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Public Gloomy Ahead
of Obama Inaugural

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Mike Flynn

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Posted By:Dreadnought, 1/18/2013 11:37:08 PM

When Barack Obama first took the oath of office in 2009, he enjoyed around 70% approval ratings in the polls. His historic election had triggered a groundswell of hope and good feelings about his first term. By overwhelming majorities, Americans were hopeful about the future. Just days before his second inauguration, however, a new poll from The Hill finds that the public is much more pessimistic about the next four years. Just 18% of voters believe that Obama´s first term exceeded their expectations. 80% feel the first term fell below or simply met

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: pickle1, 1/18/2013 11:53:23 PM     (No. 9125695)

Impeach and throw him in jail.


Reply 2 - Posted by: PageTurner, 1/19/2013 12:08:06 AM     (No. 9125704)

Oh, but Obama will assure us the economy is getting better. Isn´t that enough? /s


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: cmardh, 1/19/2013 12:10:23 AM     (No. 9125705)

You know, I still can´t get my head around this election. There is something so WRONG about the whole thing. Massive fraud, an incredible acceptance by the Romney camp -("oh I lost? OK.). Dems don´t do that. No One is excited about the Inauguration. The whole thing is just weird.


Reply 4 - Posted by: smcchk, 1/19/2013 12:51:58 AM     (No. 9125725)

#3, several people said that to me the day after the election. These folks, Romney voters but working in Obama environments, commented that no one was happy with Obama´s re-election. Will we ever know anything about this creep?


Reply 5 - Posted by: Cato the elder, 1/19/2013 1:41:38 AM     (No. 9125739)

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken


Reply 6 - Posted by: The Advocate, 1/19/2013 1:45:19 AM     (No. 9125742)

There is nothing to celebrate.
Exposé, try, convict and execute.


Reply 7 - Posted by: avikingman, 1/19/2013 2:06:21 AM     (No. 9125754)

Not gloomy. Utter disbelief and PO´d that this incompetent is POTUS.
Not in a million years did I ever think I´d see this day. And two terms yet!

We survived FDR, just barely, and his grimy fingernails still grasp at us, but this guy is something else. And it´s not pretty.

Where is our Reagan? Where is our Churchill?
Where are our statesmen?


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: Charactercounts, 1/19/2013 2:31:32 AM     (No. 9125762)

They´re going to be a lot gloomier after. This bozo has a lot more flexibility now.


Reply 9 - Posted by: Spidey, 1/19/2013 4:47:30 AM     (No. 9125806)

I don´t even know how you conduct a poll like this when half the country had no expectations of him the first time. You have to be a real sap to believe any of Obama´s deceitful,false promises of Utopianism.

Still,there´s enough people clinging to Obama because the alternative is getting a job,something unemployed leftists dread.

If conservatives got duped by a false god president,they would be the first ones to come out and attack the person,yet no one on the left will call Obama out on his composite of failures.

It should have been a tip off when Obama bowled a 34.


Reply 10 - Posted by: steveW, 1/19/2013 6:18:29 AM     (No. 9125857)

Oddly, no Democrat has demanded that the Obama Inaugural be declared a gun-free zone, so Dear Leader can show his solidarity with "the children". Come on, Democrats - show us how much you care and demand a Gun-Free Obama Inaugural! Be honest for once, and show us how good your intentions are..


Reply 11 - Posted by: ruready?, 1/19/2013 7:46:30 AM     (No. 9125928)

Hope he stays with his gun control shtick. If he does, his ego and ideology may melt him down like the wicked witch of the west.


Reply 12 - Posted by: suncitypro, 1/19/2013 8:01:44 AM     (No. 9125944)

When the hollywood types are not coming to the ball, that tells you that the bloom is off the rose. But our tax dollars will be freely spent to entertain the grabbers who do show. I hope that the #1 post comes to pass.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: hamrman, 1/19/2013 8:15:01 AM     (No. 9125960)

Wouldn´t it be hailarious if O like Jim Carey in Liar, Liar had to tell the truth during both his inaugural speech and State of the Union address...the Sheeple would be confounded!


Reply 14 - Posted by: Sinatra5, 1/19/2013 8:27:56 AM     (No. 9125986)

....It gets worse. I heard yesterday that one of my favorite C & W stars is playing at this "event" - Brad Pasiley. I can see the other clowns jumping around for BO, but Brad Paisley? Guess I´ll just have to cross him off my list.


