A week after the election the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Washington Post published key economic data that all voters should have seen – that Liberty Works readers did see – before the election. This chart, copied from a November 14 Congressional Budget Office report, appeared November 15 on the Washington Post’s WonkBlog under [...]

Desperate to make his case for reelection President Obama continuously reminds us that he began his term with an inherited recession.   If he does win the election his second term may well start with an inherited recession. Little noticed by the establishment media, the Commerce Department revised it’s estimate of second quarter economic growth downward [...]

The following exchange took place when President Obama appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman: Letterman: I watched the Republican convention and they had the debt clock…and it’s several trillion dollars.  Do you remember what that number was?  Was it ten trillion dollars?  President Obama: I don’t remember what the number was precisely… Letterman [...]

By now most Americans have heard that President Obama spiced up a campaign speech with the words, If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that.  Somebody else made that happen. This remark brought a deserved round of criticism, especially from Mitt Romney. President Obama’s allies in the media immediately disparaged the critics, insisting [...]

President Obama offers an irrelevant, misleading statistic to justify his politically motivated call for a tax increase on small business employers The White House notified us that the President would make a major announcement regarding taxes.  All of America was interested because due to political malfeasance the Bush tax rates, enacted nine years ago are [...]

One of the Progressive Movement’s core doctrines, adapted by President Obama as a reelection campaign theme is that the economy is a zero sum battle ground where the rich face off against middle class workers with one side enjoying greater prosperity only at the expense of the other.  But in reality the interests of the [...]

Hours after the monthly jobs report was published President Obama was gloating before the cameras.  Unemployment had declined from 8.7% in November to 8.5% in December.  The media herd was gleefully stampeding to a revised narrative:  The economy has improved, boosting the reelection prospects of Barack Obama, the man with no credentials or relevant experience [...]

President Obama’s reelection campaign, begun almost a year ago, is based on blaming the previous administration for America’s economic misery.  But 2011 has been his third full year and it’s time for his Administration to stand on it’s own.  It’s time for an accounting First the debt. [continued below the chart] In 2011 Government debt [...]

There is no bottom to President Obama’s political deception and class warfare pit. If you followed this week’s drama in Washington you know the House passed a bill that would extend the temporary payroll tax reduction for another year.  The Senate responded with a bill that would extend it for only two months.  Republicans finally [...]

If the 2011 rate of job growth continues it will take until May, 2013 for the number of jobs to equal the number in January, 2009, the beginning of the Obama Administration.