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by Curtis Coleman: You have the extraordinary opportunity to nominate an Arkansas military veteran to be one of first fifteen inductees into the new Arkansas Military Veterans Hall of Fame, but the deadline for submitting your nomination is rapidly approaching. The historic first inductees will be announced at a special ceremony on 11/11/11 – Veterans Day, November 11, 2011.
Founded recently by Col. Conrad Reynolds (Ret.) and fellow veterans, the Arkansas Military Veterans Hall of Fame was endorsed in a resolution of the Arkansas State Legislature in its most recent session. According to Reynolds, the purpose of the Hall of Fame is to publicly emphasize the honor brought to Arkansas and the Nation by the sacrifice of Arkansas’s military veterans and their families.
Any individual can nominate a veteran, either living or deceased, to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. To be eligible to be considered, the nominee must have either been born in Arkansas or lived in Arkansas for a minimum of eight years. He or she must have received an honorable discharge from U.S. military service, be of good character and have no felony convictions. A full list of eligibility requirements is available online at amvhof.org/index.php/nominations.
A nomination packet is available by clicking here, and all nominations must be postmarked no later than October 1, 2011. The Hall of Fame’s first annual induction banquet is scheduled for November 11, 2011 at the Agora Center in Conway, AR. More information on the induction banquet is available here.
Up to fifteen Arkansas military veterans will be inducted into the hall of fame and awarded the Hall of Fame Medallion™ annually, recognizing their military service to our nation and to the State of Arkansas during the annual banquet according to Reynolds. Of the fifteen inductees, up to ten will be selected exclusively for their valorous military service to our Country and up to five will be selected for their combined military / civilian service to our Community, State and Nation.
The Arkansas Military Veterans’ Hall of Fame is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that relies on the financial support of individual donors. A check or money order made payable to “Arkansas Military Veterans Hall of Fame” may be sent to: AMVHOF, P.O. Box 11011, Conway, AR 72034. You may also contact AMVHOF via email or leave a message at 1-888-329-3845. The Hall of Fame also has a “1st 100 Club.” The first 100 individuals or companies who donate $500 or more will be honored by having their name permanently etched on a plaque for public display and will receive two free tickets to the annual Arkansas Military Veterans Hall of Fame banquet for the year in which they make the donation. More information on the Arkansas Military Veterans Hall of Fame is available at amvhof.org. Tags:Arkansas, Military, Veterans, Hall of Fame, Conrad Reynolds, veterans, Veterans DayTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
At the MSNBC / Politico Republican Debate on Sept 7th, Gingrich Chastises the Media for trying to promote infighting between Republican Candidates.
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Reports Suggest Obama To Focus On Failed Approach: More Stimulus Spending
Today in Washington, D.C. - Sept. 7, 2011:
Yesterday, the Senate voted 96-2 to confirm Bernice Bouie Donald to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the 6th Circuit. The Senate also invoked cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 1249 by a vote of 93-5. Also, GOP Leader McConnell introduced S. J. Res 25, a joint resolution disapproving of the president’s exercise of authority to increase the debt limit. If the resolution is passed and signed, it would deny the president’s request to increase the debt limit an additional $500 billion.
Today the Senate resumed post-cloture consideration of the motion to proceed to H.R. 1249, the patent reform bill. Later today, the Senate is likely to agree to the motion to proceed to the patent reform bill, and amendments may be offered.
Last night, Leader McConnell introduced S. J. Res 25, a joint resolution disapproving of the president’s exercise of authority to increase the debt limit. If the resolution is passed and signed, it would deny the president’s request to increase the debt limit an additional $500 billion.
Tomorrow night, at 7 PM, President Obama will address a Joint Session of Congress and supposedly lay out his proposals for creating jobs, but press reports suggest that his plans are likely to consist mostly of much of the same federal spending and stimulus ideas that his administration already tried. The results of those, unfortunately, are plain to see: stagnant job growth, millions of Americans out of work, and a staggering national debt. Another option expressed by Bill Smith, Editor, ARRA News Service: "I do not wish to be frustrated with another Teleprompter Performance. If I learn that the President admitted that he has been wrong in his policies and is sorry for his failures, I will watch his comments on the Fox News' replays or on YouTube. Instead, I will join millions of "red blooded" Americans in preparing food and snacks for Thursday night's 8:30 PM (ET) NFL season kickoff: the Green Bay Packers verse the New Orleans Saints."
Today, ALG President Bill Wilson blasted Barack Obama's picking Alan Krueger as head of the Council of Economic Advisors: "In light of his refusal to condemn the extremist remarks of Teamsters' boss Jimmy Hoffa, promising to 'take out' the tea party, it is deeply disturbing that Barack Obama would nominate someone who has taken the radical position of advocating for the unionization of prisoners. Alan Krueger has even supported paying the minimum wage and overtime to prisoners. This is the man that is supposed to turn our broken economy around?"
Discussing the reports of Obama’s speech on the Senate floor yesterday, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said, “[W]hile I have no doubt the President will propose many things on Thursday that, when looked at individually, sound pretty good, or that he’ll call them all bipartisan, I’m equally certain that, taken as whole, they’ll represent more of the same failed approach that’s only made things worse over the past few years, and resulted in even fewer jobs than when he started. Over the weekend, the President tested a few of the lines I expect we’ll hear on Thursday. His central message, evidently, is that anyone who doesn’t rubber stamp his economic agenda is putting politics above country. With all due respect, Mr. President, there’s a much simpler reason for opposing your economic proposals that has nothing to do with politics: they don’t work.”
The New York Times notes, “The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, warned against any initiatives that resembled the economic stimulus legislation passed soon after Mr. Obama took office in 2009. He and other Republicans said an overactive federal government was stifling economic growth. ‘The problem with our economy is not that Washington is doing too little, but that Washington is doing too much already,’ Mr. McConnell said on the Senate floor. The stimulus package, he said, has been an ‘epic failure.’ ‘As government continued to grow, the economy sputtered,’” Mr. McConnell said. ‘And it’s still sputtering. That’s the reason so many people are skeptical of this president’s economic proposals. They don’t work as advertised.’ ‘In the two and half years since President Obama signed his signature jobs bill, the so-called stimulus,’ Mr. McConnell said, ‘there are 1.7 million fewer jobs in this country.’ The Labor Department says that nonfarm payroll employment totaled 131.1 million in August, compared with 132.8 million in February 2009.”
