Phoney Baloney Job Sammich

BLS BS Statistics Not A Happy Meal

Of all the aspects of social misery 

nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

~Jane Addams, 1910

7.8% Unemployment for September (Sorta)
America was served a September Jobs Report  which best can be described as a Phoney Baloney Sammich.

Every article I read today on the September Unemployment statistics (and there were many) complained of murky numbers served with a side of statistics that made no sense.  Not just to me but many Economists and Business Editorials had trouble with the formulation of the BLS numbers.

To help all of us understand the U3 and U6 numbers used by the Bureau of Labor & Statistics I found this information from The Brenner Brief, very helpful:  "The U6 unemployment rate counts not only people with out work seeking full-time employment, (the more familiar U-3 rate), but also counts 'marginally attached workers and those working part-time for economic reasons."  Note that some of these part=time workers counted as U-3 could be working as little as an hour a week.  And the 'marginally attached workers' included those who have gotten discouraged and stopped looking, but still want to work.  The age considered for this calculation is 16 years and over. 

The U6 numbers are the meaningful numbers.  They take into account the people who are no longer actively looking for work because they have been unemployed so long that they have given up their search.  The U3 number of 7.8% excludes those who have given up looking, and counts someone who is part-time as being employed.  They are not an accurate portrayal of the employment situation in this nation under President Barack Obama"


The U-3 story portrayed by the September Jobs Report as based on all of the articles I have read today is more than a rotten fish sandwich with too much tartar sauce.

During June July and August our leviathan Federal Government slipped an astounding 65,000 jobs to add to each of our tax burdens.  I could not find a resource to identify the guilty Agencies and Bureaus. Breitbart Big Government goes on to say:  "The total number of jobs added in September was 114,000, according to the BLS--well below the monthly average in recent years, and far below the July Jobs increase, which had been described as good.

Economist had predicted a rise of 111,000 to 114,000 jobs--but that rise would have meant a rise in the unemployment rate from 8.1% to 8.2% Update:given long-term labor force trends).

With the large revisions from the BLS--revising private sector jobs down, and public sector jobs up--the September jobs coincided with an unusually dramatic drop in the unemployment rate, causing some experts to greet the new numbers with puzzlement.  Government jobs are an important part o the explanation."

I will readily admit that when I read the Breitbart article this morning my head nearly exploded.  Our deficit this year was officially 1.1 Trillion dollars, and the Obama Administration hired people and we are borrowing money from the Chinese to pay their wages.  I would like to also add that it is really difficult to terminate Civil Service employees. So you and I will be stuck with 65,000 more paychecks to unknown federal employees for possibly as long as 30 years.


The Department of Labor according to Fox Business: stated, "The unemployment rate fell to 7.8%, the department of Labor reported due to the addition of 873,000 people who identified as self- employed"  In the same article Fox goes on to say, "The Economy must add 13.2 million jobs over the next three years--375,00 each month--to bring the unemployment rate down to 6%, notes economist 
Peter Morici.  That means GDP growth must be running at a 4% to 5% pace, not the 1.3% rate it is running at now, a pace that has been trending downhill since last year. 

In September 2012, there were 6.73 million people who say they currently want a job, but are not looking for work says Farrell,  If all 6.727 million of these workers suddenly started looking for a job, and would in turn be counted in the workforce and as unemployed then the unemployment rate would rise to 11.63%"

By some magic that went completely unreported during all of September 800,000 unemployed Americans supposedly became self-employed.  The biggest jump in job creation since 1983. Anecdotally one of my followers on Twitter says that Mark Levin said today that the Department of Labor question is, "Do you sell things from home?" And many respondents may have answered yes as they sell their belongings to make ends meet and survive.  Which may explain how the numbers from BLS were so spectacular.  This makes sense of the statistics found in phone surveys by The Department of Labor. It could well be that the manipulative question is likely responsible for the insanely high number of invisible new jobs from nowhere that makes no sense in any other snapshot of real hard statistical verifiable facts.

