Many news agencies are reporting, as is FoxNews.com that: “the FBI and Justice Department prosecutors have recommended bringing felony charges against former CIA director David Petraeus, the New York Times reported Friday night.
“The paper, citing “officials,” said the charges related to Petraeus allegedly providing classified information to his former mistress.”
The best summation of the pending case came from a Fox reader, GP Russell, as follows: “Keep in mind Petraeus is a key witness to what happened during and after the Benghazi event. Makes it interesting they are defaming him and threatening to prosecute.”
Then El Rushbo added a thought on his Facebook blog this morning, regarding the terrorist attacks in Paris and the ideological problems they cause for the left.
Rush wrote: “Political correctness, gun control, demilitarizing or disarming the cops, open borders, amnesty, everything the left believes in on parade. And that's why they're not talking about it. That's why their big concern is a backlash against militant Islamists and, of course, the rise to power of fringe conservative governance.”
Furthermore, while recent terrorist uprisings defy leftist beliefs that an approach of acceptance will quell radical ideological Islamists, a view shared by the US president, their anti-business, anti capitalism philosophy isn’t doing anyone any good either.
Christopher S. Rubager on myway.com writes that: “The government said Friday that employers added 252,000 jobs last month and 50,000 more in October and November combined than it had previously estimated. The unemployment rate dropped to 5.6 percent from 5.8 percent in November. The rate is now at its lowest point since 2008.”
However, while the numbers look quite good on the surface, the details show that, “Still, wage growth remains weak. Average hourly pay slipped 5 cents in December. And the unemployment rate fell partly because many of the jobless gave up looking for work and so were no longer counted as unemployed.”
And even worse, “to keep up with population growth since the recession began, the economy would need to create 4.9 million additional jobs, according to the Brookings Institution.”
Then came another very disturbing bit of information regarding the current US employment situation, whereas, “Economists expect more healing this year. Goldman Sachs estimates that additional spending on restaurants, auto dealers and other goods and services resulting from lower energy prices will lead to 300,000 more jobs this year than if oil prices had remained at their levels of six months ago.”
Thus, what that means is, that if the president hadn’t taken his rigid stand against drilling in the Gulf and on Federally owned land, while approving the Keystone pipeline, hundreds of thousands more Americans would likely have been employed over the past six years. Which when considered in regard to his intentional blockage of economic growth based on climate change that hasn’t occurred in the past 18 years, his anti- fossil fuel stance is absolutely incomprehensible.
Nonetheless, the weak economy, a real unemployment rate of 12% or so, and national debt now in excess of 18 trillion dollars didn’t deter the president from taking his annual 16 day vacation to Hawaii this year.
According to watchdog.org: “Records obtained by Washington, D.C.-based Judicial Watch said “the flights to and from Honolulu for the December 2013-January 2014 Christmas vacation totaled 36.9 hours at $210,877 an hour, which comes to a flight expense alone of $7,781,361.30.”
Additionally, “Local taxpayers pick up the bill for Honolulu Police Department escorts who guard Obama, first lady Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha around the clock. Figures just released by HPD spokeswoman Michelle Yu show HPD spent $277,000 on overtime costs this year during the president’s 16-day vacation. That’s $16,000 less than in 2013, but $60,000 more than in 2012.”
The short article contains more details. Here’s a link: “Hawaii vacation over, now taxpayers to pay massive tab.”
So, it seems quite understandable from today’s assortment of items, that if you happen to be the president of the US and are personally uninvolved and protected from events and circumstances that effect all others significantly, socialism certainly sounds like a good philosophy for everyone else but him.
That’s it for today folks.
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