Today's jobs report is absolutely devastating for the Obama operation. It found more people leaving the labor force than jobs created, at a more than 2-1 rate. And Obama's campaign has been silent.
Reports The Huffington Post:
While the U.S. unemployment rate in April was the lowest it's been in more than three years, the unemployed may simply be falling off the government's radar as they give up looking for work.
Meanwhile, job growth has slowed sharply after a fast start to the year, suggesting another bump in what has been an agonizingly long road to recovery for the job market.
Unemployment fell to 8.1 percent in April, the lowest since January 2009, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday morning. But the decline was mainly due to 342,000 people leaving the labor force, meaning the BLS had stopped counting them as unemployed. The number of employed people in the nation actually fell by 169,000.
The campaign is ultimately not going to be won on who ate dog or put their dog on the roof, but whether voters believe Obama has done enough to improve the economy. With the report today, finding 342,000 people have quit looking for work in just April alone, Obama's re-election prospects are not looking good.
And his campaign knows it.
From Reuters:
President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign was relatively quiet early on Friday morning, marked by an absence of national media outreach and hits on presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney. The Chicago-based leviathan was indeed gearing up for the president’s first campaign rally in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday, a campaign staffer said.
Yes, the Obama campaign can't comment on the economy because the 500+ person staff is all gearing up for a campaign rally in Ohio.
In other news from the Department of Sh*tty Spin, Elizabeth Warren listed herself as a Native American because she wanted to meet people like herself.
Please feel free to contact BOTH the democrat senators that supported, whole-heartedly, the obama plans to destroy…(sorry, politically incorrect wording) substantially alter the United States into something closely resembling a third world nation.
Also, please take the time to explain to ALL the garbage in the State Government that Colorado is one of 50 SOVEREIGN STATES and none are subservient to the federal government except in national defense.
Explain, the the United States Constitution contains Enumerated Powers that place STRICT LIMITS on what the federal government can, and CANNOT do.
The 10 Amendment explains to the States exactly who holds what POWERS AND AUTHORITIES, and those not allowed.
It’s past time for the dregs of society currently occupying elected offices to LEARN their RESPONSIBILITIES TO THE PEOPLE and either do the job they hired on to do, and took an OATH to fulfill those duties to the best of their abilities.
IF what we have seen is “The best of their abilities”, they are not, nor were they ever, qualified to hold their positions.
They were elected based on PROMISES TO THE PEOPLE.
It’s time they were held accountable to The People, and for their lies told to get elected.
You really do not know, or understand the limitations the Constitution placed on the federal government do you child?
You should educate yourself, because what you are dreaming of will be your nightmare if it becomes reality.
it’s crystal clear that it is not I who needs to learn anything.
You may have the last word, o crust-for-brains.
I see you have resorted to your usual “Alinsky rules for radical” formula.
Name calling and you’re not still in the third grade? How typically liberal of you.
You really should go to the link I posted above and try to learn what the United States of America Constitution actually contains, and the crap you push is not mentioned.
BUT, there is a danger to you. You may learn that I’m actually RIGHT and what would that do to your psyche?
He doesn’t get it Crusty, in his eyes the Constitution tells us what the Government will do FOR (or to) us. He does not accept that it actually tells the government what it is allowed to do by “We the People”. Everything not named is reserved to the States and the People. You waste your breath trying to engage in intelligent discourse with a fool.
“Minds are like parachutes and umbrellas–they work much better when open…..‘ and his isn’t.
I’m always open to reasonable discussions that rely on well-constructed arguments using real facts as their basis. Such is not being offered here, though. And I’ve been on the merry-go-round enough to know that bringing that to the table won’t be welcome by participants like this guy. (Quick – count the assumptions goat is making about me. You know what they say about guys who ASSume…)
If you or goat would like to tell me why I, or anyone, should accept your claims about the Constitution, I’m all eyes. Until then, I’ll make an educated guess than neither of you are constitutional scholars.
When real facts and provable data appear, you start screeching, name calling, whining then run away.
And yes, compared to you, I AM a Constitutional Scholar.
ANYBODY with an 8th grade education that can read AND comprehend can read and UNDERSTAND the Constitution because it was written for the common, poorly educated population.
But, that’s just historically provable and it will make you cry.
Now, about that link to actually receive a FREE college level course on the REAL Constitution, AS WRITTEN by the Founding fathers, backed up by every bit of historically relevant literature and other data?
Are you willing to invest your time to actually LEARN something of value?
Or do you intend to remain useless your entire life?
http://www.hillsdale.edu/const…
Two observations about you. One, name-calling is your automatic mode, so when you accuse me of it, it’s called “projection.” Two, you’re obsession with children is creepy and makes me wonder if you’re a sick pedo pervert.
I’m going to take your “compared to you” comment as code that you’re a high school graduate at best. (Nothing wrong with that, but it does undercut any claims to scholarly expertise.) If that’s not true, then tell me your highest level of education, and if it includes college, your major; and also your day job. (I’m a college graduate with a BA in history, and my studies included the Constitution and, more importantly, constitutional jurisprudence which governs us just as much as the Constitution itself does.)
So you can save your propaganda link; been there, done that.
is that the numbers can be stretched to make it look like unemployment is going down. The increasingly grim reality will be covered up as much as possible by the President’s press enablers.
because Republicans would never do that, would they?
Like keeping Guantanamo Bay Prison open, held Military Tribunals instead of criminal trials for captured terrorists, gotten the U.S. involved in another military conflict, divided the country on racial lines, things like that.
But I am sure that he wouldn’t have put job creation so low on his list of things to do he would have actively blocked job creation in one of the few productive industries we have left to satisfy a fringe element of his supporters. If we counted the unemployed the same way they were counted when the One entered office the rate would be over 10%. The President may prefer to pretend that all of those inconvenient out of work people don’t exist, but he will be forced to acknowledge their reality on November 7.
McCain would have pursued austerity, and we can look right over at France and the rest of Europe to see how that worked out.
Obama’s only mistake is that he compromised and didn’t go far enough. And remember – no Obama, no GM.
Why do you insist on trying to attach losers to other people?
Ohhhh, you feel attached to a loser, so in your mind, everybody should be too?
That’s the public indoctrination center non-education speaking.
There is help out there. It’s called Hillsdale College and right now they are having on online course on The Constitution, being taught by people that graduated at the top of their class.
Being taught by an intelligent person is far better than what you have experienced so far.
http://www.hillsdale.edu/const…
Go ahead and sign up, it is free, and that’s all you really want out of life isn’t it? Just FREE stuff that everybody else has to pay for so you don’t?
if those in power follow policies to grow the economy, put more people to work, and thereby increase the tax base. All solid concepts to which the current administration is totally oblivious.
because all the teabaggy plans floating around out there are all versions of austerity. Claims that they’d grow the economy are completely undermined by the evidence we have from our European friends.