The U-6 Unemployment rate remains unchanged at 14.7 percent. We need 120,000 to 150,000 jobs just to keep up with the population. In this article from The Washington Examiner: "BLS explains that, "The number of person employed part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers) rose from 8.0 million in August to 8.6 million in September.  These individuals were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job." This is why a broader measure of unemployment, which takes into account those who were forced to accept inferior jobs remained flat at 14.7%."

James Pethokoukis at AEI Ideas quoted this article from RDQ Economics:

"This report is a tale of two labor markets.  The establishment survey (payrolls) painted a picture of moderately growing employment over the last three months but a a marginally slower pace than over the last year. At this pace of job creation the unemployment rate should be barely drifting lower given underlying demographic trends.  In contrast, the household survey painted a picture of a sharply falling unemployment rate-down 1.2% over the last 12 months.  Such a rapid decline in the unemployment rate over the last two months is a statistical quirk (the household data show an increase in employment of 872,000 in September, which is completely implausible and likely a result o sampling volatility).  Moreover, declining labor force participation over the last year (resulting in 1.1 million people disappearing from the labor force) accounts for much of the rest of the decline. With this report, the ISMs, and vehicle sales the September economy is off to a better than expected start but nowhere near as good as suggested by the decline in the unemployment rate."

"Of course the economy is not growing at 4-5% not even half that.  This is a jobs recovery built on part-time jobs, falling wages and disappeared discourage workers.  As JPMorgan's econ team noted:  "The one asterisk to the good news from the household survey was the apparent low quality composition of the jobs created, as there was a surge in people working part time for economic reasons, a development which left the widely followed U-6 measure of underemployment unchanged at 14.7%."

Our GDP is at 1.3%.  Based on the above quote from RFQ Economics shows that our nation's economic engine is not healthy enough to generate that many jobs.

This article "Moore Proof The U.S. Economy Is Falling Apart: GDP Revision A Grim Sur"
from Forbes Magazine  list some really bad news about the growth of our economy. The article says that the decline in spending and investment are a drag on our economy. They report durable goods orders (a measure of factory activity) cratered last month and that the Commerce Department reported that orders fell by 13.9%  Transportation dropped by 35%.

We are in deep trouble right here at River City Cafe.  It is clearly impossible to have the job growth suggested by Hilda Solis the Department of Labor and Bureau of Labor statistics with a GDP that is in ICU with a death rattle.

Businesses fear the coming fiscal cliff, and sequestration will really damage high paying jobs in the defense industry.

And too boot your BLS BS sammich was made in a dirty kitchen with cooks who may or may not have washed their hands.  As if the bizarre September 'quirky' numbers are not bad enough, this should melt your milkshake.

At least two of the economists  at the Bureau of Labor and Statistics have donated to the Obama Campaign. One of the men worked on examining the impact of Obamacare.

As for this voter I am ordering new leadership for dessert.  I have had enough of the Obama Administration's Blue Plate Specials.

The Great Chair Wreck Of 2012

 The Sad Remains of An Empty Chair

If you are not on the right side of the aisle what happened in Denver last night has made you very unhappy.

The first Presidential debate held in Denver Colorado for the 2012 general election cycle was a debacle for sitting President Obama. Challenger Mitt Romney rapidly fired facts and statistics in a barrage of a shock and awe presentation of Leadership and command of the moment.

Obama showed up in Denver last night and he exposed himself as unprepared, foolish, and an amateur. Obama looked anything but Presidential.

Obama was assaulted by an unrelenting command of facts by Mitt Romney. Romney's 25 years of private business experience as an executive left Obama looking more like the chair above than the empty one Clint Eastwood spoke to at the Republican National Convention not so long ago.

"I have not begun to fight!"~
John Paul Jones September 23, 1779
 (Mitt Romney did not pose for this portrait
but it sure looks like him!)

What was clear to this viewer is that Obama was wholly unprepared for this debate.  A format that stripped him of his traditional straw man responses to fact after fact by Romney.

The audience couldn't save him. Even if applause had been allowed, while it may have energized Obama it could not hide he was unprepared. I imagine that democrats in the audience were likewise in shock by Obama's weak efforts to defend his policies.

