Obama’s Jobless Recovery

I am happy to see the government report a 5.7% increase in GDP for the 4th quarter of 2009. Undoubtedly, Team Obama will cite this as evidence that the Jobs Bill (formerly known as “The Recovery Act,” formerly known as “The Stimulus Bill”) is working. As good as this news is, there is an elephant [...]

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State of the Union Postscript; Obama’s 3 Most Outrageous Moments

DJH: Much has and will be written about “fact checking” last night’s State of the Union Address. In fact, I link to two very good articles at the end of this piece. But facts and fact checking get tedious after a while, so rather than break down the 20-30 alleged facts Obama spewed last night [...]

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Federal Government Salaries Soar Under Obama

DJH: About 25 years ago, I made friends with a bunch of firefighters. I remember envying their hours, benefits, and pensions, but at the same time, recognizing that the weekly paycheck they took home was pretty small. Not anyone. Thanks to sweetheart union contracts and the steady rise of COLA, most government jobs pay pretty well [...]

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STATE OF THE UNION FACT CHECK: The economy has not been bad for the last 10 years!

DJH: I just heard that Obama plans to state in tonight’s State of the Union Address that Americans are mad about the economic woes they’ve been suffering through for the last 10 years. Hello Peabody — let’s get in the WAYBACK MACHINE and check out the state of the economy 4 years ago. By the [...]

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Decoding Tonight’s State Of The Union Address

If your career has been stolen, or it just feels a little at risk lately, here are 7 questions you should ask yourself as you watch President Obama’s State Of The Union address tonight. When he talks about fiscal responsibility, does he really mean? I plan to raise taxes on anyone in America who has [...]

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The Obama Spending Freeze is Simply Not Credible

DJH: I was just starting to write a post on this silly Obama Spending Freeze and I came across this great price in US News and World Report that says it all. Does Obama think the American people are stupid? We know that freezing spending on ONE EIGHTH of the budget at record high levels [...]

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Tone Deft Part Deux — Obama’s Middle Class Relief Package

DJH: Is there anyone (outside of Washington DC) who doesn’t know exactly what the Middle Class in America need right now? They need JOBS! After that, there are a number of other things they’d like: less government spending,  stop deficit spending, and stop raising taxes. They do not want the government to go deeper into [...]

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Is Obama’s Populism The New “Change We Can Believe In?”

DJH: DJH: I don’t know about you, but when people say “anything is better than what we have,” I go bonkers. Thanks to the main stream media, the American people don’t appreciate how great our country is. The United States leads the world in so many areas. 1. We have the wealthiest “poor” in the world. [...]

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Democrats Scrambling to Stay Alive Plead With Obama to Keep Bush Tax Cuts

DJH: I knew it! I just knew that this recession started when the democrats won the house and everyone knew that taxes would be going up in 2010 when the Bush tax cuts “sunsetted.” In case you didn’t know, the only way Bush could avoid a democrat filibuster against his proposed tax cuts in 2002 was [...]

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Having Driven Massachusetts to the Republicans, Obama Sets His Sights on NY!

DJH: Nationally recognized independent Michael Bloomberg rips Obama for his new War on Banks. As reported early here, banks play a huge roll in financing the recovery, but as long as Obama continues to assault the banks, expect more lay-offs and higher unemployment. Dave Obama Calls For Tougher Bank Regulation New York City Mayor Michael [...]

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