Posted by Tina
On this national Labor Day holiday we join with others inspired by Clint Eastwood at the RNC convention to commemorate the dismal real unemployment rate after nearly four years of poor leadership by Barack Obama.
Welcome to National Empty Chair Day
A day when Americans that actually still have jobs can take the day off to commiserate with their unemployed neighbors, relatives, and friends…a day to mourn the death of good American jobs under the leadership in the hope and change presidency. Real unemployment picture courtesy of Investors.com linked above:
The so-called U3 measure of unemployment is the one most people know. It shows 8.3% joblessness, and 12.9 million people with no job.
But the government also releases what it calls the U6 measure — one that takes into account discouraged workers and those who, as the Labor Department puts it, are “marginally attached” to the labor force.
What does U6 show? It shows an alarming 15% unemployment rate — with 23 million people having no job. Worse, the U6 measure of unemployment is rising as the economy slows down.
Participation in National Empty Chair Day is easy…simply place an empty chair in your yard with a sign that expresses your own personal thoughts about the non-recovery and shortage of good jobs.
Mr. President, America’s entrepreneurs, innovators, and investors built this nation. We built this nation in an atmosphere of unprecedented freedom and rights that inspired creativity and productivity. Yes sir…We Built It!
Let this chair…on this day…stand as a patriotic reminder to all that JOBS will be plentiful when the American people are set FREE to create and grow businesses!
See photo’s from around the country here. And for your viewing pleasure…
GOD BLESS AMERICA
Great post Tina.
Did another celebrity just jump the fence and join Eastwood?
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Actor: Obama ‘another Ivy League A–hole?’
Hollywood star John Cusack is raising eyebrows today as he lashes into Barack Obama with the question: Is the president just another Ivy League Ahole shredding civil liberties and due process and sending people to die in some sh-thole for purely political reasons?
Cusack, who is well-known for his roles in films including The Sure Thing, Better Off Dead and Being John Malkovich, seriously questions Obama in an article published in Truthout:
Mr. Obama, the Christian president with the Muslim-sounding name, would heed the admonitions of neither religions prophets about making war and do what no empire or leader, including Alexander the Great, could do: he would, he assured us get the job done in Afghanistan. And so we have our democratic president receiving the Nobel Peace Prize as he sends 30,000 more troops to a ten-year-old conflict in a country thats been war-torn for 5,000 years.
Why? Well never fully know. Instead, we got a speech that was stone bullsh and an insult to the very idea of peace.
We cant have it both ways. Hope means endless war? Obama has metaphorically pushed all in with the usual international and institutional killers; and in the case of war and peace, literally.
To sum it up: more war. So thousands die or are maimed; generations of families and veterans are damaged beyond imagination; sons and daughters come home in rubber bags. But he and his satellites get their four more years.
Cusack also has some criticism for the national news media for complicity with Obama, saying, Under Obama do we continue to call the thousands of mercenaries in Afghanistan general contractors now that Bush is gone? No, we dont talk about them not a story anymore.
There will be a historical record. Change we can believe in is not using the other guys mob to clean up your own tracks while continuing to feed at the trough. Human nature is human nature, and when people find out theyre being hustled, they will seek revenge, sooner or later, and it will be ugly and savage.
In a country with desperation growing everywhere, everyday despite the Oh, things are getting better press releases how could one think otherwise?
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/actor-obama-another-ivy-league-a-hole/
I’ve heard the left was disappointed but have not heard detail until now…thanks Peggy!
Cusack makes some excellent points. Of course, if you heard him say nearly the exact same words about Bush four years ago, you’d be calling him an America-hating terrorist sympathizer who is endangering our troops. Obama’s foreign policy has been way too much like Bush’s for me, and I think it’s a travesty the way the media ignores the war these days. But what’s a peace-lover to do? Vote for Romney? He will be just as much of a warhawk, if not more.
http://www.propublica.org/article/obama-drone-death-figures-dont-add-up
http://www.cjr.org/feature/covering_obamas_secret_war.php?page=all
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-war-dead-afghanistan-have-tripled-less-3-years-under-obama
And if Obama’s war was covered as the war was covered under Bush…but then we knew he would get a pass.
Let me see…who is it that lies?
Chris, if you think Romney is a hawk, what are you basing that on…a stereotype of Mormons, of Harvard grads, of CEO’s…what?
Personally I think Romney will remove us from Afghanistan asap, there’s just no good reason for us to stay. I also think he could use air power against Iran if absolutely necessary, but I seriously doubt we will have troops on the ground there.
John Cusack is one of my favorite actors. Until I read this, I did not know how he leaned politically and that is one thing I like about him.
I figured he was a democrat because he is an actor (insert joke here). I get the feeling from reading the story he is a liberal democrat. I think he is a pissed off democrat and sitting this election out.
“But what’s a peace-lover to do? Vote for Romney?”
Actually Chris that would be a good start!
Toby, He may be a conservative, but is just against all the wars.
I consider myself a fiscal and social conservative, but am against the US involvement in wars and conflicts all over the world. Im against using our defense funds to host military bases in Europe since the end of WWII, over 70 years ago. The money should be listed under foreign aide not military defense.
Its also one of the issues I agreed with Ron Paul about. I dont believe we should be the worlds police at the expense of defending our own borders. Bring our troops home and stationing them at our border crossings and patrolling our borders will cut down on illegal drugs and immigrants crossing and, hopefully, catch any terrorist getting in.
The added benefit to an economic boost from the military salaries being spent to buy homes/pay rent and pay for goods and services on US soil instead of foreign soil can only help us too.
(I have a family member who lived in Germany for over 10 years while stationed at a base there. His wife also worked on the base. They bought a home, a 700 series Mercedes and traveled all over. He is now retired living in Virginia.)
Jack: “Chris, if you think Romney is a hawk, what are you basing that on…a stereotype of Mormons, of Harvard grads, of CEO’s…what?”
I’m not sure any of those stereotypes actually exist. I’m surprised you didn’t mention the more obvious stereotype of hawkish Republicans.
But I’m basing it on Romney’s own words. He has criticized Obama for pulling the troops out of Iraq, even though it was done on Bush’s timetable (from what I’ve read, Obama actually wanted an extension, but the people of Iraq weren’t having it). He has also surrounded himself with former Bush advisors who advocated for the invasion of Iraq, which you and I both know was a huge mistake. He’s criticized Obama’s timetable for pulling out of Afghanistan, so I don’t know where you’re getting the idea that Romney would bring them home sooner than Obama. He’s said that Obama is too soft on Iran. To be fair, Romney has been vague (as usual) on what exactly his foreign policy is, and what he will do about these situations. But I see no reason to think he would be more anti-war than Obama. If anything, he would be more aggressive.
I have to add that I have been repulsed by Obama’s war strategies. The drones, legalizing targeted assassination and indefinite detention (including of American citizens), the solitary confinement of Bradley Manning…
This is the one reason I wish Ron Paul had been the Republican nominee. I probably still wouldn’t have voted for Paul, since I find his economic ideas absurd, but I wish we had a voice railing against these abuses of power, someone on a national stage who could challenge them. Romney won’t do that, because he agrees with all of these abuses.
Americans need better choices. Can we skip ahead to 2016 already? Maybe we’ll have some better options then. Or not.