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1. #1
   On November 11th, 2011 at 3:56 pm, letget said:

   WAY to go bho! Things are going as planned it seems? Just how many American’s will be out of work at the end of 2012? Everything bho and team has been doing is cratering jobs at an astounding rate and gonna get worse. If we didn’t have all the fuzzy math for the weekly jobs numbers, and got a true account, people would not be all that trillled! But, bho and mo are doing the vacation/summit thing for nine days to rest their poor tired bodies and get out of the he!! hole dc! I do not like bho at all!
   L

2. #2
   On November 11th, 2011 at 3:59 pm, Yumpin Yoda said:

   …….and now that they have announced it, I’m sure that they will have the Feds raid it and take their artificial limbs claiming that they are made of illegal materials.
   That to be followed by a thorough IRS audit.

   The Chicago way, of course. Muscle

3. #3
   On November 11th, 2011 at 4:02 pm, stillontheroad said:

   “Feds raid it and take their artificial limbs claiming that they are made of illegal materials.”
   Illegally imported Titanium from Russia mined by Muslim Children and packed out by the endangered 3 Hump Sand Camel.

4. #4
   On November 11th, 2011 at 4:08 pm, RedDog said:

   Destruction follows everything these people put their hands to. Obama and his minions will be lucky to escape DC alive. What wretched creatures they are.

   We must ensure politicos like this are never allowed in positions of power ever again.

5. #5
   On November 11th, 2011 at 4:08 pm, prendad said:

   Hey, allllright! The reverse Obama-Midas touch strikes again. There is one thing about this president and his dork administration you can always depend on. . .to absolutely, positively screw up anything it even remotely comes in contact with. It will be good to see this jerk and his pretend-to-work minions get booted out of office, sooner the better, good riddance.

   Oh, I hear it coming, cue Pelosi. . .3. . .2. . .1 “Oh, he is the greatest president and he has met every leadership challenge. . . blah blah blah and he’s soooooo cute and ohhhhhh isn’t he adorable blah blah and ohhhhhhhhhhh I think I’m swooning”

   end probable quote and time for barfing.

6. #6
   On November 11th, 2011 at 4:14 pm, Green eyed Lady said:

   This Week’s Sloppy, Shameful ObamaCare Ruling Provides Wake-Up Call to American Voters

   “The right to be free from federal regulation is not absolute, and yields to the imperative that Congress be free to forge national solutions to national problems…”

   Somehow, that absurdity masquerading as legal reasoning actually survived the editing process, and maintained its prominence within the written opinion of Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in his decision this week upholding ObamaCare.

   Judge Silberman’s opinion truly is preposterous and bizarre. It does, however, at least provide a beneficial cautionary reminder to Americans who might assume that we can rely upon the judicial branch to quash the ObamaCare monstrosity.

   Contrary to Judge Silberman’s statement, nobody challenging ObamaCare and its unconstitutional mandates claims some sort of “absolute” right to be free from federal regulation. Such an “absolute” freedom from federal regulation would mean domestic anarchy, a dysfunctional and inefficient cauldron of interstate rivalry. The Constitution itself was drafted to prevent that state of affairs, while at the same time preserving individual human freedom to the greatest degree possible. That is how America became the most prosperous and most powerful society in human history.

   Judge Silberman, on the other hand, effectively declares the right of federal regulation to be free from commerce-clause limitation absolute. He also renders that critical clause of the Constitution absolutely free of meaning.

   Obviously, our Founding Fathers didn’t incorporate the interstate commerce clause into the Constitution’s text for no reason whatsoever. Quite the contrary, they intentionally sought to limit federal commercial authority to commerce actually traversing state lines. Prior to the Constitution’s ratification, one may recall, the weak Articles of Confederation resulted in commercial warfare between the individual states. That proved an unworkable societal model, so the Founders granted federal power over the actual goods and services crossing state lines.

   That power was not without limit, however. The Founders did not grant wholesale authority to simply regulate “commerce.” Rather, they specifically drafted Article I, Section 8 using the limiting language, ”To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes.”

