The Wisconsin Layoffs

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The Wisconsin layoffs of teachers and other education workers who have be protesting for the last week or so should have come down yesterday. Since the Democrat representatives who should have been there to pass the spending cuts bill had fled to another state, and were camping out in order to not allow a vote, Governor Walker really had no choice but to begin laying off staff in order to cover the shortfall. He really had no choice. but if you ask me, he has already been much too tolerant of the protests and violence, both verbal and physical abuse which people have been subjected to over the course of these protests. And now, their time has run out, and the result of the Democrats fleeing the state, the results were far worse for the staff effected. In the end, its the teachers who will suffer, not the lawmakers. And isn't that typical?

917 - WI Layoffs Today - America Not In Decline - Michael Moore Eats The Rich

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On Today's Show:

• With luck, Governor Walker, Wisconsin Governor, will lay off a number of public employees today because the cowardly Democrats wont come back to Madison to vote on a bill. Been of to long already if you ask me - should have been done earlier. Remember, Governor Walker's fight is our fight


• America, despite all of the mainstream media and Obama administrations ministrations, in not in decline, it is only them who wish it so and are now trying to make it come to pass. Lets not let them


• Michael Moore comes out and says that rich peoples wealth is a national resource. Does that mean he should give all of of his wealth? No, he's talking about other rich people, I bet.


• We are too tolerant of these liberals: they push back on even the smallest cuts. We need to be zero tolerance.

Jobless Claim Drops: Recovery?

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When I see things like politicians harping that they are being successful because the reports show that jobless claims are dropping, I usually chuckle sadly. Jobless claims are not a true indication of an economy improving, in fact in this case, its most likely people dropping off the roles because their benefits have run out and they can no longer claim them. More and more people every day are facing the reality that there are no jobs, Obama’s much vaunted stimulus program did not create any jobs, and if they do get another job, its most likely a much lower paying position, where they may not be able to meet their mortgage or rent obligations. The economy is not in recovery. A recovery is much different from this. And the sad fact is that Obama knows exactly what he needs to do in order to turn around the economy and he either a) does not do it for ideological reasons  or b) is waiting until closer to the next election so he can claim the recovery as his own and be re-elected. Either way, millions will lose their cars, homes and family, while this failed leader schmoozes, dances and golfs his way through his term.

No Gas or Trains. How Do We Get To Work. Part 2

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Gas too expensive to drive. Trains unavailable to take. What, is Obama trying to drive us into unemployment and welfare? Or just trying to make our lives so hard that all we have the capacity to think about is surviving, and not have the time to take political action.

Take is from me, as a ex-Canadian, the government PURPOSELY tries to make your life as difficult as possible. Here’s my reasoning: if your life is difficult, if you are simply spending all of your time attempting to survive, you won’t have any time left over in order to challenge the government. If you are spending all your time in 3 jobs trying to pay for your gas and mortgage, when will you have time to join a Tea Party protest.

They want our lives to be as difficult as possible. Its another way to keep us repressed, just like the people of Egypt, Libya and the like. We are not unlike them, at all.

Unions: Fighting The People

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Did you know that in the private sector, only about 6% of employees are unionized? In the public sector, 36% are unionized? This tells us two things: first of all, the power of unions is way less that we originally thought. Judging by all of the reporting and screaming and shouting, it would lead you to believe that there are more people in unions than not. That is obviously not true: unions members are in the minority of workers, in both the private and public sector. And secondly, the unions are usually portrayed as supporting the common man or the middle class, against unfeeling, nasty, corporate overlords. The reality is that those “mean corporate overlords” are a tiny minority, of all business (I’m sure most businesses do care more for their employees, even in unionized industries). Most of those unions rail against the state, which is supposed to represent the people. So when you see public sector unions railing against their employer, calling them Hitler, etc, they are really talking to you. They are fighting the people.

Obama Should Bow To American Businessmen, Not Tyrants

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Obama met yesterday with some titans of industry here in Silicon Valley (just a stones throw from where I live here in Freedom Bunker, CA). While I didn’t get to see the motorcade or any of the guests, I did hear that some of the best and brightest (heads of Facebook, Google, Twitter etc) met with Obama, ostensibly about job creation.

I hope that they didn’t just pay lip service to the President and just tell him what he wanted to hear instead of the truth, which is : “If you want to create jobs, just get out of our way and let us do it”. These business leaders have created hundreds of thousands of jobs, which a mere 5-10 years ago didn’t even exist.

So if you ask me, Obama should quit bowing deeply to the tyrants and other political leaders of the world. He SHOULD however be bowing deeply to the American Businessman, who he reviles so much, as it is the AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN who will in the end save his bacon, if there is any bacon left to be saved, that is.

Budget Proves Obama Unfit

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This budget is a joke. There is really nothing in it which addresses the big issues, nothing that hits at what needs to be hit at: such as cuts to entitlement spending, as well as the defense budget cuts. Where is the Republican response to the budget? We need it yesterday, but it’s coming in March. If this is truly a negotiation tactic, and not a real budget (many pundits have said that this budget is not truly serious, but a starting point for negotiations) then the reality is that Obama is simply playing games with us, our country and our future. He released this budget knowing full well that it would make matters worse, so he could claim a victory by compromise. The issue is though, it tells us volumes about him, that he will never take serious steps on his own to improve our fiscal crisis. He is unfit to be president.

Does Obama Actually Want Lower Unemployment?

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Sometimes I wonder, with the actions that this administration is taking against the American people, that Obama really wants to reduce unemployment.

I mean, did someone forget to tell him that, like golf, (which he is intimately familiar with) that a LOWER number is better than a higher number? Maybe all of this time he thought we should be shooting for a higher number?

Well, maybe some of this is not a joke: if you think about it: the more people that are on the dole in some way or another, the less and less have the skills and motivation to find a job: when you have been out of work for 1, 2, or 3+ years, you have adjusted to life on unemployment or welfare.

The more and more people who gain their lifestyle from the state, the more and more people will what to continue to support the state. If the government is paying you, why would you want to do anything to bite the hand that feeds you? The ultimate goal is to enlarge the welfare state as much as possible, so a higher unemployment number for him is actually a Good Thing.