Obama- Job Killer and America Killer

(courtesy of Rush Limbaugh's page)

AT&T Inc. (September 1, 2011)  is pledging to bring 5,000 wireless call center jobs, currently based abroad, back to the U.S. if it is allowed to proceed with its proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA.  So what does the Obama Administration do?  They SUE them to stop them citing that it would "reduce competition and cause prices to rise." Riiiight.  Unemployment is WAY better. 

Gibson Guitar (September 2, 2011) is being told it needs to send some of its jobs to India because of an Obama Administration interpretation of INDIAN Laws.

The documents noted that Indian law "prohibits the export of sawn wood," which can be used for fingerboards -- but does not prohibit the export of "veneers," which are sheets of woods that have already been worked on. 

Wouldn't it be nice if the Obama Administration could concern itself with the laws in America?  Like shipping guns to Drug Cartels and voter intimidation laws and campaign financing laws?

Under Barack Obama, America has more unemployed people than at any other time  since employment records were started in 1948. By then end of 2010 there were 14,825,000 Americans out of work.  but now there are over 15, 287,000 unemployed under Barack Obama.

In all fairness, I should point out that under Bush at the end of his term, the highest number of unemployed people had reached 6,363,000.  So thanks to Obama, all by himself--- job losses have increased by 59% or 8,924,000 jobs.  This was at the end of an eight year term.  Unemployment is nudging upward under Obama  .  The million dollar question seems to be--- Is it that Obama is ignorant about the economy or is he deliberately doing this to the American people?

Some may try to argue that technically, 2009 was Bush's budget, but I would then be forced to point out that if we are going to get that technical, they need to remember that the unemployment numbers began to soar in October of 2007 because the Democrat Controlled Congress raised the minimum wage against prevailing wisdom.  My figures were calculated to keep the general topic simple.

The Destruction of Car Dealerships

Car dealership closings were highly partisan and these were the first job losses caused directly by Obama decisions.  Hundred of thousands of them!  Obama's Czar, Steven Rattner who presided over the automotive task force, is married to Maureen White, the former national finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee. It should also be noted that Steven Rattner was a big mover and shaker in New York, who rubbed elbows with Wallstreet big wigs and wrote for the New York Times.  Like so many of Obama's associates, Steven Rattner also seems to have trouble with the law.  He was allegedly paid undisclosed kickbacks in order to obtain $150 million in investments in Quadrangle (which he co-founded) from the New York State Common Retirement Fun.  By the time it was all settled, the "innocent" Mr. Rattner ended up paying a $10 million settlement and was barred from appearing in any capacity before a public pension fund within the state for five years.  This was the guy who worked for Obama and ruined the lives and businesses of average American families across the country: GM closed 661 Dealerships and Chrysler closed 789. That means family run businesses, many of which were generational.  That means all the salesmen, auto repair staff, clerical help and of course all the vendors and local merchants that relied on the business and revenue generated by these dealerships. Just like that Obama policies destroyed 1,450 small businesses and the communities they supported.

Obama's Destruction of Oil Jobs and Revenue
 

Obama's ban on drilling in the Gulf was also destructive to jobs and our economy. 

"Much of the suffering and loss from the spill was made worse by poor decisions of administration officials," said Issa, the panel chairman. "When the administration did act, its major accomplishment was a hasty bureaucratic reorganization" and an offshore drilling shutdown that has caused "a paralyzing loss of jobs."
Estimates of job losses in the Gulf are from 8,000 to 12,000 workers, and does not include the loss of jobs and services within the communities that will no longer have the business these workers brought in.
Obama says he did it for safety reasons. It's just more clueless talk meant to distract environmental reactionaries from facts.  He never ever mentioned that there have been over 31,000 wells drilled in the Gulf.  Obama himself should have such a good record!  31,000 successes to one mistake!  Even though the ban was technically lifted in October of 2010, the Obama administration has approved only 10 of the 103 plans submitted to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement.  Shallow water permits are also taking a direct hit and they weren't even part of the ban.

By December of 2010 Obama had imposed a ban on drilling a second time.  When it is considered that 25% of domestic oil production comes from the Gulf, 220,000 barrels a day at a royalty rate of 18.75%, it amounts to a conservative estimate of 3.7 million dollars of revenue PER DAY!

He keeps his Promise to Shut Down Coal Mines

Obama shuts down coal mines by revoking permits and refusing to issue new ones.  The Environmental Protection Agency has revoked the coal mining permit for Arch Coal's Spruce Mine No. 1 in West Virginia's Logan County. The permit was issued four years ago and since then Arch Coal, which provides 16% of America's coal supply, has followed every jot and tittle of the rules it was to operate under.West Virginia is the second-largest coal producer in the U.S., which itself is the Saudi Arabia of coal. The maligned fossil fuel provides $26 billion for the West Virginia economy annually, supports 60,000 jobs and pays $1.2 billion in wages for West Virginia families. All this, and much more nationally, is in jeopardy since coal provides half of America's electricity.

But coal is not the only thing.  As of February, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources issued a statement directing

"all regional directors of the Mines and Geo-sciences Bureau to refrain from accepting and 

processing new mining applications nationwide."

