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Audacity of Truth
Move Along:
""The whole issue of this - of talking points, frankly, throughout this process has been a sideshow. The whole thing defies logic. And the fact that this keeps on getting churned out, frankly, has a lot to do with political motivations."
Pres. Obama on GOP demands for Benghazi answers, 5/13/2013
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Shock: Low-wage workers may find they can’t afford coverage under ObamaCare
The Associated Press reports this morning that a “wrinkle” in the soon-to-be-fully implemented ObamaCare law may make employer-based health care coverage for low-wage workers unaffordable: t’s called the Affordable Care Act, but President Obama’s health care law may turn out to be unaffordable for many low-wage workers, including employees at big chain restaurants, retail stores [...]
Dem Governors to Gov. Perry: TX needs to stop trying to steal our jobs!
If this story doesn’t make you laugh out loud with glee while doing a little “Toldjah So!” chant, I don’ t know what will: Gov. Rick Perry’s high-profile efforts to lure jobs to Texas from other states may be good business and smart politics back home, but they’re infuriating to prominent Democrats around the country. And [...]
To deal with #Obamacare, school district cuts employee hours
**Posted by Phineas A little Blue on Blue action for your Friday, as one liberal constituency, school district employees, feels the pain to satisfy the demands of another, the “free healthcare and unicorns for everyone” crowd. Elections. They have consequences: 1 [sic] of Indiana’s largest school districts is cutting the hours of 610 part-time teaching [...]
The Obamacare Chronicles: 129 laid off from Missouri hospital due to wonderful new health bill
**Posted by Phineas At this point, there’s not much we can do about it, folks. Losing a Supreme Court decision and the 2012 election guarantees that Obamacare will go into full effect on January 1st, 2014 – Happy New Year! All we can do for now is observe and take note of the pain (some of [...]
IRS apology on targeting 75 Tea Party groups is NOT EVEN CLOSE to enough
I wish I could say I was shocked by this disturbing news (via) but I am most certainly not (bolded emphasis by me): WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service apologized Friday for what it acknowledged was “inappropriate” targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. [...]
The April jobs report and the part-time recovery
**Posted by Phineas The Bureau of Labor Statistics released it’s report for April today, showing numbers that should at least be slightly good news for the administration: unemployment down to 7.5% and 165,000 jobs added. Recovery!! AEI’s James Pethokoukis says “not so fast:” US job growth in April beat economist expectations as nonfarm payrolls rose 165,000, and the [...]
Great News: #ObamaCare officials not impacted by federal furloughs
Good to know: The office implementing most of President Obama’s healthcare law is not furloughing its workers as a result of sequestration, its director said Wednesday. Gary Cohen, director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, said Wednesday that his office has not cut its workers’ hours and pay as a result of [...]
New maker of Twinkies: Non-union workers will be used to restart plants
Let the OUTRAGE!!!!!!! begin: The company that bought the Twinkie, HoHo and Ding Dong brands out of bankruptcy is gearing up to reopen plants and hire workers, but it won’t be using union labor. Hostess Brands LLC—Metropoulos & Co. and Apollo Global Management LLC’s APO -2.11% new incarnation of the baking company that liquidated in [...]
Hide your IRAs: Obama admin. — “We think you’ve saved enough!”
**Posted by Phineas Or maybe it’s the off-ramp to Cyprus. Over at lefty blog Talking Points Memo (h/t Joel Gehrke), Brian Beutler has noted an interesting item in the White House’s latest budget proposal: a cap on the amount one is allowed to save in tax-deferred accounts. Anything over that is open to the taxman. Per the budget, [...]
AP: Economy “recovering”, but unemployed giving up on the job market in droves
The whole article paints a distinctly dismal picture of what the job market looks like right now, but the Associated Press still manages to twist the state of unemployment affairs and the jobs situation as a “recovery”, an “improving economy” (bolded emphasis added by me): WASHINGTON – After a full year of fruitless job hunting, [...]
