The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Two-thirds of jobs go to immigrants during Obama’s four years Researchers say legals and illegals are more mobile than natives in America By Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
Updated: 7:40 a.m. on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Milagros Rodriguez, from the Dominican Republic, works at her salon, Woodside Beauty Salon in Queens, N.Y. A study says two-thirds of job growth since 2009 has been among immigrants. (Associated Press) Two-thirds of those who have found employment under President Obama are immigrants, both legal and illegal, according to an analysis that suggests immigration has soaked up a large portion of what little job growth there has been over the past three years.
The Center for Immigration Studies is releasing the study Thursday morning, a day ahead of the final Labor Department unemployment report of the campaign season, which is expected to show a sluggish job market more than three years into the economic recovery.
That slow market, combined with the immigration numbers, could explain why Mr. Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney have struggled to find a winning jobs message in some of the country’s hardest-hit postindustrial regions.
“It’s extraordinary that most of the employment growth in the last four years has gone to the foreign-born, but what’s even more extraordinary is the issue has not even come up during a presidential election that is so focused on jobs,” said Steven A. Camarota, the center’s research director, who wrote the report along with demographer Karen Zeigler.
His numbers are stark: Since the first quarter of 2009, the number of immigrants of working age (16 to 65) who are employed has risen 2 million, from 21.2 million to 23.2 million. During the same time, native-born employment has risen just 1 million, to reach 119.9 million.
It’s a trend years in the making: Immigrants are working more, and native-born Americans are working less.
"The Economist" dumps Mitt, chooses President Obama!
Our American endorsement Which one? "America could do better than Barack Obama; sadly, Mitt Romney does not fit the bill"
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For all his businesslike intentions, Mr Romney has an economic plan that works only if you don't believe most of what he says. That is not a convincing pitch for a chief executive. And for all his shortcomings, Mr Obama has dragged America's economy back from the brink of disaster, and has made a decent fist of foreign policy. So this newspaper would stick with the devil it knows, and re-elect him."
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Mitt Romney’s White House bid comes down to business experience – i.e. he has it, the president doesn’t.
To that end, the Romney campaign trotted out a roster of well-known business leaders Thursday who are backing the Republican presidential nominee. Supporters include Charles Schwab, Cisco Chief Executive John Chambers and Bernie Marcus, the co-founder of Home Depot. The newest name on the list belongs to Intel CEO Paul Otellini, a member of President Barack Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. More In Mitt Romney
Mr. Otellini’s relationship with the president has been hot-and-cold since Mr. Obama took office. In 2010, he criticized the administration for failing to generate more robust job growth. He was particularly critical of the stimulus. But the Intel CEO joined the president’s so-called jobs council to much fanfare the following year as Mr. Obama embarked on a v ery public – if short-lived – courtship of big business.http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/11/01
Employers added 171,000 people to their payrolls last month, the Labor Department said on Friday. The government also said 84,000 more jobs were created in August and September than initially estimated.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Employers added 171,000 people to their payrolls last month, the Labor Department said on Friday. The government also said 84,000 more jobs were created in August and September than initially estimated.
I take the adjusting with a grain of salt.. ADP reported last week that it OVERESTIMATED job growth in September.
Regardless, the jobs report is not one that will hurt Obama at all. I said months ago the only thing that would hurt is bad job numbers for October, even though most economists say 200,000 jobs is the minimum for making a real difference in pushing unemployment numbers down. I was looking at the CNN interactive election map and clicking on toss up states looking for a tie...the formula I found was if Obama won Ohio but Romney won FLA, VA, CO, NM, and I think one more, they could tie....unlikely I think, but interesting none the less.
"Arguing with liberals is like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock out the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it is victorious." - Author Unknown
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Slowly but surely, America is working its way out of a devastating recession that took hold just months before Barack Obama was elected four years ago. The choice for voters Tuesday will be simply this: whether to continue the steady progress the country has seen under President Obama, or to embrace the failed policies that torpedoed the American economy in the first place. We endorse Mr. Obama and urge voters to give him another four years to fight on our behalf in the face of extraordinary challenges. Not the least of those challenges is a wall of Republican opposition in Congress that refused to lay politics aside and assume the responsibility of governing. We can only dream of where America might be today had Republicans worked with the President rather than attempting to impede his every initiative.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The Republicans worked with the President the same way that the Obama administration worked with Republicans when they passed the Health-Care bill. The Democrats set the tone of we don't need you, thank heaven the election of 2010 took place or who knows what other harmful legislation would have been passed.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
If you liked George Worst Bush... You'll Love Mittens Romney!
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
November surprise: EPA planning major post-election anti-coal regulation November 4, 2012 | 11:44 am President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has devoted an unprecedented number of bureaucrats to finalizing new anti-coal regulations that are set to be released at the end of November, according to a source inside the EPA.
More than 50 EPA staff are now crashing to finish greenhouse gas emission standards that would essentially ban all construction of new coal-fired power plants. Never before have so many EPA resources been devoted to a single regulation. The independent and non-partisan Manhattan Institute estimates that the EPA’s greenhouse gas coal regulation will cost the U.S. economy $700 billion.[/color]
The rush is a major sign of panic by environmentalists inside the Obama administration. If Obama wins, the EPA would have another four full years to implement their anti-fossil fuel agenda. But if Romney wins, regulators will have a very narrow window to enact a select few costly regulations that would then be very hard for a President Romney to undo.
Environmentalists at the EPA pulled this trick before in 2000 when the Clinton administration rushed out a finding that Mercury emissions from power plants were a growing public health threat pursuant to the Clean Air Act. That finding did not regulate power plants itself, but it did force the Bush administration to begin a lengthy regulatory process. [color=red]The Obama EPA has estimated that this regulation alone will cost the U.S. economy $10.9 billion a year. Reached for comment, Romney spokesman Ryan Williams said:
President Obama won’t tell the voters of the Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania the truth about his plans to shut down the coal industry. Even after he loses on Tuesday, it appears that the President will still try to continue his efforts to kill their jobs and drive up their energy prices. Mitt Romney is committed to reversing the damage caused by the Obama Administration’s disastrous liberal agenda as soon as he takes office.
Obama's re-election celebrated around world GREGORY KATZ AND MARGIE MASON | November 7, 2012 05:29 AM EST |
LONDON — From his old school in Indonesia to a Japanese beach town that happens to share his name, many around the world cheered President Barack Obama's re-election Wednesday while others said stubborn conflicts and deepening economic and environmental woes will not be helped by his success.
Perhaps nowhere was the joy so simply expressed as at Jakarta's Menteng 01 Elementary School, where a statue of the young Obama stands outside the school in tribute to its most famous alumni.
Jubiliant students happily marched with a poster of the president from one classroom to another after hearing that he had won a second term: "Obama wins ... Obama wins again," they shouted. "I want to be like him, the president," said student Alexander Ananta...............................>>>>...........................>>>>......................http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2012/nov/07/1107/
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