Obama Blames Small Business For Lack of Jobs

Summit Exposes Lack of Business, Economics Experience

Barack Hussein Obama has never held a job in the private sector, so is it any wonder that yesterday Obama blamed small business owners for “protecting their profits” as one of the primary reasons the unemployment rate is so high?

This gem was followed by yet another “brilliant” statement that the Government "”cannot spend its way out of recession.”

Almost $2,000,000,000,000 dollars later, reality sets in that the Government doesn’t create jobs, business’ do.  We all know that Small Businesses are the economic engine of this country, yet Obama continues to “bash and tax” them into oblivion whilst simultaneously blaming them for lack of job creation.

As someone who’s started two small businesses, I can speak authoritatively on this issue in saying “of course they protect their profits, for without those profits small business would not be able to employ anyone in the first place, much less be the economic engine of this country.”  Profits drive growth which drives economic expansion and job creation.  It really is that simple, Obama must’ve been all ‘wee-wee’d up” during Economics 101.

The fact is also that laying off employees is typically the last thing most companies want to do.  The cost of recruiting, interviewing, hiring, training new employees and making them productive within a company are so exorbitant they often take two years or more to recover. 

So are small businesses reluctant to hire in this economic climate?  You bet they are, and for good reason: We’ve had two years worth of Obama bashing small businesses (one year as a “Candidate”) threatening to increase their taxes and “spread the wealth around.”

It doesn’t take an economic genius to know that this bozo’s economic policies are ruining this country, driving us further and further into debt and eventually the bills are going to come due via higher inflation and a further erosion of the dollar’s purchasing power.

Ronald Wilson Reagan had it exactly right when he said during his first inaugural address: “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
True then, true now.

Why Is Janet Napolitano Warning Al-Qaeda in America?

Credit: NewsMax.com

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned that al-Qaida followers are inside the U.S. and pose the threat of terrorist attacks on Americans.
“The fact is that home-based terrorism is here,” she said in an address to the American-Israel Friendship League in New York on Wednesday night.

I wondered why this “warning” had been issued, then I read several stories about a new muslim terrorist hijacking dry-run that occurred on November 27th on AirTran Flight 297 between Houston and Atlanta that at first sounded very suspicioius, but has since been confirmed by several people who were on the flight, one an employee of NASA named Tedd Petruna.

So my question here is, why is Janet Napolitano “warning” Al-Qaeda in America and not finding and killing the bastards instead?  Where is our national security?  Why are muslims even allowed in America at this point?

Obama’s dithering and mixed signals in winning the war on terror no doubt means we’re going to fighting Al-Qaeda here on our own soil soon vis a vis more 9-11 style attacks. Clearly this “President” doesn’t want to win and our enemies know it.

“Warning” them?  Let’s find ‘em, kill ‘em, wrap their dead bodies in pig skin and drop them off via airmail back home where they belong.

This political correctness bullshit is going to get us all killed.

Related Links:
Canada Free Press: Security Incident Aboard AirTran Flight 297 Suggests Terror “Dry Run”
Dallas Morning News: Language Misunderstanding or Terrorist Dry Run?

When Left-Wing Marxists Turn On Each Other

Obama’s Good Friend William Ayers Turns On Him

I’m always heartened when left-wing marxists who want to destroy America turn on each other.
Video is from Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago.  Watch as William Ayers turns on his good friend Barack Hussein Obama over the “troop surge” in Afghanistan.

I wonder if Ayers is going to hold fundraisers for Obama in 2012 after this.  Ayers by the way was the first prominent left-wing liberal marxist in Chicago to host a fundraiser for Obama when he began his U.S. Senate run in 2006. 

Ayers is also widely suspected as being the shadow writer of Obama’s “Dreams of my Father” due to the hundreds of similarities between Obama’s and Ayers’ “writing styles.”

It’s always fun to watch when the left-wing marxist wingnuts turn on each other isn’t it?

Obama best have the Secret Service check his mail for letter bombs after this.

Obama Surrenders Afghanistan

Announces Troop Surge, Withdrawal, Welcomes Taliban To The Table In Same Speech

One can only describe Obama’s speech at West Point yesterday as a stunning failure. 

As the television camera’s panned back and forth across the Cadets at West Point it was obvious that not only were they not impressed by the cheese eating surrender monkey in chief, they clearly recognized that this “President” was surrendering to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda terrorist organizations by announcing a withdrawal from Afghanistan in mid 2011.  It didn’t matter that the West Point Cadets were instructed by the West Point leadership to “respond enthusiastically” to Obama’s speech, they recognized surrender when they saw it and reacted accordingly.

