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Massive Layoffs Greet Obama Re-election

November 12, 2012  By Kevin “Coach” Collins 10 Comments

Layoffs Massive Layoffs Greet Obama Re election

It didn’t take long. The layoffs and closings are piling up. The saddest thing about compiling this list is that by the time today is over, the list will probably have grown dramatically. The next saddest part is that at least some of these laid off employees voted for Barack Obama because they didn’t believe this would happen.

These are more than just headlines. Every number represents  real people who have lost their livelihood.

Boeing Announces Big Layoffs in Defense Division cut 30% of workforce

Anonymous employer in Los Vegas: “I have 114 employees. I’m firing 22”

Momentive Inc. plans 150 “temporary” layoffs” – Tyler County West Virginia

Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania “voluntary furloughs” for 300 town workers. Joe Biden’s gift to his old neighborhood

Berks County Pennsylvania Exide Technologies to lay off 150 workers

Groupon is starting with 80 employee layoffs. But more will certainly follow as the stock price has dropped from $20.00 to $3.85 in the past year

TE Connectivity to close Guilford North Carolina plant to lay off 620

50 Layoffs at Anniston Alabama weapons incinerator plant

Murray Energy of Steubenville Ohio to layoff 150

Associated Milk Producers of Worthington Minnesota has laid off 130 workers

Stanford Brake plant of Lincoln County Kentucky to lay off 75 by Christmas

TurboCare, Oce Manchester and East Hartford Connecticut laying off more than 220 workers

ATI of North Richland Hills Texas to layoff 172

SpaceX –  Rocketdyne Hawthorne California lays off 100

Providence Journal lays off 23 full time employees

CVPH of Plattsburgh New York to lay off 17

New Energy of Indiana lays off final 40 workers and closes up

102 East Carbon Utah miners lose jobs – war on coal KIAs

U.S. Cellular in Chicago cuts 640 workers and Obama fans get what they voted for

Career Education cutting 900 jobs across Illinois

Vesta Wind Systems cutting 3,000 Oregon getting what THEY voted for!

FirstEnergy Akron Ohio cuts 200

Energizer of St. Louis to cut about 1,500 in Vermont and Missouri

West Ridge Mine a Utah coal company has laid off 102 miners

Strap yourself in, America and prepare for this to get much worse before it gets better.

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Can you Help turn this...

Not Morning In America, But MOURNING In America

Yes, I will recognize that it wasn’t Reagan’s Morning in America  that was the result of Tuesday’s election, but half the country is in Mourning  in America. There’s a lot that can be said about this past  Tuesday’s election but we’ve all heard the blather and blaming ad nauseum by  now. I believe this election spoke unequivocally about the depth of  wantonness in the souls of at least half the electorate. Half the voters chose  the love of nation and for the good and benefit of their fellow citizens. And by  a razor-thin edge, they lost. The other half proved that the NEA  successfully completed their carefully plotted hit job on the American Public  school system. A crop of illiterate, feel-good, American Idol addicts  that, in the greatest information age known to man, chose to be vacuous and  vulnerable to every wolf in a designer suit and a paltering promise on his  tongue. People who displayed chosen blindness, deafness and selfish  self-serving behavior, they were voting for instant gratification, a big papa, a  genie in a lamp, Santa Claus. And make no mistake, what we sow, we reap; nothing  is free. The myopic, gluttonous, Me-first generation will reap what they’ve  sown, in slavery to big Papa? And as they refused  to heed our warnings, so will their cries for help  be unheeded.  A friend sent a quote to me,  which was so spot on I have to share it:

Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically  acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his  path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he  speaks in the Forum of the ‘new, wonderful, good society’ which shall now be  Rome’s, interpreted to mean: more money, more ease, more security, more living  fatly at the expense of the industrious.

