Probably another day with very little GB, I'm sorry to say. Savor it while it lasts, leftists!
Firstly - Ha ha!
Studies show that the card check bill is a jobs killer - likely increasing the US unemployment rate and decreasing job creation.
There's a study out there which says that stimulus spending on infrastructure has had no effect on local unemployment. It has also had little effect on the construction industry, which has already seen a $75 billion stimulus.
You can read details of the study here, but this is the bottom line: Since the stimulus bill was passed almost a year ago, there has been no connection between stimulus money spent and the number of construction workers hired or fired. If you compare counties that received the most stimulus money per capita for road construction, and those that didn't receive any money ... there is no, I repeat, no difference in unemployment trends between the counties.
When it comes to all of this government spending and stimulus and supposed jobs "created or saved" ... the Obama administration has done a really lousy job of keeping track. You will remember months ago when the administration was hit hard for its "interesting" technique of counting stimulus jobs. Well it seems that they have taken that message to heart, and so they changed the way that they are counting jobs as "created or saved." Only, now it may be even worse.
ABC's Jake Tapper reports:
In a little-noticed December 18, 2009 memo from Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag the Obama administration is changing the way stimulus jobs are counted. The memo, first noted by ProPublica, says that those receiving stimulus funds no longer have to say whether a job has been saved or created ... In other words, if the project is being funded with stimulus dollars - even if the person worked at that company or organization before and will work the same place afterwards - that's a stimulus job.
So .. there you have it. If a company receives any stimulus funds whatsoever - if a worker in that company receives a paycheck contains so much as one dollar of stimulus funds - then that is a job considered to be "created or saved" by the Democrat's stimulus bill. Oh, and there's this going on again too: First we had federal stimulus money being sent to non-existent zip codes in New Mexico. Now it seems that
the same thing is happening in North Carolina.
Have you been watching
the polls in this Massachusetts Senate race? The election is January 19 vote (just one week from today). Who knew that the Democrats would actually have to worry, so soon, about losing their 60 vote supermajority in the Senate ... and losing it in Massachusetts of all places! But I don't think the bluest-of-blue bastions, Massachusetts, home of the Kennedys, will actually elect someone from any other party. Plus, there's always
this story (NSFW) waiting in the wings about the republican nominee...
The Democrats say that they are planning to
throw the race card back at Republicans in order to save Harry Reid's career. What does his state's largest newspaper
have to say about Harry Reid?
How does Barack Obama plan to close the ever-widening budget deficit? He plans
implementing a new tax on financial services companies at the price tag of $1 trillion.
A Saudi preacher wants Arabs to
stop flying to the United States in order to protest the new enhanced screening methods.
The labor unions call Obama's current plant to tax Cadillac insurance plans
"a toxic issue."
Intelligence estimates show that there are 100 al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan. There are
300 al Qaeda fighters in Yemen.
Just in case any other man-made global warming skeptics are keeping track...
2009 was colder and wetter.
For those of you who like fun with numbers ... here are the
numbers behind Americans' everyday lives. Here's an example: In 2007, nearly two-fifths of all U.S. births were to unmarried women, double the share in 1980.
A former FEMA employee has been charged with
stealing $721,000 in Hurricane Katrina relief money (aka. your tax dollars).
The Cato Institute explains why the federal government has a bias toward homeownership and why this isn't necessarily a good thing.
Help Citizens Against Government Waste decide
who should be 2009's porker of the year.
Sarah Palin has a new gig as commentator for Fox News Channel.
A libertarian paradise!
If you're going to Photoshop something, you're going to have to do
a better job than this.