Fast and Furious Roundtable with Katie Pavlich and Matthew Boyle

Katie Pavlich from Townhall.com and Matthew Boyle from The Daily Caller join Cam Edwards in studio for a Fast and Furious Roundtable - NRA News.

September 21, 2011

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Austin Hill - Obama, "Fairness", and Your Right to Not Work

I’m askin’ that the script be flipped…”

The young woman at the audience microphone seemed to have some familiarity with Democrat President John F Kennedy’s admonition to “ask what you can do for your country.” But she had a different idea in mind.

“..I’m askin’ what the country can do for me, and the people in this room,” she shouted, as the crowd erupted in uproarious cheers and chants.

It was August of 2011. Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters of California was hosting a town hall meeting and “job fair” in the L.A. suburb of Inglewood – a town where the unemployment rate is estimated to hover around 30%.

The Congresswoman was deflecting her constiuents’ anger away from herself and floating the idea that, while it’s great to have a black President, Barack Obama nonetheless was not doing enough to “create jobs” for black Americans.

That was last summer. Since then, the unemployment rate has dropped a bit and some American companies have done some hiring.

But look more closely at the unemployment numbers, and another reality emerges. After three years in the White House, President Barack Obama has indeed “flipped the script” in America and now millions of us are simply choosing to NOT work.

The reality of Americans choosing to not work – or, at a minimum, choosing to work less – would seem to be a very intentional consequence of President Obama’s agenda. Indeed, it has long been the belief of the President’s science adviser John P. Holdren that the world would be a better place if “Americans worked, produced, and earned less.”

This may seem counter-intuitive, yet the numbers don’t lie. As the unemployment rate has recently dropped a bit, so also has the “labor force participation rate” – the statistic that represents the ratio between the labor force itself, and the overall population. Assuming that the Bureau of Labor Statistics is telling the truth, participation in the labor force has dropped to a 30 year low, as roughly 1.2 million Americans recently chose to exit the labor market.

It’s difficult to deny that the decline in the number of people who want to work correlates with the President’s agenda. At the very least, one has to admit that this change corresponds on the timeline with Mr. Obama’s presidency.

Yet within his first three years as our President, we’ve seen the amount of direct federal payments to individual households – both direct payments for specific usages, and for “unrestricted” usages – skyrocket by more than $600 billion. One might argue that these direct payments rose out of necessity because of the recession, although President Obama has slated for another $500 billion worth of annual increases in direct payments between now and 2016. If the trend continues, within the next four years direct payments will account for two-thirds of all annual federal government spending.

But wait, there’s more. A record forty-nine percent of all American homes have somebody living in them who is receiving some sort of federal benefit. And reliance on food stamps has expanded forty-five percent during the Obama presidency, thanks in no small part to the President’s insistence that the expansion of food stamp funding be included in his “economic stimulus bill.”

So what does the expansion of “federal assistance” do to us? President Obama insists that it creates a sense of “fairness” in our society. Yet it’s difficult to argue that it doesn’t create at least some incentive to cease being productive.

And then there’s President Obama’s signature “healthcare reform” law – “Obamacare” if you will. Nearly two years ago the Congressional Budget Office warned that with all the robust entitlements that the law promises, it would most certainly impact the labor market.

Speaking at a little-noted event at the University of Southern California in October of 2010, C.B.O. Director Doug Elmendorf noted that, outside the healthcare sector of our economy, the greatest impact of the Obamacare agenda would be with people’s interest in working.

Furthermore, Mr. Elmendorf stated that, in some cases, Americans would simply choose to no longer work, because their needs for healthcare will be provided by the enhanced Medicaid funding entailed in the Obamacare law.

As Journalist Matt Cover observed at CNSNews.com after the conference (he was one of few journalists that actually reported on this event), this assessment of Obamacare by Mr. Elmendorf coincided with former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s remarks in May of that year, when she claimed that Obamacare would allow “artists” to “quit their day job” and pursue their art, free from the constraints of having to provide for one’s self, because the government would now take care of artists’ healthcare needs.

And now here we are, less than nine months away from another presidential election. After roughly four years of recessionary conditions where millions of us have worried about remaining employed, today it appears that increasing numbers of us have simply lost interest in employment altogether.

Has the script been flipped? That would seem to be the case. What we don’t know is what Americans want for the future – will we choose a land of opportunity, or a President that enables us to not work?

Austin Hill

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Austin Hill is an emerging American voice, addressing culture-defining questions through books, talk radio, web, speaking, and interviews. His recent books "White House Confidential" and his new title "The Virtues Of Capitalism" show his range from whit-infused writer to thought-provoking expert on the intersection of philosophy, religion, politics & culture. Hill helps to make the complex seem simple when exploring capitalism, socialism, and other "Isms".

He is an editorial contributor to national publications such as U.S. News & World Report, a columnist with TownHall.com, and is a popular expert-host on radio from leading stations in Washington DC, Chicago, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and nationally with networks such as Fox NewsTalk Radio.  He hosts the "Austin Hill Show" weekday mornings at Fresno, California's Talk Radio 105-9 KMJ-FM,  and weekday afternoons at Boise, Idaho's Newstalk 580 K I D O radio.

Hill holds a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, and a Master's Degree in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics from Biola University in California.

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The Legacy of Barack Obama and the Political Elite

Our political elite is selling us down a river by devaluing our currency, thereby initiating inflation. Prices aren't going up because of corporate greed, the political elite all over the world are devaluing fiat currencies to pay for debt they created. Hence the movement to precious metals ... something no government can print at will. Be sure to watch to the end.

Meet the Liberal Elite!

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Who Didn't Know That?

