Allen West ” How can unemployment drop from 7.7% to 7.6% when only 88k jobs were added?”

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by Allen West via Facebook

The jobs report released today is just another example of the Orwellian world in which we now live. How can unemployment drop from 7.7% to 7.6% when only 88k jobs were added – and well below the prediction of 200k? The fact is countless Americans are no longer counted. America’s workforce participation rate remains at an all-time low, and minority unemployment is at epidemic highs. I know, my dear liberal progressive friends hate facts, but surely they hear the printing presses at the Fed? President Obama, if we continue on this path, your Potemkin Village-esque artificial economy is going to collapse.

Today’s poor examples versus history’s great ones by Allen West on @Watchdogwire

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by Allen West

It seems like everyone all of a sudden is learning about something that has been looming for nearly 18 months – sequestration. That awkward word is Washington-speak for draconian, across-the-board cuts to federal spending mandated in 2011 because the unduly titled “super committee” in Congress failed to make more targeted spending cuts.

Some officials in Washington will tell you we don’t have a spending problem. (Boy, they must be drinking something good!) But when you analyze the cuts set to kick in today, you learn that they represent only a 2.4 percent decrease in the growth of the federal budget. Actual spending still will increase!

sequesterThe cuts will be only $85 billion a year; the United States truly borrows that much in a month. The Federal Reserve also is printing money and buying mortgage security and treasury bond debt to the tune of $85 billion per month.

So what is all the hoopla about sequestration?

On Tuesday in Newport News, Va., President Obama decried the idea of sequestration. He never mentioned that the idea sprang from his White House. Instead, he highlighted all of the presumably terrible consequences for federal programs that could happen because of budget cuts.

As I watched this performance, I asked myself, “Is this the new face of American leadership?” I remembered when I was a military commander and wondered what my unit would have thought of me had I stood before them and complained about how bad things were.

What if that day before we crossed into Iraq in 2003 I stood before our battalion and screeched about how we would die, how great the enemy was and how we were not trained sufficiently to win. Where would the inspiration be?

Could it be that with the election and re-election of President Obama, we as a nation have forgotten what resolute leadership looks like?

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Allen West “A mix of bad ideas and lip service to good ones”

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Courtesy of Allen West – Weekly Update on Next Generation TV via PJTV

The president paid lip service to tax reform, but if you raise rates and close loopholes, that is double taxation. Furthermore, we have heard this in several Obama State of the Union addresses but have yet to see him move toward a flat income tax or a consumption-based tax policy.

Right now, the tax code is over 73,900 pages long.

Manufacturing in America, meanwhile, is recovering despite the president and his regulatory environment, yet he wants Congress to create a network of 15 manufacturing hubs. That sounds like nationalizing production to me.

How about we let the private sector expand manufacturing? Just give them the proper tax and regulatory policies for growth and expansion.

Obama’s talk about energy policy did not mention the Keystone XL Pipeline, which is truly a shovel-ready project, unlike the stimulus projects the president touted back in 2009. The Keystone endeavor submitted its application for approval 1,607 days ago, just a tad longer than our not having a budget.

Instead, it seems like the president wants to invest in more “green energy” follies. I suppose he did not learn anything from Solyndra and the several other bankruptcies, all on the backs of American taxpayers.

Obama is proposing a new Energy Security Trust, which would be nothing more than a government slush fund from increased taxes on the oil and natural gas industry. Again, he wants to nationalize production. All the American people will get are more government subsidies for an ideological, failed energy agenda.

And then there is Obama’s proposed “fix it first” program for infrastructure – read: stimulus with a twist. Add to that his idea for a “Partnership to Rebuild America,” a bid to attract private capital to upgrade ports, pipelines (just not Keystone XL) and schools. OK folks, unless you are asleep, read that as taxing people.

AlfonZo Rachel Asks “What were Obama’s solutions for our struggling economy and imminent fiscal crisis?”

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Published on Feb 14, 2013

President Obama delivered his fifth State of the Union address. What were Obama’s solutions for our struggling economy and imminent fiscal crisis? Find out on this ZoNation

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Allen West and Marion C. Blakey Discuss “Sequestration Will Hurt National Security”

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Sequestration was a bipartisan effort to force budget cuts in the absence of action from Congress and the White House. It will require cuts to needed national defense programs, in addition to programs that some consider trifling. Marion C. Blakey, the CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association talks to Col. Allen B. West about the effects of the imminent automatic cuts to the federal budget.

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Sequestration Will Hurt National Security

Allen West “Higher gas prices. Higher unemployment. Higher debt, The State of Our Union”

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Higher gas prices. Higher unemployment. Higher debt. Increased tensions in Asia and the Middle East. Colonel Allen B. West thinks the state of our union is failing. Hear why as the former Congressman delivers his response to President Obama’s State of the Union address.

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Allen West “What do the next generation of young adults expect from their government and culture?”

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Col. Allen West talks to pollster Scott Rasmussen about the Millennial generation. Media, politics and personal interaction are dramatically different for Millennials than for past generations. What do the next generation of young adults expect from their government and culture? Find out.

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Millennial Values: The Next Generation Cares About Education and Fairness

Allen West “Our economy is shrinking and yet we’re still being fed a story that things are getting better”

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by Allen West via Facebook

This week the President dissolved his jobs council (which only met once in 2012) while another 169k people disappeared from the workforce. The “official” unemployment rate is 7.9% but there are now 89 million Americans no longer in the workforce. Black unemployment is 13.8%, it’s 9.7% for Hispanics and 23.4% for teens. Real unemployment (based on U6) is over 14%. Our economy is shrinking and yet we’re still being fed a story that things are getting better- only if you measure it by how many people are dependent on the government, I suppose.