She was also offered a $10,000,000 bonus if she promised to keep her mouth shut for the entire shoot. Unfortunately (for her, but not the residents of Planet Earth) , the deal fell through.WhoUrDaddy wrote:Keeping You Up To Date
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reportedly offered Sarah Palin $4,000,000 to pose nude in an upcoming issue.
Despite all of this, Obama and his Ozombies tell us that everything is great and would be even better if it wasn't for the obstructionist Republicans.The economy has never grown much more than by minuscule amounts during the Obama administration. Gross domestic product has grown at an anemic pace since he’s been in the White House, barely sputtering at 1.8 percent in the first quarter of 2013. Unemployment under Mr. Obama has averaged a discouraging 8.8 percent and still tops out at 7.6 percent.
Gas prices are rising again, but Mr. Obama spent a long stretch of these speeches touting the doubling of “clean energy” production on his watch. He claimed to have “saved the auto industry,” but didn’t mention that Detroit has gone bankrupt.
Most absurdly, he cited as a point of pride that “our deficits are falling at the fastest rate in 60 years.” He left out two key points: The congressional Republicans demanded spending cuts for increasing the debt ceiling, and the rate of decrease is high because the deficits themselves have been the largest red ink in U.S. history. Spending was $1.4 trillion more than revenue in 2009 and $1 trillion more in 2012.
The Congressional Budget Office projects a $642 billion deficit for this fiscal year, but that’s mostly because Mr. Obama hiked taxes on Jan. 1 to pay for his spending habits.
Median household income has fallen by 5 percent since 2009 — when the recession ended and Obama came into office — as the Wall Street Journal pointed out after Obama’s speech.
Even when you measure what Obama inherited, he has not made a dent in anything. In most cases, things have gotten worse. There are millions who have given up and left the workforce. They now join the Entitlement Class -- the dependency rolls.Government grows, the wealthy, the big, and the well-connected pull away, and the rest of us struggle.
One reason: Obamanomics leans heavily on trickle-down economics. How does Obama promise to create jobs? With more loan guarantees to sell jumbo jets and more subsidies to make solar panels — taxpayer transfers to the big companies with the best lobbyists, with some crumbs hopefully falling to the working class.
Also, Obama’s regulations crush small businesses, protecting the big guys from competition. This hurts Mom & Pop and would-be entrepreneurs, but it also hurts the working class. New businesses are the engine of job growth, but new business formation has accelerated its decline in the last few years, hitting record lows.
Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream.
Survey data exclusive to The Associated Press points to an increasingly globalized U.S. economy, the widening gap between rich and poor, and the loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs as reasons for the trend.
Nationwide, the count of America's poor remains stuck at a record number: 46.2 million, or 15 percent of the population, due in part to lingering high unemployment following the recession. While poverty rates for blacks and Hispanics are nearly three times higher, by absolute numbers the predominant face of the poor is white.
More than 19 million whites fall below the poverty line of $23,021 for a family of four, accounting for more than 41 percent of the nation's destitute, nearly double the number of poor blacks.
Right.
"Here are the facts after 5 years of Obama:
- the economy is still stagnant
- unemployment and annual deficits remain high
- national debt and unfunded liabilities are an economic threat to the society
- ObamaCare hangs over the economy and every employer
- the country is in steady economic and military decline
- Obama and his INjustice Department and administrative agencies are riddled with scandals and gleefully flout the Constitution, the rule of law and the legislative branch"
Paragraphs and multiple sources, and that's all you got.LilRed wrote:
"Here are the facts after 5 years of Obama:
- the economy is still stagnant
- unemployment and annual deficits remain high
- national debt and unfunded liabilities are an economic threat to the society
- ObamaCare hangs over the economy and every employer
- the country is in steady economic and military decline
- Obama and his INjustice Department and administrative agencies are riddled with scandals and gleefully flout the Constitution, the rule of law and the legislative branch"
"Facts?" Looks like PUBS to me.
Even our very worst presidents did some good things; made some good decisions. Failure to acknowledge ANY "good things"; to obsessively argue; to arrogantly judge - "You ain't got nothing", etc., is symptomatic of a severely unbalanced wa... Ask the Nuge.
President Obama's doin a fine job. Bless him.
ATB
Yep, them folks in the tea party are racistsLilRed wrote:
Sadly, we seem to have a coupla ranting Teabillys in our forum... I KNOW Teabillys well, up close and personally... And, closet racists trading in hatred and worse... I am, after all, not only the son of a rocket scientist, but am (distantly) related to General Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA (through the issue from one of his scandalous liasons...)...
I found this pic of a Teabilly Constitutional expert... which reminds the rest of us, a whole lot of you Teabillys, here in the forum...
ATB
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I've got one word to describe your responses: pathetic.LilRed wrote:I have, several times, listed President Obama's many successes... I'll spare you all another round.
I will not swap url's with anyone, unless I feel like doin so. The crap that Briebart, Heritage, and Fox News spew is not worth reading, except to keep eye on on what the Teabillys are saying... And, yes, I have followed their links to supposed sources, more than a few times, only to find that the source was no longer available, or, that their content was so spun as to be twisted into meaningless, misleading ranting...