   Judge Silberman’s defective decision ignores that limitation:

   http://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/42-constitution-and-legal/1208-this-weeks-sloppy-shameful-obamacare-ruling-provides-wake-up-call-to-american-voters

7. #7
   On November 11th, 2011 at 4:16 pm, AlohaGuy said:

   There are still people who will vote for him, but the Bell Curve does have a left half…

8. #8
   On November 11th, 2011 at 4:33 pm, passingruffian said:

   Remember this?

   “In arguing for the current version of ObamaCare, whatever that is at the moment, Nancy Pelosi claims that it will create four million jobs — or nearly half of all the jobs lost over the last two years.”

   Princess Pelosi didn’t lie to us, did she? Say it ain’t so.

9. #9
   On November 11th, 2011 at 4:34 pm, LiveFreeOrDie_2011 said:

   I’m still waiting for Obunghole to tell us exactly how he saved $350B by cutting waste, fraud, and abuse from Medicare to help pay for his healthcare monstrosity.

10. #10
    On November 11th, 2011 at 4:55 pm, ThunderHawkk said:

    You’re darn right BO is doing this on purpose! Some people say that’s ridiculous, why would he do that. (Like squish Michael Medved) Well, BECAUSE he’s doing it and he may still very well win! He could easily win in 2012 and then LOOK OUT! It’s going get crazy! Pure Communism taking over!
    That’s why, Michael Medved, you milquetoast moderate.

11. #11
    On November 11th, 2011 at 5:45 pm, AmericanGirl30 said:

    But this is not likely to make the news–or if it does, the reason behind the layoffs will never be mentioned–so the number of people about to wake up and smell the coffee on Obamacare because of this will be limited to no more than 1000 minus any of those soon-to-be-ex employees who already knew the law was crap.

12. #12
    On November 11th, 2011 at 5:56 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    Destruction follows everything these people put their hands to. Obama and his minions will be lucky to escape DC alive. What wretched creatures they are.

    All completely intentional. The kind of destruction that follows them favors themselves and their policies.

    And since no dems and few GOP have what it takes to go after them, it isn’t luck that will enable them to escape DC alive.

13. #13
    On November 11th, 2011 at 5:57 pm, Collateral Damage said:

    After what will be an abismal Christmas (Oops, I meant Holiday) season (thanks in large part to $4.00+/gal. gas), America should expect unemployment to go up to 11, maybe 12%. Just sayin’. Unfortunately, there are a LOT of really STUPID Americans who just don’t get it, no matter how small the words one uses to explain it to them. ALL of this will have been Barack Husein Obama’s responsibility, or the lack thereof, PERIOD!!!

14. #14
    On November 11th, 2011 at 6:03 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Styker, Mrs. Will’s employer’s chief competitor. Disaster.

    What needs to happen is for Styker Go Guerrilla and simply refuse to PAY it. Take us to freaking court you scumbags! Mass. ( home to numerous medical device co’s ) has been particularly hard hit.

    http://www.medicaldevices.org/node/1116

15. #15
    On November 11th, 2011 at 6:03 pm, old goat said:

    My memory is bad but I’m reasonably sure that Stryker is one of the companies that was extremely pro Obama and a major financial supporter. We had to purchase some guerneys for ambulances and Stryker was the only company that had ones we liked–we hated to support such a pro Obama company.

16. #16
    On November 11th, 2011 at 6:17 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    After what will be an abismal Christmas (Oops, I meant Holiday) season (thanks in large part to $4.00+/gal. gas), America should expect unemployment to go up to an additional 11, maybe 12%.

    FIFY

17. #17
    On November 11th, 2011 at 6:22 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Political donationsIn 2006, Stryker gave $500,000 to the Coalition for Progress, a political action committee that donated heavily to support Democratic party candidates in Michigan elections.[4]

    In 2008, Stryker gave $87,500 to the Presidential Inaugural Committee for President-Elect Barack Obama.[5]

    Stryker donated $3 million to defeat a 2002 ballot initiative regarding bilingual education in Colorado.

