president and a surf and turf entrée – the “surf” being a lobster tail – for Mrs. Obama.

And what would the vacation to Maine in July have been without a taste of everyone’s favorite crustacean. The president did it in a little less genteel fashion that time, heading over to something called Stewman’s Downtown restaurant where he was served the “Lobster Experience” dinner – just regular lobster, corn and slaw.

Poor thing… just a regular lobster dinner with corn and slaw – what no Lobster Thermidor, Lobster Newburg – no Chilled Lobster With Mimosa Dressing… oh the humanity!

But the Obamas’ lobster experience is not confined to these shores. Michelle Obama was barely off the plane during her voyage early this month to the Spanish Riviera when, according to the Spanish press, she dived into a feast of sea bass tartare, strawberry gazpacho and sardines, and a main course of lobster with seaweed risotto.

Oh where is my Thurston Howell III voice at … sea bass tartare (that’s minced raw meat), strawberry gazpacho and sardines, and a main course of lobster with seaweed risotto – eww I hope the strawberry gazpacho and sardines were two different dishes – but at least risotto and lobster goes together. However I’d prefer an al dente orzo over risotto – but what do I know I’m just a hick from the country eating mudbugs and gator meat.

Michelle enjoyed the repast so much that she was right back at it on August 14 during the Obamas’ two-day Panama City, Fla photo-op vacation. There, at the Firefly restaurant, it was more lobster for Michelle.

Has this hog had a look in the mirror? She needs to lay of the lobster dripping in ghee and look into a diet heavy on the tofu because her “see-food” diet isn’t working. My God doesn’t she know there are children in Africa that have no ass.

The Obamas were supposed to be showing support for the good people of the oil spill-stricken Gulf, eating their seafood and so forth. So the big question is, was it a Caribbean lobster or one shipped down from Maine?

And who knows what lobster delicacies the White House chef is whipping up for them in between vacations?

No wonder the Russians just started fueling the Iranian nuclear reactor at Bushehr. When President Medvedev was here, Obama took him for burgers.

Well at least it wasn’t Borscht otherwise we’d be looking at mutually assured destruction right now.

Here is the deal – Obama knows he is an one term’er and he is going to milk the perks of being president for all it’s worth – I’d expect to see him and lard-ass take a lot more vacation before he is gone. I think Obama thought the job was like the campaign trail – all talk, adoring crowds and play with no real responsibilities and now that he is in office he doesn’t want it so the easiest thing to do is go on vacation and he does that quite well.

Question is how many more lobsters will be murdered at the hands of the Obama’s – can’t they eat spam?

(Pay attention at the 0:36 mark)

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AWG, August 26th 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , ,
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And then just like that it was gone …

So I was mowing the yard riding back and forth for hours and around the trees. around the barn, around the garden with a million thoughts from work to deadbeats that owe me money to life to ideas for inventions to short stories to absolutely nothing at all running or not through my head and I had this idea for a blog post that was thought out, relevant, complete and fully composed in my mind. Sadly driving a tractor doesn’t lend itself to writing things down or even recording it with voice recorder – noise you know, lot’s of noise. So I have to rely on memory which is normally pretty good – but do to the fact I thought this up rather early in the mowing and not later, thousands upon thousands of other ideas and thoughts came and went and with every passing thought the original idea was buried a little deeper layer by layer and by the time I had finished mowing hours later it was gone.

Well I have fragments of the original idea which I could likely build upon but this one was in my opinion pretty good rant and the longer I dwell on this little post here the more that comes back to me – thus the reason for writing this which I normally delete and go with the original idea -but not this time… this time you get to see the ‘I forgot what the hell I was going to say post’ that I often trash to the dust bin of history.

So anyway – I was going to talk about which I’ll write about later is the fact that we all need to start being race-less, genderless, groupless America – the democrats and the progressive liberals want the enter country in little camps pitting one against the other. The democrats have no power if the people are united – they feed on division, they have to have blacks against whites against Hispanics, gays against straights, men against women, rich against poor, and in the progressive liberal eyes the world is full of villains and victims, a world full of lemmings – the biggest problem with the liberals aside from their need to divide is they need to tell you how to live – but that’s another post I thought up – the primary difference between liberals and conservatives is freedom… liberals hate freedom, because free people are hard to control.