Obama's body posture and facial expressions gave away both his frustration and defeat.  He never looked his challenger in the eye, instead choosing to smirk and frown into the podium.

As if the debate were not bad enough for Obama Frank Luntz had one of his panels of Republicans Democrats and Independents that watched the debate and dialed up their responses. 13 of the twenty-four voted for Obama. They were devastating in their criticism of President Obama and he lost nearly all of their votes.  If this translates to voters nationwide this is big trouble for Obama.

John Nolte, Editor of Breibart has a brilliant assessment of Obama's disastrous debate performance that lays bare the lack of integrity in today's media.

Presstitutes and Pundifibaitors on the left were in complete meltdown and shock. While the left was crying in their cold porridge Chris Matthews went into a full blown meltdown .
Al Gore is blaming the high altitude for Obama's empty performance,  media on the right lit up with one after another celebrations of Romney's tour de force performance.

What facts Obama did present Romney not only challenged but buried in truth. Obama was as defenseless as Ambassador Stevens in the Benghazi Terrorist Attack and Brian Terry facing drug cartel AK-47 armed smugglers with bean bags for bullets.  If Romney's next Townhall and debate are as successful, last night indeed was not a game changer but set the marker for Leadership that Obama cannot deliver.

We sure enjoyed our popcorn last night!

Occupy Unmasked: A Review

 OWS The Left's New Incubator Of Anarchy

Sobering. Disturbing.  A Wake-Up call.

Andrew Breitbart's last gift to America is an expose of the new American Left.  It is chilling.

In the movie Occupy Unmasked Andrew Breitbart and his team walks movie goers through the evolution of the hippy dippy war protesting left of the 1960's to todays new face of anarchy in America in 2012.

No surprise here, the same old dirty hippies and anarchist of the 1960's are here to co-opt the minds of America's youth.  Billy Ayers, Code Pink, The New Black Panther Party, Wade Rathke the SEIU, envirofascist with the help of Presstitutes of America's Main Stream Media,  which we can now call 'AmeriPravda'.

Brietbart and his team show how a small number of clueless college students idea for a protest was used by the left to counter a truly homogeneous movement of Tea Parties across America.

This is not an easy movie to watch, as a Patriot everything you love about America is assaulted.  And it is this reason "Occupy Unmasked" is important film you must see.

The mainstream media (many of whom not only support but actively promote the left) falsely presented this amalgamation of anarchist activist of the left as average American youth who spontaneously took to our cities in massive sit ins because they could not find jobs in this economy  as a natural outgrowth of the selfishness of Capitalism, and corporate wealth. Occupy Unmasked completely dismantles this narrative.

You can find Occupy Unmasked theater location and ticketing information here. 

On Twitter you can support Occupy Unmasked here:

On Facebook you can support Occupy Unmasked here.

The "Change" Obama and the left believes in and wants as reality in America and all of it's ugliness is on display in Occupy Unmasked.

My husband found this film more important than 2016: The Movie, because as he stated, "while most Americans have delved into trying to sort out who Obama is, they have no idea who is behind this movement the Left, Democrats and the President claimed to be spontaneous."

I agree, Occupy Wall Street is the monster child of Marxist, Anarchist, and all of those who hate the freedom our nation represents.

Occupy Unmasked is a MUST SEE film, if it is not showing in your area buy the DVD.

Just because the OWS America hating mobs are not camped out in our cities does not mean they are not busy filling the incubator of hatred with our youth.

I give Occupy Unmasked five Perfect Umbrellas Up!

RIP Neil Armstrong First Man On the Moon

 

"Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed."

That is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind ~Neil Armstrong, Moon July 20, 1969

RIP Neal Armstrong August 5, 1930 ~August 25, 2012 

Neil Armstrong  as Astronaut was part of a team on many missions prior to a feat that will forever be his marker in history as the first man on the moon.  Neil Armstrong, characterized every ideal that Americans aspire to bravery, humility, intellect, bold, exploration and American Excellence.  America is less for his loss.