Reply 15 - Posted by: Adam, 1/19/2013 8:35:08 AM     (No. 9125999)

I have no sympathy for the majority of voters. NONE. By any objective measure, his first term sucked. And you morons imposed him on us. now it will get even worse. to paraphrase Ed Koch, "the people reelected him and now the people must be punished"


Reply 16 - Posted by: Coy860, 1/19/2013 8:36:56 AM     (No. 9126002)

Never mind his speech !
Keep a close watch on his behavior. He is spending us into oblivion, he has messed up foreign policy, he is attacking our Liberty and dismanteling the Constitution, and starving our military of necessary funds, while performing social experiments sure to hurt the military. He refuses to close our border and wants to play Santa Claus to illegals and give free things to his people, all the while squeezing those of us still left out there with paying jobs, and messing up royally the greatest Medical Care system in the World. That is what he has DONE..trust the behavior which darn sure doesn´t match the words.


Reply 17 - Posted by: franq, 1/19/2013 8:48:53 AM     (No. 9126021)

Can´t wait to miss his "speech". I predict it will be the same head-swiveling, lisping blather we´ve grown used to. Look for the same cliches: best is ahead of us, accomplished much fixing the mess I inherited, still far to go, safer schools for kids, etc. One I don´t expect he´ll used is "focused like a laser".


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: jofel, 1/19/2013 9:21:46 AM     (No. 9126122)

#14 I´ve known that Paisley was an Obama lover for some time, I believe performers are so busy working on their material, they do not pay attention like we do. I also blame his actress wife has something to do with this. I never liked his stupid so-called songs.


Reply 19 - Posted by: synchronicity, 1/19/2013 9:32:11 AM     (No. 9126148)

I´ve been doing a lot of reading and thinking since Romney lost, trying to make some sense out of what appears senseless. My current theory is that psychologically our nation is mimicking Germany pre-WW II. The irrational has been embraced by the majority of voting Americans who have given unlimited power to those in charge as long as they champion the irrational. Carl Jung would say this is the result of not consciously acknowledging the shadow (the evil within all humans - not believing it exists) which will inevitably lead to man´s shadow getting stronger and manifesting in the world since it has been repressed / not recognized and dealt with by the individual.

Long story short - the only way this can now play out since a critical mass has been reached is a whole lot of really bad stuff has to happen until such time that the irrational has been exhausted and the survivors stare in disbelief over the wasteland their ignorance created.


Reply 20 - Posted by: AutumnJoy, 1/19/2013 9:35:09 AM     (No. 9126156)

FTA: "[The Won] won reelection by a narrow but solid margin" I have been wondering since the election, just WHAT is a "narrow but solid" margin? What made this particular narrow margin "solid"? Can someone explain this to me? /s/


Reply 21 - Posted by: Grambo, 1/19/2013 9:41:52 AM     (No. 9126184)

How I wish those electronic voting machines had been quarantined and subjected to forensic analysis.


Reply 22 - Posted by: pineledger, 1/19/2013 10:06:46 AM     (No. 9126234)

19, if you read The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy, you will be even more convinced of your theory. It is a book everyone -- even though we may despise the Kennedys -- should read.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: lil dotty, 1/19/2013 10:10:09 AM     (No. 9126244)

The ´Transformer´ has misplaced significant parts of America as he attempted to transform OUR AMERICA into his version This inauguration is a farce, just like he.


Reply 24 - Posted by: chicodon, 1/19/2013 10:15:24 AM     (No. 9126258)

A complete revamp of the voting process is called for. Picture Voter ID. Certify that voter rolls are purged of dead voters. No more early voting where SEIU can ferry voters to the polls for days on end. At least this would be a start. And yes, I´m suggesting the election was stolen.


Reply 25 - Posted by: mickturn, 1/19/2013 10:42:12 AM     (No. 9126314)

Hey dim morons, how´s that skinny paycheck working out for ya? Wait for it...wait for it...it gets worse!


Reply 26 - Posted by: Republic Can, 1/19/2013 10:43:12 AM     (No. 9126317)

Contradictory on its face: 18% to 80% in the polls, yet zero won it by a "narrow but solid" margin.

The election was more than stolen. It had been engineered at least since the debates. Zero could hardly muster the gumption to argue with Romney at the first debate because he knew it was in the bag then.

Unfortunately, everything in America must now be postponed while we get our vote back.

The election was engineered. It was our vote that was stolen, and with it, the lives of our fathers who bought it for us with their futures.

This is America´s blood libel.


