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Fool me (not me actually, but you) once…………….

Posted in Politics with tags , , on 21 January 2012 by The Pissed Off Tree Rat

I was thinking about my Democratic friends today.  Yes, I do have a few.  I was thinking about how the Republicans get to watch this endless self flagellation of our candidates.  Yet after the primary is done we’re supposed to patch up the battered and bloody candidate and run him/her nationally.  Idiotic, but it is at least a chance for us to make a choice on more that one candidate.  You my Democratic friends do not this year.  The DNC has decided for you that you don’t get to vote for a candidate.  Your presidential candidate has been pre-selected for you by the Party and not by a single voter.  Oh well, the RNC screws over it’s folks like that too, but I’m not pushing 3rd party votes yet.  I am pushing the fact that this November IS your first chance to vote.  I hope by now that you’ve reconsidered voting for the Master of Duplicity again.

“There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.” – Barack Obama 2004 Democratic National Convention

So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. - Barack Obama, Apr 2008 Bitter Pennsylvanians Speech

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Hope and Change finally defined

Posted in Politics with tags , , , on 31 May 2011 by The Pissed Off Tree Rat

Bottom line, change sucks…..
Two and one-half years ago the liberals prevailed with their message of Hope and Change.

 

Here’s the “change”

 

January 2009

May 2011

% chg

Source

Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.

$1.83

$3.44

84%

1

Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)

$43..48

$99..02

127.7%

2

Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)

$38..74

$91..38

135.9%

2

Gold: London (per troy oz.)

$853.25

$1,369.50

60.5%

2

Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL

$3.56

$6.33

78.1%

2

Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL

$9.66

$13..75

42.3%

2

Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. Fob

$13..37

$35..39

164.7%

2

Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall

7.6%

9.4%

23.7%

3

Unemployment rate, blacks

12.6%

15.8%

25.4%

3

Number of unemployed

11,616,000

14,485,000

24.7%

3

Number of fed. Employees

2,779,000

2,840,000

2.2%

3

Real median household income

$50,112

$49,777

-0.7%

4

Number of food stamp recipients

31,983,716

43,200,878

35.1%

5

Number of unemployment benefit recipients

7,526,598

9,193,838

22.2%

6

Number of long-term unemployed

2,600,000

6,400,000

146.2%

3

Poverty rate, individuals

13.2%

14.3%

8.3%

4

People in poverty in U.S.

39,800,000

43,600,000

9.5%

4

U.S.. Rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings

5

9

n/a

10

Present Situation Index

29.9

23.5

-21.4%

11

Failed banks

140

164

17.1%

12

U.S.. Dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate

89.76

82.03

-8.6%

2

U.S.. Money supply, M1, in billions

1,575.1

1,865.7

18.4%

13

U.S.. Money supply, M2, in billions

8,310.9

8,852.3

6.5%

13

National debt, in trillions

$10..627

$14..052

32.2%

14

In the last two years we have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our nation’s entire history.

Sources:(1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. Of Labor; (7) FHFA; (8) Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC; (13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S. Treasury

 

H/T to Chicago Ram Man

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Obama and McCain both got it right today.

Posted in Politics with tags , , on 11 September 2008 by The Pissed Off Tree Rat

John McCain and Barack Obama pause for a moment of silence at the World Trade Center site, before they attended a candidates' forum at Columbia University. (AP Photo)

John McCain and Barack Obama made ground zero the neutral territory today and paid their respects together.  This was good, and this was right.  Tomorrow it’s back on, but today was not the time.

Thank you both.

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