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Losing Ground

Apparently, our POTUS (you know who he is) is now blaming earthquakes and Europe for the disastrous economy here in our country.

He may have a golden tongue, but certainly has the opposite of the Midas touch.

In case you think that soundbite is a poor selection to hang your hat on, read this article from the Washington Examiner.

“The signal was clear. Obama had already ignored his own deficit reduction commission in preparing his annual budget, which was later rejected 97-0 in the Senate. Now he was signaling that the time for governing was over and that he was entering campaign mode 19 months before the November 2012 election. People took notice, especially those people who decide whether to hire or not. Goldman Sachs’s Current Activity Indicator stood at 4.2 percent in March. In April — in the middle of which came Obama’s GW speech — it was 1.6 percent. For May it is 1 percent. . . . The message to job creators was clear. Hire at your own risk. Higher taxes, more burdensome regulation and crony capitalism may be here for some time to come.”

Financial Future For Who?

Us? China?

There is way too much in the way of articles, essays, opinions to opine about here.

Instead, here are a few links to whet your whistle, or increase your angst:

China has dropped 97 percent of its holdings in U.S. Treasury bills, decreasing its ownership of the short-term U.S. government securities from a peak of $210.4 billion in May 2009 to $5.69 billion in March 2011, the most recent month reported by the U.S. Treasury. . . .”

29 Months into the most Left Wing U.S. Presidency and we are heading into an economic disaster.

More bad economic news.

I have one question:

How can one man, such as our President, solve this crisis when it is Congress that has helped him more than triple our indebtedness (and waants to spend even more) and our primary lender is separating itself from our poor financial dealings?

Retirement Plans

At risk? At colleges and private plans?

Not good. Not. Good. At. All.

Very Bad Policy

And I would say idiotic in addition to being acknowledged, finally, to being THE reason our government’s agencies do a poor job of managing our country’s needs.

Pitiful, just pitiful. Get rid of this agency or fix it to be economical for itself AND the rest of us. The debt clock is ticking waaaaay too fast.

EPA Says It’s ‘Prohibited’ From Considering Costs When Issuing Air-Quality Regulations

DNC – Is This the Best You Can Do?

I mean, really, shouldn’t you vet your candidates for heading up your party, or something?

Sheesh. Get a grip.

Oh, and here’s something from tweedledumber.

Time for Self Education

Ballooning deficit spending and projected insurmountable national debt was known waaaaay back in 1986.

Don’t believe it? Watch the videos in this article. One was refused by all the national TV news networks at the time.

Fanning the Flames

Of Barney Frank’s involvement with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, you know, the mortgage bubble problem?

Well, the story just won’t quit, folks. It seems those in charge of the FM’s – 6 top execs – get to divvy up $34.4M amongst themselves.

Got to hand it to Michelle Malkin for reminding us of the infamy that these – people – have as they impacted our economy – beyond belief.

UPDATE: Gas Prices MythBusted

Just before Memorial Day Weekend.

Staying close to home? Here’s why.

UPDATE: As if anyone needed further explanation.

Dain Bramage Demonstrated

By Georgetown students.

Having Joe Schoffstall walk around with a petition to ban conservative “hate sites” like Hot Air, Instapundit, Drudge Report – to name but a few.

Students should scream for their money back for being so poorly educated indoctrinated.

Over Two Years Ago

The answer to a Jeopardy-like game show – When was the last time the U.S.Senate passed a budget?

The so-called deliberative body of Congress, (controlled by the Democrats), have cowardly made another political choice by again ignoring the will of the people—to put the Federal Government’s fiscal house in order—and to stop the deficit spending. Instead, the majority leader and Senate Budget Committee Chairman, Kent Conrad have no intention of performing their statutory responsibility:

So Senator Harry Reid says, “There’s no need to have a Democratic budget, in my opinion.”

Truly an irresponsible lunatic. For willful failure to do his job – he, and those that back him up, should be terminated immediately. And lose any right to pensions funds.