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New Unemployment Numbers Re-enforce Business Unease

the uncertainty is for real and Obama and team better wake up . . .

It's always good news when you see the unemployment rate decrease and that's what the latest figures  show that came out today. The drop from 10% to 9.7% is good news for families across the country. Ed Morrissey over at HotAir has written a concise, easy to understand article on what's all in this latest drop. 

The bottom line on unemployment is that it will not start showing marked improvement until:

1. Obama and the Dems cut taxes on the job creators

2. Obama and the Dems stop all the regulations and new leftist programs

Business does not like uncertainty and right now Obama and the Dems are doing nothing but providing uncertainty-on-steroids to the business community. Consequently, companies of all sizes, but particularly the small businesses which are the backbone of our economy, can not do any long range planning.

It's become very clear how ill-prepared these folks are in leading this country when this White House has so few of its staff and cabinet leaders who have ever run a business or been involved with the daily operation of a business.

I believe that we will not see any marked improvement in the unemployment level until after November and that's only IF Republicans retake the House and Senate and they actually legislate like Conservatives this time around. It would be the balancing act that I think would provide business with some calmness and allow them to at least realize that nothing to much was going to happen with a Conservative Congress and a Leftist President fixed in a stalemate.

Until then, well, I hope it gets better but the environment is just not business friendly right now. 

Obama 2011 Budget-Is This A Joke?

Obama and Congressional Democrats can't be serious . . .

Did Massachusetts not happen? Did Virginia and New Jersey not happen? Are the Democrats in Congress and in the White House living in a dream world?

The President just released his proposed 2011 budget and folks around the country have to be shaking their collective heads in disbelief.

Here's just a couple of the mind boggling numbers:

• Establishes a new single year record for spending of $3.8 trillion
• Establishes a new single year record for a deficit of $1.6 trillion
• Establishes a new overall record of total debt of $9.3 trillion

The so-called spending freeze that Obama so loudly proclaimed in his State of the Union address is at  best a reduction of $20-billion over last year coming from about 14% of the overall budget. Now some may say that's progress but consider that Obama and Democrats injected over $260-billion in so-called stimulus dollars last year plus increased their overall budgets by an additional 14% last spring in the Omnibus spending bill. You end up with each of these agency starting it's budgeting at an overall 84% higher level than the prior year. I would hope they could find a few bucks to reduce.

How many households got an 84% increase in their budget last year? This doesn't sound like much of a freeze to me. 

One final thought on this so-called freeze. Last year, Democrats in Congress and Obama agreed on $6.9 billion in spending cuts mostly in defense. They then took that "savings" and spent it and much, much more in non-defense spending which I outlined above. So don't hold your breath on this freeze happening either.

The end game is this. President Obama is showing early in year two that what happened in year one was not inexperience, it was who he is, i.e. a big time Liberal who fully believes that more Government not less is the answer.

In the end, as Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation points out this F.Y. 2011 budget will "over the next decade, pass $75,000 per household in additional debt into the laps of our children and grandchildren".

Voters now have a clear picture of who Obama is and who the Democrats are. Apparently Massachusetts wasn't enough of a slap in the face for Mr. Obama and his party, I guess it now goes to Colorado, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Arkansas, New York and even California . . .

If This Isn't A Red Flag

the Dems are having to spend campaign cash in Jan. & Feb. of a non-election year in Nebraska???

Found this little gem this morning about our Democrat Senator Ben Nelson and who is financing all those TV ads that we are having to endure. 

The problem with these ads is as I mentioned before, Nelson has become THE JOKE throughout the country whenever the subject of abuses occurring in Washington comes up whether it be on talk shows, late night shows or during the special elections like those in Massachusetts and today in Illinois.

Once the public gets a vision of you, it's really difficult, if not impossible to change and Ben Nelson and the "Cornhusker Kickback" are the first words that roll off people's tongues whenever the subject turns to what's wrong in our Nation's Capitol. 

Boy, that's a legacy I'm sure Nelson must be proud of. I wonder if that will go on his newly erected statue out in McCook . . . Governor, U.S. Senator and face of the now famous phrase "Cornhusker Kickback"