    Following fraud allegations in November 2007 involving Stryker Corp. overbilling for Medicare in South Dakota, Republicans called on Democratic organizations to return donations they had received from Stryker and her brother, Jon Stryker.[6]

    [edit] Gang of FourStryker, Jared Polis, Tim Gill, and Rutt Bridges are known in Colorado political circles as the “Gang of Four”. Significant political contributions from the four to favored Democratic candidates has played a role in electing a Democratic majority in Colorado’s house and senate.[7]

    Interesting. Well, as interesting as flaky heiresses go? Her actions though should be thought of separately from that of the company grandfather founded. And certainly the rank & file employees. She HAS her’s. IMHO

18. #18
    On November 11th, 2011 at 6:22 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    ThunderHawkk said:
    You’re darn right BO is doing this on purpose! Some people say that’s ridiculous, why would he do that. (Like squish Michael Medved) Well, BECAUSE he’s doing it and he may still very well win! He could easily win in 2012 and then LOOK OUT! It’s going get crazy! Pure Communism taking over!
    That’s why, Michael Medved, you milquetoast moderate.

    You are right – I hate those on the squishy right who say “Well, he doesn’t mean any harm to the USA” or “He has good intentions.” Well, guess what the road to Hell is paved with?!? Good intentions, with the help of squishy moderates.

19. #19
    On November 11th, 2011 at 6:33 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Ruh-roh… Heiress Pat Stryker’s hands are all over Funky-Green-Bidness in Colorado:

    http://energy.i2i.org/2011/09/25/abound-solars-connections-to-400-million/

    Abound Solar

    Abound Solar, according to its Web site, “produces next-generation thin-film cadmium telluride solar modules” and “is committed to reducing the cost of solar electricity to levels competitive with fossil fuels.”

    It is the brainchild of former Colorado State University (CSU) Professor W.S. Sampath and two former students Kurt Barth and Al Enzenroth. It began as AVA Solar and then incorporated into Abound in 2007.

    The Web site says it employs 350 people in three Colorado locations. Its Colorado manufacturing plant is located in Weld County, which granted Abound up to $100,000 per year for the next ten years in business property tax rebates. According to sources, the reason for the rebate was job creation intended to benefit Weld County residents. Yet when officials and interested parties ask how many of the 350 jobs have gone to Weld County residents, the solar company does not answer.

    Currently Abound has a manufacturing capacity of 65 megawatts expanding to 850 megawatts – at some point. However, in 2010 it manufactured only 30 megawatts. One wonders, if Abound can produce more, why doesn’t it?

    The Web site does say it is “growing,” and news reports claim the company plans to add anywhere from 850 to 1,000 employees thanks to a $400 million taxpayer-guaranteed loan Abound received in July 2010. The taxpayer cash is so it can expand its manufacturing capabilities to a facility in Tipton, Indiana. The Indiana Economic Development Corporation “extended up to $11.85 million in tax credits and $250,000 in training grants” as well.

    Abound Solar further claims $260 million in private investments, part of which came from billionaire medical heiress Pat Stryker’s Bohemian Companies. This is where the story gets interesting.

    Who’s Pat’s handlers?

20. #20
    On November 11th, 2011 at 7:38 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    Got this email the other day.

    Remember the Cornhusker Kickback?

    Jim DeMint info@nationalteapartyalert.com via bluehornet.com

    Fellow Conservatives:

    About this time two years ago, Democrat U.S. Senator Ben Nelson was working behind closed doors to exchange his vote on ObamaCare for the Cornhusker Kickback. And just one year ago, Ben Nelson was vigorously defending pork-barrel spending as Senate conservatives were forcing Republicans to swear off earmarks.

    Ben Nelson is part of the problem in Washington. It’s critical that freedom-loving Americans work together to replace him with a proven conservative who will fight to repeal the government takeover of our nation’s healthcare system. ObamaCare does not only threatens to bankrupt our country, it will also take away the freedom to make our own healthcare decisions.

    For this reason, I’m proud to announce the next Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF) endorsement for Don Stenberg who is running for the U.S. Senate in Nebraska against Democrat incumbent U.S. Senator Ben Nelson, the author of the infamous Cornhusker Kickback.

    Support Don Stenberg for U.S. Senate

    Pass this around and do what you can to support Don. Nelson sold this country out and needs to pay.

21. #21
    On November 11th, 2011 at 7:55 pm, OneNation said:

    On November 11th, 2011 at 7:38 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    Got this email the other day.

    Remember the Cornhusker Kickback?

    Thanks for the reminder, I just made my donation !

