IS THIS WHAT "HOPE AND CHANGE" MEANT?

The Obama Record: May's weak jobs report further confirms that Obummer's policies are failing to help the economy. This is, indeed, the worst recovery since the Depression.

Negative superlatives associated with this presidency keep piling up. The toll so far:

• The share of Americans who've been out of work a long time — now at 42% of the unemployed — is the highest since the Great Depression (source: Labor Department).

• The proportion of the civilian working-age population actually working, at 58%, is the smallest since the Carter era (Labor Department).

• Growth in non-farm payroll jobs since the recovery began in June 2009 is the slowest of any comparable recovery since World War II (Hoover Institution).

• The rate of new business start-ups — the engine of job growth — has plunged to an all-time low of 7.87% of all businesses (Census Bureau).

• 3 in 10 young adults can't find jobs and live with their parents, highest since the 1950s (Pew Research).• 54% of bachelor's degree-holders under the age of 25 are jobless or underemployed, the highest share in decades (Northeastern University).

• Black teen unemployment, now at 37%, is near Depression-era highs (Labor Department).

• Almost 1 in 6 Americans are now poor — the highest ratio in 30 years — and the total number of poor, at 49.1 million, is the largest on record (Census).

• The share of Hispanics in poverty has topped that of blacks for the first time, 28.2% to 25.4% (Census).

• The number of Americans on food stamps — 45 million recipients, or 1 in 7 residents — also is the highest on record (Congressional Budget Office).

• Total government dependency — defined as the share of Americans receiving one or more federal benefit payments — is now at 47%, highest ever (Hoover).

• The share of Americans paying no income tax, at 49.5%, is the highest ever (Heritage Foundation, IRS).

• The national home ownership rate, now at 65.4%, is the lowest in 15 years (Census).

• The 30-point gap between black and white Americans who own their own homes is the widest in two decades and one of the widest on record (Census).

• Federal spending, now at 23.4% of GDP, is the highest since WWII (CBO).

• Excluding defense and interest payments, spending is the highest in American history, at 17.6% of the economy (First Trust Economics).

• The federal debt, at 69% of GDP, is the highest since just after WWII (CBO).

• The U.S. budget deficit, now at 9.5% of the economy, is the highest since WWII (CBO).

• U.S. Treasury debt has been downgraded for the first time in history, meaning the U.S. government no longer ranks among risk-free borrowers (S&P).

This is what Obamanomics has wrought----Fiscal promiscuity. Trickle-up poverty. Shared misery.
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WISCONSIN GOVERNOR WALKER WINS!!!

 He clearly proves that austerity measures work, and that union thuggery doesn't. This is Step 1 in cooking Obama's goose. I can't wait to watch the 'positive' spin the democratic media pimps put on this tomorrow.

CONGRATULATIONS WISCONSIN ON LEADING THE WAY!
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THE AUDACITY OF A MOPE

Can't Believe Obama is Pushing This Incredible Lie.... (But that's what makes him the Liar-in-Chief).

Thanks to Neal Boortz for this.

Obama is still at it.  He’s still trying to push this bald-faced lie that he is one of the lowest spending presidents in history.  He pushed the line again yesterday at a campaign appearance with Bill Clinton  … actually saying that he and Clinton are among the lowest spending presidents.

 This Obama lie was exposed almost as fast as the ink dried on the Wall Street Journal MarketWatch story where it first broke.  The only way that Obama can come close to making this claim is to take his stimulus spending and $400 billion in TARP spending and --- now get this --- crediting that spending to George Bush.  This is a cold lie of astounding proportions, and the only reason that Obama can get away with this dishonesty is because the voters inclined to vote for Obama are so damned ignorant they wouldn’t know the difference between a lie and the truth, and the ObamaMedia can pretty much be counted on to protect him on this.

 If this hack wins in November we are in soooooo much trouble.
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Obama Awards Medal of Freedom to Democratic Socialists of America Chairperson

Marxist-in-Chief Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday to Dolores Huerta, an 82-year-old Marxist, labor activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers union.

Huerta is also an honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America.  DSA describes itself as “the largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International.”

Giving this undeserved honor to an avowed Marxist effectively renders our nation's highest civilian honor virtually meaningless as a noteworthy achievement and makes it a political recognition.

 Only Obama would degrade our country's highest civilian honor like this.
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WELL DESERVED ACCOLADE FOR MAJOR BO ASS KISSER

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews was oozing love when he said “I felt this thrill going up my leg” while listening to a speech by Barack Obama. This still remains as the absolute best Obamagasm moment of all time.  Conservatives reminding him of it have annoyed Chris Matthews ever since.  Too bad, Chris, but since you are such a liberal 'kook' and Obama ass-kisser it is well deserved.
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UNDERSTANDING MARXIST ACTIVITIES AND HOW CURRENT GOVERNMENT ACTIONS PARALLEL MARXIST TACTICS.

A MUST HEAR!! In this video entitled "Marxism in America" General Jerry Boykin, a former Green Beret, discusses his background and training in understanding Marxist insurgencies and how current government actions parallel Marxist tactics.