And yet Democrats are still calling for more of the same Washington-centric ideas involving ever more government spending. According to the NYT, “House and Senate Democrats are urging President Obama to propose spending on a host of new public works and job programs in his speech to a joint session of Congress on Thursday. But Republicans vowed to resist such initiatives, saying they had been a spectacular failure in the last two and a half years.”
As Leader McConnell said, “By any measure, including [the president’s] own, the Stimulus, and the economic principles it was built on, have been a failure. . . . Businesses don’t want shots in the arm or quick-fixes. They want to know what the landscape will look like a few years down the road. And until now, that’s not something the President has been willing to do. He just hasn’t been able to bring himself to let go of government’s grip. . . . We need to shift the center of gravity away from Washington and back to the innovators and entrepreneurs, the engineers and the shop-floor managers who will be at the heart of our recovery. And we need to be serious about it.
“The President is forever eager to embrace big proposals whenever government’s at the helm, but when it comes to doing the kinds of things job creators really want, he’s suddenly timid. He’ll agree to a tax cut as long as it’s temporary. He’ll agree to reverse a job-killing regulation, but only if he knows he’s gotten dozens of other doozies in the pipeline behind it.
“We need to do better than that,” Leader McConnell said. “We need the President to be as bold about liberating job creators as he’s been about shackling them. I mean, you don’t lift a single regulation and suddenly claim to be Margaret Thatcher.” Tags:U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., Barack Obama, more stimulus, speech,To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: Of all the hot button issues in American politics, race remains the most explosive. The hope that the election of America's first black president would heal old wounds has faded along with hope and change. In fact, Obama's allies now appear to be intentionally encouraging racial hatred.
In the days leading up to Labor Day, members of the Congressional Black Caucus tried to smear the Tea Party movement as if it were a mass revival of the Ku Klux Klan. One member even suggested that some conservatives wouldn't be satisfied until blacks were dead.
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) recently blamed racism for high unemployment in the black community. She later said, "Let us all remember who the real enemy is. The real enemy is the Tea Party -- the Tea Party holds the Congress hostage. They have one goal in mind, and that's to make President Obama a one-term president."
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) attempted to portray Texas Governor Rick Perry as a racist for expressing his support for the Tenth Amendment. Jackson issued a statement suggesting that the Tenth Amendment was a pro-slavery amendment. Consider this excerpt: "Governor Rick Perry wants to be the champion of the Tenth Amendment and states' rights… He said he wants to 'work every day to try to make Washington, DC, as inconsequential in your life as I can.' …He apparently believes, as Ronald Reagan did, that the federal government is not the solution. The federal government is the problem. Truer words or more faithful ideas could not have been attributed to Confederate President Jefferson Davis… After-all, it was the Tenth Amendment and states' rights that protected the institution of slavery. The words 'slave' or 'slavery' did not appear in the Constitution. The institution of slavery, the Tenth Amendment and states' rights are joined at the hip. …"
Not to be outdone, Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) said this: "Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second class citizens. Some of them in Congress right now with this Tea Party movement would love to see you and me… hanging on a tree." It is hard to think of a more evil, divisive tactic than the race baiting these left-wing Democrats have chosen to engage in.
To his credit, Rep. Allen West (R-FL) has threatened to resign from the Congressional Black Caucus if its leadership does not condemn this outrageous slander. West isn't holding his breath. The CBC isn't backing down. Why should they? The media have been largely silent.
Unfortunately, this appears to have been an orchestrated effort to try out new campaign themes, presumably with Obama's blessing since he has not condemned the remarks. This is an effort by the left to strengthen support for Obama with his base because his policies are costing him support among moderates and independents.
Responsible journalists should forcefully condemn this kind of vile, hateful rhetoric. And so too should President Obama. It is incredibly dangerous for members of the Congressional Black Caucus to use the language of lynchings when we already have flash mobs of urban minority youth engaged in hate crimes around the country.
------------- Gary Bauer is is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families. Note a related article - April 30, 2010:;Racialism: The First Refuge of Desperate Democrats Tags:Stoking Racial Division, racial division, Gary Bauer, Campaign for Working Families To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
by Tierra Warren, The Heritage Foundation: Labor Day means a bit less this year, with 14 million Americans unemployed. While President Obama was preaching to big labor in Detroit on the importance of collective bargaining, millions of Americans were looking for work in an environment where the economy is at a standstill.
It is no surprise that unions are strong allies of the President, whose policies from the stimulus to Obamacare have included privileges for organized labor. Having spent $1.1 billion on politics and lobbying in the last election cycle, unions will continue to hold a prominent seat at the table in 2012.
The labor unions have helped lead to the staggering loss of manufacturing jobs in the United States, and the demands they have made on employers and governments helped create conditions of high unemployment in Detroit and across the country.
In a new report, the Heritage Foundation’s Rea Hederman Jr. and James Sherk explain what it means for a business to unionize:
Unions make businesses less competitive and discourage investment. This reduces job growth. Studies show that jobs fall by 5–10 percent at newly organized firms. Going forward, employment grows by three to four percentage points more slowly at unionized businesses than at otherwise identical non-union companies.
Neither businesses nor workers seem to approve of this. Since 1970, unionized manufacturing has fallen 80 percent, while non-union manufacturing jobs have only decreased by six percent. In 2010, union membership fell by over 600,000 workers. Sherk explains why:
Union membership has fallen because traditional collective bargaining does not appeal to most workers. Polls show that only one in 10 non-union workers wants to organize. This makes sense: in the competitive private sector, unions can do little to raise their members’ pay. Additionally, most workers like their jobs and believe they are on the same side as their employers.
The unions aren’t going down without a fight, however. They hope to use the power of government to reduce worker choice and make it easier for unions to organize.
It is time for Congress to step up and promote job growth. Big Labor doesn’t have to be the only player in the game. Tags:big labor, unions, discourage job growth, unemployment, no jobs, worker's choice, the economy, Congress, The Heritage FoundationTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
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Jobs Creation Is At Zero; Unions And DNC Attack American Voters
Today in Washington, D.C. - Sept 6, 2011:
The U.S. Senate is back in session today at 2 p.m.and the US House members start arriving tomorrow and will back in session on Sept 8th. The Senate will take up the nomination of and vote almost immediately on Bernice Bouie Donald to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the 6th Circuit. Immediately following that vote, the Senate will vote on cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 1249, the patent reform bill.
