Stick ’till the end, Grandpa nails the questions:
It’s telling that the grandfather knew the answers to the questions. It make you wonder when schools stopped teaching the basics of history.
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A reminder that elections have consequences:
unemployment rate vs. party that controlls congress
Remember, Liberal Democrats think unemployment checks are the fastest way to stimulate the economy:
And in related news, only 25% of Americans think 2008′s ‘stimulus’ has helped the economy. Via Rasmussen:
Just 25% of voters nationwide believe the economic stimulus package created jobs and voters are counting on decisions made by business owners more than government officials to create the jobs needed by the nation.
Those results come from a Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey conducted the night before release of the government report on job creation in June. That report showed the unemployment rate falling to 9.5% but also showed that just 83,000 private sector jobs were created.
The new survey found that just 29% believe last year’s economic stimulus plan has helped the economy while 43% believe it hurt. Not surprisingly, there is little appetite for another round. By a 69% to 15% margin, voters believe tax cuts is a better way to create jobs rather than more government spending.
Democrats are planning to let the biggest tax increase in American history occur in January 2011. Immediately after the 2010 election.
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham Lincoln
It’s a bit ironic when you think about it. The mostly liberal educational institutes push a college education as the only way to get ahead in the job market while their liberal policies are crushing the economy.
Via the WSJ:
Caitlin Johnson, 23 years old, may soon find herself among them. A 2009 graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. in computer-science and engineering, she said she was unable to land any of the 10 positions she applied for.
So she opted to stay at MIT for her master’s in engineering. Having just finished her first year of the two-year program, Ms. Johnson said she might look for a job at the end of the summer to start after she completes the degree next year. But finding graduate school more appealing and facing a job market that remains weak, she said she would most likely go on to earn her Ph.D.
What does that say about the economy when a engineering graduate from MIT can’t find work.
Aneri Patel, 25, graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007 with an undergraduate degree in international relations. She landed a good job with a consulting firm, but decided to go to the London School of Economics in 2008 to learn more about climate change and be a stronger candidate in the job market. She never imagined how bad the job market would get while she was overseas in graduate school.
Learn more about ‘climate change’?
Climate change is proven fraud and hoax. And the ‘remedy’ to the mythical climate change, green energy, is a proven job killer.