Forget the fact that Obama announced a troop “surge” of 30,000 troops over 6 months (averaging 5,000 a month) up to June of 2010, completing the “build up” one year before his announced withdrawal starting in June of 2011, just in time for Obama to begin his campaign for re-election.  Great, let’s march our best and brightest into enemy territory only to have them march right back out a year later, and lesser in numbers.

The announcement of the ‘surge’ was completely overshadowed by Obama’s proclamation that he would welcome the Taliban to the negotiating table as long as they ‘rejected violence.’  These are the same Taliban that gave Osama Bin Laden safe haven before and after the 9-11-01 attacks on this country in which more than 3,000 people were brutally murdered in the largest terrorist attack not just on American soil, but in the history of Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist organization.

This “President” wants to give the Taliban a place at the table in Afghanistan’s government?  Surrender by any other name is still Surrender and you just know that somewhere that terrorist enabling Jimmy Carter is smiling in approval.

Related Links:
Der Spiegel Online: Obama’s Magic No Longer Works
Politico: Cheney Slams Obama for Projecting Weakness

Our Troops Are Dying!

Blue Star Mom Rips Obama in Video, Pleads For Afghan Troop Support

She calls herself “Debbie.”  She took her son to the airport on November 2nd to rejoin his outfit the 5th Stryker Brigade, 1-17 ID in Afghanistan.

Debbie’s son is described as a father of two young children, a son, brother, uncle and friend to many.
The video which lasts five minutes thirty-five seconds is dramatically illustrated with photo’s of the War in Afghanistan and many grieving families back home who have lost loved ones.
In the video, Debbie addresses Obama directly:

"As commander-in-chief you don't have the luxury to ponder this decision as if it were one of your many parties at the White House.
"Mr. Obama, as you fly around the world apologizing for America and try to get the Olympics in your hometown, and golf, and have party after party after party in the White House our men and women are dying and losing limbs in Afghanistan.
"By the way, how many golf games have you played? How many parties have you had? How many fundraisers and campaign events have you attended in the last ninety days since you were told we needed more troops?
"You said the war in Afghanistan was a war of necessity. I personally can never forgive you for misleading us. You made it sound like you were going to do what needed to be done to win in Afghanistan. Another lie. Instead you put them on the backburner in hopes of pushing through a health care reform that most of us don't even want.
"You left my son and all the other troops like sitting ducks. Mr. Obama you should be ashamed of yourself.

We ask you, our reader to click on the video and post your well wishes for Debbie and her son’s well being as the Obama Administration continues to dither on Afghanistan while America’s best continue to fight the good fight there.

As of now, this video has but 314 views.  Please spread the word and help this video go viral.

 

Fact Checking Sarah Palin’s Book “Going Rogue”

Associated Pravda Assigns Ten Writers To Comb Through Book, Ignores Obama’s Specious Claims About Economic Recovery

In yet another sign that the left-wing, liberal dominated continues to go completely bonkers at the mere mention of Sarah Palin’s name, ten Associated Press Pravda writers were put on the task of “fact checking” Palin’s new book “Going Rogue.”

Associated Pravda writers Matt Apuzzo, Sharon Theimer, Tom Raum, Rita Beamish, Beth Fouhy, H. Josef Hebert, Justin D. Pritchard, Garance Burke, Dan Joling and Lewis Shaine  were assigned to comb through all 432 pages (about 43 pages each) for so called ‘factual errors.’

Here’s a question: Has anyone at the Associated Press Pravda ever bothered to fact-check a single Obama statement about how he’s “created or saved” more than a million jobs with the implementation of his “economic plan?” (Nov. 13th, 2009)
Let’s fact-check Associated Pravda’s “fact checking” shall we?
Among their findings:

PALIN: Writes about a city councilman in Wasilla, Alaska, who owned a garbage truck company and tried to push through an ordinance requiring residents of new subdivisions to pay for trash removal instead of taking it to the dump for free — this to illustrate conflicts of interest she stood against as a public servant.
THE FACTS: As Wasilla mayor, Palin pressed for a special zoning exception so she could sell her family's $327,000 house, then did not keep a promise to remove a potential fire hazard on the property.

Is this an example of A.P.’s “fact checking” skills?  If so, it falls far short of the norm.  Rather than checking whether a city councilman in Wasilla Alaska tried forcing residents of new housing subdivisions as Palin claims, Associated Pravda goes right into character assassination mode by trying to detract the reader from the corruption Palin fought.  There is no indication here that Associated Pravda made even the weakest attempt at “fact checking.”  The entire article is replete with examples such as above, and even worse, some equivocations such as this:

PALIN: Boasts that she ran her campaign for governor on small donations, mostly from first-time givers, and turned back large checks from big donors if her campaign perceived a conflict of interest.
THE FACTS: Of the roughly $1.3 million she raised for her primary and general election campaigns for governor, more than half came from people and political action committees giving at least $500, according to an AP analysis of her campaign finance reports. The maximum that individual donors could give was $1,000; $2,000 for a PAC.

