Congratulations, House Republicans!

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
2000 4.0 4.1 4.0 3.8 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.1 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.9
2001 4.2 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.3 4.5 4.6 4.9 5.0 5.3 5.5 5.7
2002 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.9 5.8 5.8 5.8 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.9 6.0
2003 5.8 5.9 5.9 6.0 6.1 6.3 6.2 6.1 6.1 6.0 5.8 5.7
2004 5.7 5.6 5.8 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.5 5.4 5.4 5.5 5.4 5.4
2005 5.3 5.4 5.2 5.2 5.1 5.0 5.0 4.9 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.9
2006 4.7 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.6 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4
2007 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4 4.6 4.6 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.7 5.0
2008 5.0 4.8 5.1 5.0 5.4 5.5 5.8 6.1 6.2 6.6 6.9 7.4
2009 7.7 8.2 8.6 8.9 9.4 9.5 9.4 9.7 9.8 10.1 10.0 10.0

What's the rate under Obama again? 6.3%

Death Panels, Cancer, Obamacare, and the VA Scandal

One conclusion we can draw is an old, familiar one: No matter what the issue or activity, bureaucracy’s first and strongest instinct is to protect itself in the face of a perceived threat.

Another conclusion is probably just dawning on those Americans with the wit to see it, because so very few of us have had a brush with a medical system of which government is the sole proprietor: Putting a government bureaucracy in charge of one’s health is a gamble likely to end badly.

And yet, if Obamacare stands, that is precisely the gamble each and every American eventually will take.

There is no better predictor of the course of a single-payer medical system in the United States than the VA system, because it is a single-payer system.

Facts Suggest Vets Delayed Own Tests to Make Obama Look Bad

After the recent revelation of long wait times and delays in care at VA hospitals shocked the nation, congressional Democrats from both houses and independent journalists undertook their own investigation to determine the cause of the problem.

What they found was shocking: evidence of a coordinated conspiracy among numerous ill veterans to avoid seeking medical care and blame their subsequent problems on President Obama.

"It's racism pure and simple", said one congressional staffer who played a tape recording of a VA patient telling an undercover investigator "I'm supposed to go for a colonoscopy next week but I'm gonna skip it and blame it on Obama if I get sick."

"I know it sounds an awful lot like me," the staffer said of the tape, "but it is a VA patient. Trust me."

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While on the surface, it seems incredible and even bizarre that anyone would go to such lengths to embarrass a politician they dislike, it is consistent with the pattern of racism that has emerged since the coronation of the country's first black president in January 2009.

In Sept 2012 the GOP voted down the Vets Jobs Bill.
Senate GOP Obstructionists Throw Veterans Under The Bus-Vote Down Bill To Help Vets In Need Of Jobs
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/09/23/senate-gop-obstructionists-throw-veterans-under-the-bus-vote-down-bill-to-help-vets-in-need-of-jobs/

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And then last month the GOP voted to cut 170,000 vets from getting food stamps.
Cruel House Republicans Vote to Cut Off Food for 170,000 Vets and 3.8 Million Americans
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/19/cruel-house-republicans-vote-cut-food-170000-vets-3-8-million-americans.html

GOP Voted Against 7 Bills to Help Veterans since Obama took office--- May 2012

"The issue of Iran sanctions ... has nothing to do with the needs of veterans," complained Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Bernard Sanders of Vermont, the main sponsor of the bill.

the president should be responsible for everything that happens in all the departments of the federal government.

This is what happened to GW Bush - the president who knew it all! LOL

it seems our economy is continuing to grow.

There is nothing liberal about the progressive movement

The Age of Obama, while ruinous and dangerous, has proven to be an excellent teacher: liberalism is no longer a governing or activism force on the left. Liberalism is just a dead word the left uses to pacify otherwise reasonable people–classic democrats–lest they become aware that their side has been consumed by a corrupt mix of statism, corporatism and despotism. For anyone willing to look–really stop and take it in–the revealed face of progressive governance and activism is the face of brute force in all areas of our lives.

Hey, progressives: What else can you force Americans to do?

Progressives have given themselves the power to …

Force Americans to tell the government about the books they read and to write book reports on them
Force Americans to remain silent when ordered to by a secret court
Force Americans to remain silent when their daughter is taken away from them by a court
Force Americans to attend and/or help celebrate a wedding ceremony to which they object
Force Americans to open up their wallets and give money to a private company
Force Americans to pay for products and services they they will never–in fact, cannot ever–use
Force Americans–at gun point–to stop selling raw milk
Force Americans–at gun point–to stop selling guitars that are not union made
Force Americans to join labor unions
Force Americans to give their homes to big companies so they can build malls
Force Americans to put GPS trackers in their vehicles so the government can track their movements
Force Americans to install “smart meters” in their homes so the government can control their thermostats
Force Catholics to pay for abortions

Silicon Valley multimillionaire: Boost Calif. minimum wages to $12-an-hour
Associated Press
POSTED: 01/11/2014 12:33:52 PM PST
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Democrats across the nation are eager to make increasing the minimum wage a defining campaign issue in 2014, but in California a proposal to boost the pay rate to $12 an hour is coming from a different point on the political compass.

Ron Unz, a Silicon Valley multimillionaire and registered Republican who once ran for governor and, briefly, U.S. Senate, wants state voters to endorse the wage jump that he predicts would nourish the economy and lift low-paid workers from dependency on food stamps and other assistance bankrolled by taxpayers.

A push for bigger paychecks for workers at the lower rungs of the economic ladder is typically associated with Democrats -- President Barack Obama is supporting a bill in Congress that would elevate the $7.25 federal minimum to over $10 an hour.

College students overwhelmingly believe America is losing respect in the world under the leadership of President Barack Obama.

A Panetta Institute survey found that "73 percent of college students believe that the United States is less respected by other countries than it was in the past."

Obama campaigned on a promise to increase America's respect around the world, but has been slammed for the death of four Americans in Benghazi and the subsequent attempts at a cover-up, his "red line" in Syria, "dithering" in the Middle East, and his "reset" policy with Russia that only allowed Putin's Russia to increase its sphere of influence in Eastern Europe.

I realize this is probably the most offensive insult I've ever slung at the obummers but if you stop and think about it, it's probably not far from the truth. The obummers hate this country and her people. And if this latest VA scandal hasn't convinced you of that then you're living in a vacuum.