On Thursday at 7 PM, President Obama will address a Joint Session of Congress on his proposed ideas to increase jobs. Obviously, the only people that create real jobs which are not increase government spending jobs is the private sector economy. House members are suggesting that the President Consider job and growth proposals already passed by House The AP reports that "House Republican leaders are offering President Barack Obama an opening for compromise on measures that would spur job growth. They say neither Republicans nor the administration should consider their own initiatives 'an all-or-nothing situation.'"
Teamster's "chief-thug" Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. introduced Obama to the assembled Big Labor forces in Michigan yesterday with vile rhetoric that seems more befitting of Red Square. His comments:
Barack Obama has yet to condemn this hateful speech or that spewed by members of the Congressional Black Caucus. .. Will the President condemn this rhetoric in his Speech to Congress. Probably not as he has been in bed with the leadership of the unions for some time and has sought support of various predominately liberal groups. Unfortunately, the Black Congressional Caucus as a whole has forgotten their constituents and focus on only supporting President Obama and themselves. Rather disappointing and it understandable that they do not desire conservatives like Rep. Allen West (R-FL) as a member of the caucus. At the same time, it is very evident that the Democratic National Committee presently lead by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and the Obama campaign staff have sanctioned the unleashing of "rabid vitriol against members of the TEA Party movement. seeking limited government.
The Washington Post writes today, “Public pessimism about the direction of the country has jumped to its highest level in nearly three years, erasing the sense of hope that followed President Obama’s inauguration and pushing his approval ratings to a record low, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. More than 60 percent of those surveyed say they disapprove of the way the president is handling the economy and, what has become issue No. 1, the stagnant jobs situation. Just 43 percent now approve of the job he is doing overall, a new career low; 53 percent disapprove, a new high. As part of a reinvigorated effort to regain momentum as he heads toward the 2012 election year, Obama traveled to Detroit on Monday for a Labor Day appearance that served as a prelude to his speech Thursday to a joint session of Congress in which he will unveil new proposals to create jobs.”
In an op-ed for The Post today, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell suggests, “One thing [the president] could do immediately is finalize the free-trade deals with Colombia, South Korea and Panama that have been languishing on his desk.”
He points out, “For nearly three years, Republicans and a number of Democrats have been calling on the president to approve these deals to create a level playing field with America’s competitors overseas, vastly expand the market for U.S. goods, strengthen our ties with three important allies and create jobs for Americans. Yet the deals have been stuck at the White House since Inauguration Day.”
So what’s preventing these important agreements from moving forward? As Leader McConnell explains, it’s pressure on the White House and Democrats from unions. “Publicly, the White House claims to support all three agreements. It even said in July that Republicans are the ones standing in the way of ratification. But this is absurd because Congress can’t ratify trade agreements until the president submits them for congressional approval. He knows as well as I do that once he does, all three would garner wide bipartisan support. What’s the real holdup? For three years, the administration has delayed finalizing these deals because unions have been extracting concessions in exchange for their support. Early on, they demanded further concessions and political reforms from our trading partners, all of which have been satisfied.”
McConnell writes, “These delays have put America at a major economic disadvantage, costing jobs and opportunities. As the president has been holding out over the demands of labor union leaders, other countries are benefiting from free-trade deals of their own. In early July, South Korea sealed a free-trade pact with the European Union. A few weeks ago a free-trade deal took effect between Colombia and Canada. Yet four years after our three trade agreements were originally signed, the United States is losing ground.”
It’s long past time for President Obama to submit these free trade agreements to Congress. They have bipartisan support and bipartisan agreement that they will create jobs. With 14 million Americans out of work, now is not the time to let big labor unions continue to hold up job-creating free trade agreements with key allies.
In addition, it is time to look at real jobs creation and the ideas offered by those who have worked in the private sector and did not rely on the protection, services and even funds from the U.S. Government. It is good that House Republicans are willing to compromise on certain areas to get America back to work. It is not good that the Obama Campaign machine and DNC have unleashed attacks against TEA Party voters who want to see the size of government intrusion and spending reduced. Tags:Washington, D.C., U.S. Senate, U.S. House, teamsters, Black Congressional Caucus, hateful speech, jobs, the economy, trade agreements, To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
Congress Returns This Week - Time to Get Back to Work
Gretchen Hamel
Gretchen Hamel, Executive Director, Public Notice: In November 2010, Republicans rode into Washington on a wave of discontent about the economy and Congress’ growing appetite for government spending. Since the election, federal lawmakers have passed two major pieces of legislation dealing with government spending – the fiscal year 2011 full-year continuing resolution (CR) and the Budget Control Act. Both policies claim to cut federal spending or at least slow the rate of its growth. But are voters satisfied? Hardly.
Recent polling numbers and focus groups prove voters’ discontent. According to a recent Gallup poll on the topic, only 13 percent of adults – including an astonishingly low nine percent of Independents – approve of the job Congress is doing. More than four in five Americans, 84 percent, disapprove of Congress’ job. Furthermore, according to Pew, only three percent of adults say they trust the government in Washington to do what is right “just about always.” Only 16 percent say they trust the government to do what is right most of the time while 72 percent of Americans say they trust the government to do what is right only sometimes. Eight percent say they never trust the government to do what is right. Finally, a pollster with Public Opinion Strategies said that in focus groups over the last two weeks he has seen a “…change in tone in the wake of the debt ceiling negotiation.” “Historically … this type of deep voter anger, unease, and economic pessimism leads to unstable and unpredictable political outcomes,” the pollster said.
Considering all of this, it is no wonder Congress is feeling nervous – nervous about the economy and nervous about their own reelections. Several news stories this August indicated that members of Congress, while out of session, chose to deal with this discontent by avoiding their constituents this summer.
According to a story from National Public Radio as many as 60 percent of members chose not to hold any town halls this in August. A Los Angeles Times headline screamed, “Members of Congress Avoid Town Hall Brawls This Recess.” This phenomenon doesn’t seem as if it’s confined to one party; both Republicans and Democrats appeared to avoid town halls. Clearly this indicates that neither party feels they have the higher ground when it comes to fiscal and economic issues.
Lawmakers may have gotten away with hiding over the last few weeks, but they won’t be able to duck the issues or the voters forever. They will have to work together to solve a problem they both created.
