Politicans Correct: Economy Improving!
Labels: deteriorating, economy
I have never been impressed by the messenger and always inspect the message, which I now understand is not the norm. People prefer to filter out discordant information. As such, I am frequently confronted with, "Where did you hear that...." Well, here you go. If you want an email version, send me an email.
Labels: deteriorating, economy
To put public school spending in perspective, we compare it to estimated total expenditures in local private schools. We find that, in the areas studied, public schools are spending 93 percent more than the estimated median private school. Cato Institute (and note the "median" private school number reduces the actual cost by eliminating very high tuition schools.)Steven Jobs, back in the 1990s, told Wired Magazine that he sent his child to a private school and paid three thousand dollars, as I recall, more than the cost generated by a local public school. He asked, comparing public and private schools: would you spend an extra $3,000 to send your child to one of the best schools in the world?
Labels: Al Schanker, schools, socialism, state budgets, unions
EMPLOYER COSTS FOR EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION – MARCH 2013
Employer costs for employee compensation averaged $31.09 per hour worked in March 2013, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Wages and salaries averaged $21.50 per hour worked and accounted for 69.1 percent of these costs, while benefits averaged $9.59 and accounted for the remaining 30.9 percent. Total employer compensation costs for private industry workers averaged $29.13 per hour worked in March 2013. Total employer compensation costs for state and local government workers averaged $42.12 per hour worked in March 2013. From: BLS - The questionable statistics from the Executive branch of the kingdom.
Private Workers: $29.13/hrPublic Workers: $42.12/hr
Labels: Impossible pay debt, International Settlement, private sector, public sector
A program that helps pay poor Americans’ housing bills so they can look for work has doled out more than $100 million each year, but it has no way of telling whether the aid helped improve the recipients’ employment opportunities.
Officials at the Department of Housing and Urban Development have kept such poor records that they don’t know how many people they are actually assisting or whether the program’s premise of housing aid as a pathway to employment really works, investigators for the Government Accountability Office warn....
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/15/hud-cant-prove-jobs-welfare-plan-is-working/#ixzz2ctt8RfKJ
...Ayo Kimathi, a small business specialist at the agency, is also a “gay-bashing, revenge-seeking black nationalist,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit group that tracks groups and individuals it says are bigoted and hateful.
SEE ALSO: Final tally: DHS released 622 criminals as part of sequester
Mr. Kimathi in his private time runs the website “War on the Horizon” under the user name “Irritated Genie,” SPLC said. The site advocates “properly educating Black people to prepare for Racial Warfare.”
“Warfare is [imminent], and in order for Black people to survive the 21st century, we are going to have to kill a lot of whites – more than our christian hearts can possibly count,” one statement on the site reads.
The site also describes whites as a “sadistic race of devils,” President Barack Obama as a “treasonous mulatto scum dweller,” and says former Secretary of State “Colon” Powell (sic) and Supreme CourtJustice Clarence Thomas are “Uncle Toms.”....
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/23/dhs-employees-website-we-are-going-have-kill-lot-w/#ixzz2cttb5pjy
Two key senators said Thursday that Homeland Security officials should face discipline for their role earlier this year in releasing 622 criminal immigrants, including 32 with multiple felony convictions, in a move the Obama administration initially blamed on the budget sequester cuts....
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/16/final-tally-dhs-released-622-criminals-sequester/#ixzz2cttyn6zI
HONOLULU — Democrats are urging President Obama to bypass Capitol Hill once again and accomplish by executive order what Congress refused to do for 13 years: grant formal federal tribal recognition to Native Hawaiians.
The effort lost its most visible champion in January when Sen. Daniel K. Akaka, Hawaii Democrat, retired without having won passage for his namesake legislation, the so-called Akaka bill. The measure has not been introduced in the current Congress
Even so, the timing may never be better for action: Mr. Obama, who grew up in Hawaii, has indicated his support for the Akaka bill. He also has shown a willingness to use his executive authority to bypass Congress on a host of issues including health care, welfare reform, immigration and climate change....
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/22/obama-urged-to-use-executive-order-to-recognize-na/#ixzz2ctvXEJkX
Labels: DHS, End of Constitution, government failure
Graph courtesy of COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut Thanks to F. Guimaraes for this link
Labels: arctic ice, Global cooling, warming
Posted Friday, August 16th 2013 @ 12pm
President Obama will move forward with adding his signature to the UN Arms Treaty before the end of this month according to Press Secretary Jay Carney.
It is feared and predicted by many gun rights groups and advocates that the treaty, if ratified, could open up the US gun market to international regulation.
According to a letter written by CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gotlieb,
The uncertainty begins in the discussion of small arms. Where will the regulations on our small arms start, and where will they stop? They are even trying to include ammunition regulations in the Arms Trade Treaty! Will the United Nations try to impose international licensing requirements, an international registry, or international ?
The last negotiations for an Arms Trade Treaty took place in July 2012, just four months before the Presidential election. Obama did not want to take a big stance for global gun control just months before his re-election but now he has made it clear he is for total gun control. He also told voters he would not be re-visiting negotiations for an Arms Trade treaty but here we are.
Labels: Egypt, sovereignty, UN gun treaty
Labels: debt, economic illeracy, economics, unemployment
The Confused and Misguided Youth
By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh (Bio and Archives) Monday, August 12, 2013
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Dr. Thomas Sowell, Economics professor, economist, writer, and sage, encapsulated brilliantly what ails our youth. “The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”
And the culprits are the American public education, an ever growing lack of religious education, and the indifferent parenting that does not question what children learn or do not learn in school.
I accept the theme of Dr. Sowell and the article, a curious reaction for me, because it is what I believe to be true. Or, is it the other way 'round. Unlike the Marxist view, however, I do not see a central power as any solution. More centrally collected money dedicated to dumbing down students does not quite seem right.Young people in any generation tend to be naïve, idealistic, and gullible; it is easy to sell them anything because they confuse feelings with rational thought. They are told so often and so early in life that they are special that they form a distorted view of themselves.Undeserved praise is layered at every opportunity, even when Johnny walks across the stage without tripping. We can’t possibly hurt his self-esteem. Competition is evil, it is bourgeois, everybody knows we are “equal,” nobody is special in any way; we are all born with the same IQ, same abilities, mental capacity, intelligence, talent, no genetic irregularities whatsoever. Why even try to learn, compete, be the best that you can be and achieve excellence? Those are capitalist values....