Monday, September 28, 2009
Ron Christie: The numbers don't lie
"Here's what Vice President Joe Biden noted in a speech released yesterday by the White House quoted by the Post:
"'The Recovery Act has played a significant role in changing the trajectory of our economy and changing the conversation about the economy in this country,' Biden said in a speech at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. 'Instead of talking about the beginning of a depression, we are talking about the end of a recession.'
"Well, the Labor Department just released the unemployment numbers a few moments ago and unemployment is now at 9.7 percent — the highest level in our nation since June 1983. More than 216,000 Americans lost their job last month and nearly one out of every 10 Americans is out of a job, and the administration is crowing about how the pork-laden stimulus bill is 'changing the trajectory of our economy and changing the conversation about the economy?'
"So far as I can see, the trajectory of unemployment continues to rise and the conversations I hear about people keeping their jobs remains tense. As for the White House? Its numbers and rosy optimism just don't add up."
"'The Recovery Act has played a significant role in changing the trajectory of our economy and changing the conversation about the economy in this country,' Biden said in a speech at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. 'Instead of talking about the beginning of a depression, we are talking about the end of a recession.'
"Well, the Labor Department just released the unemployment numbers a few moments ago and unemployment is now at 9.7 percent — the highest level in our nation since June 1983. More than 216,000 Americans lost their job last month and nearly one out of every 10 Americans is out of a job, and the administration is crowing about how the pork-laden stimulus bill is 'changing the trajectory of our economy and changing the conversation about the economy?'
"So far as I can see, the trajectory of unemployment continues to rise and the conversations I hear about people keeping their jobs remains tense. As for the White House? Its numbers and rosy optimism just don't add up."
ALEX ISENSTADT: In the race from race, Democrats rebut Jimmy Carter
"From the White House to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Democrats raced to distance themselves from the former president’s claim that racism was behind Rep. Joe Wilson’s 'You lie' outburst and other attacks on President Barack Obama.
“'Listen, he’s the former president, and he’s entitled to his point of view,' said Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). 'I personally believe President Obama and his administration are focused on the issues, and I agree with that.'
“I don’t see this as a racial issue,' added Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.). 'There are a lot of people upset about how we on the Democratic side can engage like we have been, and there’s a lot of anger out there. So, I don’t see it as a racial issue.'
“'I didn’t agree with it,' Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) said of Carter’s remarks.
"Congressional Democrats have no interest in starting a racial argument that could turn off swing district voters whose support the party will need if it plans on keeping its grip on Congress in 2010. And the current occupants of the White House made it clear Wednesday that they have no interest in bringing race back to the fore of any discussion about Obama."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27248.html#ixzz0STFeXkRJ
“'Listen, he’s the former president, and he’s entitled to his point of view,' said Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). 'I personally believe President Obama and his administration are focused on the issues, and I agree with that.'
“I don’t see this as a racial issue,' added Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.). 'There are a lot of people upset about how we on the Democratic side can engage like we have been, and there’s a lot of anger out there. So, I don’t see it as a racial issue.'
“'I didn’t agree with it,' Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) said of Carter’s remarks.
"Congressional Democrats have no interest in starting a racial argument that could turn off swing district voters whose support the party will need if it plans on keeping its grip on Congress in 2010. And the current occupants of the White House made it clear Wednesday that they have no interest in bringing race back to the fore of any discussion about Obama."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27248.html#ixzz0STFeXkRJ
Hilmar von Campe: The real threat to America: Godlessness
"Nazi society was based on lies, and lies are in the process of taking over America. I try to clarify for the American people that the ideological attack on America is part of the global attempt to eliminate God everywhere, replace Him with arbitrary rule of (leftist) man and destroy freedom. Godlessness brought Germany down. Godlessness is America's and freedom's No. 1 enemy."
and
"Socialist philosophy is rooted in the concepts of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a French political philosopher in the 18th century: that man is good but exposed to the corruption of society, and that it is the corruption of the political and social environment that is responsible for the evil in society. Therefore, justification for the socialists' policies is the pretense that they are out for justice and want to change the social and political structures to free mankind. That, of course, is a lie because evil is within every person, and their political praxis is reduced to the brutal fight for power by all means, playing up, lying to and enlisting the underdog. Only the means are different for the various socialist branches, but the principle is the same for all: the end justifies the means. Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister of Hitler, is quoted in Germany with the statement '… it is not for nothing that we have chosen the name National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), because at heart we are Communists.' Briefing his generals before the invasion of the Soviet Union in June of 1941, Hitler told them that he wanted to bring them 'real socialism.' His declared intention was to destroy the Christian churches after victory."
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"Socialist philosophy is rooted in the concepts of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a French political philosopher in the 18th century: that man is good but exposed to the corruption of society, and that it is the corruption of the political and social environment that is responsible for the evil in society. Therefore, justification for the socialists' policies is the pretense that they are out for justice and want to change the social and political structures to free mankind. That, of course, is a lie because evil is within every person, and their political praxis is reduced to the brutal fight for power by all means, playing up, lying to and enlisting the underdog. Only the means are different for the various socialist branches, but the principle is the same for all: the end justifies the means. Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister of Hitler, is quoted in Germany with the statement '… it is not for nothing that we have chosen the name National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), because at heart we are Communists.' Briefing his generals before the invasion of the Soviet Union in June of 1941, Hitler told them that he wanted to bring them 'real socialism.' His declared intention was to destroy the Christian churches after victory."
UK Telegraph: Andy Williams accuses Barack Obama of following Marxist theory
"But Williams had a less favourable opinion of the current president.
"'Don't like him at all,' he said, 'I think he wants to create a socialist country. The people he associates with are very Left-wing. One is registered as a Communist.
"'Obama is following Marxist theory. He's taken over the banks and the car industry. He wants the country to fail.'"
"'Don't like him at all,' he said, 'I think he wants to create a socialist country. The people he associates with are very Left-wing. One is registered as a Communist.
"'Obama is following Marxist theory. He's taken over the banks and the car industry. He wants the country to fail.'"
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