Reply 27 - Posted by: Poliskeptic, 1/19/2013 11:16:33 AM     (No. 9126394)

I grimaced when I read he won "by a solid majority." Just this week I talked to another hard-core Democrat who said Romney was the first Republican she had ever voted for. Obama ´won´ by voter fraud....pure and simple....he knows it but still wants to lord his ´victory´ over all of us and shove his agenda down our throats.


Reply 28 - Posted by: synchronicity, 1/19/2013 11:27:25 AM     (No. 9126425)

Since #22 believes I may be on to something, let me paraphrase what Jung would probably say about our present situation:

Loss of roots and lack of tradition just ask for neurosis and thus prepares the ground for mass hysteria which will result in individual liberty vanishing and terrorization to begin.


Reply 29 - Posted by: O.S. Banker, 1/19/2013 11:36:54 AM     (No. 9126444)

In re #7, Churchill had Kipling. Reagan had Zane Grey. Today we have Jay Z. Like it or not, the Culture drives the politics, and with the exception of parts of Nashville and Regnery Press, conservatives are not driving the culture.


Reply 30 - Posted by: Ken M., 1/19/2013 11:37:58 AM     (No. 9126445)

Inauguration, coronation whatever; I don´t give a bleep and could not care less. Tomorrow is Championship Sunday and my TV will be set to football only.


Reply 31 - Posted by: Boneshaker, 1/19/2013 11:38:30 AM     (No. 9126448)

It is astounding and depressing to see how simple and gullible the majority of Americans have become.

There was a time when Americans were known as sharp bargainers and hard to fool or get the better of.

Now we look out and see a nation largely peopled by drooling nincompoops, eager for a chance to follow a black-skinned charlatan because it feels good and proves (to themselves) that they aren´t racists.
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Reply 32 - Posted by: RedLegLeader68, 1/19/2013 11:40:14 AM     (No. 9126450)

What #24, and on down, said!

I simply do not believe that this "narrow" victory was anywhere near "solid." For those of us old enough, harken back to the 1960 election and review the IL results which "gave" us JFK.

Just sayin´ ..


Reply 33 - Posted by: Cleanhousein2012, 1/19/2013 11:56:13 AM     (No. 9126489)

19 - it is really simple. Romney was a lousy candidate. He might have been the best guy for the job, but a lousy candidate. His campaign did everything they could to disintermediate the Conservative voters, and he never was going to overcome the rich, evil white guy label that everyone knew was going to be coming and he´s as dynamic as milquetoast.

With Romney, the Repubs didn´t have someone who was going to be able to overcome the fraud, and ground game that the Dems had set up.

And now, the Republican Party is movijng faster, following in his footsteps, disintermediating the Conservatives in the party, and doing nothing but appearing to be "almost Democrats".

Think it´s ugly now. Just wait till 2015.
Cleanhousein2012


Reply 34 - Posted by: Nevadadad46, 1/19/2013 12:38:20 PM     (No. 9126566)

It will be loaded with lies- that´s a given. And, I am now part of a pool on how many times he uses the words, "me", "I´, "my" and "personally"- I have a high one; 243 times. I´ve already had offers for my number in trade.


Reply 35 - Posted by: Timber Queen, 1/19/2013 2:13:19 PM     (No. 9126702)

#19/28 – I have also been trying to make sense of the senseless, and concur with your current theory. The parallel between our times and pre-WWII Germany has been pointed out by many Ldotters over the last four years, but your reference to Jung provides a explanation for our current societal psychology, and its inevitable chilling conclusion.

We are all well aware of the progressive’s century-long dismantling of our American traditions, and tearing our cultural roots from the soil of liberty. They were able to accomplish this by convincing people that evil does not exist and therefore need not be acknowledged or addressed by moral discipline. I believe Pope Leo XIII warned that the greatest accomplishment of satan in modern times was convincing people he did not exist. He said this at the turn of the 20th century. This is not a new problem.

I remember the nuns in school teaching us about the importance of a daily examination of conscience, including identifying our motives and particular temptations. We were expected to know our weaknesses and to avoid “the near occasions of sin.” We were to be responsible for the content of what we chose for entertainment; reading, TV, movies, activities. If we gave in to our moral weaknesses, if we did not resist temptation, if we followed unbridled passions, we would experience the “just consequences.”

And so as #28 observes, “Loss of roots and lack of tradition just ask for neurosis and thus prepares the ground for mass hysteria which will result in individual liberty vanishing and terrorization to begin.”

