Review & Outlook: The Jobless Summer – WSJ.com. Perhaps you’ve already noticed around the neighborhood, but this is a rotten summer for young Americans to find a job. The Department of Labor reported last week that a smaller share of 16-19 year-olds are working than at anytime since records began to be kept in 1948. Only 24% of teens,... Read more
Archive for the ‘Party Politics’ Category
Review & Outlook: The Jobless Summer – WSJ.com
July 3 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Obama, Party Politics, Socialism, The LeftVindicating the CIA
July 3 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Obama, Party Politics, The LeftReview & Outlook: Vindicating the CIA – WSJ.com. Well, again I wait for the moaning and bleating of the liberal press… = The education of the Obama Administration on antiterror policy has been remarkable to behold, and the latest installment is Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to pull the plug on the investigation into most CIA interrogations. The disgrace is... Read more
Why the Jobs Situation Is Worse Than It Looks
June 27 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Obama, Party PoliticsWhy the Jobs Situation Is Worse Than It Looks A very, very compelling, gut-wrenching piece. =============== The Great Recession has now earned the dubious right of being compared to the Great Depression. In the face of the most stimulative fiscal and monetary policies in our history, we have experienced the loss of over 7 million jobs, wiping out every job gained since the... Read more
The Food-Stamp Crime Wave
June 26 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Obama, Party PoliticsJames Bovard: The Food-Stamp Crime Wave – WSJ.com. … The Obama administration is far more enthusiastic about boosting food-stamp enrollment than about preventing fraud. Thanks in part to vigorous federally funded campaigns by nonprofit groups, the government’s AmericaCorps service program, and other organizations urging people to accept government handouts, the number of food-stamp recipients has soared to... Read more
Obama’s Worst Week, Pawlenty’s Best
June 12 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Party Politics, The LeftA Henninger: Obama’s Worst Week, Pawlenty’s Best – WSJ.com. If next year the American people pull the plug on the Obama presidency, mark down the past week as the beginning of the end . . . and what looks like the real beginning of Tim Pawlenty’s candidacy. Incumbency isn’t merely a function of political inevitability but of the fact that... Read more