Representatives and senators returning to Washington have a lot of prove to voters concerned about spiraling deficits and mounting debt. And even though anxiety about the economy reigns, polling shows voters increasingly want lawmakers to continue to focus on getting control of the soaring budget deficit instead of spending more money in an effort to “stimulate” the economy.
According to Pew, when given two choices, only 42 percent of adults say they would put a higher priority on spending money to help the economy recover. Interestingly, this number is down from 46 percent nearly six months ago. More than half – 52 percent – would put a higher priority on reducing the budget deficit, up from 49 percent from about six months ago.
What can members of Congress do to satisfy a public hungry for continued spending cuts and economic reform? Certainly, the agenda starts with the spending bills that must be passed this fall during fiscal year 2012 appropriations process. Up to this point, the House has passed six appropriations bills while the Senate has just passed one. Regarding the one bill both the House and the Senate have passed, the two chambers have not voted to reconcile the differences between the two versions – meaning none of their work for fiscal year 2012 appropriations has been completed even though the new fiscal year begins on October 1.
The fact that Congress is so far behind is not surprising considering recent appropriations history – the last time Congress passed all the appropriations bills individually was more than 15 years ago – but delays like this make it more likely Congress will have to make spending decisions at the last minute.
Immediately upon their return to Washington, lawmakers should buckle down get to work on passing fiscal year 2012 spending bills that cut federal spending. Included in this discussion should be a vigorous debate on how to cut defense spending, by far the largest piece of spending considered during the yearly appropriations process.
Next up for Congress this fall is the work of the 12-member Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction (the “supercommittee”). The supercommittee, established by the debt ceiling bill, is tasked with finding $1.5 trillion in spending cuts over 10 years. These cuts are in addition to the $917 billion in savings triggered by spending caps established in the debt ceiling bill. These caps, spread out over ten years, and beginning in fiscal year 2012, don’t really cut spending – they simply cut the growth rate of government spending.
Unlike those caps, which only addresses discretionary spending programs like education and defense, the supercommittee can consider modifications to entitlement spending, which lies is outside of the yearly appropriations process. Entitlement spending consumed 55 percent of all federal spending in 2010. If the supercommittee wants to get serious, it cannot ignore these, the largest federal government expenditures: Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Until Congress tackles these programs, we won’t be able to get control of our deficit problems.
Just like the Appropriations Committee should look for cuts in the fiscal year 2012 Defense Appropriations bill this fall, the supercommittee also should take a hard look at defense spending. There are certainly plenty of places to find savings in defense, starting with the defense contracting process. (As side note: Public Notice will be holding a debate on defense spending on September 13 in which we’ll ask panelists, including Larry Korb of the Center for American Progress and Christopher Preble from the CATO Institute, for their best ideas for reform.)
Finally, there is the issue of tax reform. Certainly the supercommittee will have to tackle this question. Members will be under intense pressure to either pass full-scale tax reform that cuts overall rates but eliminates major deductions (true reform is certainly worth considering), or raise income tax rates.
Polling on the tax question is mixed. According to the Economist, 39 percent of adults believe it would not be possible to “make large reductions to the budget deficit” without increasing taxes. Still, about the same number – 40 percent – said it would be possible to cut the budget deficit without raising taxes. However, according to a recent Economist article, headlined “Don’t Look Down; the Poor Like Taxing the Rich Less than you Think,” shows that soaking the rich may not be as politically popular as some lawmakers assume.
On tax reform, voters clearly prefer a fairer system with lower rates. According to Gallup, 76 percent of adults are in favor of a bill to completely overhaul the current tax system. More than half – 51 percent – of Americans would like to see what the country pays in federal income taxes reduced.
The lack of clarity on polling tax questions reveals an underlying truth: Washington cannot cover all of its $14.7 trillion debt by simply raising, or even reforming, taxes. This is why voters are suspicious of tax increases and strongly support fiscal restraint.
Some members of Congress will be tempted to dodge the question of spending cuts by focusing on tax hikes instead. While members may have ducked tough constituent questions this August recess, they can’t run from the broader fiscal questions and problems that still face the nation. They’ll have to start putting economics before politics when they return this fall.
It’s time to get to work. Tags:appropriations, Congress' Return, debt, economy, federal spending, Government Spending, Gretchen Hamel, Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction, memorandum, supercommittee, Public NoticeTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
President Obama: "This years, Labor Day is canceled for lack of participation. Better Luck next year. . ." While the above is satire, it is not fantasy that last Friday we learned that no new jobs were added in August. President Zero is expected to bloviate when he speaks to Congress and the Nation on Thursday (Sept 8th)about his jobs program. Tags:labor day, satire, Jared H. McAndersen, The Looking Glass, no jobs, Barack Obama, President ZeroTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
Obama Full-Month Approval Falls to Lowest of His Presidency
Rasmussen Reports: When tracking President Obama’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics.
In August, the number who Strongly Approve of Obama’s job performance was at 21%. That’s down three points from 24% in July and the lowest level measured during Obama's entire presidency. The previous low was 23% reached in both April and June of this year. . . . .
The full-month Presidential Approval Index rating for August is down four points from July to -21. That’s by far Obama's lowest full-month approval index rating since taking office in January 2009. Prior to this survey, Obama’s lowest level of approval was -17, reached three times since January 2009. With a few exceptions, the president’s approval index rating has stayed between -14 and -17 since the beginning of 2010.
August 2011: Obama Job Performace:
Strong Approva: 43% of Democrats.
Strong Disapproval: 73% of Republicans.
Independents: 14% Strongly Approve; 42% Strongly Disapprove.
. . . The president’s total job approval dipped two points in August to 44%, also the lowest level of approval to date. The last time half (50%) of voters approved of Obama’s performance was in July 2009. For 2011, prior to this survey, the president’s total job approval on a full-month basis has remained in the narrow range of 46% to 49%. Throughout 2010, Obama’s full month approval ratings ranged from 45% to 47%.
Fifty-five percent (55%) disapproved of the president’s performance in August, the highest level measured yet. That finding has ranged from 49% to 54% since July 2009. . . . [Read Full Rasmussen Report] Tags:Rasmussen Report, rating, President Obama, Barack Obama, lowest rating, August, 2011, approval rating, job approvalTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
The below article is contributed by Jim Mullen of Parkersburg, West Virginia. He writes for the Parkersburg Conservative Examiner and his personal site, Freedom For Us Now. He is retired and presently involved as a Republican conservative activist.
