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Unemployment Rate Plummets to 4.3%–For Government Workers
… and if you believe that the disparity in unemployment between the public and private sector is a good thing, you must be from Boulder.
Added 10/6: Inquiring minds want to know, how do you determine whether to add an unemployed person to the “private” or “public” unemployment bucket?
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Washington Exmainer: Obama facing compaign donations issues
Was Obama rattled by developing donor scandal story?
According to the sources, a taxpayer watchdog group conducted a nine-month investigation into presidential and congressional fundraising and has uncovered thousands of cases of credit card solicitations and donations to Obama and Capitol Hill, allegedly from unsecure accounts, and many from overseas. That might be a violation of federal election laws.
The Obama campaign has received hundreds of millions in small dollar donations, many via credit card donations through their website. On Thursday, the campaign announced a record September donor haul of $150 million.
I’ve blogged and linked to similar issues here, here and here. I just checked the Obama campaign donation website this evening and note they still are not using the most elementary of security measures, the 3 digit code on the back of your credit card called the Address Verification System (AVS).
Scott Johnson at Powerline blog explains the significance of the AVS by actual examples…
… All of which prompted an enterprising reader to test the controls put in place to enforce compliance with federal campaign law by the Obama and McCain campaigns. He decided to conduct an experiment. He went to the Obama campaign Web site and made a donation under the name “John Galt” (the hero of Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged). He provided the equally fictitious address “1957 Ayn Rand Lane, Galts Gulch, CO 99999.” He checked the box next to $15 and entered his actual credit-card number and expiration date. He was then taken to the next page and notified that his donation had been processed. Others repeated “John Galt’s” experiment, giving to Obama under such fictitious names as Della Ware, Joe Plumber, Idiot Savant, Ima BadDonation (with a Canadian bank card) and Fake Donor.
The Obama campaign was able to take these donations because it had turned off the standard Address Verification System that screens credit-card charges for matching names and addresses. (It can also screen cards issued by foreign banks.)
Note, the donations Scott is referring to were for the previous Presidential election.
I believe it’s safe to say that the door isn’t just open a small sliver for potential campaign finance violations, it’s a wide open invitation. Once again, the legacy media fails to do it’s job.
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It would be considered good news in Boulder regardless of economic implications
Glenn Reynolds – Change: More bikes sold than cars in Italy for first time since WW2. Not sure this is good news.
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Sarah Hoyt: Conservatives must not under any circumstances cede the moral high ground to
the media that buried terror against our embassies and on 9/11 at that and which refuses to show any curiosity about Fast and Furious.
What Sarah says.
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They’ll turn us into beggars ’cause they’re easier to please
Atlas Shrugged Part II: Movie website, Trailer 1 and Trailer 2.
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Followup on the “No Jobs” post
Government Cheese (video)
Give a man a free house and he’ll bust out the windows
Put his family on food stamps, now he’s a big spender
no food on the table and the bills ain’t paid
‘Cause he spent it on cigarettes and P.G.A.
They’ll turn us all into beggars ’cause they’re easier to please
They’re feeding our people that Government Cheese
P.G.A. = pure grain alcohol.
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“ABC News hired and elevated Stephanopoulos to do exactly what he did last night — and like a good little flak, Georgie-boy once again sacrificed whatever’s left of his reputation and credibility to the pagan god of The State.”
Breitbart: Stephanopoulos Embarrasses Himself: ‘Does a tie go to the challenger?’ The post title pretty much sums it up.
Boulderites: New you can use to cope with President Obama’s poor debate performance
Al Gore blames Obama’s poor debate performance on high altitude There’s even a video of Al Gore saying this stuff.
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“There are no jobs!” That is what people told me outside a government “jobs center” in New York City.
John Stossel reports (link added 10/4@12:37p):
To check this out, I sent four researchers around the area. They quickly found 40 job openings. Twenty-four were entry-level positions. One restaurant owner told me he would hire 12 people if workers would just apply.