22. #22
    On November 11th, 2011 at 8:14 pm, swede said:

    Marshall_Will said:

    Currently Abound has a manufacturing capacity of 65 megawatts expanding to 850 megawatts – at some point. However, in 2010 it manufactured only 30 megawatts. One wonders, if Abound can produce more, why doesn’t it?

    No, one doesn’t. One looks at demand for a technology that costs 3-4 times present tech and promises a 25 year cost recovery (but can not deliver that) and has an anticipated useful life of only 20 years (also a highly dubious estimate). Hang on, let me get the calculator:

    2 + 2 = 22

    Yup. Sign me up for one. Put me on the DOE loan plan please. $0 down, 100 years at 0% interest – or whenever we get around to it.

23. #23
    On November 11th, 2011 at 8:19 pm, Flyoverman said:

    I predict it will take massive civil disobedience to end this.

    If you do not realize this is the ultimate civil rights issue, give it more thought.

24. #24
    On November 11th, 2011 at 8:20 pm, 123upnorth said:

    Taking captial from an efficient user and using it inefficiently by redistributing it through central planning – yeah, that will work!

25. #25
    On November 11th, 2011 at 9:35 pm, plymouthacclaim said:

    Told. You. So.

26. #26
    On November 11th, 2011 at 9:43 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

    Stryker, the Kalamazoo-based maker of artificial hips and knees, will cut 5% of its global workforce by the end of next year to reduce costs in the face of new fees on device makers required by the U.S. health care law.

    Kathleen “Korruption” Sebelius will no doubt to firing off letters to their execs.

    If that happens, the execs should simply ignore Sebelius.

    In fact, why does any exec even bother communicating with the Obama administration? Obama and his moronic staff should be told by business to shut the hell up and go away.

27. #27
    On November 11th, 2011 at 10:37 pm, rocketman said:

    ***
    HI HAWKEYE54–#16. In all past recessions the U6 statistic number was used for unemployment–not the much kinder and gentler (aka fake) U3 number used now. U6 is at about 18 percent unemployment now–not too far from the Great Depression values in the 20 percent range.
    ***
    Like the old adage says, “Figures can lie–and liars can figure!”. The number that really tells the truth is the 2 million or more workers that are now unemployed–despite the growth in the country’s population in the last 4 years. This number sucks bigtime–as does the number of months the recession (aka Great Depression II) has continued compared to all previous recessions.
    ***
    The American Pravda Media trashed President Bush 43 daily over a 5 percent unemployment rate. Not much out of them now with Comrade Obama’s 9+ U.E. rates. Except for claiming that Bush really screwed it up a lot worse than The Messiah knew. They just want the voters to give the Good Comrade 4 years more so He can really fix it all!
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

28. #28
    On November 11th, 2011 at 11:22 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    I work for a major corporation and we are losing the good coverage we’ve had for the 26 years I’ve been with the company. I must choose between three options, #1 close to what we had, but twice the cost, #2 high deductible, but more than I pay now, #3 high deductible, limited coverage, low cost.

    Thanks, Barry Soetoro, whoever you are!

29. #29
    On November 12th, 2011 at 12:33 am, Ron said:

    Obama, focused like a laser beam on jobs — search and destroy mission, that is. First, via Obamacare, then by energy ignorance. In the latter case, he’s virtually sending oil from Canada to China since he won’t let it come here, thanks to tree hugging wackos.

30. #30
    On November 12th, 2011 at 12:57 am, AmericanGirl30 said:

    Well, maybe this is poetic justice after all; Stryker getting what they deserve for supporting Obama. I’m sure not every one of the unfortunate 1000 was an Obama supporter though.

31. #31
    On November 12th, 2011 at 7:32 am, ThatSamIAm said:

    Instead of saved or created there will be a new category called lost or destroyed by Obama.

32. #32
    On November 12th, 2011 at 8:20 am, old goat said:

    In 2008, Stryker gave $87,500 to the Presidential Inaugural Committee for President-Elect Barack Obama.[5]

    Marshall_Will–thank you for checking into that! Glad to know I’m not completely senile yet. Too bad it wasn’t the head donator losing her money as opposed to the rank and file losing their jobs.