When I was 22, I watched Neil Armstrong place the first of many American Astronauts footprints on the that beautiful pearl in the sky, the moon. A feat 43 years later no other nation has been able to duplicate.  My Grandfather who was 93, watched with me and my family in amazement and pride at America's milestone technological achievement.

NASA's comments on the death of Neil Armstrong can be found here.

My feelings are mixed, saddened by the loss of a hero whose missions I watched and exploits I followed as a teen and my anger is boiling over at how  Obama has ravaged NASA 

2016: The Movie

Two weeks ago my husband and I left the house to have dinner and see this important film.

We went to our favorite local Mexican restaurant and left the restaurant to find that there were 2 nails in our rear tire.  We hurried to a local Goodyear tire center to get the tire repaired.  It was after 6:00 pm and the free Tea Party showing stated at 7:30.  Talk about stress, the tire was repaired and I was mumbling the whole way as we needed to stop for gas also.

When we reached the AMC multiplex where the movie was showing, all of the seats were gone.

However AMC being smart free marketers immediately opened a second showing an hour later for paid attendance.  We immediately plunked our $20 bucks down for two tickets and bought another $10 bucks worth of popcorn and some thin mints.

When we entered the auditorium there were maybe 70 or so seated waiting the 50 minutes or so for the film to begin.  In 2s 4's eager viewers began filling seats.  By the time the film opened this auditorium also had folks sitting on the stairs.

I had read all about Barack Obama on David Horowitz site Discover The Networks and had read all  of Dinesh D'Souza's books on Obama including, "The Roots of Obama's Rage" .

I was not an uniformed voter when I entered the theater.

Unlike most movies, this time people who did not know one another were talking while we all waited nearly an hour for the film to begin.  The couple to our left were active in their local Tea Party, as are my husband and I also were familiar with the topic and facts to be presented in the movie.  They are registered Republicans.  On our right was a group of 3 friends (that we did not know) who came to see the movie.  All three independent voters and business owners.  They came out of curiosity after hearing and reading about the film. All said they voted for Obama in 2008, but would not support him in 2012 because Obama had hurt their businesses.

In the row behind us the stories were similar, discussion of concerns for rising costs, healthcare, the deficit.  All registered voters, some politically active, some not but all concerned for America's future.

(I am infamous for being willing to talk to anyone about politics, and it was a great discussion of about 15 individuals before the movie started).

This is a brave film.  It is honest, unpretentious and framed from D'Souza's view based on his life experience and the similarities in both his and Obama's background culturally.  The similarities end there.  There is no doubt about it Dinesh D'Souza is a staunch Conservative, great patriot and a man of letters, towering intellect and the President of King's College in New York.

Dinesh D'Souza tracks Obama's life and influences, the montage of scenes and one after another fact move rapidly.  This is not a boring film.  The backdrop of the third world, interviews and facts are compelling.

This is a great movie.  It is breathtaking.

At the end of the film, the audience was in SHOCK.  The silence was palpitating, then as if on cue I kid you not the entire audience stood and a thunderous applause filled with "Bravos" and "Way to Go" were shouted out.  Rare today at your local movie.

My take 400 very determined voters left the auditorium and you could over hear "my friends need to see this" "I am coming back with my kids" and "Obama has to go"

Did I like this film?  I loved it 

Would I recommend this film  Absolutely  It is a patriotic duty to see this film.  That is just this gal's opinion.

In full disclosure, I follow Dinesh D'Souza on Twitter and I am honored that he follows me.

The Fluked Up Narrative of BC

Why Now and Democrats Are Wrong
On Abortion (Genocide)

From Democrats and NOWs perspective one could surmise that a woman's brain is in her vagina and not her head. Give me a break ! I am a woman and there is far more to me than my vagina. My vagina does not make my decisions, my vagina does not run my life.

Here is a question, if a woman cannot be responsible for her own body enough to avoid unprotected sex what can she be responsible for?  There should be no sacrifice of an innocent child because the 'host woman' was too irresponsible of being certain she was in charge of her own reproductive abilities. Moral relativism allows the genocide of humans and blames the result of a casual sexual Liasion instead of the male and female who engaged in unprotected sex. You don't have to be a prude to avoid pregnancy.  You just need to be responsible in preventing an unwanted outcome before that moment of passion.

