Thursday, November 19, 2009
BARACK OBAMA
Where's the Good News for the Obama Administration These Days?
A reader notes, regarding the economy, even where it's not that bad, it's still pretty darn bad, pointing to Utah:
The growing ranks of the unemployed already have drained this year's budget of a state-administered program that provides new-job training to people whose old professions may not return when the recession ends.
Employment counselors at the Utah Department of Workforce Services were informed last week that enrollment in a job-training program funded through the federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) was being suspended for the rest of the fiscal year, which ends June 30, 2010.
Utah's unemployment rate is 6.2 percent, the fourth-best in the nation.
So, just to refresh, the economy continues to bleed jobs, and Recovery.gov is full of phony statistics about job creation in non-existent congressional districts; the administration's response is that it doesn't really matter. This while government spends money like never before:
The Treasury Department said yesterday that the deficit for October totaled $176.4 billion, the fifth-largest monthly deficit ever and the 13th straight month to show a deficit — another record.
The deficit for the 2009 budget year set an all-time record in dollar terms of $1.42 trillion. That was $958 billion above the 2008 deficit, the previous record.
The administration's plan on health care requires you to believe that unlike so many other programs, this one will cost less than expected.
Our threat of "crippling sanctions" on Iran is kaput, the much-touted deadline amounting to nothing.
The attorney general says that the court that Osama bin Laden would be tried in would depend on a "protocol" that he refuses to spell out.
And we're still waiting for the president's response to a request for additional troops made in Afghanistan.
Yes, Mr. President, you said it accurately: "The American people have gone though a very tough year."
11/19 03:17 PM
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