God have mercy on America.


Reply 36 - Posted by: redwhite&blue2, 1/19/2013 3:14:24 PM     (No. 9126808)

Who in their right mind would have bet on a Kenyan mulatto ARAB foreign exchange student getting elected and re-elected President of the DSA(Divided States of America) not long after ARABS flew two airplanes into the WTC and killed thousands of innocent men, women, and children? "My Muslim Religion"...remember that? "57 states"..remember that? "Fundamentally transorm America"...remember that?

Are we all in BIZARRO world? What the hell happened to my country? I used to be such a proud veteran, but now? Not so much.....

Semper Paratus


Reply 37 - Posted by: globalwarmer, 1/19/2013 4:33:45 PM     (No. 9126901)

Public gloomy? Ha! The "public" hasn´t seen anything yet. Get ready for confiscatory taxes and idiotic social programs the like of which you´ve never dreamed. Thanks for saddling us with four more years of this aberration.


Reply 38 - Posted by: hamrman, 1/19/2013 5:01:24 PM     (No. 9126941)

They should be, this guy is destroying us...


Reply 39 - Posted by: shrugger, 1/19/2013 5:34:56 PM     (No. 9126985)

A group of words continue to bother me since the final election count.
Phonetically, maybe, but I´ll try.
Eli Eli lama sabathcanee....


Reply 40 - Posted by: FormerDem, 1/19/2013 5:47:04 PM     (No. 9126993)

He won because he cheated. But look on the bright side - the power of the Feds grew when they were trustworthy and that was dangerous. Let´s decentralize. You can squeeze a rock but you can´t squeeze sand.


Reply 41 - Posted by: KanCreeper, 1/19/2013 6:20:32 PM     (No. 9127021)

Like many I am really bothered by the election (Fraudlently?) by Obama.
1.) according to the Daily Mail @ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210323/Obama-family-costs-taxpayers-1-4BILLION-year.html
The Obamas cost this Country $1.4 Billion a year.
2.) No one EVER discusses his Health? WHY?
3.) Notice how he never seems to stay around the WH very often or for long periods?
4.) Wonder why they have ordered a large number of buses to block his parade route down Penna. Ave after he´s sworn in?
5.) There was only a brief mention and then nothing; on the fact that they found a bullet in the door face of the Truman Balcony last year. ( where Zippy goes to sneak a smoke.)
6.) For a sitting President, his behavior seems to suggest that he is running scared as hell, and afraid for himself.
7.)It all seems to point to the fact that Zippy has to wonder IF something were to happen ( ala Pres. Reagan) WOULD those SSA´s really step up and take a hit for an avowed Socialist Community Organizer Commie?
8.) NO wonder he bobs and weaves around...I would not be him for all the tea in China.


Reply 42 - Posted by: rocco49, 1/19/2013 7:05:11 PM     (No. 9127085)

So you think he´s gonna get it?


Reply 43 - Posted by: srhcb, 1/19/2013 7:09:28 PM     (No. 9127097)

I work in a professional office and volunteer at the local Salvation Army. I talk with a broad spectrum of people every day.

I haven´t heard anyone say they give a damn about Obama´s Inaugural.


Reply 44 - Posted by: OregonBoomerGirl, 1/19/2013 7:24:40 PM     (No. 9127112)

On OReilly last night he talked about the inevibility of the economy crashing soon because of the unsustainable debt, and how all our money and assets will be worthless. What I want to know is, why don´t members of the media care about this - they all have a lot of assets. I only conclude that they don´t believe it will happen, they engage in magical thinking.

I too notice that Obama spends very little time at the Whitehouse, he gallivants around far too much to be able to be really running the country. Therefore, it´s Jarrett and all the toadies and ivy league pointyheads making decisions. Then you look at how idiotic so many congress members are, and we get a realistic picture of what our government is comprised of, and it is sickening.

I have been robbed of my hope and my pride in this country, and I know the next four years will be hell. How he won re-election I will never, ever understand. But it has sealed our fate, I´m afraid.


Reply 45 - Posted by: eorsc, 1/19/2013 7:32:11 PM     (No. 9127124)

But-but-Jamie Foxx said Obama is our Lord and Savior. The same guy who can´t get up in public without making racist remarks. Obama set race relations back 50 years and Foxx is cheering him on!