Casual everything, no taboos, moral relativism says, "Hey, baby no consequences!" Democrats and NOW say women are the victims when they get pregnant after an unprotected casual encounter.  Democrats and NOW say it is not your fault you forgot to take contraceptives you are a victim. Democrats and NOW say you are not responsible for your body because of your feelings, you should not be punished for passion, or held accountable for the repercussions of your choice to engage in unprotected sex. Democrats and NOW view you are incapable of being responsible for your baby factory.  Democrats say we want your vote, we understand your are the victim of your choice to have unprotected sex.  Democrats award irresponsible sexually casual encounters, and justify their moral relativism with their agenda. Democrats NOW and their cottage industry of abortion declare you a victim.  What a complete crock of nonsense.

Democrats and NOW would have you believe that all women are airheads, incapable of being responsible enough to ensure they practice safe sex and somehow are completely unable to be in charge of their own reproductive body functions.  HOGWASH  It is obvious that Democrats and NOW see women as childish playthings incapable of knowing when to say no, or to say no when a woman knows she has no way of preventing pregnancy when that moment of passion overcomes her.  Translation:  Democrats and NOW  promote the idea that all women are airheads and sluts. No protection, not your fault, have an abortion!

I am offended that Democrats and President Obama picked an attractive activist with an appearance of a conservatively dressed woman who is in fact a strident Democratic operative, Sandra Fluke.  Ms. Fluke whined in her testimony before Congress about a woman's right to chose both abortion and birth control. Birth control is not an irrational choice. Asking taxpayers to fund what they can not abide in  principle is wrong and an irrational demand. That demand fully discounts and excuses personal responsibility.   Fluke did not disclose she had been the past president of Law Students for Reproductive Justice.  Nor did she name the strawgirl (her friend) nor the fact the strawgirl was gay, nor why this woman needed birth control. Even if the strawgirl had a medical condition requiring birth control why should a tax payer foot the bill?  These are a few easy observations with questions begging to be asked.   Pelosi and the Obama team rolled out an attractive conservatively dressed activist, who did not disclose that she is a Democratic operative with an agenda, who complained about the rights of a gay woman needing birth control. I don't care what someones sexual preferences are, but let me say it is highly unlikely that a gay woman is going to become pregnant without use of sperm from a male contributor. Nor should my tax dollars subsidize her use of them even if it is for medicinal reasons. I do find it questionable the Fluke argument that a lesbian should need BC and that taxpayers should pay for this 'need.' Really what are the chances of Fluke's 'friend' getting pregnant without real intent? This is more of the 'it takes a village nonsense' of moral relativism that removes any parameters for personal responsibility.

With the morning after pill there is NO reason for elective Abortion based on a woman's choice to engage in unprotected sexual engagement. NOT ONE.  Morning after pills are available in every state on demand with no prescription necessary.  Planned Parenthood also sees to it that a woman can get the morning after pill.  From the age of 17 morning after pills are available.  We are in the 21st Century.  To Pretend that a woman has no options other than an abortion is outrageous. Any male engaging in sex with a woman under 16 should be held accountable for statutory rape.  If your daughter is in engaged in sex at this age you have serious parenting issues.

Democrats and misogynists (who also wish to escape responsibility for their 'little swimmers')  support the false narrative that a woman should participate in the GENOCIDE of Abortion when nothing is stopping her from going to the Drug Store the very next day in a free market in which she pays with her own funds to purchase a morning after pill without a prescription.  (I am aware there are those who argue that a child begins with the act of conception).  Don't tell me that a woman DOES NOT know that the sex she is having is unprotected.

If a 21st Century woman cannot drag her lazy butt to the drug store after a night of unprotected sex she deserves the consequences of her actions. (I am not talking about women who have been raped or the victims of incest here.)