Jim Mullen
by Jim Mullen: Barack Obama has a plan; a big economic plan to fire up business and create jobs. He will of course, unveil his brainchild after returning from Martha’s Vineyard for a much-needed vacation from campaigning. He thinks that lolling with his liberal high rollers ($50,000 per week rent) and breathing some Atlantic saltwater air should completely clear any proven methods for job creation that might have contaminated his mind.
The country has lived with this President’s incompetence and anti-growth policies for nearly three years and knows his economic plan is a one-trick pony that grows more tiresome by the day. He rides out on his little red pony almost daily in a comical attempt at convincing people about having an economic clue. His overly staged fundraisers, speeches, and folksy chats appeal to the gullible and his far-left allies. In the face of reality, however, Americans looking for the light of economic growth, see his words splatter like shadows of darkness into a political black hole.
Obama’s discussions on economics are case studies in absurdity and show clearly, why his policies fail. Likewise, his pretentious ramblings shine the spotlight on the ineffectiveness of his Presidency. Every provable economic idea registers a big zero on his Marxist meter, and unfit for his big-government, anti-capitalist, class warfare narrative.
A mere nine hours after blustering that he would not rest until everyone wanting a job can find a job, he announced his get-away, which to date, has been a godsend for the American People. Without his daily rants, the Dow is taking a much-needed respite, as well. One noted short speech by Obama ripped over 200 points from the Stock Market. Incredibly, he boasted at another fundraiser, “Make no mistake. We are moving in the right direction.”
An old commercial claimed when E. F. Hutton speaks, people listen. When Obama speaks they also listen; except the stock market drops like a rock at the sound of his foolishness.
If the American people could convince him to stay on Martha’s Vineyard, do nothing, and refrain from giving speeches, hundreds of comedians might be out of work, but the country could recover from its freefall and survive until the 2012 election. Unfortunately, a hurricane blew him back into the spotlight; and worse yet, back to pressing for his economy-destroying programs.
Killing jobs by taxing and regulating businesses and financial institutions, then ranting about the rich, is inconsistent with reason, logic and common sense. Then again, if one’s primary goal were to bring down our form of government by using a Cloward and Piven strategy (of collapsing the system), it would make perfect sense. It would also explain his promise “to fundamentally transform America.” To be successful in this plot, he must first destroy the American economy.
An economy with over 14 million unemployed, tens of millions more underemployed and 46 million on food stamps (up by a third in two years), and millions more on public assistance, proves that he is well on his way to a welfare state. Inconceivably, for the first time in American history an administration touts increasing the dependency on food stamps, welfare, and unemployment benefits as a means of stimulating the economy.
Republicans have a budget and job’s plan sitting on Harry Reid’s desk. Meanwhile, a trade agreement lies untouched on the President’s desk. The agreement that Obama blamed Congress for ‘not passing’ never left his desk. It remains in that undisturbed pile of known cures for a lousy economy. Possibly one call from the golf course asking an aide to place the agreement in his inbox might jog his memory. One less fundraiser or round of golf should free enough time to submit it to Congress when he returns and create those 70,000 jobs he says are waiting.
Excuses and blame are the shifting foundations upon which failures are built, and Barack Obama is the excuse and blame President. His Presidency consists of building a straw-house economy then blaming others when the soft breezes of normalcy blow it asunder. Predictably, he spends every waking moment compiling and rattling off a litany of excuses for his incompetence, and formulating a blame list for his chronic failures.
On the other hand, Obama, “The New Normal” President finds extraordinary success at striking fear into businesses, financial institutions, and into the hearts and wallets of the American people. This apprehension about spending, investing, and lending in an Obama economy, and anxiety over the strong regulatory arm of his administrative bureaucrats, led directly to this government-induced crisis.
The free enterprise, capitalist system awaits the trillions of investment dollars that lie closely held in ‘fear of Obama accounts’. A positive business climate would unleash these funds and create millions of new jobs.
Obama wants to take those trillions of dollars and continue his Marxist ways of “spreading the wealth around” by investing in even more government. He uses one of his favorite leftist ploys, class warfare, to appeal to his political base and the most gullible of independents.
Alan Krueger, another academic economist believing in more government spending, and the genius behind the Cash-for-Clunkers program is now Obama’s new economic adviser. President Barack Obama’s new economic plan will be exactly the same one-trick pony with a new rhinestone saddle; a Princeton liberal-progressive. Tags:Barack Obama, Economic policy, Jim MullenTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
The newly formed Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction holds its first meeting this week. The 12-member panel will gather at 10:30 a.m. Thursday for an organizational session, then meet again on Sept. 13 at 10:30 a.m. for a hearing on “The History and Drivers of Our Nation’s Debt and Its Threats.”
The committee is chaired by Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) and Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) and tasked with the goal of finding $1.5 trillion in savings to reduce the federal deficit. It’s not an easy goal, made even more challenging by the bleak future facing America.
The problem is Washington’s addiction to spending. For far too long both Republicans and Democrats have expanded government a pace that now threatens prosperity. Future generations of taxpayers are now on the hook for increasing levels of debt. The amount of debt per citizen will soon skyrocket.
This week’s chart is courtesy of Heritage’s 2011 Budget Chart Book, featuring charts on federal spending, revenue, debt and deficits, and entitlement programs. Tags:national debt, your share, Heritage Foundation chart, entitlements, Rob Bluey, ScribeTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
Rep. Bob Goodlatte: Job Creation & a Balanced Budget Amendment
Rep. Bob Goodlatte
In light of the fact that President Obama will be addressing congress this week, it seemed important to note that House Republicans have not abandoned their commitment to Cut, Cap, and Balance. Today in the Weekly Republican Address, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) made the case for how a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution would provide greater certainty about our nation’s fiscal trajectory over the long haul, helping private-sector small-business people plan, invest and get back to creating jobs. Goodlatte says, “That’s why in his upcoming jobs speech, President Obama should call on both parties to come together this fall and send a Balanced Budget Amendment to the states for ratification.”
Goodlatte is in his 10th term representing the Sixth Congressional District of Virginia. He serves as chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition, and the Internet, and vice chair of the House Agriculture Committee. Goodlatte has championed the Balanced Budget Amendment since his first day in Congress in 1993.
