Obama Era: Price of Gas Has Jumped 83%, Ground Beef 24%, Bacon 22%

AMERICANS POORER UNDER OBAMA We are paying more for food and energy since Obama took office in January 2009. Here is a summary table of a CNSnews report based on consumer price data from Obama’s own Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS):

ITEM JANUARY 2009 DECEMBER 2011 % INCREASE PRICES PRICES Gasoline, one gallon, regular unleaded $1.79 $3.28 83% increase (Gas prices hit a high under Obama in May 2011 at $3.93) Ground beef, one pound $2.36 $2.92 23.7% increase and a new peak Sliced bacon, one pound $3.73 $4.55 22% increase (The price hit a high in September 2011 at $4.82 per pound.) Ice cream, half-gallon $4.44 $5.25 19.1% increase Bread, whole wheat $1.97 $2.07 5.02% increase .

Read full report here.

Obama Killing Real Jobs for Green Utopia

As Heritage indicates, Obama has been very busy “blocking energy-related jobs from reliable and affordable energy sources while handing taxpayer money to producers of unreliable and costly alternative energy whose “green jobs” are a fallacy.” Here are just some examples of Obama’s destructive decisions:
● Obama rejected the permit application for the Keystone XL pipeline:
The project would create thousands of jobs, secure energy supply, and lower energy prices: Building the pipeline would bring over 700,000 barrels of oil per day and directly create 20,000 truly shovel-ready jobs. The Canadian Energy Research Institute estimates that current pipeline operations and the addition of the Keystone XL pipeline would create 179,000 American jobs by 2035.
● Obama is delaying drilling in the Gulf by approving only 35% of the plans instead of the historical average 73.4%: the Obama administration is approving just 35 percent of the oil drilling plans for the Gulf of Mexico so far this year. It is also taking an average of 115 days — nearly four months — to secure approval from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement. Those numbers are a sharp drop from previous years, well below the historical average 73.4 percent approval rate and 61 days it takes to approve plans. ● Obama is delaying a mineral lease sale in Ohio for oil and gas drilling: In mid-November, the Obama Administration delayed a mineral lease sale in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest for oil and gas drilling. Apart for providing Americans access to affordable energy, the project could have had a tremendous impact in the state, including the creation of an estimated 200,000 jobs, an overall wage and personal-income boost of $12 billion by 2015, and a billion-dollar boon to Ohio landowners, schools, businesses, and communities. ● Obama gave a $535 million taxpayer-funded loan guarantee to Solyndra, the solar power company that went bankrupt last summer, leaving about 1,100 people out of work. ● Obama’s other Solyndras: 12 clean energy companies are having trouble after collectively being approved for more than $6.5 billion in federal assistance. ● Obama pushed for oil drilling in Brazil. ● Obama spent $1.6 Billion on Chinese wind turbines & $2 Billion on Brazilian oil. ● Under Obama, oil and gas production on federal lands is down 40%.

Obama’s Economy by the Numbers (Video)

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Ron Paul: We Endlessly Bomb These Other Countries and Then We Wonder Why They Get Upset With Us?

RON PAUL – DEFENDER OF OUR ENEMIES Paul would sound less irrational if he had half the contempt for our enemies as he has for America and conservatives. No one wants war, but we have to protect ourselves from those who want to kill us. Without defense and national security no other political issue (small government, constitution) will matter. If we are all dead, nothing else matters.
Via Weasel Zippers:
	Can you imagine the World Apology Tour a president Ron Paul would embark on?
		Ron Paul found a South Carolina audience highly skeptical of his foreign policy position during Monday’s debate, with scattered boos and jeers drowning out his call for a “golden rule” in American foreign policy. “My point is, that if another country does to us what we do to others, we aren’t going to like it very much. So I would say maybe we ought to consider a golden rule in foreign policy,” Paul said as the crowd laughed and jeered. “We endlessly bomb these other countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?” Paul was heavily criticized by his Republican opponents, who argued his foreign policy would put the country at harm.
That we endlessly bomb these other countries? And our enemies get upset? Just upset!? Ron Paul makes is sound as if we are the Big Bad Wolf and the terrorists are innocent Little Red Riding Hood. The problem with RINO Ron Paul and the Left is that they disregard the fact that terrorists attacked America first and want to annihilate those who don’t submit to their radical ideology. Paul is also wrong in equating America with murderous regimes. We are not beheading reporters, cutting the nose of abused girls and committing other barbarian acts. We are not killing citizens for demanding freedom and democracy, i.e., Iran.