As a proponent of Women's Rights I am opposed to abortion. If a woman is raped she should not be  ravaged by our side if her choice is an abortion.  If a young woman is victimized by incest she likewise should not be victimized by our side.  Both were already victims of misogyny and a crime.

Anyone’s suggestion that a woman who engaged in unprotected sex in the 21st century be captive to the industry of abortion is an outrage. Democrats and NOW use this activity as a fertile garden of victimization, once again excusing a lack of personal responsibility.

Women who are victims of rape and girls who are victims of incest deserve every avenue of choice available to them, and all the psychological help necessary to make them as whole as possible.  The stance of the left would suggest that every unwanted pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, and that the mother’s life is in jeopardy and this is statistically not true.

I say balderdash to that argument. Most women seeking an abortion have engaged in casual sex and have failed to be personally responsible in protecting themselves from becoming pregnant.

The very idea that any 21st century woman would be engaged in unprotected sex is an outrage.

The Democrats and NOWs policy position on abortion supports a system of population control and that   perverse position holds women hostage to a decision that will forever haunt her life.

I have yet to meet a single woman who got pregnant as a result of unprotected sex who experienced a happy outcome, or who was unaffected by her choices. If there are any they are few.

A more rational approach would be to insure that all women are well educated with all of the options available to them to avoid pregnancy.

The first principle should be starting with young women learning how to set boundaries and treating their bodies and their young minds as special.

Libertine behavior is extremely pervasive throughout our culture and accepted promiscuity have  overrun our culture.

Take a look around you. Do you think it is a healthy role model to have six and seven year olds acting flirtatiously? Do you believe that young girls behaving suggestively in scantily clad outfits encouraged by advertisers to behave in provocative manner is a sign of a healthy society?

No wonder so many young women have sex and love all tangled up in their psyches.

The left is hard pushed to provide examples of women who did not suffer from unprotected sex when she (the woman) either opted to keep the child, married someone who she did not love that did not love her, and how that impacted their lives, and the life of the child. It is not uncommon for these marriages to be the marriages filled with alcoholism and spousal abuse.

Or when she (the woman) gave the child up for adoption, only later in life to be overwhelmed with guilt not to mention the abandonment issues that her child will eventually experience.

Or that she might truly have been to a butcher claiming to be an abortion clinic and is left sterile for the rest of her life.

This is not the dark ages.

This is all out assault from the the unethical brain trust of moral relativism and the efforts of the left to undermine the importance of the family unit. Where else to start….but with a woman by victimizing her choice of unprotected sex and blaming the outcome for her choice.  Facilitated by a curriculum that undermines the psychological model of sexually healthy behavorial maturity over inappropriate sex as a minor.  It completely undermines the magnificent gift and responsibility of motherhood and childbearing, and its foundation as the fabric of society. Listen to the argument Obama made as State Senator in Illinois about late term partial birth abortion and his debasement of human life

You, me, everyone of us is a former fetus. I ask you what gives anyone more right to the life you have than that of an aborted child?  When did your life become more valuable?  I would further say that you clearly do not understand the lefts complete investment in the management of life from inception to death.

Democrats and NOW must not know much about Margaret Sanger and her politics either.

I am adamantly pro life.  

When was the last time you looked at a sonogram...sorry buddy that is a living breathing (through the exchange of oxygen to is tissue) human child. Married couples thrilled with the sonogram picture or video proudly share this with their families. Panned Parenthood providers insist this picture/video is no different than a virus, some amoeba or undefinable goo in a petri dish.

And I ask again, when did your or my life or that of any other former fetus become more important that the one still in the womb?  Fetuses are now routinely viable at 20 weeks a result of advances of neo natal care and ICU centers and some even sooner.

To engage in a dialogue dismissing this reality or view this in any other fashion is barbaric.

It is past time to leave this argument to the moral relativist of the left.  This is a woman's issue.  Nancy Pelosi and her young protoge Sandra Fluke, Debbie Wasserman Shulz and every Democrat is seizing this topic once again as an agenda item for at the Democratic National Convention in a matter of weeks to gain votes in the coming election

It is well past time for women on the Right to claim and own the narrative on Abortion.  We are not our vaginas, our lives are not ruled by our vaginas. We take responsibility for our reproductive rights and abilities.  To support the Democrats and NOWs view of abortion one must accept that modern woman does not have ownership of her body, her sexual behavior or her choices.

