3 Reasons You Can’t Find a Job – YouTube
Good video from the LearnLiberty Channel on the reasons behind the tough job market: 3 Reasons You Can’t Find a Job – YouTube.
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Northwest Coal Terminals Advance Despite Opposition From Environmental Groups | FreedomWorks
As I’ve documented in previous posts, the organized environmental left is marshalling forces to oppose Powder River Basin (PRB) coal exports to Asia via ports in the Pacific Northwest. Despite their best efforts at fear mongering about supposed environmental effects, local officials are beginning to push back against the prevailing …
Oregon Listed As One Of Worst States For Unemployed
Thanks to leftist policies, the current unemployment rate in Oregon is stuck at a pathetic 8.4%, a rate that we haven’t gone below since November of 2008 – more than 4 years ago. Joblessness has become the new normal in Oregon, which is why Bloomberg listed us in the top …
Clueless Liberals Blame, Boycott Businesses Forced To Lay Off Employees Due To Obamacare
Small Business Owner on Obamacare: Every Restaurant You Eat At Is Impacted Negatively View on YouTube It’s so sad to read these tweets from small business owners who are heartbroken at having to lay off employees because of Obamacare mandates. Unfortunately, now they have to suffer harassment from clueless …
November 12 is the first anniversary of 54°40’ Or Fight!
I am proud and humbled to celebrate the first anniversary of this blog. It has evolved quite a bit in its first year. I am most proud of the contributors who have agreed to post their stories at 54°40’ Or Fight! We now have 21 active contributors from around the …
Going Galt: Businesses Begin Laying Off Workers, Cutting Hours, Shutting Doors
Any business that has more than 50 employees is required to purchase health insurance for their employees or pay hefty fines, so many are now downsizing or refusing to expand beyond 49 employees. Also, in order to avoid the increasing cost of purchasing insurance for full-time employees, many small businesses …
Voodoo Economics Pt 2: Government Doesn’t Create Jobs
In a recent report, the Congressional Research Service revealed that welfare spending has increased by 33% under Barack Obama, topping out at over $1 Trillion annually. As I pointed out in my previous post on the report, baseline spending on social programs has deliberately been driven up by the Obama …
Jack Knows
Nothing says “unbiased media” like a coordinated, frontal assault to defame, demean, and dismiss someone whodares to criticize big government. Enter, Jack Welch, who dared to claim there might be some manipulation of the data behind the 7.8% unemployment numbers. Jack Welch then what Jack Welch always does when there’s …
Romney Acquits Himself Well Against David Gregory
Mitt Romney appeared on Meet The Press on Sunday, September 9 with David Gregory. Perhaps the biggest headline was that he took Congressional Republicans to task for not holding the line in the debt ceiling negotiations in 2011. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy …
Obama to Entrepreneurs and Business Owners: ‘You didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.’
Spoken like the clueless elitist that he is. The Blaze has the transcipt: There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t — look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t …
Obama: ‘Sometimes I Forget’ the Magnitude of the Recession
Oh yes, he did. At a campaign event in Seattle, Obama said that sometimes he forgets about the magnitude of the recession. I suppose that’s easy to do when you’re busy campaigning full time on the taxpayer’s dime, jetting around on Air Force One, attending swank fundraising dinners for “the …
Podcast: I Spy Minute – Unemployment Figures
Today’s official rosy unemployment figures came out but the slight drop from 8.3 to 8.2 is hardly the real story. Worse, the numbers are grossly wrong in one critical area. One wonders why… I Spy Minute Friday, April 6 2012 Happy Easter, everyone!
Welfare Queen
24-year-old Amanda Clayton of Lincoln Park, Michigan, won the lottery - to the tune of $1 million. She took a lump-sum, and after taxes, ended up with just over half a million dollars, which she used to buy a new house and a new car – in cash. She’s still collecting $200 …
These Regulations Are For Your Own Good
The nannies are out in force once again, and there are a couple of things that desperately need to be controlled. Writing in the journal Nature, some distinguished US scientists from UC-San Francisco raise the alarm about a deadly toxin that is in wide use, but which they believe should be reclassified as a …
Home Of The Whopper
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is pushing hard in defense of their $10 billion-a-year (to as much as $100 billion, by real-world estimates) plan to kill coal-fired plants and cause your energy bill to skyrocket sound and necessary regulation to protect children from airborne mercury emissions, arguing earnestly that it’s “fair”. Environmeddlists like Sierra Club are fully …
The Claim: They Pick Your Food!
Hey, they can go home and pick their noses. Image via Wikipedia This whole “they’re only here to do the jobs Americans won’t do” thing just doesn’t fly. Dubya was wrong, and that philosophy still is about as attractive as a Porta-Potty on a hot day in Juarez. So is this: SEATTLE …
Guess Who’s Going To Disneyland!
Actually, Disney World – after all, he’s a globalist kinda guy. Yep, fresh off of telling our neighbors to the north to go pound (tar) sand - and royally ticking off the unionistas in the process, Barry’s atDisney World. ORLANDO, Fla. — Standing in front ofCinderella Castle at Walt Disney World this afternoon, President Obama …
Guest Post: Don’t Be Fooled: Unemployment Rate “falls” – Because Work Force Shrinks
This is a guest post by Freedomworks intern Celia Bigelow. Before President Obama and Washington rejoice over the decrease in the unemployment rate they need to face a harsh reality: America is still not gaining jobs. In fact, the main reason unemployment “fell” is because the workforce has shrunk. The …
Does “Buying Local” Really Help Local Economies?
It’s a sentiment based on admirable goals: supporting local jobs and businesses. But the push to shop locally is also partly based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how economics works. So before you reject “big box stores” out of hand as immoral marketplace bullies who gobble up their mom …
Capitalist Offering Jobs at Occupy Portland Finds Few Takers
View on YouTube Here’s a tip for all the lazy whiners that refused: Then again, why get a real job when you can get paid to protest, and pilfer anything else you want from your fellow protesters? Cross posted at ThoughtsFromAConservativeMom.com Attention Wall Street Occupiers: Get a Job! We Are …