OBAMA SCANDAL: 11 More Solyndras in Obama Energy Program

POLITICAL PAYBACK

Real Clear Politics reports:
	CBS News counted 12 clean energy companies that are having trouble after collectively being approved for more than $6.5 billion in federal assistance. Five have filed for bankruptcy: The junk bond-rated Beacon, Evergreen Solar, SpectraWatt, AES’ subsidiary Eastern Energy and Solyndra. According to CBS News, Beacon Power, a “green energy storage company,” recieved [sic] $43 million from the government.
The Right Scoop explains the gist of the scandal:
	Obama is simply pouring our tax dollars down the ‘clean energy’ crap hole with no regard for whether it is a good investment or not…They only thing missing in this story is how these clean energy CEOs are politically connected to the Obama administration. Just like Solyndra, this smells a lot like political payback and why this isn’t running 24/7…
MORE Here.

RON PAUL IS NO CONSERVATIVE

(We are re-posting this article summary to inform voters who the real Ron Paul is.)
Ron Paul and anti-Semitism, racism, isolationism, far left-wingism and intimidation Summary of the American Spectator’s article exposing Ron Paul’s neo-liberalism: (Emphasis added)
NEOLIBERAL. NOT CONSERVATIVE.
	When it comes to foreign policy, Ron Paul and his supporters are not conservatives. This is important to understand when one realizes that Paul’s views are, self-described, “non-interventionist.” [...] There is no great sin in Paul’s non-interventionist stance (or “isolationist” stance as his critics would have it). There have been American politicians aplenty throughout American history, particularly in the 20th century, who believed precisely as Paul and his enthusiasts do right now. (Paul touts his admiration for the Founding Fathers, but even that is very selective. James Monroe of Monroe Doctrine fame was a considerable interventionist, Washington as a general invaded Canada, and Alexander Hamilton gave rise to Paul’s idea of evil spawn — the Federal Reserve. Interventionists of all types have been with us right from the start.) The deception — and it is a considerable deception — is that almost to a person those prominent pre-Ron Paul non-interventionist “Paulist” politicians of the 20th century were overwhelmingly not conservatives at all. They were men of the left. The far left. From three-time Democratic presidential nominee and Woodrow Wilson Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan to powerful Montana Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler to FDR’s ex-vice presidential nominee Henry Wallace to the 1968 anti-war presidential candidacy of Minnesota Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy to 1972 Democratic presidential nominee (and Henry Wallace delegate in 1948) George McGovern, non-interventionists have held prominent positions in the American Left that was and is the Democratic Party. But of particular interest, and here is where the deception by Paulists is so considerable, the Ron Paul view of foreign policy has been the cornerstone of Republican liberals and progressives. Those who, using current political terminology, would be called the RINOs (Republican In Name Only) of their day. [...] …Ron Paul, as noted, has deservedly developed a reputation for fiscal conservatism. Just as all of those Liberal Republicans from days long gone by were able to run and get elected as Republicans by developing enough of a conservative reputation for something seen as the conservative position in the time — support for a tariff here or a government reform over there. All the while carrying the liberal flag for Bryan’s left-wing Populism or Wilson’s Progressive New Freedom or FDR’s New Deal. So if Ron Paul is conservative on domestic issues, but of a like mind with liberal non-interventionists of both parties, what precisely is Ron Paul? The right term is certainly not conservative. …Liberal Republican LaFollette Sr. and liberal Democrat Senator Wheeler even teamed up to run on the Progressive Party presidential ticket in 1924, supported by no less than the Socialist Party. The proper term for Paul and his followers, then, would take into account this political half horse/half man philosophical creativity. Conservative on domestic policy, a staunch advocate of historically liberal views on foreign policy. Ron Paul is what might be called a “Neo-Liberal.” Or even a “Quasi-Conservative.” [...] …[H]istory shows non-interventionists have been historically incapable of resisting what they clearly see as the next step after making the non-interventionist case. That next step? Finding someone to blame for the calls to intervene in this or that war or international situation. And right here is where Paul and his neolibs, in the style of his neolib predecessors, begin going off the rails.
BLAMING THE JEWS
