The news media followers are focusing on the better than expected 163,000 new jobs in this morning’s report and not commenting on the 8.3% unemployment rate. Our unemployment rate has now held above 8% for 41 consecutive months. A chief economist at ITG called the 163,000 new jobs ‘soft’ saying: “If you want to take […]
July 9, 2012
America continues to hear about small steps as being progress. During the past three months America has averaged 75,000 new jobs per month but since the progression has gone from 68,000 to 77,000, to 80,000 (not yet revised), it’s called progress in the right direction. We need some 150,000 new jobs just to keep up […]
July 8, 2012
The transportation bill signed by Obama yesterday was amended to put American companies which roll cigarettes, as well as all of their shops, out of business immediately. Add another red star to the weekend dump, subtract more jobs from the Obama recovery. Never forget, ‘we are looking after each other’ because middle class is just […]
July 7, 2012
Obama will not let go of the Robert’s decision and neither will the news media followers. The incessant references to the fact that ‘we’ are moving forward on the law that ‘we’ fought for were again outlined in Parma. This frames the attitude which Obama has molded from his first days as a community organizer, […]
July 5, 2012
Obama’s returning the campaign to the swing states once again, this time by bus. While there he will no doubt be bragging about the union jobs he saved at GM. At the same time highly skilled military vets are filling 114,000 well paying Keystone positions in Canada where they are bringing the pipeline down to […]
June 19, 2012
Circumventing the Constitution to add illegals in order to provide them better working opportunities bothered us enough to work out the numbers this executive order applies. We are not saying ignore the multitude of other problems created by this (which law applies, state, federal, Obama’s…), but simply looking at the numbers themselves (Bureau of Labor […]
June 1, 2012
The wet dream recovery cannot be saved even by Obama’s efforts to decrease the size of our workforce. AFP: “The Labor Department’s closely watched workforce figures were well below expectations of a 150,000 jobs increase and for the jobless rate to hold steady at 8.1 percent from April.” About 5 weeks ago Dept of Labor […]
May 31, 2012
The city that doesn’t sleep cannot seem to wake-up. The people are packing-up permanently. It didn’t just start, like the old Three Stooges Niagara Falls scene, “Slowly we turn, step by step, inch by inch…”, and suddenly businesses and taxpayers are gone. It’s so bad in California they were just caught with their hand in […]
May 27, 2012
Boston Herald: “The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has been quietly probing Marylou’s’ hiring practices for nearly a year, the Herald has learned, with investigators pulling reams of job applications, interviewing company brass and grilling the 29-store chain’s pink-clad clerks about their co-workers’ gender, age, race and body type, according to the company” Marylou VP: “When […]
May 17, 2012
The stimulus, which Obama promised would cut unemployment to 7% by the end of 2010, actually created jobs for foreigners. LG Chem and Dow Kokam received received over $300 Million and brought equipment, supplies, and employees into Michigan from Korea. Finland’s Fisker automotive electric 19 MPG $100,000 car was funded by a $529 Million Energy […]
August 3, 2012
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