Obama’s Minimum Wage Rhetoric Based on Minimum Fact

By: jayp (Diary)  |  February 16th at 02:38 PM  | 

 “We know our economy’s stronger when we reward an honest day’s work with honest wages. But today, a full-time worker making the minimum wage earns $14,500 a year. Even with the tax relief we’ve put in place, a family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That’s wrong. Tonight, let’s declare that, in the wealthiest nation on Earth, | Read More »

Oh SNAP!

By: jayp (Diary)  |  January 19th at 08:35 PM  | 

Newt Gingrich has come under fire recently for his statement that Barack Obama is the “Food Stamp President.” In response to Gingrich, the left makes three claims: 1. Racist! 2. It’s Bush’s fault. 3. Well yes, but the population has increased too so Obama can’t be blamed. It is this last claim that I wanted to take a look at and see if population growth | Read More »

Obama’s Stimulus Destroyed/Forestalled 1 Million Jobs

By: jayp (Diary)  |  May 16th at 11:00 PM  | 

Have you heard how many jobs Obama’s Stimulus has created? Well, according to Ohio State University economists  Timothy Conley and Bill Dupor, it has created/saved 450,000! No joke! Wow…I guess we were wrong all along! Oh… wait… those jobs weren’t private sector jobs; they were government jobs. These jobs were saved because the stimulus money was used to “offset state revenue shortfalls.” So what about | Read More »