Sadly, we seem to have a coupla ranting Teabillys in our forum... I KNOW Teabillys well, up close and personally... And, closet racists trading in hatred and worse... I am, after all, not only the son of a rocket scientist, but am (distantly) related to General Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA (through the issue from one of his scandalous liasons...)...
I found this pic of a Teabilly Constitutional expert... which reminds the rest of us, a whole lot of you Teabillys, here in the forum...
CAMP: Well, the president promised, that I'm quoting, to lower premiums for the typical family up to $2,500 per year. Is that going to happen? And obviously, we’re a couple of months away from implementing it. People are concerned about the costs, how they're going to meet these obligations, is the average family in mid and northern Michigan going to see that kind of rate reduction?
COHEN: I think that the average family living in Michigan will have in a marketplace, more options and for better coverage at an affordable price, once the Affordable Care Act is...
CAMP: So they will see a $2,500 reduction.
COHEN: I can't say. We’re not releasing any information.
CAMP: Certainly you can understand why citizens are concerned on what is going to be a very large expense for their families. We can't even have any sort of prediction in terms of where this is going to be after several years of so-called implementation.
COHEN: I actually think that predictions have proven not to be very useful. It would be more useful to look at the rates states have actually released.
Helping that middle class, boy. Stand up for "the little guy." Yeah, right.Fully 77 percent of positions added to the market in 2013 have been part-time, in contrast to the positive economic news making the media rounds, according to payroll reports released in recent weeks.
Only a handful of the positions have been full-time, benefit-providing opportunities, one economic analyst reported on the blog, Zero Hedge.
In June, there were 360,000 part-time jobs added around the nation — but at the same time, the number of reported full-time positions dropped by 240,000. And in July, it was more of the same dire economic news.
Add the fact that the burden of ObamaCare is being placed on these same young Americans who are now forced to purchase health insurance or face fines. They wouldn't listen. They thought Barack Trayvon Martin Obama was the "Second Coming." Nope. Sorry. He played you.We keep hearing the job market is "improving" or even "solid," with 162,000 new positions created in July and unemployment falling to 7.4%, the lowest since 2008.
But one group is sitting it out. And it's the one that most enthusiastically embraced Barack Obama in both of his presidential elections: America's young.
Their unemployment rate is a shocking 16.1%. Increasingly, those ages 18 to 29, the so-called millennials, are being left out of the market, with tenuous or no ties to the workplace. Just 43.6% of this group have full-time jobs, according to Gallup.
So what are they doing? As a new Pew Research report shows, many are just hanging around their parents' houses; 21.1 million young Americans live with their folks, more than ever.
Over at Power Line blog, Joe Malchow crunched some not-very-pretty numbers on youth labor-force participation. Participation among 18-to-19-year-olds has declined 11.3% since Obama took office. For those ages 20 to 24, it has dropped 3.4%.
These are the biggest declines for any age cohort. And if they aren't bad enough, teen unemployment among blacks is an unbelievable 41%.
Yes, this great health care plan isn't good enough for those who threw it together, but the rest must just get in line, close their mouths, put their heads down and accept it.President Obama told Democrats in a closed-door meeting last week that he would personally moonlight as HR manager and resolve the issue.
And now the White House is suspending the law to create a double standard. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that runs federal benefits will release regulatory details this week, but leaks to the press suggest that Congress will receive extra payments based on the FEHBP defined-contribution formula, which covers about 75% of the cost of the average insurance plan. For 2013, that’s about $4,900 for individuals and $10,000 for families.
How OPM will pull this off is worth watching. Is OPM simply going to cut checks, akin to “cashing out” fringe benefits and increasing wages? Or will OPM cover 75% of the cost of the ObamaCare plan the worker chooses—which could well be costlier than what the feds now contribute via current FEHBP plans? In any case the carve-out for Congress creates a two-tier exchange system, one for the great unwashed and another for the politically connected.
This latest White House night at the improv is also illegal. OPM has no authority to pay for insurance plans that lack FEHBP contracts, nor does the Affordable Care Act permit either exchange contributions or a unilateral bump in congressional pay in return for less overall compensation. Those things require appropriations bills passed by Congress and signed by the President.
NOT according to CNN Money.No coverage options ... as in NO CHOICE. Good old Big Government. They always know what's best. Big Government is also slowly learning that it isn't going to work. It can't be implemented effectively or efficiently. Besides, Libs only believe in choice when it comes to killing a child in the womb.Behind the numbers in 3 key states. In Florida, for instance, officials constructed a hypothetical silver-level plan based on the offerings available today. Then they looked at how the cost of that plan compares to the average silver plan that will be available on the exchange. Florida found premiums will rise between 7.6% and 58.8%, depending on the insurer. The average increase would be 35%.
The main driver of the premium increases is the Obamacare mandate that coverage be offered to everyone, said Kevin McCarty, Florida's insurance commissioner. There are just short of a million enrollees in the individual market in Florida, while 3.8 million are uninsured. The state does not allow new entrants into a "high-risk pool," which provides coverage to the sick.
"People who are in their 50s with high blood pressure have no coverage options," he said.
