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Topic: ´New Normal´ Of The U.S. Economy
Dumbs Down Excellence |
´New Normal´ Of The U.S. Economy
Dumbs Down Excellence
Investor´s Business Daily, by J. T. Young
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Posted By:SoCalGal, 11/26/2012 8:50:15 PM
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| The economy´s "new normal" is decidedly new, but certainly not normal. Statistic after statistic attests to the simultaneous downshifting of America´s economy and our expectations with it. Only by comparison can we put the current economy into true perspective. And only by doing so, can we hope to snap ourselves, and the economy, out of the current exercise of redefining mediocrity as excellence. October´s job figures are just the latest example of the "dumbing down" of America´s economy. An unemployment rate of 7.9% and a sub-200,000 job creation figure would not long ago have called for worried hand-wringing,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Patchy Groundfog, 11/26/2012 8:54:30 PM (No. 9035122)
You didn´t innovate that.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bighambone, 11/26/2012 9:17:32 PM (No. 9035130)
Well if you listened to a lot of Obama supporters before the election it was clear tat the last thing on their minds was a standard of excellence in anyway. All they said was Barack Obama "did the best he could" and that was enough for them to vote for him again.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Axeman, 11/26/2012 11:02:47 PM (No. 9035202)
It´s Bush´s fault.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
steveW, 11/27/2012 2:11:15 AM (No. 9035312)
Redefining mediocrity as excellence has been a Democrat project for decades and decades, culminating in the election of Obama in 2008 - the ultimate Celebration of Ignorance. 2012 was merely a confirmation that the stupid need to feel good about themselves for being stupid.
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The Internal Revenue Service last year supplied a left-leaning nonprofit charity with confidential information about conservative organizations, which the charity disseminated to the public, ProPublica reported yesterday. The charity in question was ProPublica itself. We should acknowledge that "left-leaning" is our characterization; ProPublica describes itself in its own tax filings as "entirely non-partisan and non-ideological." ProPublica is legally obliged to be nonpartisan, for it enjoys tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, which means that contributions to it are tax-deductible.
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If it is proven that the IRS thwarted some groups from obtaining tax-exempt status in fear that their traditional or conservative messages might hurt the 2012 Obama campaign (especially if it did so under pressure from White House-affiliated operatives), and if it is proven that the Obama administration deliberately ignored warnings about lax security at the Benghazi consulate, missed real opportunities to send help, or deliberately massaged intelligence reports in order to mislead the pre-election public about the true nature of Benghazi in order to further a false campaign narrative of a near dormant al-Qaeda
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I’ll post the video when available. (Wow, GOP Rapid Response got this video out really quickly)(Snip for Video)Here are some tweets as it took place: Throwing CIA under bus never works, ask every prior President–> payback leaks — Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) May 10, 2013 Carney: Should we have overruled the intelligence community?We relied on what they thought.Fighting words. — Guy Benson (@guypbenson) May 10, 2013 “These were intelligence community talking points” -Jay Carney — Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) May 10, 2013
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WASHINGTON - There were new questions Saturday night concerning if anyone in the White House was aware of the IRS´ targeting of conservative groups. Inspector General Russell George said he informed a deputy at the Treasury Department in June of 2012 about the probe into the IRS. The Treasury Department confirmed the timeline but said they did not know the details of the investigation until last week.(Snip)Marcus Owens ran the tax-exempt division at the IRS for 10 years. He said it isn´t difficult to figure out who´s doing what at the agency.
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