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LTC8K6
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Yeah, I could see the diet coke if it weren't for the shake. I drink water or diet sodas with meals just to cut down on the sweets.

So you will see me order something bad for me along with a diet soda. I just don't always want that load of liquid sugar.

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Update:We made a mistake in our original calculations. The calorie-count for the first lady’s order was actually 1,700, not the 1,556 we originally reported. Our apologies.
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Jul 11 2011, 08:43 PM
That's been corrected to 1,700 calories.


My favorite part . . . "and a diet Coke."
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Seriously, I've stood in fastfood lines where they do that and I follow up by ordering diet ice water ...in a loud tone!
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Obama: Job Losses Prove Stimulus Worked

Monday, July 11, 2011
By Fred Lucas

(CNSNews.com) - Three days after the U.S. Department of Labor reported that the national unemployment rate had ticked up from 9.1 percent in May to 9.2 percent in June, President Barack Obama said that the loss of jobs in the public sector is “evidence” that his $830-billion economic stimulus legislation worked.

“Now, without relitigating the past, I’m absolutely convinced, and the vast majority of economists are convinced, that the steps we took in the Recovery Act saved millions of people their jobs or created a whole bunch of jobs,” Obama said at his Monday press conference.

“And part of the evidence of that is as you see what happens with the Recovery Act phasing out,” he said. “When I came into office and budgets were hemorrhaging at the state level, part of the Recovery Act was giving states help so they wouldn’t have to lay off teachers, police officers, firefighters. As we’ve seen that federal support for states diminish, you’ve seen the biggest job losses in the public sector--teachers, police officers, firefighters losing their jobs.”

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So, recent failure of his 'recovery' programs is evidence of his previous success ...at your expense!

IOW: His temporary solution saved us from WORSE results ...while he works to now reduce deficits holding us back!
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"I can imagine"

This guys is busy working on more excuses for the job problems ....too busy at the moment searching for more money to spend!
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He's just setting up for another sort of stimulus package, imo. Bernanke is talking about it.

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The Press needs to submit their Questions in writing to the Teleprompter:



http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0711/shout_of_bounds_729191ad-6922-4221-8711-77a68d3802df.html


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Jul 13 2011, 04:59 PM
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The Press needs to submit their Questions in writing to the Teleprompter:



http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0711/shout_of_bounds_729191ad-6922-4221-8711-77a68d3802df.html


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All these secret meetings between the WH and the congress should be televised on C-Span. These morons work for us, represent us, why are they hiding behind closed doors. Boehner stated when he bacame Speaker he would open up congressional hearing to the public. Boehner should insist C-Span cover the meetings and if the POTUS declines, he should decline to meet with the POTUS. I want to hear them live and what they have to say, not the BS they feed us after a meeting.
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Boehner: Dealing With the White House 'Has Been Like Dealing With Jell-o'

In a meeting with a small group of reporters in his Capitol Hill office this morning, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, criticized President Obama and White House officials for their lack of resolve in negotiations.

“Dealing with them the last couple months has been like dealing with Jell-o,” Boehner said. “Some days it’s firmer than others. Sometimes it’s like they’ve left it out over night.”

Boehner explained that talks broke down over the weekend because, he said, the president backed off entitlement reforms so much from Friday to Saturday, “It was Jell-o; it was damn near liquid.”

“By Saturday, they’d spent the previous day and a half just going backwards” on reforming entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

“The only thing they’ve been firm on is these damn tax increases,” the Speaker said.

The Speaker also made it clear that he believes the President waited too long to get personally involved. When he phoned the president Saturday to give him the bad news about talks breaking down, President Obama seemed surprised but not shocked, the speaker said. The phone call lasted 35-40 minutes.

Boehner said that the tax increases the White House has been pushing for as part of what the president calls “a balanced package” cannot make it through Congress. “What the president is asking us to do just won’t pass,” he said.

The Ohioan said that he believes the public supports the GOP line in the sand. “The American people want us to hang tough,” he said. White House officials “know they’re not winning.”

White House officials of course dispute this assertion and many others that the speaker made....snipped
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/07/boehner-dealing-with-the-white-house-has-been-like-dealing-with-jell-o.html


The bloom is off the rose. What is interesting is Boehner is openly critical of the President. 30 months ago that wouldn't have happened.
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Jul 13 2011, 05:32 PM
Boehner: Dealing With the White House 'Has Been Like Dealing With Jell-o'

In a meeting with a small group of reporters in his Capitol Hill office this morning, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, criticized President Obama and White House officials for their lack of resolve in negotiations.

