Liberalism vs. Jobs UPDATED 3X and BUMPED

[original post 9.2 10am]

Liberalism vs. Jobs - You have to pick one.

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Today's completely unexpected news on 'job growth' in our second 'summer of recovery' - NYT:

Job Growth at Halt in U.S.; Worst Showing in 11 Months

Obama The economy failed to add new jobs in August, the first time there has been no increase in net jobs in the United States in 11 months.

The flat performance in the job market was down sharply from a revised 85,000 gain of jobs in July, the Labor Department said Friday, and was far below a consensus forecast by economists of 60,000 new jobs. The unemployment rate stayed constant at 9.1 percent in August.

Yes, we disagree with the NYT that the economy is to blame for today's unemployment rate.

Unemployment started its climb the moment Obama won election.

Was it uncertainty of the coming policies that caused this, as most say?

Or was it the certainty that Obama's policies would be destructive that led to layoffs and belt-tightening?

Does it matter?

Today's Bourgeois news - WSJ:

Amazon Offers California-Jobs Plan in Exchange for Sales-Tax Reprieve

Amazon.com Inc. has put forward a plan that would create thousands of jobs in California in exchange for a reprieve from the state's new Internet sales tax law...

Obama is giving a speech next week during the GOP debate. during a football game.

He announced this speech last month between golf outings while on vacation.

'Focused like a laser on jobs' since 2009, he shows great restraint in not rushing into such an important speech. This speech will go down in history as one of his biggest - up there with his March 2008 Race Speech and his July 2008 Berlin speech.

If jobs are the subject, we know one thing: If he wants to add jobs, he'll embrace conservatism. If he wants to continue on this path of >9% unemployment, he must continue to embrace liberalism, progressivism, socialism, communism.

Check back next week for our response to his speech.

UPDATED 10 minutes later....

Here is a third related story - NYT:

U.S. Is Set to Sue a Dozen Big Banks Over Mortgages

The federal agency that oversees the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is set to file suits against more than a dozen big banks, accusing them of misrepresenting the quality of mortgage securities they assembled and sold at the height of the housing bubble, and seeking billions of dollars in compensation.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency suits, which are expected to be filed in the coming days in federal court, are aimed at Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank, among others, according to three individuals briefed on the matter.

Questions:

1) Will these lawsuits result in more jobs at the targeted banks, or less?

2) Do these lawsuits reflect conservative values, or liberal, progressive, or communist values?

3) Would Karl Marx approve of these lawsuits?

4) Would these lawsuits, and threats of similar government lawsuits, qualify as reasons for uncertainty in the private sector?

5) Does Obama have input on these lawsuits and others generated within government agencies, or are these agencies acting independently of Obama?

Instead of asking these questions, we might as well be pissing into the wind....

UPDATED & BUMPED 9.8 10am

Obama's Jobs Campaign Speech is tonight, so bumping this relevant post.

this was good for laugh - seen at Yahoo's Market page just now:

UPDATED 9.9 8am

Found at IOTW:

Another Obama Top Ten List

Michael J. Boskin, Stanford Economics Professor, writes in today's WSJ: The Obama Presidency by the Numbers.

President Obama constantly reminds us, with some justification, that he was dealt a difficult hand. But the evidence is overwhelming that he played it poorly. His big government spending, debt and regulation fix has clearly failed. Relative to previous recoveries from deep recessions, the results are disastrous. A considerable fraction of current joblessness, lower living standards, dependency on government and destroyed savings is the result. Worse, his debt explosion will be a drag on economic growth for years to come.

Prof. Boskin's "Records Set on Obama's Watch:"

1) US sovereign debt downgrade: first in American history,

2) Federal spending (25% GDP): highest since World War II,

3) Budget deficit (10% of GDP): highest since World War II,

4) Federal debt (67% of GDP): highest since just after World War II,

5) Employment (58.1% of population working): lowest since 1983,

6) Long-term unemployment (45.9% of total): highest since 1930's,

7) Increase in nonfarm payroll employment (0.5%) since recovery began 26 months ago: slowest job growth 26 months after a severe recession since World War II,

8) Home-ownership rate (59.7%): lowest since 1965,

9) Percentage of taxpayers paying income tax (49%): lowest in modern era,

10) Government dependency (47%), defined as the percentage of persons receiving one or more federal benefit payments: highest in American history.

Obama, and the liberalism/progressivism/communism that he represents, have all be disgraced and discredited.

It is his first time. But for the sickness that is the Left, this is just history repeating itself in a very short, 2.5 year window.

Herman Cain

Unique and welcome change to the typical campaign commercial.



