unemployment

Nauseating Employment Chart

by Jeff Lewis on February 29, 2012

Via MetricMash comes this stunning chart that depicts just how dire the employment situation has become under the current administration. (Red lines and president names added) Here’s how each president stacks up during his term in office: Carter (4 years): Employment / Population Ratio: -0.5% Labor Force Participation: +0.9% Reagan ...

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Professor Irwin Corey and SOTU

by Jeff Lewis on January 26, 2011

I’m watching the president’s State of the Union address this week, and I kept thinking it was like watching Professor Irwin Corey. Do you remember him from the 1970’s? He appeared on the Smothers Brothers show, the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and many others. He’s the crazy professor who ...

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Outside the Territory of Reason

by Jeff Lewis on December 7, 2010

Reprinted from Sultan Knish – Daniel Greenfield The first tax compromise between Obama and the victorious Republicans is an unfortunate but clear reminder that the real price of bipartisanship is bad fiscal policy. The bipartisanship of Bush and the Pelosi congress amounted to both sides getting their spending priorities through, ...

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By Ed Morrissey The White House is doubling down on the failure of its Porkulus spending to create or even save jobs in the American economy by claiming that their efforts saved or created 3.6 million jobs in the last year.  That’s quite a claim, considering that overall employment fell  ...

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Nancy Pelosi – Unemployment Creates Jobs

by Jeff Lewis on July 7, 2010

“It creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name.” Don’t really know what to say, folks…I’m speechless. …..

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