“Dealing with them the last couple months has been like dealing with Jell-o,” Boehner said. “Some days it’s firmer than others. Sometimes it’s like they’ve left it out over night.”

Boehner explained that talks broke down over the weekend because, he said, the president backed off entitlement reforms so much from Friday to Saturday, “It was Jell-o; it was damn near liquid.”

“By Saturday, they’d spent the previous day and a half just going backwards” on reforming entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

“The only thing they’ve been firm on is these damn tax increases,” the Speaker said.

The Speaker also made it clear that he believes the President waited too long to get personally involved. When he phoned the president Saturday to give him the bad news about talks breaking down, President Obama seemed surprised but not shocked, the speaker said. The phone call lasted 35-40 minutes.

Boehner said that the tax increases the White House has been pushing for as part of what the president calls “a balanced package” cannot make it through Congress. “What the president is asking us to do just won’t pass,” he said.

The Ohioan said that he believes the public supports the GOP line in the sand. “The American people want us to hang tough,” he said. White House officials “know they’re not winning.”

White House officials of course dispute this assertion and many others that the speaker made....snipped
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/07/boehner-dealing-with-the-white-house-has-been-like-dealing-with-jell-o.html


The bloom is off the rose. What is interesting is Boehner is openly critical of the President. 30 months ago that wouldn't have happened.
Give Boehner props for finally figured out he's not dealing with someone who is honorable.
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Obama gave raises to almost everyone working in the WH, even though he froze federal salaries. Why doesn't Boehner insist that Zero get rid of some of his high paid Czars, that would be a good start. When a private company starts losing income, the are forced to lay off employees and find ways to raise money. The govenment should do the same thing, lay some people off.

One othe thing, when ever we have a major snowstorm in the Northeat, non essential personal are told not to report to work, police, fire fighters do report to work, but when people are force to cut budgets the non essential persons keep their jobs and the police and fire fighter get laid off. Why not get rid of some non essential persons instead?
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German Miracle’ Barack Obama doesn’t see
Blinded by big government, the Obama Depression is no accident

“The eye does not see what the mind does not know.” The difference between your patient’s life and death, my professors would warn, is what you see, and you cannot see what you do not know. Barack Obama cannot see a way out of America’s current economic malaise. He should ask the Germans what they know.

Obamanomics has produced the weakest, most anemic recovery since the 1930s, when another generation’s big-government planners turned their great recession into the Great Depression. To be fair, President George W. Bush certainly did not give the best economic handoff - he too was addicted to spending - but to be clear, President Obama has unarguably fumbled the ball. He has, to borrow his own phrase, put his “boot on the neck” of American businesses with his increased taxes and regulatory burden; he has grown government with his wildly increased spending and outright take-overs; and he has weakened the dollar with his “quantitative easing” printing press.

The devastation caused by Obamanomics is now undeniable. According to Investors Business Daily, 2 million net private-sector jobs have been lost; unemployment has increased by 1.5 percentage points; long-term unemployment is the worst ever on record; the dollar is 12 percent weaker; the number of Americans on food stamps has increased by 37 percent; the Misery Index (unemployment plus inflation) has increased by 62 percent; and the national debt has exploded by an alarming 40 percent. Mr. Obama is on pace to saddle America with more job-killing debt than all the first 43 presidents - combined.

It didn’t have to be this way but Mr. Obama is trapped in the mistaken belief that America’s problems can only be solved by growing our government ever larger. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. In early 2009, before his unsuccessful attempt to bring the Olympics to Chicago, Mr. Obama failed at a far more consequential international lobbying effort: The president could not convince German Chancellor Angela Merkel to unleash yet another in the long stream of Keynesian “stimulus” spending schemes - and for good reason. Admittedly, no two nations’ recessions are the same. Germany’s gross domestic product fell even more steeply than America’s but then again, the Germans didn’t have to contend with the likes of Rep. Barney Frank, Massachusetts Democrat, and then-Sen. Chris Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, sabotaging their housing market with government-imposed suicide mortgage loans. Today, however, while America’s economy is worsening, Germany has returned to pre-recession employment levels and their only “unexpected” economic news is the kind that beats expectations.

The real lessons from the Germans, however, comes not from the 21st century, but from the 20th. In the aftermath of World War II, a defeated and devastated Germany was under American occupation, controlled by Keynesian economists including the American price-control czar himself, John Kenneth Galbraith. The American overseers, as well as Germany’s new Social Democratic Party, favored maintaining the Nazi’s top-down, government-directed economy with its price and wage controls and restrictive regulations, which, unsurprisingly, created economic stagnation and crippling shortages of basic goods.

