Is The Recession Over?

Despite unemployment approaching 10%, some economists say that the recession is over.  The same economists say that jobs won't come back until 2012.

 

While government spending is killing the dollar, the high unemployment rate pushes up the budget deficit because the Democrats' "solutions" are to spend more on unemployment rather than to enact pro-jobs tax cuts.

 

The Senate health care bill is now back behind closed doors, as Harry Reid tries to put together a single bill with some real language.  The Finance Committee bill includes $507 billion in new taxes and fees, and you'll literally get your health care at the DMV.  Massachusetts has already shown us what happens when you try to cut health care costs by spending more money, and Obama economics advisor Robert Reich admits that old people are going to have to die for the common good.  As Obama makes insurance companies public enemy number one, doctors are threatening to go Galt.

 

Compare:  the Russians are reserving their right to pre-emptive nuclear strikes, while the United States is going to allow Russia to inspect our nuclear arsenal.

 

The maker of the new swine flu vaccine says that they think children will need two doses to be protected from the swine flu.  It takes a decade to get a drug to market to help men perform, but they're rushing this thing to the market in less than a year.  I don't trust it.

 

Apparently Michelle Obama is afraid of South Carolina.

 

The new hate crimes bill could infringe on the First Amendment.

 

Everybody in the United States will have to stop breathing by 2020 to save the planet.

 

Residents at an apartment complex in Oregon were told that they had to take down their American flags because somebody in their "diverse community" might be offended.

 

During this recession, Cuba is implementing more capitalist policies.

 

Even the United Nations is now saying that the actions taken to remove would-be Chavez clone Manuel Zelaya as President of Honduras was constitutional.

 

The Pay Czar is threatening to take bonuses away from the lower-level AIG employees.  They can't have the poor people making too much money.

 

Despite spending over $9,000 per student per year on education, students' scores in math still are not improving.  Georgia still lags behind the national average.

 

A mother was arrested for washing her daughter's mouth out with soap.

 

A federal judge fined birther lawyer Orly Taitz $20,000 for filing a frivolous lawsuit.

 

Now the GBI is involved in the alleged break-in of the Mayor's office.