UNEMPLOYMENT: ANOTHER OBAMA LIE

Ever since before Barack Hussein Obama took office, there has been one lie or denial after another. Everything from a denial of ever knowing or having anything to do with William Ayers, Tony Rezko, Jeremiah Wright or ACORN, to outright fabrication of figures on his ARA website; all of these things are directly attributable to our President. The budgetary lies about Health Care and the bundle of mistruths about how the system would work further underscore one plain and simple fact: Our President and his cohorts are consistently lying and misrepresenting the facts to us.

Here’s the latest: Unemployment has dropped from 9.4% to 9.0%!!! My God! Let’s party! But, wait a moment. The Department of Labor tells us we need to add 250,000 jobs per month just to keep new people entering the work force employed. Last month, we added a paltry 36,000 jobs to the economy, so 214,000 more people were unemployed; yet, the unemployment percentage went down. How can that be? And, what about the new people who are being laid off at about 40,000 per week? What about them?

Someone is not telling the whole truth.

Remember when unemployment started to rise back in 2008? What about those people? Well, some are back to work and some are not. Those who are not can no longer collect unemployment benefits, so they are off the rolls and not counted in the unemployment statistics. Why not? Depending on which economist you talk to and when you factor in all of the people who no longer qualify for unemployment benefits and those who are only working part-time, the percentage of unemployed and underemployed is estimated at being somewhere between 16% and 19%. Why don’t they report on that? Because it’s not “convenient?”

Why does the housing sector continue in the toilet while the number of foreclosures is at a historical high if unemployment is actually going down? If unemployment is getting better, why isn’t payroll tax revenue going up?

They are quick to point out that the stock market is going up. But, where did all of that TARP and stimulus money go? It went to banks and big business, right? The average working stiff never saw any benefit from it. On the other hand, average working stiffs don’t make big political contributions, either.

We have a President who steadfastly refuses to reveal his college records or to release his birth certificate. That fact alone underscores that this guy cannot be trusted. He hides, he lies, he misleads. In short, he is not fit to be President of this country.

It’s time we got all liars and cheaters and manipulators out of public office. In this respect, maybe we should all take a lesson from Egypt. See what happens when you let your government be run by scalawags?

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.