One bold German economist who understood the power of freedom dared to disagree. In a swift and masterful move on June 20, 1948 - a Sunday - economic director Ludwig Erhard freed the German market (and the people) by abolishing most of the restrictive price controls and other burdensome governmental regulations while he simultaneously solidified monetary policy with the introduction of the deutsche mark. The American Keynesians and German socialists were aghast but Erhard was quickly proven right.

Germany’s economy responded with a roar heard round the world. Within weeks, businesses sparked back to life and crippling shortages were eliminated. Within a year, the war-torn western zones united to become West Germany which quickly and overwhelmingly outpaced the Soviet-controlled East Germany. Within a decade, West Germany’s economy doubled, leaving behind Allied “winners” of the war, France and England, despite the Marshall Plan largesse these nations enjoyed. Within a half-century, the Berlin Wall crumbled and with it, the Soviet’s Evil Empire. This is the story of the “Wirtschaftswunder,” the German economic miracle.

Erhard courageously and almost single-handedly unshackled German citizens from the Nazi-inspired, socialist-endorsed and American Keynesian-imposed economic controls. He later confessed that he launched his plan on a Sunday, when the American occupation authorities’ offices were closed, because he was certain they would otherwise have countermanded his orders. Germans later made Erhard their chancellor but his lasting legacy is the German Miracle: a lesson of how free people in a free market, rather than an oversized and overbearing government, can rescue an economy - even one as devastated as post-war Germany‘s.

The lesson is right there for anyone who can see it.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/13/german-miracle-barack-obama-doesnt-see/


Obama is just doing what Marxist have always done. Make things worse.
Edited by Baldo, Jul 13 2011, 06:48 PM.
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Mason
Jul 13 2011, 04:59 PM
.The Press needs to submit their Questions in writing to the Teleprompter:


[urlhttp://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0711/shout_of_bounds_729191ad-6922-4221-8711-77a68d3802df.html[/url]
LOL!

Would it be unlawful to tap the feed and present him questions? Maybe even multiple choice answers!
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Leaves one wondering why the Germans jumped in with the Euro gang. Did Germany anticipate they could help pay for other members long enough that those countries would catch on ...providing better clients in trade for themselves later?
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Jul 13 2011, 06:45 PM
Leaves one wondering why the Germans jumped in with the Euro gang. Did Germany anticipate they could help pay for other members long enough that those countries would catch on ...providing better clients in trade for themselves later?
.providing better clients in trade for themselves later

Nothing wrong with that. I wish we would flex our muscles for our own benefit more. In fact I have no apologies for a country exercising their sovereignty.
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Obama not coming through on American trade deals

By Staff Writer
PhillyBurbs.com


You believe in this president, right? You still think Barack Obama, if not exactly the saint you once venerated, is way ahead of the Republicans, which is to say, you have missed the kiss-the-unions joke of tying highly needed trade treaties to a job-training boondoggle.

Consider, first off, that the Obama administration has sat on these treaties for two years, tinkering with them while saying, yawn, there’s no hurry and only lately seeming to get it that, wow, they will bring $13 billion in exports and 250,000 jobs to this beleaguered economy

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So, says an awakened Obama to Congress, pass these treaties with Columbia, South Korea and Panama and pass them now. There was little need for urging. Both parties are more than ready to go.

But Obama is up to something else. He is not going to send the treaties over for ratification until Congress first renews Trade Adjustment Assistance, and some Republicans have said wait a second, we want to consider that program separately. Obama replied there they go again, trying to halt economic progress.

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According to the Wall Street Journal, half those who get the training are union members while just a third of those eligible are in unions. The jobless not in the program are limited to 99 weeks of unemployment benefits. Those in it get as much as 156 weeks.

But if jobs are what you want, you ought to visit analyses showing the president is scaring businesses away from expansion with regulatory overkill, EPA’s energy-diminishing phantom chasing, the Obama-snare health plan and a berserk National Labor Relations Board now headed by a wild-eyed radical.

None of that produces jobs, and neither will imperiling the economy with too much federal debt. Although Obama now says he will go along with genuine austerity goals if he can get recession-reviving tax hikes, he has lately been pushing for an unaffordable high-speed rail system. It would come on top of such other inanities as an original budget this year that hiked the debt over the next decade by $10 trillion, enough money to reach to the moon and back and then halfway up again if stacked as $1 bills. Do they make debt ceilings that high?

Obama finally seemed to be coming through on trade, but not really, not when he insisted on linking the vote to the job-training con. I hope the public is paying attention.



On top of it being a really good article about our BRILLIANT ONE,

...it is hosted by MSNBC,

...published by a Philly news source, and

...credited to no name in particular!




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