Democrats think women are nothing but active sex toys and incapable of responsibility or acting like an adult.  This is because democrats shy from any personal responsibility because it is in their electoral interest to promote the victimization of the choice of unprotected sex and "VICTIMS ARE VOTERS"

Lieberals Libidiots Damnable Distortioners

Dialectic Disorders Democrats Can't Handle Won't Tell The Truth

“Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.”   ― Lysander Spooner

The art of distortion is a talent many politicians have.  Obama and the current Democratic leadership have taken lying and distortion to a fine art form.

Obama made many promises in his Inaugural speech to my recollection he has not kept any of them.

Democrats and the Department of Justice would have you and I believe that Florida is engaging in limiting the rights of voters, when in fact Florida is working to insure that dead voters, voters who have moved and illegal immigrants do not engage in voter fraud.

Just the other day in a brief appearance in the Whitehouse Press Room Obama said "the Private Sector is 'fine', when the reverse is true, our debt is colossal and just today the Federal Reserve released data indicating American families have had two decades of wealth wiped out.

Twice in recent weeks Eric Holder has sat in either a Congressional or Senate Hearing to answer for his department's handling of both Fast and Furious, and recent national security leaks.

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters” 
― Albert Einstein

The following list of cognitive distortions from 15 Common Cognitive Distortions by John M. Grohol PSY.D. are tactics frequently used by the left:  If you have recently had a discussion with a Democrat or listened to a Democrat you likely have been subjected to these dialectic practices that the left uses to manipulate facts to win the narrative

1. Filtering. We take the negative details and magnify them while filtering out all positive aspects of a situation. For instance, a person may pick out a single, unpleasant detail and dwell on it exclusively so that their vision of reality becomes darkened or distorted. 

2. Polarized Thinking (or “Black and White” Thinking). In polarized thinking, things are either “black-or-white.” We have to be perfect or we’re a failure — there is no middle ground. You place people or situations in “either/or” categories, with no shades of gray or allowing for the complexity of most people and situations. If your performance falls short of perfect, you see yourself as a total failure. 

3. Overgeneralization. In this cognitive distortion, we come to a general conclusion based on a single incident or a single piece of evidence. If something bad happens only once, we expect it to happen over and over again. A person may see a single, unpleasant event as part of a never-ending pattern of defeat. 

4. Jumping to Conclusions. Without individuals saying so, we know what they are feeling and why they act the way they do. In particular, we are able to determine how people are feeling toward us.  For example, a person may conclude that someone is reacting negatively toward them but doesn’t actually bother to find out if they are correct. Another example is a person may anticipate that things will turn out badly, and will feel convinced that their prediction is already an established fact. 

5. Catastrophizing. We expect disaster to strike, no matter what. This is also referred to as “magnifying or minimizing.” We hear about a problem and use what if questions (e.g., “What if tragedy strikes?” “What if it happens to me?”).  For example, a person might exaggerate the importance of insignificant events (such as their mistake, or someone else’s achievement). Or they may inappropriately shrink the magnitude of significant events until they appear tiny (for example, a person’s own desirable qualities or someone else’s imperfections). 

6. Personalization.  Personalization is a distortion where a person believes that everything others do or say is some kind of direct, personal reaction to the person. We also compare ourselves to others trying to determine who is smarter, better looking, etc.  A person engaging in personalization may also see themselves as the cause of some unhealthy external event that they were not responsible for. For example, “We were late to the dinner party and caused the hostess to overcook the meal. If I had only pushed my husband to leave on time, this wouldn’t have happened.” 

7. Control Fallacies.  If we feel externally controlled, we see ourselves as helpless a victim of fate. For example, “I can’t help it if the quality of the work is poor, my boss demanded I work overtime on it.” The fallacy of internal control has us assuming responsibility for the pain and happiness of everyone around us. For example, “Why aren’t you happy? Is it because of something I did? 