The American people strongly support a Balanced Budget Amendment, which will get a vote in both houses of Congress this fall. The question will be whether the Senate democrats block this amendment from being sent to the American people for their consideration.
The full text of the address follows the video of his presentation.
Transcript of Rep. Bob Goodlatte's address:
“Hello, I’m Congressman Bob Goodlatte from the Commonwealth of Virginia. It’s a pleasure to speak with you on Labor Day weekend as we honor the ingenuity and perseverance of America’s workers.
“Of course, ours are the best workers in the world, and given a level playing field, they can compete and win against anyone.
“Except we don’t have a level playing field. Our employers face some of the highest tax rates in the world. Endless red tape makes it harder to plan and invest. Our national debt – much of which is owed to China – is on track to exceed the size of our entire economy.
“The president’s ‘stimulus’ spending has proven counterproductive. Government has gotten in the way when it can be part of the solution. With millions of Americans still asking ‘where are the jobs?,’ the president should help lead a bipartisan effort to remove government barriers to job creation.
“We can start by eliminating burdensome mandates and regulations; stopping policies that drive up gas prices; expanding American energy production in order to increase jobs and American manufacturing; and approving free trade agreements that open new markets to American-made goods. These ideas and other much-needed reforms are part of Republicans’ Plan for America’s Job Creators. Learn more by visiting Jobs.GOP.gov.
“While our workers are being held back by Washington, there’s nothing in place to stop the federal government from bankrolling further big government spending ... the kind that leads to government expansion into private-sector jobs, burdensome mandates on job creators and skyrocketing national debt.
“For hard-working families, making tough decisions to live within your means is a necessity. For 49 out of 50 states, it’s the law. So you’re right to expect no less from Washington.
“This fall, both the House and the Senate will vote on a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution that would force Congress to spend only what the government takes in. This would ensure spending cuts made today don’t easily disappear tomorrow. That doesn’t just mean a fiscal house in order: it also means more certainty for the private sector and a better environment for job creation.
“That’s why, in his upcoming jobs speech, President Obama should call on both parties to come together this fall and send a Balanced Budget Amendment to the states for ratification.
“This amendment isn’t my idea; it’s not a new idea. Thomas Jefferson expressed strong support for it in 1798. On March 2nd, 1995, the U.S. Senate failed – by one vote – to send a Balanced Budget Amendment to the states. More than $9 trillion has been added to our national debt since. That’s a 180 percent increase. Imagine how different things would be if the amendment had passed. We cannot afford to make the same mistake.
“This won’t be easy. As you know, a constitutional amendment requires the approval of two-thirds of both houses of Congress before it goes to the states. We need bipartisan support to get the Balanced Budget Amendment across the finish line.
“So to help spread the word, we’ve set up a website where you can learn more and share information about the importance of a Balanced Budget Amendment. The address is gop.gov/balancethebudget. We’ll also be talking about this on Twitter using the hashtag ‘BBA4jobs.’
“This Labor Day, America’s workers are right to ask where the jobs are. You deserve better answers. The policies coming out of Washington aren’t getting it done.
“By focusing on removing barriers to job creation – and creating barriers to debt creation – we can get our economy back on track. Together, we can restore the promise that for all of us is America.
“Thank you for listening, and enjoy your Labor Day weekend.” Tags:US House, representative, Bob Goodlatte, Balanced Budget, balanced budget amendment, weekly address, GOPTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
On reflection of the ZERO Jobs added in August and many now calling President Obama dis-affectionately President Zero, a new logo has been developed by Americans for Limited Government for the Zero's Administration. No laughing, this is serious business.
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Arkansas Has 10th Fastest Growing Gov't Sector in U.S.
Teresa Oelke, Director AFP-Arkansas: In 2011, National Cost of Government Day fell on August 12. Working people toiled 224 days out of the year — just to meet all costs imposed by government.
Arkansas has the 10th fastest growing government sector in the entire nation. Not a record a state should like.
Do you wonder what that looks like? It's dismal, but music is provided:
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Appeals Court Defends Photographing Police; Bloggers as Journalists
Bill Smith, ARRA Editor: Three and a half years ago, Dan Blank posted the image used for this post and an article on his blog tiled Changing Roles: Journalists Become Bloggers; Bloggers Become Journalists The struggle of the citizen press has continued and the courts have had to sort out for public officials and others that 1st Amendment rights apply to bloggers and the public in general as detailed in the following article. Often the paid news media has identified themselves as professionals and pointed to bloggers, photographers, and other new media types as "unprofessional" because they are self funded (not paid by someone else). In recent times, these professionals have tried to wear the blogger label. While public employees and politicians may not like it, bloggers and other new media writers are covered by the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution. I appreciate the 1st Dist US Court of Appeals acknowledging this situation. The struggle is not over because like darkness flees the light, politicians, government officials, and their employees do not like transparency, oversight by the public, or independent opinions made public on their performance and actions. "...though not unqualified, a citizen's right to film government officials, including law enforcement officers, in the discharge of their duties in a public space is a basic, vital, and well-established liberty safeguarded by the First Amendment." First Circuit Court of Appeals. [Source See 1st District US Court of Appeals - 10-1764 Sect: II,A,2] Dr. Mike Landry: The right to take photographs or video of police in public places was affirmed in an August 26 ruling by the First Circuit Court of Appeals in New England. Just as importantly, the court also said individuals with cameras have the same rights as professional journalists.
The court said Simon Glik was within his First Amendment rights when he made a cell phone video of Boston police arresting a man, and arresting Glik for making the video violated his Fourth Amendment rights.
Walking by Boston Commons October 1, 2007, Glik had seen three police officers arresting a young man and heard a bystander say "You're hurting him. Stop" Concerned about police brutality, Glik then began recording the event. After subduing the young man, police ordered Glik to stop recording. When Glik objected, police arrested him.
Glik was charged with violating the state's wiretap law, disturbing the peace, and aiding in the escape of a prisoner. The City of Boston later dropped the aiding in escape charge, and the municipal court dismissed the disturbing the peace charge and also the wiretap charge because the recording was not secret. Glik then sued the city in federal district court and the case ended up at the court of appeals. There, the city argued that police should not be recorded due to their professional immunity from liability but the court cited extensive case law which said government officials in public places may be recorded.
