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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Consumer Prices Rising
The Consumer Price Index report for May 2012 was released today. As the mainstream media reports that the prices have fallen .3 percent, know that they are deliberately deceiving you. They are comparing apples to oranges to make it look like things are getting better. You know whether that is true. You live it every day.
Including energy, the total CPI score does show a .3 percent decrease in consumer prices. That is due primarily because of the falling price of gas. That is due to the falling demand for gas. And that is due to the depressed economy, rising unemployment, and generally less business, or any, activity overall. Depressing the economy is not the way to achieve lower prices at the pump.
The CPI that gets the media attention, because the BLS publishes it every month, is the one that does not include Food and Energy. It is called “All items less food and energy”. (After all, who needs to eat or get anywhere? ) You will find it near the bottom of page two.
It is there that you will see, comparing apples to apples, that the Consumer Price Index for May 2012 increased 2.3 percent over May of 2011. It also increased .2 percent, each month, over the last two months, March and April of 2012.
The full detailed report is below.
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Look a little deeper and you’ll see even more news. You know this to be true, even though you’re not reading about it. The BLS also tracks “Medical Care.” All sub-categories under Medical Care are up from 1.8 to 3.9 percent from May of last year. It is up .4 percent for March and up .5 percent for April of this year.The category “Hospital and related services” shows a 5.2 percent increase. And under Obamacare, it’s only going to get worse. Much worse.
aSide Order
Mother Breast Feeding Creates Traffic Jam
Jon Stewart on the Wisconsin Results Coverage
And the post-election analysis . . .
A Better Life For Julia
The Obama campaign came up with a cartoon character named Julia. It paints a picture of cradle to grave government involvement in our everyday lives. You can see their video as well as the conservative response video HERE.
The conservative response, like all conservative goals, shows how people, not the government, have more options to solve problems themselves instead of depending on the government. It is personal independence that is the Democrats’ worst fear. The fear that Julia, if given a choice, would flee the Democrat’s political/social/economic plantation. Nothing could be better for the country or the people.
Barack Obama’s Background
Obama’s past (from the 90’s, not the 60’s) is coming back again. The post ‘The Real Barack Obama‘ from nearly four years ago details Obama’s political bent in the New Party, a socialist political party. And then some. Stanley Kurtz published Obama’s affiliation with the New Party in 1996 yesterday. We had it here a few years ago.
As in 2008, the mainstream media is ignoring it. You’ll see it in conservative outlets only. Certainly not in the New York Times.
Once you understand who Obama is, in a political and ideological sense, which you will know if you read the post, you will see how everything he has done to the country and still wants to do makes perfect sense. From his point of view. Which is why he must be defeated in November.
Wisconsin Voters Still Support Gov. Walker
With 27 percent of the votes counted, both FOX and CNN are projecting that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and his Lt. Governor Kleefisch keep their jobs by a landslide margin with 60% of the votes to the challengers’ 40%. That 20 percent spread is a wider margin than elected Gov. Walker the last time. Twenty percent is way beyond the voter fraud margin.
Tough luck for the public sector labor unions. If they had any sense, they would see the need to be competitive in the labor market, because the taxpayers (at least in Wisconsin) are holding their feet to the fire. And if they had any sense, they would realize that it was the governor’s policies that the legislature put into law that enabled them all to keep their jobs while at the same time turning a budget deficit into a surplus.
Big Labor’s free ride on ‘the government’ (aka taxpayers) is over.
Reaction to a Walker victory from DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Shultz (D-Fl) was enormously downplayed . . .
She said the June 5 recall is a contest with no implications for national politics. “It’s an election that’s based in Wisconsin,” she said.
The union’s know what it’s all about. As described by Patrick Martin.
[W]alker’s hard-line stance threatens their position as a secondary layer of management in controlling state employees.
The Walker victory today has the socialists calling for a split from the Democrat Party to form a third party.
The debacle in Wisconsin underscores the dimensions of the struggle now facing the working class. The defense of jobs, living standards and social services can go forward only through a mass rebellion against capitalism and the political domination of the financial aristocracy. This requires, first and foremost, a break with the Democratic Party and all its political apologists and defenders and the building of an independent party of the working class, fighting for a socialist program.
What a great idea. For them.
Update: Watching Gov. Walker’s victory speech live, thanking Wisconsins ?? on FOX. Checked to see what CNN was covering, and they’re re-playing the Queen’s Jubilee. “CNN, the most trusted name in news.” ROTFLMAO