Yearly Archives
2012
Government employees ready to gobble up the economy
Any perceived economic gains made in the last four years will more than be wiped out by the looming public pension crisis, The Washington Examiner‘s editorial board writes Sunday. They write, in part: State and local governments are getting squeezed ever more tightly and something is going to have to give. They will be forced […]
Read moreObama overturns U.S. law, uses tax dollars to arm kidnapped child soldiers
“(F)or the third year in a row, Obama has waived almost all U.S. sanctions that would punish certain countries that use child soldiers, upsetting many in the human rights community,” Foreign Policy magazine reports. “Late Friday afternoon, Obama issued a presidential memorandum waiving penalties under the Child Soldiers Protection Act of 2008 for Libya, South […]
Read moreFamily incomes worse under Obama than during recession
“New figures from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey, compiled by Sentier Research, show that the typical American household’s real (inflation-adjusted) income has actually dropped 5.7 percent during the Obama ‘recovery,’” The Weekly Standard reports. “Using constant 2012 dollars (to adjust for inflation), the median annual income of American households was $53,718 as of June […]
Read more67% of job creators say they will not hire under Obama
“Fifty-five percent of small business owners and manufacturers would not have started their businesses in today’s economy, according to a new poll,” The Washington Examiner’s Joel Gehrke writes. The survey of job creators, conducted by the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Federation of Independent Businesses, also finds: 67 percent say there is too […]
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