Vice President Joe Biden told Florida radio station WLRN on Thursday that voters should hold President Barack Obama, not former President George W. Bush, accountable for the poor state of America’s economy.

“Right now, understandably — totally legitimate — this is a referendum on Obama and Biden and the nature of the state of the economy,”
VP Joe Biden

September 29, 2011

Barack Obama-Joe Biden Economic Record.

1. First U.S. Debt Downgrade in American History.
2. Highest Level of Federal Spending since WWII (25% of GDP).
3. Highest Budget Deficit since WWII (10% of GDP).
4. Lowest level of Employment since 1983 (58.1% of Adults Working).
5. Highest Long Term Unemployment Rates since the 1930's (45.9% of Total Unemployed for Six Months or Longer).
6. Median Income Is At Its Lowest Level Since 1997.
7. Number Of People (over 16) Who Didn’t Work At All Last Year Increased To 86.7 Million.
8. Number Of Americans Living In Poverty (46.2 Million) the Highest Level On Record.
9. Child poverty rose from 20.7 percent in 2009 to 22 percent last year.
10. Economy added no jobs in August the first time since February, 1945.

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Question: Will Barack Obama Report Joe Biden to 'AttackWatch'?

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White House Pressured Ford to Pull this Advertisement

The Bush and Obama administrations bailed out the auto industry during the economic collapse of 2008-2009. GM and Chrysler took the cash. Ford did not. Taxpayers have taken a multibillion dollar bath on this program of government largesse. Perhaps as a result of its rivals' convalescence, Ford decided to tap into some of the residual anger over Washington's "too big to fail" mentality by positioning itself as an all-American, "standing on our own two feet" company. They sought to refresh the public's memory that they resisted the temptation of government dependency when its rivals raced to the trough. In response, the Obama White House started asking questions, and now the controversial ad has vanished.

Watch this Ad while You Can - before Obama has it 'Scrubbed from the Internet'.

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Rangel and Ingraham Spar in No Spin Zone

New York congressman Charles Rangel and radio host Laura Ingraham go head to head over Rep. West's controversial comments, poverty in black communities, Obama's policies.

"So you have this 21st Century plantation ... where the Democrat party has forever taken the black vote for granted, and you have established certain black leaders who are nothing more than the overseers of that plantation, And now the people on that plantation are upset because they’ve been disregarded, disrespected and their concerns are not cared about...

"So I’m here as the modern day Harriet Tubman to kind of lead people on the Underground Railroad away from that plantation into a sense of sensibility."
Rep. Allen West

Aug 18, 2011

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Emails: Obama White House Monitored Huge Loan to 'Connected' Firm

How Do I Blame Bush?

Newly uncovered emails show the White House closely monitored the Energy Department's deliberations over a $535 million government loan to Solyndra, the politically-connected solar energy firm that recently went bankrupt and is now the subject of a criminal investigation.

The company's solar panel factory was heralded as a centerpiece of the president's green energy plan -- billed as a way to jump start a promising new industry. And internal emails uncovered by investigators for the House Energy and Commerce Committee that were shared exclusively with ABC News show the Obama administration was keenly monitoring the progress of the loan, even as analysts were voicing serious concerns about the risk involved. "This deal is NOT ready for prime time," one White House budget analyst wrote in a March 10, 2009 email, nine days before the administration formally announced the loan.

"If you guys think this is a bad idea, I need to unwind the W[est] W[ing] QUICKLY," wrote Ronald A. Klain, who was chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, in another email sent March 7, 2009. The "West Wing" is the portion of the White House complex that holds the offices of the president and his top staffers. Klain declined comment to ABC News.

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White House Video Praising Solyndra as a Recovery Act Success Story

Posted on the White House blog 5/26/10, just six months before Solyndra almost went bankrupt and was bailed out by a White House campaign bundler. 16 months later the company finally collapsed.

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Andrew Klavan's Rules for Wannabe Pundits

Andrew Klavan takes some time out of his busy schedule to lay out three simple rules for wannabe pundits.

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Unemployment - Barack Obama Legacy

"The Decline: The Geography of a Recession," as created by labor writer LaToya Egwuekwe, serves as a vivid representation of just how much. Watch the deteriorating transformation of the U.S. economy from January 2007 -- approximately one year before the start of the recession - to January 2011.
UPDATE: July 8, 2011 rise to 9.2% - White House spokesman states that Unemployment rates will NOT effect 2012 election.
UPDATE: August 2011 Economy added no jobs for the first time since February, 1945.

Democrats took Control of the House of Representatives 233 to 202.

Democrats took Control of United States Senate 51 to 49.

January 2009.
Democrat Candidate Barack Obama became 44th President of the United States.
Democrats took Control of the House of Representatives 257 to 178.
Democrats took Control of United States Senate 57 to 41 (2 Independents voted with Democrats).

February 2009 the 'Stimulus Bill was passed giving Barack Obama and the Democrat Controlled Congress the largest amount of money to 'Create Jobs' in the History of Mankind.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are more than 28 million people currently unemployed -- that's including those involuntarily working part-time and those who want a job, but have given up on trying to find one. In the face of the worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression, millions of Americans are hurting.

The State that has lost the most Jobs since Barack Obama was supposed to start creating Jobs with the 'Obama Stimulus' money is California -537,600 jobs.

Where were the most Jobs created? Washington DC +22,400.

47 out of 50 states lost jobs between February 2009 (when the law was signed) and November 2010 (the most recent data).

The U.S. unemployment rate remained at or above 9.5% for 16 consecutive months - the longest period since the Great Depression.

How many Jobs has Barack Obama destroyed in your State?

Look your State up easily.

http://thpatriots.blogspot.com/2010/12/retired-geek-47-of-50-states-have-lost.html

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