Reply 46 - Posted by: EnsignO´Toole, 1/19/2013 7:45:55 PM     (No. 9127139)

#42´s questions are excellent ones, and if we had true journalists, some of them might be answered. Just as other Ldotters, I am still in disbelief that Obama won re-election. However, I do remember him stating very confidently that he would win - it struck me as odd at the time he said it because his and Romney´s numbers were so close. There was a certainty when he said it, and it wasn´t false bravado. Everything about the man is creepy.


Reply 47 - Posted by: nimby, 1/19/2013 10:37:07 PM     (No. 9127303)

Does anyone seriously believe this cr@p?


Reply 48 - Posted by: Penney, 1/19/2013 11:55:03 PM     (No. 9127359)

´There is no joy in Mudville.´ The 0bama Administration has struck o-u-t.


Reply 49 - Posted by: WhatMediaBias, 1/20/2013 10:23:46 AM     (No. 9127900)

Nov. 6, 2012: The day democracy died.


Reply 50 - Posted by: pete moss, 1/20/2013 10:39:07 AM     (No. 9127921)

"I have been robbed of my hope and my pride in this country, and I know the next four years will be hell. How he won re-election I will never, ever understand. But it has sealed our fate, I´m afraid."

The next four years will be hell and then the next four years after that will be even worse. Hillary Clinton... Andrew Cuomo....? Who will the Republican idiots run? That fat slob Chris Christie? Maybe they´ll run that total surrender monkey, idiot John McCain again!!! We need to find a REAL candidate. I don´t know, at this point who that would be, but it needs to someone who is not a carbon copy of the Demonrats.




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Daily Mail (UK), by Margot Peppers    Original Article
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Michelle Obama has admitted that she is already tired of the bangs she first sported in January. The First Lady said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight: ´Bangs are a day-by-day proposition. They´re starting to grow out, get a little irritating.´ Still, she hasn´t let her hairdo woes get her down. ´It´s okay,´ she said after her initial complaint. ´We´ll be good.´ The first indication that her hairstyle was becoming a burden came about last weekend, when Malia, 14, was spotted adjusting her mother´s hair during the White House Easter Egg Roll.

Why Obama´s ´Best-Looking Attorney
General´ Comment Was a Gaffe

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The Atlantic, by Garance Franke-Ruta    Original Article
Posted By: Oblio- 4/6/2013 6:51:15 AM     Post Reply
President Obama´s biggest gaffe yesterday when speaking of California Attorney General Kamala Harris was not in flirtatiously complimenting her as "the best-looking attorney general," but in introducing an observation from the system of beauty into a forum that was about the system of power.What´s that, you say? Irin Carmon does a great job in Salon in laying out the bounds of propriety for when it´s appropriate to talk about a woman´s looks as a general matter. But I´ve long felt we lack a solid theoretical underpinning for easily discussing these issues, and why precisely it is that

We are living in a dying country (Thread 2)
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Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh    Original Article
Posted By: LComStaff- 4/7/2013 6:49:54 AM     Post Reply
This is the second thread of an article posted yesterday which can be found here:http://lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=730032

McCain: ´I don´t understand´
GOP filibuster on guns

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Politico, by Jennifer Epstein    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:18:14 PM     Post Reply
Sen. John McCain says he doesn´t understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns. "I don´t understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” "What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"

Hillary Clinton Would Not
´Clear the Field´ for 2016

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New Republic, by Tod Lindberg    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 4/6/2013 5:22:36 AM     Post Reply
No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton´s 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren´t the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don´t know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.” It´s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton´s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent

Obama critic apologizes for
his ´poorly chosen words´
on gay marriage

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The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/6/2013 12:18:19 PM     Post Reply
Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,

Mother Of Slain Benghazi
Officer To Sean Hannity:
‘They Want Me To Shut Up’

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Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 4/7/2013 5:00:16 AM     Post Reply
On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,

Vanishing workforce
weighs on growth

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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM     Post Reply
Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank

White House Blames Jobs
Numbers on Sequester

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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/5/2013 8:02:58 PM     Post Reply
The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus of 663,000 workers left the U.S. workforce last month and that job creation fell 112,000 jobs short of projections, Obama’s top economic adviser Alan B. Krueger, took to the White House blog to blame the sequester: It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look

The Secrets of Princeton
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat    Original Article
Posted By: Oblio- 4/7/2013 8:08:09 AM     Post Reply
Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —

Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th
anniversary in Havana, Cuba

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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad    Original Article
Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM     Post Reply
Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for

Obama Budget to Cap Retirement
Accounts at $3 Million

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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 9:40:39 PM     Post Reply
The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per


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