Regarding the First Amendment rights of citizens who are not professional journalists, the court said: "The proliferation of electronic devices with video-recording capability means that many of our images of current events come from bystanders with a ready cell phone or digital camera rather than a traditional film crew, and news stories are now just as likely to be broken by a blogger at her computer as a reporter at a major newspaper. Such developments make clear why the news-gathering protections of the First Amendment cannot turn on professional credentials or status." [Source See 1st District US Court of Appeals - 10-1764 Sect: II,A,1] Tags:Boston Commons, Boston, Massachusetts, First Circuit Court of Appeals, constitutional right, First Amendment, right to take photographs of police, right to take video of police, public places, photos, cameras, cell phone recording, police, Photographing Police, bloggers, bloggers as journalists, bloggerTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
Phyllis Schlafly and Dr. Bill Smith (ARRA News Service) at the Smart Girl Summit 2011, St. Louis, MO Photo by Julie McKinney (NC)
by Phyllis Schlafly, Eagle Forum: The media are absorbed with the race for the Republican presidential nomination, commenting on daily fluctuations in the polls, and predicting who will win. But why are they omitting discussion of the elephant in the room — China?
When Donald Trump briefly considered running for President, his straight talk about China helped him rise to the top of the Republican field. So, why aren't the media interrogators asking other candidates any China questions?
Communist China is a tremendous national security issue. The only cut Barack Obama is willing to make in federal spending is in our military power, which means he will be ceding our military superiority to China and other hostile totalitarian nations.
While Obama is shutting down our U.S. space program, China is going full-speed ahead to achieve space dominance along with the ability to deny it to America. Space is essential to the gathering, transmission and use of information necessary to fight and win future wars.
This year China unveiled a new, high-tech stealth fighter plane that could pose a significant threat to our air superiority. A Chinese military milestone was passed when China's first aircraft carrier completed its maiden voyage. China is deploying a new anti-ship ballistic missile that can sink U.S. aircraft carriers. China is developing electromagnetic pulse weapons to use against our aircraft carriers in any conflict over Taiwan.
Communist China is a huge jobs issue, and jobs is the number-one presidential campaign issue. China is a killer of U.S. jobs, not only from U.S. outsourcing but by taking thousands of construction jobs away from U.S. workers. Despite California's 10 percent unemployment, China will soon finish rebuilding the great San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge damaged in the 1989 earthquake. A Chinese company built the construction machinery and the 12 bridge segments in China and is installing them in California, using 3,000 imported Chinese workers (steel-cutters, welders, engineers, etc.), paid $12 a day, working 7 a.m. till 11 p.m., seven days a week, and sleeping in a company dorm.
China has already built seven U.S. schools, and has bought a large chunk of real estate in Toledo, Ohio and oil and gas fields in Texas. China has contracts to build a 4,000-room casino in Atlantic City, and to refurbish the Alexander Hamilton bridge over the Harlem River. In Idaho, China is using a federal program that grants permanent residency to foreign nationals and special tax exemptions to foreign firms that move to the U.S. But surprise, surprise, the Chinese industries in Idaho will be staffed by imported Chinese workers.
Targets of Chinese investment in New York include the New York subway system, a Metro-North train platform near Yankee stadium, luxury apartments, and major leases in the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center.
After General Electric's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, closed all G.E.'s U.S. Edison light bulb plants and opened a light bulb plant in China, Barack Obama named Immelt his Jobs Czar. Immelt then announced G.E. will move its 115-year-old X-ray division from Wisconsin to Beijing, where G.E. will invest $2 billion, train 65 engineers, and create six research centers. G.E. is now pursuing a joint venture with China to build the avionics for a new commercial plane that will compete with Boeing and Airbus. Of course, China will use this technology for military purposes, too.
China is now asking Missouri taxpayers to build a cargo hub at Lambert-St.Louis Airport, called Aerotropolis, for the use of Shanghai-based China Cargo Airlines. China expects Missouri to give the Chinese $360 million in tax credits to subsidize this cargo hub, with millions of square feet of warehouse and factory space.
The new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial should be stamped "Made in China." It was sculpted in China by a Chinese sculptor out of Chinese granite and assembled in the U.S. by imported Chinese workers.
Communist China is a big medical issue. More than 80 percent of the active ingredients for prescription drugs sold in the United States are made in other countries, mostly in China or India, where the manufacturers and facilities are rarely or never inspected. Several years ago, the Chinese deliberately substituted a cheap fake ingredient in the blood-thinner Heparin. That caused 81 U.S. deaths before it was pulled from use.
Now we learn that 180 drugs needed to treat leukemia, cancer and other diseases are in dangerously short supply because of contamination in facilities in China and India. While a deal is now being negotiated to start U.S. inspection of Chinese drug plants, there is no reason to believe that occasional inspections will make the drugs safe.
Again, why are they omitting discussion of the elephant in the room — China?
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"Real leadership doesn’t inherit a bad economy.
It fixes it." ~ Newt Gingrich
Bill Smith, Editor: President Obama and his new jobs-economics czar maybe working on the upcoming speech on jobs, but today's job numbers show that the economy continues to suck as a result of the Obama administration's actions which have "terrorized" private sector job growth. With the August jobs report in, we can now call Obama "the Zero Jobs President ." He has taken the most robust economy in the world and brought employment to a standstill.
Reporting on today’s disappointing jobs numbers, Reuters writes, “U.S. employment growth ground to a halt in August as sagging confidence discouraged already skittish businesses from hiring, keeping pressure on the Federal Reserve to provide more stimulus to aid the economy. Nonfarm payrolls were unchanged, the Labor Department said on Friday, the weakest reading since September. Economists had expected a gain of 75,000 jobs. The report underscored the frail economy and kept fears of a recession on investors' radar. . . . Adding to the weak tenor of the report, nonfarm employment for June and July was revised to show 58,000 fewer jobs.”
And The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday, “The Obama administration now says U.S. unemployment could persist at its current stubbornly high level around 9% well into 2012.” The WSJ noted, “Mr. Obama is scheduled to address a joint session of Congress next Thursday to outline his latest economic proposals. . . . White House press secretary Jay Carney suggested the measures could push the unemployment rate below 9%, but he also sought to avoid making predictions.”