U/T: Moonbattery

An Obama Compromise

We keep hearing our Dear Leader tell us those rascally Republicans won't compromise. Here is an example of Compromise Obama expects.

FoxNews: Sources: Obama Administration to Drop Troop Levels in Iraq to 3,000

Currently, about 45,000 U.S. troops are stationed in Iraq. The generals on the ground had requested that the number of troops remaining in Iraq at the end of the year reach about 27,000. But, there was major pushback about "the cost and the political optics" of that decision that the number was then reduced to 10,000.

Current strength: 45,000.
Suggested (Generals): 27,000.
Suggested (Liberals): 10,000.
Obama Compromise: 3,000.

We're sure this won't put our soldiers in harms way, or threaten Iraq's security. Nah.

He is the Commander in Chief and it is his right to make this call. We know how bitter he is having been exposed as a fraud. Of course, he is the one who did the exposing with every decision so far. And this is his way to respond to the new criticisms.

Angry? Yes! But we are only surprised it took this long. We're on the record as praising Obama's continuation of the War on Terror - something we seriously did not expect in 2009.

The Girl with an Oar

Part of a racier Re-Stalinization era that Putin is kicking off:



It is only a matter of time before we see the Girl with a Hammer and Sickle. Maybe in the 2012 campaign, perhaps?

Gun Ads

We found this article at Creative Pro on the 1960's gun culture. Specifically, gun advertisements from that wacky time.

Clearly, advertising works.

We were born in that decade and these images, while we do not remember them, were obviously seared into our mind and drive our behavior today.

Most may think of the 60's as the hippie era. Most are wrong.

Monday Afternoon Cigar

A rare treat today to celebrate Labor Day: A Paul Garmirian, or "PG".

AKA, the President's Cigar, as this was the cigar of choice for Bush Sr, Clinton (and Lewinsky?), and Bush Jr as they held office. It may go further back too.

Labor Day - UPDATED

What did we do?

We worked. No breaks. No telling our co-workers how hard we work. Just. Plain. Work.

What did the "Labor Leader" Hoffa say today at a Detroit rally?

Drudge: President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let's take these son of bitches out '...

Classy. Civil. Vacuous.

Not sure if they held the rally in one of the neighborhoods that has been bulldozed in that city with 40 years of Democrat leadership.

CBS quotes our Dear Leader's new line:

Times are tough "but we're tougher"

That doesn't tell the 1 in 5 working-age Americans who are not working today how we're 'coming back from the brink'.

Michelle Malkin has a Top Ten post of videos and images of union thugs doing what they do best. Michelle must be getting lazy - there are plenty to choose from. Why not a top 100??

Nobody who wants to work should be out of work. Nor, should anyone go without a cool refreshing Leninade to celebrate Labor! Buy a 12-pack at our hat store!

Workers of the World, Unite!

UPDATED 5pm

Vice President Biden to Labor today:

[Drudge] You Are The Only Folks Keeping The Barbarians From the Gates

Win the House back in 2010. Check.

Now, to the Gates!

Fair and Balanced

We are Fair and Balanced here at Ushanka.us.

To bring an opposing view to our right-wing bias that will counter the past 5 years of Ushanka.us posts, let us introduce Obama 2012 voter, MsMaxy47 from back in May (LANGUAGE WARNING):



And her followup video from yesterday:



The DNC campaign slogan for 2012 won't be "Hope and Change."

It'll be "More Free Stuff."

Guarantee it.

U/T: Moonbattery.

Images pulled long ago from one or two of our favorite blogs. Our apologies for not remembering their source(s).

The Place To Be

If you ever see a few days go by without a post here at Ushanka.us, this is where we'll likely be.

From Calgary Herald through IOTW, Former cargo vessel hosts N. Korea's first 'luxury' cruise.

North Korea may not sound like the ideal tourist destination, but the secretive state has branched into the more luxurious end of the holiday market with its first cruise.

The venture's first 130 passengers arrived at the resort of Mount Kumgang Thursday, just north of the South Korean border, after sailing from the northeastern port city of Rajin. Their mode of transport is a far cry from the glamorous cruise liners that ply the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. The aging 9,700ton cruise ship was formerly used to transport cargo from North Korea to Japan.

The reason for branching out into the evils of capitalism, with our correction:

Increasingly squeezed by international sanctions domestic communist policies, North Korea, which has an estimated six million people at risk of starvation, has been stepping up attempts to woo foreign capital and tourists from overseas.

Did you know Stalin offered free cruises aboard similar cargo ships? It's true.

The cruises were paid for Dalstroy and took the lucky passengers to Magadan, the first stop on the way to Kolyma:



Pics from Calgary Herald. Yes - that second picture is a lavish one-course feast severed on the Good Ship Commie.

U/T: BFH