Tag: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Being a Business Failure = Amassing a $4 Billion Fortune?
DOES SUCCESS INCLUDE SOME “FAILURES?” by Bruce McKay, ©2016 (Apr. 7, 2016) — Gawker put out an article in mid-March that purports to be a “complete” list of Donald Trump’s business failures. Please note this “complete” list has 15 items on it. First of all, I think I would take issue with whether The New Jersey…
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Don’t Blame the Thermometers
“TINKERING WITH THE NATION’S THERMOSTAT” by Don Fredrick, ©2015, blogging at The Complete Obama Timeline (Mar. 28, 2015) — According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in February the average price of a pound of ground beef reached a record high $4.29. Many Americans probably reacted with a sad shrug, assuming that prices will always go…
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The Minimum Wage Poison Pill
“SENDING OBAMA BACK TO HIS KENYAN ROOTS” by Paul Hollrah, ©2014 (Oct. 11, 2014) — As we approach the 2014 General Election, with acting-president Barack Obama set to occupy the White House for two more years, the stakes are higher than ever. As usual, Democrats across the country focus on phony issues, such as a…
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Liberalism: Enemy of the People
HOW OVER-REGULATION LEADS TO ECONOMIC MISERY by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2013 (Apr. 6, 2013) — East coast, west coast, north, south, or in between, it makes no difference. Wherever liberals and Democrats govern, people suffer and everything goes downhill. Think Detroit. Don’t believe it? Just ask yourself, what is it that California, Illinois, and New York…
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Is the Obama Machine Putting Out Unemployment Propaganda?
SUDDENLY, AFTER ALMOST FOUR YEARS, THE RATE DIPS BELOW 8%? by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 5, 2012) — After initial media reports of the unemployment rate having dropped in September from 8.1 to 7.8% were released, only articles favorable to the Obama regime appear in the first page of a search on the subject. To obtain…
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Centralized Government is a Freedom-Grabbing Black Hole!
FROM “THE PARALLAX PROPHECIES” by Ron Ewart, ©2012 (Feb. 12, 2012) — “Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything…
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Unemployment Up, despite claims of Obama Regime
LOWER UNEMPLOYMENT RATE MISLEADING by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 11, 2010) — The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that the unemployment rate fell from 10.0% in December to 9.7% in January. The decline was hailed by some analysts as the beginning of the end of the recession which began in December 2007. However, Alan…