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Medicaid
and Medicare Enrollees Now Outnumber
Full-Time Private Sector Workers By Terence P. Jeffrey
The combined number of people enrolled
in Medicaid and Medicare--the government health-care programs for the poor,
disabled and elderly--now exceeds the number of full-time private sector
workers in the United States. In 2011, according to the Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services (CMS), there were 70.4 million people who enrolled in
Medicaid for at least one month. There were also 48.849 million people enrolled
in Medicare. That gave Medicaid and Medicare a gross combined enrollment of
119.249 million in 2011. At the same
time, according to the Bureau
of Labor Statistics, 112,556,000 people worked full-time in the United
States in 2011. Of these 112,556,000 full-time workers, 17,806,000 worked for
government (at the federal, state or local level) and 94,750,000 worked for the
private sector.
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American
Crossroads video shows Obama misled public on Benghazi
There’s
no doubt that CNN’s Candy Crowley did Barack Obama a huge favor by supporting
his false “act of terror” narrative during the second presidential debate.
Imagine if Obama had been forced to concede the truth right on that stage, in
front of 65 million viewers. It would have crushed him; the election would be
essentially over. The ripple effect through his dejected supporters and media
boosters would have been devastating. And it’s not hard to see that Mitt Romney
was a bit stunned by the moderator’s eager willingness to back up Obama’s lies.
It threw him off his game, and gave the press fuel to describe the encounter as
a draw, or even narrow Obama victory. Watch
here
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Left
Dementia: Chris Matthews Says Paul Ryan’s Pro-Life Views Are ‘Almost Like
Sharia Law’ Watch
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US
Relied on Firm Using Unarmed Guards for Diplomatic Security in Libya
The
State Department's decision to hire Blue Mountain Group to guard the ill-fated
U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, entrusted security tasks to a little-known British company instead of
the large firms it usually uses in overseas danger zones. The contract was largely based on expediency,
U.S. officials have said, since no one knew how long the temporary mission
would remain in the Libyan city. The cradle of last year's uprising that ended
Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule, Benghazi has been plagued by rising violence in
recent months. Security practices at the
diplomatic compound, where Blue Mountain guards patrolled with flashlights and
batons instead of guns, have come under U.S. government scrutiny in the wake of
the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher
Stevens and three other Americans. State Department security officials had their own concerns about some of the
guards at the mission months before the recent attack, according to emails
obtained by Reuters this week. One guard who had been recently fired and
another on the company's payroll were suspected of throwing a homemade bomb
into the U.S. compound in April. They were questioned but not charged. The
State Department has declined to comment on the company other than confirming
it was the contractor in Benghazi. Several of Blue Mountain's Libyan employees
told Reuters that they had no prior security training or experience. "I was never a revolutionary or a
fighter, I have never picked up a weapon during the war or after it," said
Abdelaziz al-Majbiri, 28, who was shot in the legs during the Sept. 11 assault.
The Libyan commander in charge of the local guards at the mission was a former
English teacher who said he heard about Blue Mountain from a neighbor. "I don't have a background in security, I've
never held a gun in my life," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity
out of fear for his safety
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Graham:
Obama Should Have Known Benghazi Was 'A Death Trap' By Greg McDonald
Sen.
Lindsey Graham sought Wednesday to increase the pressure on President Barack
Obama by suggesting he should have known the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya,
was "a death trap" before the Sept. 11 attack that left four
Americans dead. Graham, who wrote a
letter to Obama on Tuesday demanding information about two previous attacks on
the consulate, told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren the president should have
known "that Benghazi was deteriorating over time" and was "a
death trap for Americans" before U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three
others were killed. "We were really
the last flag flying in Benghazi. It was almost inevitable the consulate would
be attacked. Everybody else had left," the South Carolina Republican
said, referring to the Red Cross pulling out and the British consulate closing
because it had been attacked once before.
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Why
the Sudden Swing in the Polls to Romney? by Gary DeMar
A
lot of voters have not been following the presidential election. As the
election nears, more people are beginning to pay attention. Those of you who
read articles on this site know all the issues. A majority of American voters
don’t. Now that they’re paying attention, they need a way to make their
decision. The so-called undecided voters
are shifting to Romney because they see other people shifting to Romney. They
now believe it’s OK to vote against President Obama and not be thought of as a
racist. They feel comfortable following
the pack. There is also safety in
numbers. We are seeing notable
people stepping in for Romney; popular public figures, Hollywood, women and
others. People are tired
listening to Obama’s blame shifting on the economy and his lame attempts to fix
the economy by throwing their money at companies that only squander it. They’re
fed up with the notion that if they disagree with an Obama policy, they are by
definition a racist. They don’t like being lied to. Everybody knows that a
never-seen film was NOT the reason our embassies were attacked and four
Americans died.
