This post shows a compilation of economic facts that really bring home the situation we all face. It really is hard to read it piled up like this. Major depressing. Give it a read.
While everyone is buzzing about the colossal overspend of the GSA using tax dollars to live it up in Las Vegas, the White House Egg Roll tradition was carried on with a new twist. There was a clinic on basketball with real life tall players using some very interesting balls to teach some of the children attending. The basketball featured a picture of PresBO. Either this is a campaign stunt that didn’t belong at a White House tradition, or it was a very needless expense. I am pretty sure that getting Obama’s humble face on the basketballs didn’t cost a fortune, it still was a needless expense. Run of the mill store-bought, un-customized basketballs would have been cheaper and way more humble. I would bet that these balls were made in China. Check out White House Dossier for the story and picture.
The White House is asking lots of the press to quash reports on Malia’s trip to Mexico. I have only found one report that describes it as a school trip. Most list it as a trip with 12 friends and 25 secret service agents. What school suggests a trip to a country with State Department travel warnings for 13 year old kids? Colleges all over the US are telling their students that it isn’t a good idea to go down to the failed narco state for spring break. Is this a field trip or a fun trip? How much is it costing taxpayers? Look, it is a shame that the children of President’s can’t have a normal life, but that is the trade off for being able to live in the White House.
So now all the drug cartels know Malia is in Mexico. What if a secret service agent is gunned down by a fast and furious weapon bought for the drug cartels? Why should secret service agents be put in a dangerous country for the sake of a school trip or a vacation for a 13 year old?
Just to add more danger, lets throw in an earthquake nearby. Great.
This video is wonderful. I wish I had said the same thing. It is pretty powerful coming from this beautiful, smart young woman.
Hopefully, if all goes well this will be the first video I have ever put on this blog. It is the first time I have really wanted to put a video on here. Please listen to what she has to say.
Remember the $800 billion stimulus that came in Obama’s first month as President. It was a Democratic Gimme List shoved through with a promise that unemployment would not go over 8% if passed. Obama’s experts told us this. Flash forward three years.
Politico has an article about the Congressional Budget Office numbers regarding jobs and that first stimulus. Turns out, under the best possible scenario, the stimulus provided 3.3 million jobs. At worst, it provided 500 thousand. These are pretty broad highs and lows. So, lets use the rosiest scenario of 3.3 million jobs. The cost of each job was around $242,000 each. The “experts” around Obama like to tell us that taxpayer government money handed out in stimulus has a multiplier effect over the actual amount handed out. In other words, $1 handed out by the government really benefits us by the tune of $1.50 in magic ways. So, $242000 should have given us 5 straight up decent jobs at about $48,000 per person. With the multiplier effect, it should have been about 6 decent jobs – teacher jobs, fireman jobs, policeman jobs. So, by my estimation, the stimulus should have resulted in about 6 jobs instead of the one job per $242,000. That would be 3.3 million times 6. That would be 19.8 million jobs rather than a puny 3.3 million jobs. Epic fail, Obama.
Of course, after seeing how the first stimulus worked out the only real thing to do is try again with another stimulus under the guise of Obama’s Can’t Wait Jobs Bill.
I find it hard to commit to any one Republican candidate. I would like to make a new candidate using the best parts of the current crop of candidates.
Here is what I would want:
Doggedness and bluntness from Michelle Bachmann
Folksyness from Cain and Perry
Newt Gingrich’s debate ability and brains
Cain and Romney’s business experience
Paul’s libertarian views on the constitution and his desire to cut full departments (though I do not want his foreign policy stuff)
Santorum’s experience in the congress plus his quiet staunch conservatism
Perry’s willingness to address Obama’s policies as socialism – a brave move
Romney’s focus on Obama as the one to confront
Meet Frank N. Stein, a more perfected candidate to my way of thinking. Remember, any of them is better than what we have. So whoever comes out is my choice. The best way to perfect the one candidate is to pick a great VP. Almost anyone will make Sheriff Joe look like the buffoon he is.