8. Fallacy of Fairness.  We feel resentful because we think we know what is fair, but other people won’t agree with us. As our parents tell us, “Life is always fair,” and people who go through life applying a measuring ruler against every situation judging its “fairness” will often feel badly and negative because of it. 

9. Blaming.  We hold other people responsible for our pain, or take the other track and blame ourselves for every problem. For example, “Stop making me feel bad about myself!” Nobody can “make” us feel any particular way — only we have control over our own emotions and emotional reactions. 

10. Shoulds.  We have a list of ironclad rules about how others and we should behave. People who break the rules make us angry, and we feel guilty when we violate these rules. A person may often believe they are trying to motivate themselves with shoulds and shouldn’ts, as if they have to be punished before they can do anything.  For example, “I really should exercise. I shouldn’t be so lazy.” Mustsand oughts are also offenders. The emotional consequence is guilt. When a person directs should statements toward others, they often feel anger, frustration and resentment. 

11. Emotional Reasoning.  We believe that what we feel must be true automatically. If we feel stupid and boring, then we must be stupid and boring. You assume that your unhealthy emotions reflect he way things really are — “I feel it, therefore it must be true.” 

12. Fallacy of Change.  We expect that other people will change to suit us if we just pressure or cajole them enough. We need to change people because our hopes for happiness seem to depend entirely on them. 

13. Global Labeling.  We generalize one or two qualities into a negative global judgment. These are extreme forms of generalizing, and are also referred to as “labeling” and “mislabeling.” Instead of describing an error in context of a specific situation, a person will attach an unhealthy label to themselves. For example, they may say, “I’m a loser” in a situation where they failed at a specific task. When someone else’s behavior rubs a person the wrong way, they may attach an unhealthy label to him, such as “He’s a real jerk.” Mislabeling involves describing an event with language that is highly colored and emotionally loaded. For example, instead of saying someone drops her children off at daycare every day, a person who is mislabeling might say that “she abandons her children to strangers. 

14. Always Being Right.  We are continually on trial to prove that our opinions and actions are correct. Being wrong is unthinkable and we will go to any length to demonstrate our rightness. For example, “I don’t care how badly arguing with me makes you feel, I’m going to win this argument no matter what because I’m right.” Being right often is more important than the feelings of others around a person who engages in this cognitive distortion, even loved ones. 

15. Heaven’s Reward Fallacy.  We expect our sacrifice and self-denial to pay off, as if someone is keeping score. We feel bitter when the reward doesn’t come.

"Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends." ~Albert Bandura  

In describing this same vein of behavior you may have witnessed on week-end news shows, or either of Holder's appearances before the House or Senate, one of my favorite Blogs, Dr. Sanity says:

• - by using projection some very violent and angry people are able to convince themselves that they are working for peace and harmony.
• - by using delusional projection some religious fanatics who behead innocent people are able to convince themselves that they are pure and holy, while" infidels" like Jews are monsters who "eat babies" and decend from "pigs and monkeys"
• - by using displacement, some people are able to convince themselves that there is a devious plan to imminently replace our secular government with a Christian theocracy; while they are singularly unconcerned about religious fanatics actively waging war on the U.S. and the rest of the world trying to institute an Islamic theocracy.
• - by using fantasy some people are able to convince themselves that these particular religious fanatics are reasonable and sensible people, amenable to negotiation and moderation.
• - by using denial some people are able to convince themselves that Obama's economic policies are creating jobs and improving the economy.
• - by using repression some people would like to eliminate all personal feelings about 9/11 and wipe it from the American collective consciousness; thus supporting the building of a mosque at Ground Zero while we are still in a protracted war with Islamic fundamentalists.

Obama and his Administration have set a record for white lies, fibs, out right distortions and manipulations of the truth. Each and every evening we subjected to a viewpoint from the main stream media that echoes all of this noise while America is burning and Democrats have lost any sense of reasonable leadership.

"If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient for the use of coercion" 

 ~Freiedrich Hayek