Noteworthy Comments from Observers:

Let your pre-conceived notions of politics rest for a moment you will see that what Boyken is saying is as clear as the nose on your face. He is right. Americans are no longer citizens. We are sheep being led to the slaughter.

I applaud the General for this discussion. The only way to convince the ignorant is to use objective facts and history and eliminate media-fueled political classifications and brainwashing from good solid American reasoning. Amen General. We can't change the trend by trying to convince politicians, we have to do it by convincing the individuals. Great job.

The General knows exactly what he is talking about. God bless him for being willing to expose things as they are.  May we the people, in 2012 send an even stronger, more decisive message than we sent in 2010 and route these vipers out of our nation's capitol.
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MORE STENCH FROM OBAMA'S CRONYISM

Obamacare’s Patient-Dumping, Privacy-Meddling Scheme
by Michelle Malkin

The stench of Chicago cronyism over the White House just got fouler. Inhale this:
A shadowy $10 billion Obamacare agency with zero oversight just awarded first lady Michelle Obama’s pet patient-dumping scheme at the University of Chicago Medical Center a $5.9 million taxpayer-funded grant. It will enable Mrs. Obama’s cronies to build a government-sponsored electronic medical record-sharing system.

The Chicago program, known as the Urban Health Initiative, is run by one of President Obama’s closest golfing buddies, scandal magnet Eric Whitaker, who has been entangled with Illinois corruption celebrities Rod Blagojevich and Tony Rezko over the past decade.

Fun fact: Whitaker recently was named by author Edward Klein as the man who purportedly offered hate-mongering Rev. Jeremiah Wright $150,000 in hush money during the 2008 campaign. (More here.)

The nearly $6 million grant was announced last week by the “Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation” at the Department of Health and Human Services. White House watchdog journalist Keith Koffler notes that “some 3,000 applications were received for a share on the $1 billion in 3-year grants available. Only 26 programs were included in the first batch of awards doled out.” The administration grants circumvent any and all congressional deliberation as part of Team Obama’s election-year “We Can’t Wait” initiatives.

The grant recipients will help fulfill the mandated Obamacare vision of a centralized patient-record database with unprecedented federal oversight. The provision is being challenged in court by the Goldwater Institute for forcing Americans to share “with millions of strangers who are not physicians confidential private and personal medical history information they do not wish to share.”
HHS denies any favoritism, citing a “competitive, objective” process. But as I first reported in March, a Congressional Research Service analysis concluded that Obamacare’s Innovation Center is subject to no administrative or judicial review. The Innovation Center director is, in effect, a super-czar without any checks or balances on his grant-making decisions, methods or results.
I warned two months ago that the Obamacare Innovation Center and its multibillion-dollar slush fund smacked of “another pipeline for political payoffs and Chicago-style boodle that will result in less patient autonomy, fewer health-care choices, more government intrusion and lower-quality care.”

The University of Chicago Medical Center grant walks and talks like just such a political payoff. I have reported extensively on how Mrs. Obama helped engineer the Urban Health Initiative’s plan to offload low-income patients with non-urgent health needs. With consulting help from Obama senior adviser David Axelrod’s Chicago-based PR firm and the blessing of fellow Chicago pal Valerie Jarrett (who chaired the hospital’s board of trustees), Mrs. Obama sold the scheme to outsource low-income care to other facilities as a way to “dramatically improve health care for thousands of South Side residents.”

The program guaranteed “free” shuttle rides to and from the outside clinics. In truth, it was old-fashioned cost-cutting and favor-trading repackaged by a nonprofit, tax-exempt hospital as minority aid. Clearing out the poor freed up room for insured (i.e., more lucrative) patients.
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) blasted MichelleObamacare, expressing “grave concerns that the University of Chicago’s policy toward emergency patients is dangerously close to ‘patient dumping.’” The group concluded that the Urban Health Initiative “reflected an effort to ‘cherry pick’ wealthy patients over poor.” That practice was made illegal by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) signed by President Ronald Reagan.
Bipartisan complaints about impoverished South Side Chicago patients getting the shaft led GOP Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa and Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush of Chicago to challenge the crony hospital’s abuse of its nonprofit status and lucrative tax breaks. But the probe went nowhere.
And now, Whitaker will have $6 million more to play with when he’s not vacationing with Obama or grappling with subpoenas over possible kickback and pay-for-play schemes while he served as a top health official under now-jailed Illinois. Gov. Blagojevich. One of the probes involves Whitaker’s oversight of medical facilities construction projects exploited by now-convicted real-estate shark Tony Rezko. Whitaker was also under federal investigation for misuse of funding for faith-based minority programs. President Obama recommended Whitaker to Rezko, who was a top Blago’s bagman.

Anyone who isn’t concerned about the privacy implications of this government-funded records-sharing network hasn’t been paying attention to how Team Obama and its surrogates are digging for dirt on private citizens who donate to GOP campaigns.

Nothing to see or smell here? Discerning eyes and nostrils beg to differ.
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