Low labor rate, record welfare, and the national debt

[Coach]

This administration has been a kick in the pants to the middle class and poor. Forget unemployment numbers, they are still high and do not count people who are out of work for a year or took part time jobs. The middle class has lost net worth. And there is a 3.6% dip in the labor force of those were are working. Yes-- The amount employed when Obama took office was 66.3% of the population. Now its 62.7% What's 3.6 % of the population you ask? About 11,520,000 people no longer working Its that bad.

And more than 1/3 of the population is on welfare. Mix in a record debt ( more than any other president combined ) and the interest on the debt, and its clear Obama has been a disaster.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/econo...ecord-levels-after-50-years-of-war-on-poverty

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

 

[IndySteel]

That ************!

 

[Troglodyte]

1/3rd? I thought it was around 45 million, 1/7th

 

[Coach]

1/3rd? I thought it was around 45 million, 1/7th

Depends on your source and how you define welfare.

109,631,000 Americans lived in households that received benefits from one or more federally funded "means-tested programs" — also known as welfare — as of the fourth quarter of 2012, according to data released Tuesday by the Census Bureau.

http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/354-percent-109631000-welfare

 

[ark steel]

21 will be along to set you straight....well, something.

You shall not disparage The Big O.

 

[Ironcitysteelers]

Racist!!!!!

 

[Steeltime]

Obama is simply being generous with his "stash."

 

[Spike]

Yes we can!

Burkas! Burka's here, get your burka yet?


Muslim call to prayer to sound at Duke University

Members of the Duke Muslim Students Association will chant the call, known as adhan or azan, from the Duke Chapel bell tower each Friday at 1 p.m. The call to prayer will last about three minutes and be “moderately amplified,” officials said in a statement Tuesday.

http://www.wral.com/muslim-call-to-prayer-to-sound-at-duke-university/14353003/

 

[Ron Burgundy]

And if Christian or Jewish students demanded something similar the school and ACLU would be on them like white on rice.
Was that racist?

 

[Spike]

we got bigger problems than the economy - coming to a mosque near you...


Ohio Muslim convert, arrested for plotting ISIS-inspired pipe-bomb attack on the US Capitol

The FBI today arrested a 20-year-old Ohio man for allegedly plotting to carry out a terrorist attack on the US Capitol.

Christopher Lee Cornell, of Green Township, was taken into custody by federal agents on charges of attempting to kill a government official and possession of a firearm in furtherance of attempted crime of violence, according to a criminal complaint.

Government documents filed in the case indicate that the 20-year-old Cornell, who also goes by the name Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah, allegedly planned to detonate pipe bombs in the Capitol and then open fire on people fleeing the building in the aftermath of the blasts.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rested-ISIS-inspired-terror-plot-Capitol.html

 

[Spike]

oh

God bless fracking

Americans are spending more than $2 billion less a week on gas than this time last year

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-less-a-week-on-gas-than-this-time-last-year/

 

[21STEELERS21]

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2011/ted_20110504.htm

If you'll look at the chart the major reason for employment, national debt and welfare issues you raise is the big dip in employment that started in 2007
and ended near the end of 2009. The month Obama was inaugurated we lost 818,000 jobs. It's subject to debate about how far a previous administrations
economic policies carry forward before a new administration can change policy and have those policies work there way into the economy. It's probably more than a year,
but if you just say one year, Bush would be credited with all of the job lost months and Obama would be credited with 58 straight months of job additions.

My guess is that Obama's last 7 years will end up with 82 straight months of job additions with a total in the 16 million range and if you give him credit for
the first year of the next presidency. It could be 94 straight months with total jobs in the 20 million range.

 

[ark steel]

Make sure you don't forget to count all of the "jobs saved" by The Big O.

 

[MT~Forged]

There is no way in hell the Govt can accomplish ANYTHING in a year.

 

[Steeltime]

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2011/ted_20110504.htm

If you'll look at the chart the major reason for employment, national debt and welfare issues you raise is the big dip in employment that started in 2007
and ended near the end of 2009. The month Obama was inaugurated we lost 818,000 jobs. It's subject to debate about how far a previous administrations
economic policies carry forward before a new administration can change policy and have those policies work there way into the economy. It's probably more than a year,
but if you just say one year, Bush would be credited with all of the job lost months and Obama would be credited with 58 straight months of job additions.

My guess is that Obama's last 7 years will end up with 82 straight months of job additions with a total in the 16 million range and if you give him credit for
the first year of the next presidency. It could be 94 straight months with total jobs in the 20 million range.