Of course, that brings to mind the failed prediction that President Obama’s economic advisors made about their nearly $1 trillion stimulus bill. They said that unemployment wouldn’t exceed 8% if Congress passed their “recovery plan.” In February 2009 Obama claimed, “It's a plan that will save or create up to 4 million jobs over the next two years.” And Vice President Biden said the stimulus would create 3.5 million jobs in 18 months and “literally drop-kicks us out of this recession.”
In response to both the chutzpah of both POTUS Obama and Vice POSTUS Biden, the outcry of the general public is clearly, "like hell it did." Bold faced lies require bold faced responses. There are indeed to many to print. Below are a few of today's responses from outside of the Federal Government:
Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson responds, "Obama's economy continues to fail to produce the private sector jobs to even meet the needs of new entrants in the economy, let alone those who are currently unemployed. What is stunning is that the economy created zero jobs in August. It is almost criminal that Obama continues to offer the same failed stimulus solutions that focus upon his radical agenda to change our economy from the most productive in the world to one where hope is replaced by despair and innovation is punished."
Texas Governor and presidential candidate Rick Perry responded on the August job numbers, “President Obama’s job-killing polices continue to wreak havoc on the American economy. The poor national jobs picture stands in stark contrast to Texas’ pro-jobs, limited government policies which helped make us the top job-producing state in the nation. Our country cannot afford four more years of economic misery, and I will continue to travel the county talking about ways to get American working again.”
Former Massachucett's Governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney responded, “Today’s disappointing unemployment report is further proof that President Obama has failed. President Obama oversaw an economy that created zero jobs last month and that is unacceptable. In order to change the direction of this country, we need to change presidents.”
Former New Mexico governor and presidential candidate Gary Johnson responded to today's report of no new jobs in August, "With today's jobs report, the worst in a year, one has to wonder what it will take to make the President and Congress admit that they are doing all the wrong things. Government does not create jobs, it kills jobs. Yet, the White House says the answer is to pass a highway bill so they can 'stimulate' construction jobs. Washington has stimulated us to death, and it has to stop. Provide certainty for employers, stop the insane spending, and reform the tax code. Do those things, and the private sector will do the job creation. We have let the myth of government jobs programs go too far, and America is suffering as a result. We don't need more prime time speeches -- we need government to just get out of the way."
Former George Representative, US House Speaker and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich provided the image used today quote belwo it. He also said, "On Thursday, we will get to hear the president’s plan to get us out of the mess he helped create. We will find out whether he has learned from history and given up his commitment to class warfare and bureaucratic socialism in favor of liberating American entrepreneurs to do what they do best – create jobs. Either way, I want you to know that I will continue offering leadership now, advocating for the right policies now for job creation now."
It is very clear from today's dismal August employment report that those bold faced presidential and vice presidential predictions were not only exaggerated and didn't come true, they were in fact baseless. The president's agenda is counter-productive to creating jobs and expanding the American economy. The Obama administration is already pushing job killing regulations. On Sept 8th, President Zero will try for a "do over." Getting a "do over" may have worked for Obama when he played sandlot games in Indonesia, or in his unrecorded college classes or even in Chicago politics, but after over two years of his policies and administration wrecking the American economy, most Americans are not interested in giving President Zero another "do over" as he again attempts to harangue Congress with his socialist based agenda.
As for me, I do not wish to be frustrated with another Teleprompter Performance. If I learn that the President admitted that he has been wrong in his policies and is sorry for his failures, I will watch his comments on the Fox News' replays or on YouTube. Instead, I will join millions of "red blodded" Americans in preparing food and snacks for Thursday night's 8:30 PM (ET) NFL season kickoff: the Green Bay Packers verse the New Orleans Saints. Tags:Jobs report, Zero, Barack Obama, President Zero, news reports, responses, NFl foodballTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
End Bloomberg's 9/11 Ban on Prayer, Pastors & First Responders
Family Research Council (FRC): At a Ground Zero commemoration in New York City on 9/11 for the families of victims, Mayor Bloomberg is allowing politicians and presidents. But, he plans to exclude pastors and prayer from the Ground Zero commemoration This is not only offensive to the families of victims, but it strangely overlooks the role that faith played in bringing healing to countless lives. Even New York City's police and firefighters -- the very first responders on the scene that day -- are barred from what is quickly becoming a political event.
The presence of politicians and presidents, will not make up for the absence of prayer and pastors.
Please visit and sign the Family Research Center Petition at www.frc.org/911 and sign the petition to Mayor Bloomberg asking that he give prayer, pastors, and first responders a place at this most solemn remembrance of such a pivotal moment in our nation's history.
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Americans Not Impressed With Obama's Economic Record.
CNN Poll: "65% Give Obama Thumbs Down On Economy"
On Tuesday, the AP reported, “President Barack Obama says his administration is considering seven new government regulations that would cost the economy more than $1 billion each a year, a tally Republicans will pounce on to argue that Congress needs the power to approve costly government rules. In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Obama lists four proposed Environmental Protection Agency rules and three Transportation Department rules estimated to cost in excess of $1 billion. One of the proposed EPA rules - an update to the health-based standard for smog - is estimated to cost the economy between $19 billion and $90 billion. . . . Obama's letter was in response to a Boehner request last week for more details from the president on the proposed costs of the most expensive regulations under consideration by his administration. Obama's administration has identified 219 proposed regulations this year with a cost to the economy of more than $100 million each.”
In an op-ed last week, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) explained these expensive regulations are making it ever harder to create the jobs this country needs for economic growth. “Last year, President Obama promised Americans a recovery summer. This year, he’s given us a regulatory summer. He’s thrown a giant wet blanket on economic recovery and has given Americans a summer of more burdens, more costs and more rules. . . . The president said on his recent bus tour that ‘there is some red tape that needs to be cut, and we should cut it.’ Yet in just one week in August, two new rules were finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - rules that increased the regulatory burden on job creators by $10 billion. . . . New regulations and uncertainty continue to take a toll on our economy. America’s job creators should not have to suffer through another summer of Washington’s job-destroying regulations.”
Clearly Americans are not impressed with the Obama administration’s economic record. CNN reports today, “Only a third of all Americans approve of how President Barack Obama is handling the economy, according to a new national survey. And with a CNN/ORC International Poll also indicating that more than three-quarters of the public say the country is in bad shape right now, there's little wonder why the president is getting such low marks.” Tags:Barack Obama, economic record, regulations, cost of regulations, economy sucks, economy, sucks, CNN, poll, To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. Thanks!
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