So stay tuned – I’m still incredibly busy and I’ll post what I can when I can – I still have to work a real job since this blog pays so well (NOT) at least I remember what I was going to say and that’s was the goal – MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

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AWG, August 23rd 2010 | Tags: , , , , , ,
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President Handout losing the Poor

Even the Poor Are Abandoning Obama, According to Gallup Poll Data

In every week of his presidency until now, Barack Obama has enjoyed a majority approval rating in the Gallup Poll from people earning less than $2,000 per month. But that changed in the Gallup survey conducted from Aug. 2-8, when only 49 percent of Americans in that income bracket said they approve of the job Obama is doing.

I know a number of people making less than $20,000.00 a year – I even know several making less than $10,000.00 a year and out of those people I know a few who are sadly Obama fans, but when I explain what Obama is doing to damage the economy and how and keep the class warfare debate out of it and speak straight from an economic point of view they seems a little less impressed with The One – it seems from this latest poll they are others catching on.

For the week of Aug. 2-Aug. 8, only 42 percent of Americans earning $7,500 per month or more said they approve of the job Obama is doing. Forty-four percent of those earning between $5,000 and $7,499 said they approve of the job he is doing. And forty-six percent of those earning between $2,000 and $4,999 said they approve of the job he is doing.

This prove my theory that 2 out of 5 people are complete idiots and there really should be a season on them.

The higher the income bracket an American occupies, the sooner he or she was likely to stop approving of the job Obama was doing and the more likely he or she was to stop approving of the job Obama was doing.

The higher the income bracket the more likely they pay taxes – so I think “duh” covers that paragraph.

In May 2009, when Obama’s approval rating was at its peak among those earning less than $2,000 per month, the national unemployment rate was at 9.4 percent. It is now at 9.5 percent.

It’s a good thing we passed that trillion dollars in stimulus bill to keep it under 8% isn’t it? Oh wait…

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AWG, August 13th 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
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Are federal workers overpaid?

Are federal workers overpaid?

WASHINGTON – When it comes to pay, federal workers receive benefits that averaged about $41,791 in 2009. When you factor in salaries and those benefits, which include pensions, federal civil servants earned about $123,049 in 2009.

By comparison, private workers made $61,051 in total compensation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Let me answer the question as clearly as possible … YES

Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, tells USA TODAY the data are not useful in a direct public to private pay comparison.

Public union employees say the gap reflects the growing skill and education levels needed for most federal jobs, while the government farms out lower paid jobs to the private sector.

Well surprise, surprise a Union boss thinks they have skills and education – yep it take a lot of skills to set all day and surf for porn and I takes even more education to fill up you hard drive with it and then burn it to disc just to store in your office. That’s Ivy league genius at work there.

A budget analyst at the Cato Institute believes federal workers are overpaid.

Gee who to side with a Union entitlement boss or the Cato Institute… hmmm I’ll go with Cato.

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AWG, August 11th 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
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I need Boots

I know what you might be thinking – you may think I need boots on the ground to campaign for great Americans like Basil Marceaux (dot com) or cross the aisle and help Alvin Green – I mean after all could we do any worse than what we have right now? Really it might be ab improvement. So are the boots I’m talking about?

NO!

I’m talking about regular old work boots you wear on your feet that are made in the good old USA – see I work (don’t be afraid liberals, you should try it – it pays) and all I want to do is get a pair of work boots made in the USA – is that to much to ask for? So being a guy that likes to not only buy America, I like to buy local and keep the my money in my community and my country – crazy I know, but it’s what I do. So I go to the store and I find some boots and I come across some Georgia Boots… are they made in the state of Georgia? Nope – made in China so I pass and walk off mumbling “Georgia my ass”. I go to another store and I look at some Carhartt’s… are they made in the USA? NO! Made in China – Carhartt’s the American working brand made in China! Good grief! So I look at Red Wing’s they are they made in the USA, well some are but this store only had the one’s made in China and seemed surprised that the brands they thought were made in America were all made in China to which I said “Well look at the label genius!” – the search went on… I looked at Carolina Boots, some made in the USA but those were are made by scummy Unions and we know what I think of those – so I looked at Caterpillar Boots; Made in China – Timberline; China – Red Wing WORX; China – John Deere; China – Danner; China and the list goes on and on and on. All made in China (with a few exceptions on a few models).

So somewhat pissed and dismayed I head home and search up “Made in USA work boots” online and come across a website that sold only Made in America work boots – so now I’m in near nirvana, but I don’t like like buying boots online – I want to try them on first for two good reasons 1.) Quality work boots cost about $300 or more and 2.) I spend 10-14 hours a day or longer in them and I want comfort, comfort I’ll pay good money for comfort, so it’s rather important that I have comfortable shoes – I could care less if they are stylish or not. I’m a middle aged, middle class white guy that is more concerned with comfort than style.