It made me wonder what my government does in buildings called “job centers.” So I asked a college intern, Zoelle Mallenbaum, to find out. Here’s what she found:
“First I went to the Manhattan Jobs Center
and asked, “Can I get help finding a job?” They told me they don’t do that. ‘We sign people up for food stamps.’ I tried another jobs center. They told me to enroll for unemployment benefits.”
So the “jobs” centers help people get handouts. Neither center suggested people try the 40 job openings in the neighborhood.
Other interesting factoids:
Our government helps you apply for handouts immediately, but forces you through a maze if you want to work.
and…
My intern learned a lot from this experience. Here are her conclusions:
It’s easier to get welfare than to work.
The government would rather sign me up for welfare than help me find work.
America has taxpayer-funded bureaucracies that encourage people to be dependent. They incentivize people to take “free stuff,” not to take initiative.
It was easier to find job openings on my own. The private market for jobs works better than government “job centers.”
Yet now New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to expand
I bet he never does either. How much tax payer money can be wasted while providing no useful service.
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Message to AARP: You made your bed so why are shout outs from President Obama a problem?
AARP objects to Obama invoking group’s support during debate
Perhaps the AARP is losing membership to the competition?
Although I’m eligible for membership in all of these organizations I belong to none. That said, I’ve been on the AARP “do not contact” list for many years. I’ve never regretted it.
Added 10/4:
Sarah Hoyt guest blogging at Instapundit adds: “Is this the same AARP that shilled for Obamacare? Yeah, I think it is.”
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Obama poor performance: Liberal media look in the mirror
The liberal media, and MSNBC specifically, have no one to blame but themselves, however. They have never given President Obama the sort of scrutiny he got last night. They have mouthed the president’s false talking points (“a $5 trillion tax cut for the rich”), egging the president on. When Mitt Romney debunked these easily, Obama had nowhere to go. He looked lost without the protective blanket of compliant media and over-eager left-wing bloggers.
Critisizing the media further (I wish it was difficult)…
But the media, who too often view themselves as on the president’s team, should share in the blame. They built him up. They parroted his excuses and four-Pinocchio attacks. But they couldn’t save him when it mattered most. They made the campaign about gaffes and polls, which are of no use in a debate. They lambasted Romney, man of the 59-point job plan, for lack of detail without ever urging the president to come up with any substantive policy commensurate with the challenges we face. They might want to rethink their approach to presidential boosterism.
On the right, there is no hesitation in letting candidates and officials know when they are messing up. To the contrary, the Romney team has been overwhelmed with advice and criticism of late. And you know what? The team took it to heart, improved and did not engage in self-delusion. In the end, that did Romney a world of good.
If the press did their job instead of carrying Obama’s water for him, he might have been better prepared. My suggestion, keep up the good work!
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Elizabeth Price Foley guest blogging at Instapundit:
Even the lamestream media Obama supporters acknowledge that it was an embarrassing loss for Obama. And was it me, or did anyone else get the feeling that Obama felt constrained, unable to be himself? Since his entire campaign has been about dividing Americans into rich vs. poor, white vs. non-white, religious vs. non-religious, etc., he seemed uncomfortable because his audience wasn’t his “base” but the entirety of the American people, most of whom abhor this type of demographic warfare. He couldn’t play the race card, the gender card, the class warfare card, etc. And unfortunately, those seem to be the only cards in his deck. Without them, he’s just defensive and kind of sad.
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France: News you can use…
Spain’s Tax Take Tumbles as Companies Go Abroad
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Say it ain’t so Joe: Biden tells audience middle class has been ‘buried’ last four years
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I predict unintended consequences: Medicare fines over hospitals’ readmitted patients
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“They’ll turn us all into beggars ’cause they’re easier to please.”
USA Today, Glenn Reynolds: With liberty and taxes for all
That’s a line from a 1980s rock song, but it’s a pretty concise summary of the Obama administration’s political approach: Vote for us because we’ll take other people’s money from them and use it to buy you stuff.
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New you can use: The debate results
Yes, I know it hasn’t happened yet.
Peter Roff, US NEWS: How the Media Will Cover Wednesday’s Presidential Debate
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Drowning in unemployment: So says Federal Reserve President Richard Fisher.
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