	Disturbingly, the history of Neoliberalism is replete with charges of anti-Semitism. While this is a charge in today’s political dialogue that has been thrown repeatedly at Paul and his neolib followers…It is a charge that appears to be inevitable when the core premise of non-interventionism is that some dark force somewhere is pushing America into an unconstitutional interventionist war. All too often that dark force for the Neoliberals turns out to be the scapegoat of hard-leftists everywhere in the world: the Jews. A story from history. Before Pearl Harbor, as the war in America over going to war in Europe raged, the once fierce opposition by the American people to taking on Hitler and the Nazis began to change as Hitler’s relentless march through Europe picked up speed. This opposition also began to change in Hollywood, and soon a small raft of anti-Hitler, anti-Nazi films began to appear. These included Confessions of a Nazi Spy starring Edward G. Robinson (1939), Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 Foreign Correspondent and, hilariously, Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator (1940). Neolibs were furious. Senator Gerald Nye, the liberal Republican non-interventionist, took to the radio airwaves in August 1941 to accuse Hollywood studios of serving as “gigantic engines of propaganda… to influence public sentiment in the direction of participation by the United States in the present European war.” The speech, take note, was mostly written for Nye by one John T. Flynn, a former editor of the progressive New Republic magazine. [...] Nye also did something else in that radio address written by John Flynn. One by one he read out the names of the heads of these Hollywood studios — names which, as he used particularly scathing or sarcastic tones to pronounce them — were unmistakably taken by his audience to be Jewish names. [...] Meaning, of course, the men responsible for these films were Jews. Literally before the day was out Nye had a resolution on the Senate floor demanding an investigation of Hollywood studios. In little over a month — September 9, 1941 — the liberal Democrat non-interventionist Senator Wheeler had ginned up that Senate investigation and it was opened for business…The witnesses against the three? That would include Senator Nye himself — and John T. Flynn.[...] What does this old history have to do with what might be called the dark side of the Paul campaign? In his book The Revolution: A Manifesto, Congressman Paul includes at the end a section called “A Reading List for a Free and Prosperous America.” And on that recommended reading list? Here’s the entry, in full: Flynn, John T. As We Go Marching. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1944. Flynn, an accomplished journalist, analyzes fascism in Italy and Germany and concludes by considering the state of America in his day. That’s right. Congressman Paul is recommending the writings of a man who, in his day, was seen as a driving force behind the anti-Semitic liberal Republican Senator Nye and the Senate investigation into Jewish influence in Hollywood. Take a look at this CNN video, featuring Congressman Paul, Texas Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and Ben Stein…The discussion, about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (the so-called “Underwear bomber” accused of trying to blow up a plane over Detroit) quickly draws a charge of anti-Semitism from Stein, which causes Paul to erupt and demand an apology, which was not forthcoming. [...] Stein is not alone. This issue of a connection between Paul or those around him and anti-Semitism has been hotly discussed by all manner of well-respected conservatives. From David Horowitz (here) to Commentary‘s John Podhoretz to Andrew Walden at The American Thinker… The too-cute-by-half cleverness in this current argument over the newest appearance of anti-Semitism as an anchor of Neoliberal philosophy is the use of the term “neoconservative” as a euphemism for “Jew.” [...] …[A] Paul supporter like Newark Star Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine repeatedly zeroes in on conservative talk radio host Mark Levin, always dismissing the Jewish Mr. Levin as a neocon… In historical fact, self-identified “neoconservatives” hold beliefs that are both straightforward and have nothing whatsoever to do with being Jewish. The core of the neoconservative belief is the use of American economic and military strength to topple a foreign enemy in favor of a liberal democracy. One can agree or disagree — but the concept is both an old one in American history and utterly un-related to either Jews or neocons. Washington had Canada invaded. He wasn’t Jewish.
HATING CONSERVATIVES