                                                                         ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

I concur — but, let me add, I also hold Caesar culpable. Peter Hitchens (conservative brother of the late Christopher Hitchens)  wrote the following in conclusion of the election of Obama: “And now the US,  like Britain before it, has begun the long slow descent into the Third World.  How sad. Where now is our last best hope on Earth?” I believe the  last, best hope for this world still lies in America. But it’s time for some  soul-searching. If those of us who knew what the truth was and failed to share  it with our neighbors because we assumed that believing was all that was  required to prevail … we were tragically wrong. Conservatives do NOT have a  platform problem, we have a communication problem. It was the reason we lost  this race and it will continue to be the reason for many more loses if we fail  to correct one major flaw: We love to use the name of Reagan, but fail to share  the same as Reagan. He knew his plan was the right one for America … and he  never backed down from that. What he DID do was, as the Great Communicator, find  a way to tell those on the opposing side: Our plan is good for YOU and good for  all Americans … come join us! We know our plan is good (I hope) … now let’s work hard for the next four years to communicate that plan. Let’s honor the Gipper’s memory … and bless America again. Let’s turn our mourning … into morning once more, in  America!

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Very Interesting ...!

We Spend HOW MUCH On Welfare?

      By Jeff Reynolds on November 01, 2012   
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While researching another blog post, I came across an article that truly shocked me - which is really hard to do, given my familiarity with the Obama administration's free-spending ways.

Over $60,000 in Welfare Spent Per Household in Poverty

New data compiled by the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee shows that, last year, the United States government spent over $60,000 to support welfare programs per each household that is in poverty. The calculations are based on data from the Census, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Congressional Research Services.
"According to the Census’s American Community Survey, the number of households with incomes below the poverty line in 2011 was 16,807,795," the Senate Budget Committee notes. "If you divide total federal and state spending by the number of households with incomes below the poverty line, the average spending per household in poverty was $61,194 in 2011."  (emphasis added)

This dollar figure is almost three times the amount the average household on poverty lives on per year. "If the spending on these programs were converted into cash, and distributed exclusively to the nation’s households below the poverty line, this cash amount would be over 2.5 times the federal poverty threshold for a family of four, which in 2011 was $22,350 (see table in this link)," the Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee note.

The article goes on to note that, "The U.S. Census Bureau estimated that almost 110 million Americans received some form of means-tested welfare in 2011."

Now, look, as a Tea Party guy, I'm rather acutely aware of how much money Barack Obama has spent in his 4 years as President, but these numbers are just staggering - even for policy wonks and political veterans.

One would think that all this spending on welfare programs would produce an appreciable decrease in poverty rates. After all, when spending per household on welfare programs is over 300% of the poverty level, the beneficiary households should be very comfortable indeed. One would, sadly, be wrong.

According to the US Census, individuals below the poverty line have increased from just under 40 million in 2008 to over 46 million in 2010, an increase from 13.2% to 15.1% of our population. In other words, we've thrown WAY more money at the problem, which has paradoxically only made the problem worse.

See, that's the problem. Government is presumed to know better how to spend your money better than you do. Reminds me of the quote from Bill Clinton:

In a post-State of the Union speech in Buffalo, NY on January 20, 1999, Bill Clinton was asked why not a tax cut if we have a surplus. Clinton's response:

"We could give it all back to you and hope you spend it right... But ... if you don't spend it right, here's what's going to happen. In 2013 -- that's just 14 years away -- taxes people pay on their payroll for Social Security will no longer cover the monthly checks... I want every parent here to look at the young people here, and ask yourself, 'Do you really want to run the risk of squandering this surplus?' " (emphasis added)

    Source: Washington Times, January 21, 1999

Typifying the arrogance and conceit of DC elites, this quote also reveals a mindset that couldn't possibly conceive of waste, fraud and abuse inherent in their Rube Goldberg contraptions disguised as public assistance agencies.

As Daniel Greenfield puts it,

What the class warriors know and their critics often don’t understand is that the real welfare queens aren’t the ones shouting about voting for Obama because they’re getting free phones. They’re the ones who administer the free phone programs.
The welfare state isn’t run for the benefit of welfare recipients, it’s run for the bureaucracy that dispenses welfare and their contractors, with the welfare recipients as the pretext for the whole scam.

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Amazing...!

         Isn't it amazing how all the Intelligent wonders of the world, come crawling out of the woodwork with all their analytical summations as to why someone lost , after they Lost?

         All the pros and cons as to why he lost isn't going to change the outcome now is it..?           Truly amazing..!!

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