Anyway I look at some Red Wing Beckman Round Boots that are made in the USA … well at nearly $300.00 I want to try them on first, I know they are boots and it will take a good 2 or 3 weeks to get them broke in and nobody around here has them and the places that can order them want some non-refundable money to special order them – well hell no I’m not putting non-refundable money down on something that might not fit right, forget it!

So the search goes on and I find the brick and mortar/mail order store in Tennessee not that far from me – I fire off a pithy e-mail about hours “Do you have boots made in America by non-union shops?” They reply that they do, so now I have to find time I do not have to go to Martin, Tennessee to The Shoe Shack (sounds classy huh?) and find some boots. Hopefully made in America in a non-union shop…

So why am I babbling about boots and not politics – well to tell you what you already know that finding products made in America is a job in itself – and everything going on in the wide, wide world of politics is the same old crap – the Obama’s are out of touch with the American people, the Democrats are corrupt idiots, the Republicans are spineless worms and the tax payer is getting screwed while 47% of the country suckles upon the government tit add to that unemployment is high, the debt is huge and tax and spending never stops and what’s new? And as goes the world of politics – life goes on and I need a new pair of boots – the only question is will I find any that might my lofty demands?

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AWG, August 10th 2010 | Tags: , , , , ,
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Facts vs. Propaganda

First the FACTS -

Fed set to downgrade outlook for US

The Federal Reserve is set to downgrade its assessment of US economic prospects when it meets on Tuesday to discuss ways to reboot the flagging recovery.

Faced with weak economic data and rising fears of a double-dip recession, the Federal Open Market Committee is likely to ensure its policy is not constraining growth and to use its statement to signal greater concern about the economy. It is, however, unlikely to agree big new steps to boost growth.

From the White House the PROPAGANDA …

A Summer of Recovery

With tens of thousands of projects funded and millions of Americans on the job today, it’s hard to believe that it’s only been 16 months since President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. And with so many jobs saved and created already, you might think that the Recovery Act’s greatest impact is behind us.

But it’s not.

As the summer heats up, it is becoming clear that it could quite possibly be the most active season yet when it comes to recovering our economy. There are Recovery Act-funded projects breaking ground across the country that are creating quality jobs for Americans and economic growth for businesses, large and small.

This summer is sure to be a Summer of Economic Recovery.

From The Hill the assessment …

Obama tries to sell ‘recovery summer’ amid slow economy

President Barack Obama and his team are trying to sell Americans on an economic recovery this summer, but the economy is stubbornly refusing to cooperate.

Obama and his Cabinet officials will fan out across the country over the next few days to spread the message to voters about how effective their $787 billion recovery plan has been, an effort they’re calling “recovery summer.”

The administration’s message has run into several negative economic headwinds that have led to worries the economy is at risk of entering a double-dip recession, not a recovery.

So while Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid and the rest of the lying scumbags in the Democrat Party try to claim we are in recovery – the reality speak otherwise. Meanwhile while you scrap and struggle to get buy the Obama’s live large on your money.

Michelle Antionette’s vacation – $75,000.00 per day
While Obama preaches sacrifice, his family frolics in Spain
Obama To Play Presidential Pickup With NBA Stars

In the real world …
City of Camden, NJ Broke – Closing Public Library System
Governor of Wyoming threatens to sell chunk of Grand Teton – Schools Broke
Food stamp use hit record 40.8m in May
California – Place Your Bet, Help the Debt
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: Unemployment Could Go Up Before It Comes Down

But it’s not all bad news – made you’ll get luck and find a rare comic book in the basement…
Superman Comic Saves Family Home From Foreclosure

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AWG, August 8th 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Hillary Clinton the BIG SPENDER

Let them eat falafel

Clinton texts a $10 donation to Pakistan flood relief

Talk about putting your money where your mouth is. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton texted a $10 donation to flood relief efforts in Pakistan on Wednesday, saying that she’s leading by example and pressing Americans to donate money

Funny how the democrats give out billions and billions of your tax dollars and then proclaim you aren’t giving enough and should be patriotic and give more – well leave it to Hillary to lead the way in giving with a massive $10.00 donation to the Pakistan flood relief effort. Meanwhile she and Billy Boy dropped something along the line of $3 to $5 million on their homely child Chelsea’s wedding.

If that is not the most pathetic thing I’ve heard – a multi-millionaire bragging about a $10.00 donation, but it’s probably more than the Obama’s gave and damn sure more than Biden gave.

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AWG, August 7th 2010 | Tags: , , ,
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