	But anti-Semitism aside, perhaps the real key to understanding the decided left-leaning tendencies of neoliberals is their considerable dislike of… Conservatives You read that right. Here are the views of various prominent Paul supporters about some conservatives you may be familiar with. • Ronald Reagan: Here the late Paulist Murray Rothbard labels the conservative presidential icon as a “cretin,” Reagan’s two-terms in office described as “eight dreary, miserable, mind-numbing years.” [http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard60.html] • William F. Buckley, Jr.: The man who became the very gold standard of the American conservative movement is viewed as a “defacto totalitarian” here, again in another Rothbard selection from ex-Paul chief of staff Lew Rockwell’s site, a site for which Paul himself has written. [http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard6.html" target="_blank] • Antonin Scalia: Justice Scalia is not only no conservative in Paulville, he is — sitting down? — “a reliable supporter of presidential dictatorship, the police state, the torture-warfare state, and the empire.” This gem was penned by ex-Paul chief of staff Rockwell himself. • Sarah Palin: That’s right. This business of Sarah Palin being a conservative, according to Rockwell, is just a ruse. In fact, Governor Palin is really a “double agent” for the “regime.” From the same article as above. Oh yes… don’t forget Governor Palin is quite possibly a “puppet” (as seen here by Jack Hunter, now the Paul campaign’s “official blogger”). Oh, and Mr. Mulshine, the Paulist columnist? To him Palin is “just another whiny liberal claiming victimization.” [http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2010/03/the_most_comprehensive_analysi.html" target="_blank] • Edwin Meese: The former Reagan Attorney General beloved of conservative activists is described in Paulville as the “mouthpiece” for fascists [http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/76465.html" target="_blank] • The Koch Brothers: The fascists for whom Ed Meese is the fascist mouthpiece? That would be the libertarian Koch brothers who, apparently, aren’t libertarian at all in the eyes of Paulville. In Paulville, libertarian conservatives David and Charles Koch are said to be supporters of a “fascist regime.” Same post as above. It is surely no coincidence that the Koch brothers were targeted earlier this year by the far-left hacking group Anonymous. As seen in this Politico story. Once again, the right/left neoliberal profile surfaces. [http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0211/Anonymous_takes_down_Americans_for_Prosperity_website.html?showall" target="_blank] • Clarence Thomas: Dubbed part of a fascist “tag team” by Paul supporters. Why? Because Justice Thomas, along with fellow Justice Scalia, spoke at that gathering sponsored by those fascist Koch brothers. Where Ed Meese was covering as the mouthpiece for the fascists. • Rush Limbaugh: Rush? Rush Limbaugh? That Rush Limbaugh isn’t a conservative? Nope. Not in Paulville. In the eyes of Paulvillians the Rush Limbaugh so many millions of conservatives thought they knew and loved turns out to be a man with “Stalinist tendencies” — aka a commie. Read all about it here. [http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/93045.html" target="_blank] • Sean Hannity: So OK, understanding that Sarah Palin is a double agent and a puppet and Rush is pulsing with Stalinist tendencies, surely Sean Hannity — conservative talk show and TV host extraordinaire, author of the bestselling Conservative Victory — surely Sean is a real conservative? Naaaaaaaaah. Not in Paulville. There our friend Sean is — no kidding — “evil” That’s right. You read that right. Hannity is, quite seriously in the minds (?) of Paulville’s neolibs, part of the “pantheon of warmongers that make up the true axis of evil.” Once that is understood, this video of Ron Paul supporters literally chasing Hannity through the streets of New Hampshire in 2008 can be seen for the leftist intimidation it was intended to be. The fact that the video of Paul supporters chasing Hannity so closely matches this video of Wisconsin leftists chasing and trapping a Wisconsin Republican legislator is a chilling reminder of the commonality of the protestors involved. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5rJI5e0jBU] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cx77K8e3WE] • Mark Levin: Come on. So he wrote the bestselling conservative manifesto Liberty and Tyranny. So Michele Bachmann has called Levin an inspiration to the Tea Party. So Tea Party members were waving the book in the air at their rallies. So what? Levin’s no conservative in Paulville. Levin’s… you know… wink wink… one of them. • The Cato Institute: The Cato Institute? The premiere libertarian think tank in America under attack in Paulville? No way! Yup. Here. [http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo129.html" target="_blank] There’s more — much more than we have room for here. The Ron Paul campaign’s “official blogger” Jack Hunter hates Lincoln but can’t find his tongue with Confederate president Jefferson Davis suspending habeas corpus or 100% of the civil liberties of blacks — aka slavery. Then there’s Thomas J. DiLorenzo, whose arguments are recommended reading by Ron Paul. Here’s Mr. DiLorenzo on Amazon. The Ron Paul campaign is really about re-educating America to what can only be called Neoliberalism. Which, based on the evidence and writings of its supporters, appears to be a thin gruel of free markets and non-interventionism seasoned heavily with anti-Semitism, morally obtuse Neo-Confederates, and an outspoken contempt for both conservatism and conservative leaders past and present. [...] They simply aren’t conservatives.
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Allawi: Obama Was Wrong – Iraq Is Not Stable (Video)