33. #33
    On November 12th, 2011 at 11:11 am, jsr said:

    On November 11th, 2011 at 4:34 pm, LiveFreeOrDie_2011 said:

    I’m still waiting for Obunghole to tell us exactly how he saved $350B by cutting waste, fraud, and abuse from Medicare to help pay for his healthcare monstrosity.

    Me too. In fact I’m still waiting to here about the first billion. Or even the first million. How about even $10,000? No, after more than two years into this there has not been so much as a dollar of savings from eliminating “waste, fraud and abuse” and there won’t be 10 years from now either, if we are around as a nation. The fact is Obamacare IS the waste, fraud and abuse and will either collapse on it’s own or complete the bankruptcy of the nation.

34. #34
    On November 12th, 2011 at 11:20 am, right_on said:

    I’m still waiting yet another knowingly sage comment from Nancy Pelosi. I’m sure it will be something like;

    “We all knew, of course, that many of the wonderful things in the bill would have to be tweaked a little. We had to implement it to see how well it worked.”

    CNBC reporter: So, Madam Pelosi, you’ll be offering affordable insurance to your farm workers in Napa?

    “Oh my goodness, no! My family business was amongst the first to qualify for a waiver. You see, my vineyard is a “not for profit” enterprise. I just needed something legitimate to use for a tax write-off.”

35. #35
    On November 12th, 2011 at 11:30 am, hawkeye54 said:

    . The fact is Obamacare IS the waste, fraud and abuse and will either collapse on it’s own or complete the bankruptcy of the nation.

    “Waste, fraud and abuse” – the motto and standing OP for all too many federal programs now, including medicare and social security.

    Slash federal mandates, policies and bureaucracies by 80% and just maybe we get back to what the nations founders envisioned .

36. #36
    On November 12th, 2011 at 11:32 am, sbw999 said:

    So there’s about 1,000 people who may soon be unemployed but who will still have access to medical treatment, will soon be totally dependent on government handouts just the way these Marxists like them, thanks to Obamacare

37. #37
    On November 12th, 2011 at 12:05 pm, DonkeyHoatie said:

    I’m in the crowd that says that Obama isn’t trying to destroy America. At least, not in his own mind. In our minds and in the study of historic examples, he absolutely is.

    Look at our country as a giant sculpture made out of Lego blocks. Obama despises the current sculpture, and wants to dismantle it and make a new sculpture. His view of “beauty” is something akin to a Picasso or Jackson Pollock, as opposed to the renaissance masterpiece that the founding fathers established. So he dismantles the work, brick by brick, and if some of those bricks get discarded, well, that’s fine because they aren’t really needed in his new sculpture. In his view, a sculpture that is an upside down pyramid is the height of beauty.

    The point he fails to understand is that the more he dismantles “America” and turns it into something else, it ceases to be “America”. He wants to fundamentally transform America, but he can’t grasp that America is America, and to transform it is to make it no longer America, and instead a country patterned after a plethora of failed attempts at centrally controlled socialist states. As such, like all the other socialist states, his new Lego sculpture can’t stand under its own weight and will inevitably collapse.

    These jobs at Stryker and the hundreds of other companies are acceptable casualties of his class and race wars. The owners of every big corporation must be made to suffer, and there will be a few innocents killed in his firebombing of entire industries. Acceptable losses, even if they contributed to his campaign. They were sacrificed in the drive toward his grand vision of a greater good.

    All dictators at some point have to purge undesirable elements from their countries. And they know that friendlies or innocents will be caught up in that purging net, but they are willing to callously accept those losses in order to secure their own designs.

38. #38
    On November 12th, 2011 at 12:43 pm, in_awe said:

    Coming soon, an irate Obama demanding an investigation into shortages of artificial hips and knees.

    He’ll demand:
    - “medical justice” and government oversight of the industry to assure “reasonable” production levels that conform to demand as approved by one (or more) of the 129 new bureaucratic commissions and boards created by Obamacare and
    - prices set by an Ouija board.

39. #39
    On November 12th, 2011 at 9:10 pm, BK said:

    What’s a constitution?

40. #40
    On November 12th, 2011 at 10:44 pm, IndyRich said:

    Those evil corporations! I’m glad we have Obama and a big federal government to protect us from them…..