Is the A.P. serious here?  The overwhelming majority of Palin’s campaign contributions were $500 or less, which is HALF of the legal limit?  They’re seriously complaining about this?  Ok, so half her contributions were for $500, half the legal limit, which means the other half of her contributions were … what?  Oh, that’s right, the Associated Pravda doesn’t bother to check that out do they?  Those pesky little facts just get in their way.

Here’s a few more.

PALIN: Rails against taxpayer-financed bailouts, which she attributes to Obama. She recounts telling daughter Bristol that to succeed in business, "you'll have to be brave enough to fail."
THE FACTS: Palin is blurring the lines between Obama's stimulus plan — a $787 billion package of tax cuts, state aid, social programs and government contracts — and the federal bailout that Republican presidential candidate John McCain voted for and President George W. Bush signed.

The language of “blurring the lines” is not one of so-called “fact checkers”, rather it is the language of Democrat Party Apparatchik apologists.  The fact is Palin came out against tax payer funded bailouts of the banking and automobile industries, which in large partoccurred after the 2008 elections.  Who’s “blurring the lines” here?  None other than Associated Pravda.

PALIN: Says Ronald Reagan faced an even worse recession than the one that appears to be ending now, and "showed us how to get out of one. If you want real job growth, cut capital gains taxes and slay the death tax once and for all."
THE FACTS: The estate tax, which some call the death tax, was not repealed under Reagan and capital gains taxes are lower now than when Reagan was president.
Economists overwhelmingly say the current recession is far worse. The recession Reagan faced lasted for 16 months; this one is in its 23rd month. The recession of the early 1980s did not have a financial meltdown. Unemployment peaked at 10.8 percent, worse than the October 2009 high of 10.2 percent, but the jobless rate is still expected to climb.

Fact: Regan faced double-digit unemployment, double-digit hyper-inflation and energy shortages inherited from the Carter administration.  Somehow this doesn’t qualify as an ‘economic meltdown’ in the A.P.’s eyes.

Obama faces double-digit unemployment largely of his own making due to his failed economic policies which spent nearly $1,000,000,000,000 (that’s one trillion) dollars of taxpayer money without a single job created to show for it.  Obama’s continued “print more money” economic policies are contributing to the continued downfall of the American dollar, and his tax policies as reflected in “Cap and Trade” and “Health Care Reform” which are both small business killers due to their increased, record taxes.

The fact is Reagan knew how to end the recession of the early 80’s and did it.  He cut taxes and increased revenue to the Federal Government.  While it’s true that Reagan didn’t end the estate or “death” tax, the fact that the A.P. skipped is that Reagan had a DEMOCRAT CONGRESS that fought him at every turn.  It wasn’t until George W. Bush had a Republican Congress in the early 2000’s that the “death tax” was repealed.

Obama on the other hand is hell-bent on increasing taxes and the size and scope of the Federal Government, which is fully responsible for business’ downsizing at the rate of more than 500,000 jobs a month since January of this year when Obama took office.
Having read the entire Associated Pravda article I can easily go point by point and refute A.P.’s so called “facts” but I have a “three strikes and your out” rule that I apply to reading anything in the “mainstream media.”  If I find three factual errors that I can prove, the entire article is completely worthless.

Sorry Associated Press Pravda, three strikes and you’re out.

Excuses Wearing Thin For Obama, Media

Editors Note: Printed in Obama's Hometown Newspaper, The Chicago Sun Times Today, October 20th.

BY STEVE HUNTLEY

Have you heard the news? President Obama inherited an economic mess from the Bush administration.

You say that's hardly news? But it's been the message sounded over and over by the White House. Top Obama adviser David Axelrod said on one of the Sunday news shows, "He walked in the door, we had the worst economy since the Great Depression." In San Francisco, Obama talked of being "busy with our mop." White House heavy hitter Rahm Emanuel used the worst-economy-since-the-Depression line on a public TV news show.

You'd think it's October 2008, the final month in the Obama presidential candidacy, rather than October 2009, nine months into the Obama presidency. Yet the Obama White House is in full campaign mode -- maybe because it needs to mask the shortcomings of the Obama presidency.

Take, for example, all the talk of inheriting the worst economy since the 1930s crisis. That came in response to the news that the federal deficit hit $1.4 trillion.

Yet just a few months ago, the Obama camp was singing a little different tune. It was under criticism for the $787 billion stimulus package it bulldozed through Congress on grounds that massive spending was needed to keep the unemployment rate from breaching 8 percent. When joblessness hit 9.5 percent in June, Vice President Joe Biden said, "We misread how bad the economy was."

