Category: Jobs

Obama is the Outsourcer-in-Chief

Posted on by Matt Vespa

As: President Obama slams Romney for being a “pioneer” in outsourcing jobs: overseas, it appears the president himself and his most loyal supporters are leading the charge in American outsourcing. : According to William Bigelow of Breitbart.com, “Obama’s second largest: fundraiser: is John Rogers, the CEO of: investment giant Ariel Capital Management. He has raised more than: $1.5 million: for Obama’s reelection campaign. […]

 

The Job Sinkhole

Posted on by Michael Fell

Today the American unemployment rate remains unchanged at 8.2 percent.:  The economy is still five million jobs shy of the breakeven point as America continues to drown in a sea of growing government red ink while struggling to tread water under the overburden of oppressive big government regulations. Since the start of the seemingly never […]

 

Racine Tea Party Rally for Scott Walker/Kleefisch (Also Paul Ryan, Dana Loesch, Tony Katz, More)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This morning I got up bright and early, jumped into the car and took a drive up into Wisconsin to witness the Racine Tea Party rally in support of Wisc. Governor Scott Walker. Speakers included the lovely Rebecca Kleefisch (Wis. Lt. Gov.), Rep. Paul Ryan, State Senator Van Wanggaard, Talk Show Host Tony Katz, Breitbart […]

 

Choose Your Stimulus

Posted on by Michael Fell

The Spanish Economic Ministry denied there’s been a surge in withdrawals from the nation’s banks, while Spain’s Prime Minister warned that borrowing costs could reach “astronomical” proportions over fears about the weakness of Spain’s financial institutions. Greeks have been taking their savings out of banks, with nearly a third taken out during this year’s first […]

 

Obama Lies About Ohio Bridge Repairs For a Second Time

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Apparently Obama and his administration operate under that old, underhanded adage that if you tell a lie long enough and loud enough it becomes “truth” because Obama has done it again by lying about how his jobs bill was to have been instrumental in the repairs of bridges that span the Ohio River. Back in […]

 

EPA ‘Crucifixion’ Video Pulled From Youtube, The Liberal Cockroach Behind the Move

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Earlier in the week a video surfaced on Youtube of Al Armendariz, head of the EPA office in Dallas, saying that he and his agency planned to “crucify” any business that crosses them. The video caused a lot of consternation on Capitol Hill as well as recriminations for the EPA. But by Friday the video […]

 

Will Media Apologize for Airing Anti-Apple Computer Activist’s False Claims?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

When it broke, the Old Media was all over Mike Daisey’s story of the horrid working conditions at Apple Computer’s foreign manufacturing plants. The story had oppressed workers, pathos, and best of all, eeevil corporate greed. Daisey was well on the road to making Apple the liberal’s newest bete noire and was being hailed as […]

 

American Cancer Society Attacks Me by Name Over California Tax Grab?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Oddly enough, a coalition of big tax hikers in California, including the American Cancer Society, has attacked me by name for daring to write about Proposition 29, a California ballot measure that will appear on this year’s ballot. Prop 29 will force Californians to foot the costs of nearly a billion dollars in new and […]

 

ABC News That’s Not So New

Posted on by Michael Fell

One of the breaking headline news stories online from ABC News just today, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 reads: Green Firms Get Fed Cash, Give Exec Bonuses, Fail. http://news.yahoo.com/green-firms-fed-cash-execs-bonuses-fail-200314806–abc-news.html Ronnie Greene and Matthew Mosk, for ABC News, aggressively reporting news with an edge, convey how companies like Solyndra, Ener1and Beacon Power took money from the Department […]

 

How effective were Obama’s green jobs initiatives?

Posted on by Wintery Knight

From the LA Examiner. Excerpt: U.S. House of Representatives investigations have revealed the failed green jobs initiative in President Obama’s ambitious environmental agenda. : With an initial government cost of one-half billion dollars, evidence proves that only about 10% of sponsored trainees were placed in green jobs. As part of the Obama green energy program, the […]

 

State of the Union or Wishful Thinking?

Posted on by Michael Fell

The 2012 State of the Union address has come and gone with little change in the White House’s view of the world. This is unfortunate. America needs viable solutions, not more wishful thinking. Most disturbing is the continued, steadfast insistence that doubling America’s corporate tax rate will somehow create middle class jobs. After repeated failures […]

 

How Barack Obama used taxpayer dollars to outsource green energy jobs

Posted on by Wintery Knight

This is from Hans Bader at: GlobalWarming.org. He links to this: ABC News: story. Excerpt: Despite all the talk of green jobs, the overwhelming majority of stimulus money spent on wind power has gone to foreign companies, according to a new report by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at the American University’s School of Communication in Washington, D.C. Nearly […]

 

An Open Letter to the Occupiers from Generation X

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

To the Occupy movement: I know some of you mean well. I even share some of your concerns. The dismal economy has made it difficult to find a good job with benefits. Meanwhile, the government is bailing out the wealthy banks and mortgage lenders that helped precipitate this depressed economy. I hear your frustrations about […]

 