Obama ... king of the part-time jobs, even with a vastly reduced labor participation rate. The numbers don't lie, 21:

Reagan unemployment compared to labor force participation (see how the unemployment rate plummets even as labor force participation SKYROCKETS?!?):

Compared to Obama's economy, where unemployment falls mainly due to the decline in labor force participation and where, as noted above, the jobs Bammy creates are low-end, part-time jobs:

Obama ... architect of the low-paying, part-time economy, with the added benefit that employers cannot @#&%ing hire people to work more than 29 hours per week without paying a buttload for medical insurance, and where the part-time Waffle House employees will soon get their ***** hammered if they don't buy their own medical insurance.

Lovely.

 

[JupiterBnG]

Yes we can!

Burkas! Burka's here, get your burka yet?


Muslim call to prayer to sound at Duke University

Members of the Duke Muslim Students Association will chant the call, known as adhan or azan, from the Duke Chapel bell tower each Friday at 1 p.m. The call to prayer will last about three minutes and be “moderately amplified,” officials said in a statement Tuesday.

http://www.wral.com/muslim-call-to-prayer-to-sound-at-duke-university/14353003/

Will be interesting to see if any other groups of students organize some means to drown out the call to prayer... impromptu jam band concert, or maybe an extra marching band practice outside the chapel every Friday?

 

[SteelChip]

Will be interesting to see if any other groups of students organize some means to drown out the call to prayer... impromptu jam band concert, or maybe an extra marching band practice outside the chapel every Friday?

Well maybe they were a little hasty after all.....

DURHAM, N.C. -

Duke University has canceled its plans to have a Muslim prayer announcement broadcast from Duke Chapel's belltower on Friday afternoons.
The university announced its plans to facilitate a weekly call to prayer; but on Thursday, Duke officials acknowledged the decision resulted in unintended backlash.

The university said it will instead welcome members of the Muslim community to gather on the quadrangle outside the chapel, before moving to its regular location in the chapel basement. The plan also drew the ire of evangelist Franklin Graham, who urged Duke alumni to withhold support because of violence against Christians that he attributed to Muslims.

"First of all, this chapel was given by donors, Methodists, from across this state and other areas, so that there would be a Christian chapel on the campus so that the students would have a place to worship the God of the Bible," Graham said. "I call on the donors and alumni to withhold their support from Duke until this policy is reversed."

Duke, a private school, was founded by Methodists and Quakers and has a divinity school historically connected to the United Methodist Church. Duke has roughly 15,000 students, including 6,500 undergraduates. The school said about 700 students are Muslim.
http://www.wncn.com/story/27857809/duke-university-to-hold-weekly-muslim-prayer-service

I call on the donors and alumni to withhold their support from Duke until this policy is reversed."

That'll do it every time, hit um in the pocketbook

 

[warriors42]

Well maybe they were a little hasty after all.....

DURHAM, N.C. -

Duke University has canceled its plans to have a Muslim prayer announcement broadcast from Duke Chapel's belltower on Friday afternoons.
The university announced its plans to facilitate a weekly call to prayer; but on Thursday, Duke officials acknowledged the decision resulted in unintended backlash.

The university said it will instead welcome members of the Muslim community to gather on the quadrangle outside the chapel, before moving to its regular location in the chapel basement. The plan also drew the ire of evangelist Franklin Graham, who urged Duke alumni to withhold support because of violence against Christians that he attributed to Muslims.

"First of all, this chapel was given by donors, Methodists, from across this state and other areas, so that there would be a Christian chapel on the campus so that the students would have a place to worship the God of the Bible," Graham said. "I call on the donors and alumni to withhold their support from Duke until this policy is reversed."

Duke, a private school, was founded by Methodists and Quakers and has a divinity school historically connected to the United Methodist Church. Duke has roughly 15,000 students, including 6,500 undergraduates. The school said about 700 students are Muslim.
http://www.wncn.com/story/27857809/duke-university-to-hold-weekly-muslim-prayer-service



That'll do it every time, hit um in the pocketbook

Maybe we should withhold our taxes. just sayin

 

[Spike]

Duke reverses plan to allow Islamic call to prayer from campus chapel

Durham, N.C. — Two days after announcing that Islamic students would be broadcasting a weekly call to prayer from the Duke Chapel bell tower, Duke University officials abandoned that plan Thursday, citing the furor the move had created.

Members of the Duke Muslim Students Association were supposed to start the three-minute weekly call or chant, known as adhan or azan, on Friday afternoon. Now, the call to prayer will take place in a quad outside the chapel.

“Duke remains committed to fostering an inclusive, tolerant and welcoming campus for all of its students,” Michael Schoenfeld, Duke's vice president for public affairs and government relations, said in a statement.

“However, it was clear that what was conceived as an effort to unify was not having the intended effect.”

http://www.wral.com/duke-reverses-plan-to-allow-islamic-call-to-prayer-from-campus-chapel/14359650/


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