Saturday, March 20, 2010

Is this the U.S. or a Banana Republic?

Regardless of how you feel about HC Reform and the Obama Administration, this should concern you....

Federal employees have been blitzed for weeks with e-mails from the White House urging them to "take action" to ensure the Democrat's package is passed.....

The White House Office of Health Reform Director Nancy-Ann DeParle has been feverishly sending out unsolicited email messages to federal employees in an effort to build support for President Barack Obama’s health reform package over the last several weeks.

DeParle’s unsolicited emails have been regularly coming to some federal employees’ official government email inboxes for weeks without permission or request, causing some federal employees to feel threatened by the overt political language.

The Department of State employees, who receive hundreds of official government emails every day, have complained about the annoying and partisan emails but are nervous to go public for fear of retribution. The emails are addressed to the federal employees by name and use the official .gov address. (emphasis added)
I'm pretty sure that if George Bush had done that on any issue, there would have been a Congressional investigation (not to mention widespread news coverage and outrage). This is the "Chicago Way" folks - better get used to it!!

Monday, March 15, 2010

U.S. May Lose AAA Credit Rating

More bad news...

The U.S. and the U.K. have moved “substantially” closer to losing their AAA credit ratings as the cost of servicing their debt rose, according to Moody’s Investors Service. ...

...Under the ratings company’s so-called baseline scenario, the U.S. will spend more on debt service as a percentage of revenue this year than any other top-rated country except the U.K., and will be the biggest spender from 2011 to 2013, Moody’s said today in a report.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Government Workers Doing Well in the Recession

Not only is government expanding (and government jobs along with it) but government workers make more on average (in both salary and benefits) than comparable private sector workers.

Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds.
Accountants, nurses, chemists, surveyors, cooks, clerks and janitors are among the wide range of jobs that get paid more on average in the federal government than in the private sector.

Overall, federal workers earned an average salary of $67,691 in 2008 for occupations that exist both in government and the private sector, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The average pay for the same mix of jobs in the private sector was $60,046 in 2008, the most recent data available.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Monthly Deficit Tops $220 BILLION in February

Unbelievable, when you consider that the pre-Obama record ANNUAL deficit was $455 billion in 2008.....This administration will blow past that in about 2 months!!

The government racked up a record-high monthly budget deficit of $220.9 billion in February, the Treasury Department announced today.

The latest flood of red ink brings the total deficit for the first five months of the current fiscal year to $651 billion, far exceeding the $589 billion shortfall for the same timeframe in the last fiscal year.

The government ended the 2009 fiscal year with a record $1.4 trillion shortfall. The Obama administration has forecast a $1.56 trillion deficit for this year.

RIchest Counties are Near Washington DC

What's wrong with this picture....

6 of the 10 richest counties in U.S. are in DC area

By: David Sherfinski

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