Democrats Trick Americans With Payroll Tax Cut Extension Ruse

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

The Democrats are accusing Republicans in Congress of opposing the extension of payroll tax cuts. On the face of it, something seems wrong. Republicans are usually in favor of tax cuts and Democrats generally oppose them, except when there is a Democratic special interest involved like environmental causes. Democrats using the payroll tax cut extension […]

 

Video: Obama: Capitalism and Liberty Don’t Work

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Barack Obama, President of the United Deniers of America, is slamming the country again. This time he ways that capitalism, liberty, and American principles have never worked. Speaking in Osawatomie, Kansas, where in 1910 an off-the-rails Teddy Roosevelt laid out a new socialist-inspired dream for America he entitled the “New Nationalism,” Obama had a few […]

 

Greedy Union to Destroy Black Restaurant Owner’s Business

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

An actress, model, and African American business entrepreneur credited with reviving a once-blighted neighborhood and bringing back theater goers to the New York Theater District is about to lose her business to a greedy union that wants to hike the rent for her famous restaurant 350 percent. Back in 1986, Barbara Smith, sometimes called “the […]

 

The Chevy Volt: Detroit’s Hottest Car (Cuz They Catch on Fire and Stuff)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Government Motors has finally found its hottest car and the Chevy Volt is it. Unfortunately for Chevy, it isn’t because it is popular. It’s because the car seems to catch on fire a lot. Industry watchers are preparing for the Volt to undergo a recall to fix whatever problem the car’s lithium-ion battery pack has […]

 

California Ballot Boondoggle Sends Tax Dollars Out of State

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Despite all the talk of fixing it, California’s budget is still a mess. One of those “fixes” was implemented last summer when the state Legislature increased revenue projections by $4 billion to avoid balancing the budget. Of course, the problem with using such “phantom money” is that it often has a habit of disappearing when […]

 

The “Super Committee” Shows What’s Wrong With America’s Government

Posted on by Michael Fell

Per The Hill online: Friday, November 18, 2011 “In a closed-door briefing Tuesday, Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), the Republican co-chairman of the panel, said divisions among Democrats are standing in the way of an agreement. He told his colleagues the GOP had put multiple offers on the table that Democrats had yet to accept. Boehner […]

 

Illinois CAT Dealer: Illinois’ Worst Business Climate Getting Worse

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On Wednesday I attended a “government day” event at Patten Industries, a 78-year-old Illinois Caterpillar dealer situated in Elmhurst, a northwest suburb of Chicago. The event, led by current General Manager Garrett Patten, featured a discussion on the severely unfavorable business climate in Illinois and why the state is lagging so horribly behind the leading […]

 

Death By Regulations: Has Obama Lost Senator Blanche Lincoln?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last year for the 2010 midterms Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln was in trouble with her reelection. Up until 2010 most felt her seat was a safe one but Democrat challengers pushed the sitting Senator to a runoff that she barely won. 55% of her constituents opposed her. Lincoln welcomed the support of President Obama who […]

 

Ballot Measure Boondoggle – High Speed Rail Costs Balloon to $100 Billion

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

By Steve Maggi Nearly $100 billion. That’s what High Speed Rail is now going to cost California taxpayers — more than double the costs initially promised by the proponents of Prop 1A, which contained the initial taxpayer financing for the project. 2033. That’s when the HSR project is now expected to be completed — 13 […]

 

Occupy Wall Street Kitchen Staff Tired of ‘Freeloaders’?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Apparently some of the folks slaving away to cook politically correct meals for the participants of Occupy Wall Street are sick and tired of working themselves to the bone for homeless people, criminals, and other freeloaders who are eating their food. This is called being mugged by reality. It is also pretty darn funny. The […]

 

Obama-Emperor Less Than Zero’s Open Deceit

Posted on by Michael Fell

The current White House occupant is spending taxpayer money (again) flying around the country going to fundraisers (again) extrapolating on his 2012 re-election strategy to blame Republicans for the failure of policies implemented by himself, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi (again).:  Now he’s going around a “do nothing Congress” (see the U.S. Senate, controlled by […]

 

VIDEO: Suspected Terror Supporter Attacks Jews at Occupy Chicago

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Chicago’s RebelPundit came across some of those nice Occupy Chicago folks wishing good thoughts for all the kind participants at the protest… they kindly wished that Israel be destroyed. Worse, one of the guys these Occupy-Whatevers allowed to speak is a suspected funder of Middle Eastern terrorists. Just like the left, eh? Haters, racists, and […]

 

Slouching Towards Wall Street

Posted on by Kristen Walker

Occupy Wall Street is occupying every pundit’s commentary right now. I’d love to ignore it and focus on something else, but I’m too fascinated by watching the wreckage of civil society mewl and puke in the streets of Manhattan. The Tea Party, a grassroots movement of Americans concerned that the Constitution is being abandoned (and […]

 

Occupy Wall Street College Grads Should Sue Their Schools

Posted on by Michael Fell

What’s most puzzling about Occupy Wall Street is: a persistent resistance by recent college graduates to acknowledging the cause and effect phenomenon manifested by big government interference in business. When you employ the economic policies of Woodrow Wilson, FDR and Jimmy Carter you’re going to get a lousy economy because you’ve created a climate that’s unfriendly […]