ANOTHER OBAMA FAILURE (Click image for video)
Via NewsBusters
	Iraq’s former interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Sunday that President  Obama was wrong when he claimed the United States left Iraq as a stable and  democratic country. Appearing on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, Allawi said, “It’s neither  stable nor democratic, frankly speaking. The terrorists are hitting again very  severely. Al Qaeda is fully operational now in Iraq” [...] When Zakaria asked if Iran is playing an increasing role in the politics of Iraq, Allawi said, “Definitely, we can see this very clearly. We have seen it after the elections immediately when Iran used its influence and dictated what kind of government there should be in Iraq. They put a red-line against me and against the Iraqi here, and unfortunately the United States went along with what Iran desired.” [...]

Ron Paul Wants us to Befriend our Enemies

PAUL’S SELECTIVE MYOPIA On November 06, 2011, Ron Paul was asked by Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday about Iran’s nuclear threat: WALLACE: So, how are we going to persuade them [the Iranian govt.] not to pursue a nuclear weapon? PAUL: Well, maybe offering friendship to them. Befriend those who want to kill us? Has Ron Paul forgotten how reporter Daniel Pearl was decapitated by Islamic terrorists while trying to do his job?
Reporter Daniel Pearl, 38, was beheaded and mulilated by Islamic terrorists in 2002. In 2007, KSM (Khalid Sheik Mohammed), the self-described mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, confessed killing Pearl.
Via The American Spectator:
	If President Obama deals with world leaders by bowing to them, President Paul might very well fall to his knees. If President Obama’s foreign policy legacy is one of apology, then President Paul’s foreign policy legacy would be one of submission. Whether Ron Paul likes it or not, the United States is the most powerful nation in the world and he would be foolish to accelerate President Obama’s policy of frittering it away. Ron Paul and President Obama actually possess a great deal in common in foreign policy especially where it concerns Iran. [In November 2011], during an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace asked Paul how he would persuade Iran not to build a nuclear weapon. He replied, “Well, maybe offering friendship to them. I mean, didn’t we talk to the Soviets, didn’t we talk to the Chinese?” [...] What both Obama failed to recognize then and what Paul fails to recognize now is that President Reagan talked with Mikhail Gorbachev, not with Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, or Konstantin Chernenko. Gorbachev was a genuine reformer who brought about glasnost and perestroika. It gave Reagan an opening and he seized it. There is no such opening in Islamic Republic of Iran. The last thing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs want for Iran are openness and restructuring. As for extending a hand of friendship to Iran, I’m not sure what makes Paul think that Iran would welcome his overtures any more than it did Obama’s. Remember hot dog diplomacy? Back in June 2009, the Obama Administration made an ill-advised attempt for U.S. embassies to invite Iranian diplomats for Fourth of July celebrations. Of course, these invitations were extended prior to the Iranian “elections,” which resulted in massive bloodshed and violence when Iran’s populace disputed the results.
Of course, it also helped that Reagan ordered a massive military buildup and did everything he could to bring down the Soviet Union. RELATED - Iran 2009: Ahmadinejad murdering protesters

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