There are certain measures that we know will advance our recovery. With that assertion President Obama closed his press appearance Friday morning after a disappointing jobs report for August was released.  The private sector created 67 thousand jobs and the unemployment rate ticked up to 10.6% This chart compares current job growth results with the [...]

The Weekly Unemployment Insurance Claims report was released Thursday.  Claims declined slightly for the second straight week.  In our hearts we all hope this is the beginning of a trend.  But our minds we are skeptical.

President Obama gave what was billed as a speech on Iraq Tuesday night.  But towards the end, Obama changed the subject to a down-beat preview of the one of the Democrats’ deceptive campaign themes for the fall Congressional elections: Unfortunately, over the last decade, we have not done what is necessary to shore up the [...]

We can thank Barack Obama and the Democrats for one historic accomplishment: They have proved beyond any doubt that Keynesian borrow-spend “stimulus” is a hoax. Government economists issued their quarterly GDP report on Friday, confirming what has become obvious to most Americans: the recovery is faltering and there is little chance of restoring the 7.8 [...]

The weekly unemployment insurance claims report was released Thursday.  There were 500,000 claims during the week ending August 14, a nine month high, and the fifth week of an uptrend. This chart compares Weekly Unemployment claims in the second year of the Obama stimulus with the second year of the Bush tax cuts. We’re half [...]

The Treasury Department released it’s monthly report on Wednesday. The one-month deficit for July was $165,043,000,000, or $5 Billion more than the “irresponsible Bush deficit” for the entire year of 2007.

Since the first day of his Administration President Obama has fully exploited a recirculating funding and campaign support system with public employee unions that has no equivalent on the Republican side. The system is simple:  Democrats pass legislation to fund or subsidize states and municipalities that then hire more employees, who then pay more union [...]

Another disappointing Jobs report was released by the Department of Labor on Friday.  America lost 131,000 jobs in July, the second month in a row of declining employment.   President Obama reacted during a speech at a sign factory in Washington: We know from studying the lessons of past recessions that climbing out of any recession, [...]

Myth #3: Since the Bush tax cuts of 2003 “the rich” have not paid their fair share of federal income tax. President Obama and Democrat leaders in Congress have decided that income tax rates for “the rich,” those earning more than $200,000, must be increased. One of their justifications is the claim that at current [...]