In the annual Economic Report of the President released Thursday, the White House Council of Economic Advisers projected employers will add an average of 95,000 jobs a month this year, 190,000 in 2011 and 251,000 in 2012, assuming a jobs package of around $100 billion. Wall Street journal

$100 Billion for an estimated 536,000 total jobs. In effect this means that the government would be paying $90 million to create each job. Why not just give each of the 536,000 a $1 million and save the tax payer some money? So the cost of creating just one of these jobs is going to bigger then most large corporations. This same council of advisors were surprised by the 10% increase in unemployment.

“The usual relationship between G.D.P. growth and the unemployment rate has broken down somewhat,” Ms. Romer, who is on leave from the University of California, Berkeley, told reporters at the White House. “The unemployment rate has risen much more than one would have predicted.” New York Times

This can only mean that these body of advisors are really just reading the tea leaves and then conferring with an oracle to come up with their answers. Any business run like this would get a new set of advisors. By citing the $100 billion job bail out package, these same market augurs assume that another stimulus would help when so much has yet to do anything.

Additionally the Democrats find themselves now in charge. The ghost of George Bush a little over a year gone. Where once they were the underdog, the beleaguered and forgotten warriors in Washington, but now they are the The Man. The economy is theirs, they own the majority, and yet somehow even they cannot agree on what to do nor how to do it. They own the majority, and if majority rules then there should be no stopping them. Unless, of course they are concerned about their public appearance, and the economy is not helping their causes. The real world has come crashing down upon their socialist leanings.

This union funds itself with tax payer dollars, by siphoning from the same subsidy. So in effect the government is paying for the union. A little like paying for votes. The money trail goes further with roots to even the SEIU, but it all appears to be a scheme to link workers into a larger union. Thereby tapping a large network of paid voters for certain political causes. Control wages…control the votes. The government, state and federal, can then pit rich vs poor, boss vs employee. Even Obama believes that unions are the way for the middle class to succeed.

Back in March of 2009, President Obama thanked unions for pushing his economic stimulus plan. He addressed the AFL-CIO where he said,

“I do not view the labor movement as part of the problem,” he adds. “To me, and to my administration, labor unions are a big part of the solution. We need to level the playing field for workers and the unions that represent their interests – because we cannot have a strong middle class without a strong labor movement.” Boston.com

So while millions are without jobs, union bosses still work. The government’s plan is clear; by dividing the people along economic lines they will divide the people between the rich and the poor. Instead of seeing our country as a fair system under which ‘everyone’ has equal rights, they see it as the numerically superior poor tyrannizing over the rich. They view our democratic society like a company: where all shareholders have an equal say regardless of the scale of their holding; one share or ten thousand, it makes no difference

He also declared:

“I’ll be out there waging a great campaign from one end of the country to the other, telling Americans with insurance or without what they stand to gain,” Washington Post

Might was well tell America to eat cake. This is as good as it gets to admitting that the Health Care reform is not a popular move. The polls even support that Americans would urge their Congressional Representatives to vote against Health Care Reform. Too bad it’s too late for that. There would be some that would claim that 48% to 46% is not a clear majority, and yet the Democrats cling to slim majority themselves. The real question on American’s minds is twofold. First will elections throughout 2010 show the continuing displeasure and vote Democrat candidates out of office and will the public vote in candidates that will repeal these laws.

As Obama continues his march to the precipice, blind to the plights of Americans in favor of a personal, hidden agenda, he faces a polarized nation that he created. His performance polls are dropping. With half of all Americans loosing the mythical hope he doled out. They are coming around to the fact that the President has not succeeded on making good his campaign promises, in fact the President has accomplished nothing in his first year. Olympics, fail. Health Care Reform in first year…fail. Cap and Trade….fail. Creating Jobs….Fail. Ending the war in Iraq….fail. Those are just the major ones. Yet he did win the Nobel Prize, so good for him. How it helps the 10% without jobs we have no idea yet. Furthermore polls suggest that only a small majority now think he will make the right decisions for the country (Washington Post)

Obama is failing as an Executive. Failing in that he alone is the one that is supposed to make the government work regardless of partisan pressure. He has only succeeded in dividing us.

The partisan gap is bigger than any that Presidents Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush or Ronald Reagan ever faced among the general public. It’s about on par with divergent ratings of George W. Bush across his second term. Washington Post

Currenlty 11,000 Americans have diead from H1N1 infections. The loss of one human life is certainly something to abhor but is it worth risking more lives on an untested, hastily developed vaccine. As comparison in the 1990s the military was heavily ridiculed for its implementation of the Anthrax vaccine. While many that supported the use of the untested, controversial vaccine it was later proven to have adverse effects. Even at the start there1,544 adverse events were reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), 76 of these events (5%, 0.004% of total doses) were serious (”results in death, hospitalization, or permanent disability or is life-threatening”). Regardless of the dangers a congressionally directed study by the Institute of Medicine (part of the National Academy of Sciences) concluded that anthrax vaccine is as safe as other vaccines. Even still it was later determined that the military did not inform Congress of 200,000 hospitalizations due to the vaccine.

Another comparison is to look at the CDC’s report on seasonal Influenza. By its own report it says 36,000 deaths are casued by seasonal flu and in some years it was as high as 52,000. As the winter moves along and the world seems undisturbed by the raging pandemic of Swine Flu, one has to wonder what the emergency was about?

“We think we’ve done a great job for all working Americans out there and that includes union members,” Mr. Trumka said. Wall Street Journal

The job benefits only Americans that are part of the Union. The Senate included a tax for high priced “Cadillac” plans, and the unions got angry. Though Unions will not released how much their health care plans cost, it is obvious by this move that it must be quite a bit. It also shows how out of touch the White House is now.

“I know how big a lift this has been. I see the polls,” Mr. Obama said.

Obama either is admitting to the fact that his liberal, discriminatory position on issues has turned the nation against him or that he does not recognize the upheaval that Americans are coming to. Recent polls show that Obama’s approval ratings are dropping….fast. His approval rating is the lowest for a president since Dwight Eisenhower. Ronald Reagan, who also took office during bad economic times, began his second year in office with a lower approval score (49%). Obama’s rating is slightly higher than Reagan’s was (44% vs. 40%).

Salt is sometimes linked to increase blood pressure, and other heart related maladies, but there are some types of salt that are good for you such as sea salt. The operation even has a name. The National Salt Reduction Initiative.

During a private White House meeting with about one dozen labor leaders on Monday, President Obama reiterated his commitment to include an excise tax on high-cost insurance plans in a final health reform bill, but a senior administration official said that the president is willing to amend the proposal to “make this work for working families,” the New York Times reports

An excise tax was included in the Senate health reform bill (HR 3590) but was left out of the House bill (HR 3962). In the Senate bill, high priced plans that cost upward of $8,500 for an individual and $23,000 for a family would be subject to a 40% tax. In addition, the House bill adds a surtax on individuals whose annual incomes are greater than $500,000 and couples whose annual incomes are above $1 million to help fund health care reform efforts.

This caused unions to go to the President and demand a change that would exempt them. It seems the President is listening to his constiuents.

The Iranian government has blamed the bombing on an opposition group supported by Israel and the U.S. Iran has accused both countries of meddling in its affairs. Both the US and Israel’s foreign ministry had no comment.

The prominent professor was not a political figure and had no activity in the field of politics,” Mehr quoted Ali Moqari, head of the university’s science department, as saying. Houston Chronicle