REFINERIES:

The Obama Administration’s War On Oil: Refinery Permits Are Being Pulled.
The Environmental Protection Agency  rejected the air quality permits for 122 industrial facilities in Texas, including the BP and Valero refineries in Texas City.
South Dakota residents approved the construction of a new Hyperion Refinery in their state in 2006 and the Federal Government has been blocking it ever since with vague regulations, ever changing requirements and political rings to jump through at every turn.  This will be the first new refinery in 35 years.
While the Obama administration insists on imposing unrealistic standards on the few refineries around the country (Wyoming, Kansas, Texas) it is killing the industry, discouraging job growth and losing much needed revenue to deal with all the other problems they have created.  Not to mention the fact that the Greenhouse Gas emission theories have been summarily debunked by scientists around the world. (That's another discussion)

Las Vegas Jobs

-  "Obama is a wet blanket to business."  There are a host of opportunities for expansion in Las Vegas, a host of opportunities to create tens of thousands of jobs in Las Vegas. I know that I could do 10,000 more myself and according to the Chamber of Commerce and the Visitors Convention Bureau, if we hired 10,000 employees, it would create another 20,000 additional jobs for a grand total of 30,000. I believe in Las Vegas.  Read more. . . .

 NASA Jobs

It all began with Obama's proposed 2011 budget,  forcing NASA to take a back seat to private ventures and it cancelled NASA's most recent program, "Constellation".  The goals of the program were to gain significant experience in operating away from Earth's environment, develop technologies needed for opening the space frontier, and conduct fundamental science.

End of Shuttle program estimated to cost Florida 9,000 jobs

When most people read headlines like this they just think about all the high paying, high technology jobs that people lose and that surely such well trained people can move on and find other jobs elsewhere.  They don't think about people like Rob Summers and his T-shirt design shop that will lose 50% of his business when all these jobs are gone.  They don't think about restaurant owners like Laurilee Thompson whose business was already suffering from the cost of gas and other problems in the economy.  They don't think about the employees of the businesses who depend on these industries to stay in business being the the same people who lose their homes.  Many unemployed people pack up and move away, leaving behind empty shops, empty restaurants, empty churches, empty houses; essentially the town becomes a Ghost Town. 

There are more job losses than just the ones announced and Titusville, Florida is a good example of what types of local businesses are decimated by chopping an industry off at the knees that is the heart's blood of a community.  It wasn't just NASA employees who lost their jobs.  It will be a domino effect down to the local teenage girls who used to babysit for the people who have moved out of town to other jobs.  And this happens every time the Obama Administration decides to crush an entire industry; it happens in towns all across America. Video of interviews

Unions vs. Jobs (developing. . .)

National Labor Relations Board, NLRB, fights against 3,800 badly needed  jobs in Charlotte, South Carolina from Boeing
The Republicans are fighting hard against Obama's NLRB appointee, Democrat, Mark G. Pearce
in an effort to help Charlotte secure more jobs.

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More of Obama's Failures:

Obama Denies FEMA Aid to Texas

While it's true that Texas did receive some aid from  FMAG, the Fire Management Assistance Grant for wildfires in Texas, Obama denied FEMA aid to Texas twice--- Once for tropical storm Hermine in 2010 and again in 2011 for Texas Wildfires.  Six members of the U.S. House - five Republicans and a Democrat - also petitioned Obama to approve federal aid.  FEMA is a different type of program than FMAG and has as its mission  "to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards."

Tropical Storm Hermine killed eight people, including seven in Texas, and destroyed nearly 200 homes statewide, according to the governor's request letter.  FEMA Request denied.

"When nearly 7,000 individual wildfires burn through more than 2.2. million acres, result in loss of life, and destroy homes, businesses, farms and ranches across the state, it's hard to understand how these conditions don't spell "disaster" for this administration," Representative Cornyn

Even as several states along the Mississippi River that experienced flooding and the tornado ravaged southern states were getting their FEMA funds, Obama did not even deign to respond to the governor of Texas one way or the other.  Some say it was political; because it was a red state or because it's a state the Obama does not perceive as having a significant enough black populace to warrant any kind of individual aid--- ever.  Perhaps Obama just doesn't favor Texas because it's where President Bush is from.  Whatever the reason, none of them are very "presidential" or even mature.

Iranian Missile Bases in Venezuela

Iran is building intermediate-range missile launch pads on the Paraguaná Peninsula, and engineers from a construction firm – Khatam al-Anbia – owned by the Revolutionary Guards visited Paraguaná in February.

The clandestine agreement between Venezuela and Iran would mean the Chavez government would fire rocket at Iran’s enemies should the Islamic Republic face military strikes. Read more. . .

(click on the map and zoom out, to see how close this is to America)

 U.S. scraps missile defense shield plans

The US missile defense complex in Poland, also called the European Interceptor Site (EIS) was part of the Ballistic Missile Defense European Capability of the US.  The system was intended to intercept missiles from Iran.  Russian Leader Putin had a fit about it and threatened another cold war if construction was not halted immediately.  Obama obeyed Putin, even as Iran builds missile bases in Venezuela. (see above)  It seems there are those who believe Iran when they say they are not building missiles so there is no need to worry about Europe, because Ahmadinejad and Putin are such stand up guys--- they would never LIE about such intentions!  Would they?  Nevermind that Putin has agree to help Chavez with his nuclear technology.

Nevermind that Russia has been providing nuclear assistance to Iran for years.  There can't be any connection between Russia and Iran and even if there is, it certainly couldn't lead to another Cuban-type Missile Crisis with Venezuela.  So of course Obama would think it was best in the interests of peace to just scrap any kind of defense system for Europe OR for the United States.  And the moon really is made of green cheese. . .

Fast and Furious Scandal -- 

The U.S. government intentionally sells assault weapons to Mexican drug cartels. Those cartels use those weapons to kill, among others, a U.S. law enforcement officer. The White House deflects questions on the subject. The director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), who watched the gun sales on video in his office, stonewalls Congress. So does the Justice Department. The whistleblower that exposed it all is fired. Read more. . . .

Irregularities Surround Navy Seal Helicopter Crash  (developing. . . )