Sunday Cartoons

from townhall.com

Why looking at only the unemployment rate is not smart

The unemployment rate decrease from 10.0% to 9.7% in January while 20,000 people lost their job. Some people are saying the lowering of the rate shows that the stimulus is working and America needs more government stimulus.

Let us look at some facts about 2009 and jobs.

Latest jobs data from the St. Louis fed.

US employment by sector
Total nonfarm job = a loss of 4,022,000 jobs in 2009

Total US Govt jobs = a loss of 116,000 jobs in 2009, total shock here, guess the states and local governments did some cutting to offset the federal government increased employment.

Total Private job = loss of 3,906,000 jobs in 2009

Unemployment rate = 9.7% in January – tongue in cheek – yea!!!!

Civilian Employment-Population Ratio – down 2.2% year over year. This means less people are looking for jobs in January 2010 vs January 2009.

Unemployment is going down because fewer people are looking for work, no because businesses are being hired.

references for data
Establishment Survey Data
The Employment Situation
Economic news release from labor bureau

All this is occurring while the government is spending money faster than they can borrow and print it.
debt clock

Trillions for Global Warming Hoax, Nothing for NASA

Nice article from Newsmax and explains the current governments priorities very well.
Trillions for Global Warming Hoax, Nothing for NASA

China’s economy to collapse???

A good news article at politico.

Is China headed toward collapse?

Chang argues that inconsistencies in Chinese official statistics — like the surging numbers for car sales but flat statistics for gasoline consumption — indicate that the Chinese are simply cooking their books. He speculates that Chinese state-run companies are buying fleets of cars and simply storing them in giant parking lots in order to generate apparent growth.

The world economy is on the brink due to debt of governments, they loan each other fake paper money and then pretend everything is OK.

universal health care political cartoons

Cartoon on Global Warming

Saw this on townhall and could not stop laughing.

If you want to read a good presentation on “real” global warming science. Read this Power Point.

Slaughter does nothing

Will I have been looking for a month or more to find what Louise Slaughter does. What I have found is pretty much nothing but collect pay checks.

Can’t report on someone who does nothing but hide.

Going to go back to general topics

Charge of direction for Blog – anyone but Lousie Slaughter

I have not had time all summer to put any entries in my Blog for a variety of reasons. The main one being that very few positive things are going on in my local area (Rochester, NY) the nation or the world stage and I got fed up with all the negative thoughts.

After discussions with my wife I (we) are going to redirect the efforts of our blog with the goal being that Louise Slaughter, our representative in the House of Representatives, that is so far out of touch with reality that she refuses to meet with her constituents during the her vacations for her hard work (HAHA) as head of the rules committee in the House. The rules committee is basically the lapdog committee to the speaker of the house. Louise is not one any other committees so her only task is trying to figure out when votes are to be held on the floor of the house. Pretty much when Pelosi tells her to schedule the vote.

My Goal is to bring her real record to the light of day of the voters since she does so little that there is no news on her and she gets elected because of one of the worst cases of gerrymandering in the history of America. map of district.

Her inconsistency and for not taking care of her district while spending taxpayer money everywhere else in the country makes her a bad representative.

One example of her hypocrisy
She was against a project in downtown Rochester call Renaissance Square. I agree with her that is would have been the biggest waste of taxpayer dollars. Ren Square was a project to build a auxiliary campus for the local community college, make an underground bus terminal for the RTS (local public bus company) and a performing arts theater.

The two main reason for being against the project were:
1)the bus terminal was not where the local Amtrak station is located so she was against the project
2) She was against the theater portion of the project.

At the time she was doing interviews in the local media and talking with local politicians, noted here and here she was saying the only way to make the economy recover is for investment in the arts.

… Representative Louise M. Slaughter, a New York Democrat who is co-chairwoman of the Congressional Arts Caucus. “If we’re trying to stimulate the economy, and get money into the Treasury, nothing does that better than art.”

Last 2 weeks of News

I have been MIA the last two weeks, to much work and to do at home in the nice Spring weather to spend time on the computer.

1) California Supreme court rules Prop 8 is a “legal” amendment but stating the only the term marriage is what was made illegal for same sex couples in California. This is a ruling I actual agree with. Marriage is a religious term and should be taken totally out of the Governments hands. The government should create a mutual support contract to be filed with a government agency to give the “marriage rights” to any two people who want to enter such a relationship. Also a dissolution of the mutual support contract form and process would be needed. No need for lawyers or courts. Just a notarized form.
A good legal analysis can be found here.

2) Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, A normal far left wing hack job who thinks that they no better than anyone else what is “good” and “just” for all without any regard for the actual law.

3) Government Motors is now bankrupt. Big shock here, a poorly managed company for the last 30 years that has a huge union presence so short and long term costs can’t be controlled. To bad it will result in a motor company which is fascist in nature, supposedly privately owned by run by the government.

4) Obama stumping for his health care plans passage this summer before the bill is even written. The plan is here but there are no specifics. Normal politics, talk, give speech, no substance and rush through a plan in the darkness of night that nobody can read or comprehend since a true debate of the bill will result in it being something a vast majority of US citizen’s do not want.

5) North Korea leaves the peace Armistice, blows up a nuclear weapon and tests some long range missiles, the US response, maybe we can get a harsher worded letter to be considered at the UN but no passed. While this is going on make statements that this is not tolerable and North Korea is a rogue state, yada yada yada, nothing changed in 20 years on this front.

Searching for a silver lining but do not see anywhere that people are being told to be responsible for themselves and live with the consequences of poor decision making. Another couple of weeks on the road to fascism.

Maybe Obama Finally gets it

Obama Says U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’

May 14 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.

“We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. “We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.”

Holders of U.S. debt will eventually “get tired” of buying it, causing interest rates on everything from auto loans to home mortgages to increase, Obama said. “It will have a dampening effect on our economy.”
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Us conservatives have been railing against government spending for many, many years and have been saying it is not long term sustainable and will cause huge inflation and high interest rates.

We will see if he actually does cut government costs significantly (25-50%) or is another lip service politician which says one thing and does another, like add a few trillion more in government spending for universal health insurance for the 3 or 4 million American citizens which do not have insurance for the long term.

Adding the 12 to 15 million uninsured illegal immigrants will bankrupt any government system. The other 12 to 15 million which are already eligible for government insurance (SCHIP or MEDICAID) and do not use those programs. That is 25 to 30 million of the 45 million the Single Payer Health insurance people talk about, then there are 10 million transient people (between insurance coverage) and 5 to 10 million who do not choose to buy health insurance.