They inherited the worst economy since the Great Depression, or the economy turned out to be worse than they thought. Which is it? It can't be both -- unless your brain is completely addled by the Obama charisma.

Obama is still popular, but polls show the public losing faith in his policies. Another indicator was a ''Saturday Night Live'' skit lampooning Obama for the major accomplishments of his administration -- "jack and squat." If the honeymoon is ending with the American voter, it isn't for obsequious elements of the mainstream media. CNN prostrated itself by fact-checking the ''SNL'' comedy skit.

But that's harmless compared to the virulent campaign against Obama critics carried out by the denizens of MSNBC. Its Obama acolytes seek to demonize opponents of Obama's policies by focusing on most marginal corners of right-wing politics like, for example, the "birthers" who deny Obama is a natural born citizen. The larger scheme is to imply Obama critics are racists.

That's the backdrop to the story of Rush Limbaugh getting booted from a group bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams. He was smeared on CNN and MSNBC with false accusations of making two racist comments. He is an abrasive critic of Obama, so he must be racist, or so goes the left-wing story line. I wouldn't defend everything Limbaugh has ever said, but lies were used to blacklist him from professional football for his political views.

Recently an MSNBC personality accused the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of lobbying for policies that amount to being "treasonous to this country." Remember how liberals roared in outrage at any hint of their patriotism being questioned for criticizing the Iraq War? Well, it's the left that doesn't shy from attacking the patriotism of those it dislikes. Recall the repulsive Moveon.org "General Betray-us" ad against Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus. Recent opposition to Chicago's Olympic bid was cast as a sign of a lack of patriotism among Obama critics.

The MSNBC blast against the chamber appears to dovetail with what the Politico newspaper reports is a White House and Democratic effort "to marginalize" the business organization. That echoes the administration assault on the Fox News Channel: It says Fox isn't a news organization.

The White House trying to dictate who's a news organization. Democrats out to gut a business group. Obama media allies damning Americans as racist, unpatriotic and treasonous. Is this the America Obama promised when he campaigned to end the cynical and divisive politics of the past?

Editor: I'd given up on buying much less reading the Chicago newspapers because they've been so far in the tank for Obama it's been sickening. So imagine my surpise today when I pick up a leftover newspaper on the commuter train home from the City this evening and see the above article in the Sun Times. I wonder if the Obama Administration is now going to tell the rest of the newspapers around the country to ignore the Chicago Sun-Times because it isn't "real" journalism (read that: So far up Obama's ass they can't see daylight anymore.) If I were Steve Huntley, I'd hire someone to start my car in the morning. Surely the Obama Chicago style political thugs aren't going to like this article ...

Afghanistan: Obama's Viet Nam

If you're the President of the United States and you're confronted with losing the war in Afghanistan, what do you do?

Do you listen to your generals who are responsible to run and presumably win the war and give them the troops they're requesting to stop troop loss (read that: casualties) and stop advancement of the enemy (read that: Taliban) or do you spend more time on the Sunday talking head shows and in schools reading to children?

For Barack Hussein Obama, the answer apparantly is to spend more time on the talking head shows and reading to school children rather than listening to his Generals, one of which Obama himself appointed to run and win (read that: presumably win) the war in Afghanistan.

On CBS' "60 Minutes" last night, General McChrystal who was hand picked by Obama said that he'd only met with Obama "once" so far.

The likelihood that McChrystal will resign has gone up dramatically, and I suspect Charles Krauthammer was nothing less than prophetic on Sunday Morning in his statement indicating such.

Afghanistan is Obama's Viet Nam indeed.

Germany Elections: Conservatives Crush Liberals

No doubt we won't be hearing about this in the American media as Angela Merkel and her Conservative coalition have now scored a crushing defeat in the German Parliamentary Elections yesterday (Sunday) handing the German Left "Social Democrats" (the equivalent of Obama and the Democrats) their biggest defeat in decades.

How big of a defeat was it? Frank Walter Steinmeister, a leader of the Social Democrat Party called the election night "a bitter defeat" for the Social Democrats which suffered the worst decline ever by a party in a German Parliamentary Election.

If the Obama Administration and their socialism enabling Democrats are wondering what this means, it's this: Merkel will remain Chancellor in Germany and push hard on the very issues which she campaigned for which are tax relief, a simplification of Germany's tax code and enabling nuclear power plants to continue running past their Socialist Democrat mandated shut down dates to continue providing much needed power to Europe's largest economy.

This election also showed one more thing: The German Electorate had little appetite for the dramatic change that the Social Democrats (who Obama campaigned for last year) were trying to implement in the midst of one of Germany's harshest recessions since the great depression.

If there's a word to the wise here, it's that throwing out an entire economic system in favor of Government mandated Socialism is not the "Change" people around the world have wanted.

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Frank, Dodd and the rest of you.