in the mean time

in completing my 4 part look at the America through the prism of a Christmas Carol, ie the past present and future i ran into a delay- lost a draft to the computer gremlins, as not to have a big gap between posts here are some things I've done recently for the local tea party group.

Barrack Obama claims to have put America back to work. To quote a famous talk show host liberals are dangerous in power and hilarious when not. As part of our efforts to make Obama hilarious again let’s look at 10 facts concerning unemployment:

1)      In March of 2003, George Bush’s 3^rd year, unemployment was 5.7% this was actually high for the Bush years as the country was still struggling following the 9/11 attacks. Historically though 6% was considered exceptional. President Obama is at a seasonally adjusted 8.2%.

2)      Ronald Reagan is the only modern president to use raw unemployment rather than seasonally adjusted- the current raw number is 8.4%

3)      The raw number for men 16 and older is 8.9% for teenagers 24.1% and for African Americans  13.7%  African American youth 37.9%

4)      The Keystone Pipeline could create as many as 20,000 long term construction jobs but the Obama administration is blocking it. (all from Bureau of Labor Statistics)

5)      Barrack Obama’s own estimates showed that his offshore drilling ban would cost 23,000 jobs, and some estimates say it could slow job growth by 1 million by 2015

6)      EPA regulations on gas and coal powered energy could cost 183,000 jobs and raise the price of energy (NERA).

7)       There is no hard count on jobs “created or saved” by the 797 billion dollar stimulus as jobs saved is a subjective number but using the administrations 3 million job estimate (which is questionable at best) the Stimulus took in taxes out of the economy 278,000 per job. Most of the funds went to “save jobs” in President Obama’s ranks of supporters such as public sector unions or to create short term “green” jobs that did not spur long term growth.

8)      In fairness, Obama-care has created 16,000 new jobs at the IRS! Why a health care law needs a whole brigade of tax enforcement officers is another story altogether.

9)      Most administrations use seasonal adjustments on unemployment stats but the Obama administration has gone to new lengths- they have simply changed the work force participation number, to get a number they like- a dismal 8.2% if the work force was the same as it was in 2009 then unemployment would be 11.3%. this is a more accurate number than what is reported. Underemployment which includes people settling for part time work and those whose benefits are expired is 17.9%.

10)  Most damning of all the number of jobs in existence- actual payroll- has dropped by over 2 million during the 3 years of Obama making him the only modern president to oversee a decline in the total work force.

Facts are stubborn things! All stats as of March 2012.

The truth about Iraq

Barrack Obama claims to have ended the war in Iraq: OK he is President and technically speaking he is correct, but let’s briefly look at his views on the Iraq war from the start.

2003- Not yet a member of the US Senate Pres Obama does not vote on the use of force resolution. He claims that unlike most of his Democratic counterparts he would have voted no. in fact this was a major campaign point verses Hillary who went like most Dem’s for the resolution until it was no longer politically expedient.

2007- Sen. Obama is now a member of the Senate and one of the few substantive things he does is to oppose the troop surge in Iraq that helped stabilize the security situation in the country. A few Obama quotes pulled from his campaign site in 2008 after the success was apparent the surge is not working," Obama's old plan stated, citing a lack of Iraqi political cooperation but crediting Sunni sheiks - not U.S. military muscle - for quelling violence in Anbar Province.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/barack-obama-purges-web-site-critique-surge-iraq-article-1.349828#ixzz1u3jUe1X4

Likewise Joe Biden chosen as vice president canndidate for his “foreign policy brilliance” said- September 9, 2007: “I mean, the truth of the matter is that, that the — America’s — this administration’s policy and the surge are a failure”

2010- Pres. Obama intends to leave 50,000 US combat troops in Iraq as trainers and support personnel a number that exceeds the plan of Pres. Bush but due to his administrations inability to negotiate an immunity deal the plans fell through. The Vice President summed up the Obama administration ending of the war like this:

“We’re not claiming victory,’’ Joe Biden said. “What we’re claiming here is that we’ve done our job — ending the war we did not start,

We can only pray that the successes of the Bush era will result in a secure and free Iraq, despite the attempts of Obama-Biden to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.