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Jobless
Claims Skyrocket 46K To 388K by
Tim Brown
While the September employment numbers were being
manipulated, along with the previous two months’ numbers, something else was on
the horizon. The weekly jobs claims skyrocketed from 46,000 last week to a
“seasonally adjusted” 388,000. This is the highest number of applications
submitted for unemployment benefits in four months. So I suppose that little failure to
count the unemployment numbers correctly from California mixed up the numbers
just in time for an October surprise, but the administration wasn’t counting on
it coming back to bite them in the middle of October with a nearly 50K increase
in jobless claims.
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Rumsfeld:
Blame for Benghazi 'Does Stop' With Obama By: Greg
McDonald
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dismissed
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's claim Monday of responsibility for the
Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, saying blame for the
security failure in Libya "does stop" with President Barack Obama.
"It does stop with the president, which she is not," Rumsfeld told
Fox News' Sean Hannity Monday night. "On the other hand, the buck with
respect to providing security is certainly within her area of responsibility,
and it was a failure." Rumsfeld was referring to Clinton's statement in
which she claimed "responsibility" for the failure to defend against
the assault that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other
Americans. Rumsfeld said Clinton's
statement that the blame should go no further than her office does not dismiss
"responsibility for the way the White House has tried to cover this up
and to manage it in a way that suggested that at first . . . it was a YouTube
[video], that it was not anything to do with 9/11, that it was not anything to
do with a planned attack with heavy weapons.
"I think the responsibility for that, as well as the responsibility
for the secretary of state not providing appropriate security, does, in fact,
fall to the president," he added.
Rumsfeld said the security failure in Benghazi was
indicative of what he described as other failures of administration foreign
policy, ranging from unfinished trade agreements with Latin American countries
to the lack of a status of forces agreement with Iraq. "Can you imagine?"
Rumsfeld asked, saying the president's decision to continue with his
campaigning rather than focusing immediately on responding to the attack
"suggests that that was his priority." "He, obviously, was dismissive of the
fact that four Americans had been killed and we'd seen what obviously was a
terrorist attack," Rumsfeld said.
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Obama:
‘When Four Americans Get Killed, It’s Not Optimal’
President Barack Obama, during an interview shown on
Comedy Central, has responded to a question about his administration's confused
communication after the Benghazi attack, by saying: 'If four Americans get
killed, it’s not optimal.' Obama was speaking to Jon Stewart of The Daily Show
for a program that was broadcast last night. Stewart, a liberal whose young
audience is full of potential voters prized by the Obama campaign, asked the
president about his handling of the aftermath of the Benghazi attack. But Obama's
response sparked outrage among Republican commentators including the website
Breitbart and prompted a vicious backlash from the Twitter community.
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Mom
of Slain Diplomat: 'My Son Is Not Very Optimal — He Is Very Dead' By Todd Beamon
The mother of one of four Americans killed in the
Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya lashed out at President Barack
Obama on Friday for saying the attack was “not optimal.” “My son is not very optimal. He is also very
dead,” Patricia Smith, 72, the mother of Sean Smith, told the Daily Mail. “It
was a disrespectful thing to say, and I don't think it’s right. “How can you
say somebody being killed is not very optimal? I don't think the President has
the right idea of the English language,” she said.
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Media
silent on torture of Christian children
The West sighed in relief when Rimsha Masih, the
14-year-old Christian girl arrested in Pakistan on August 16 for allegedly
burning pages of the Quran, was finally released. Yet the West remains
clueless concerning the graphic abuses—including rape and murder—Christian
children in Pakistan routinely suffer, simply for being Christian.
Consider two stories alone, both of which occurred at the same time Rimsha’s
blasphemy ordeal was making headlines around the world. On August 14, another Christian girl,
12-year-old Muqadas Kainat (which means “Holy Universe”) was ambushed in a
field near her home in Sahawil by five Muslim men who “gang raped and murdered”
her. At the time, her father was at a hospital visiting her sick
mother. He and other family members began a frantic search, until a tip
led them to the field where his daughter’s body lay. The postmortem
revealed that she had been “gang raped and later strangled to death by five
men.” Police, as usual, did not arrest anyone. As a Salem News
report puts it, “Complicating matters is the fact that several Christian girls
in this remote area have been raped and forced to both marry into the Muslim
community and abandon their own religion, human rights groups report. …
[T]here is a history in this part of Pakistan according to the Christian
community, of local authorities failing to investigate cases of rape or other
violence against Christians, often for fear of influential Muslims or
militants.”
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Romney
Takes Lead In Electoral College for First Time
Mitt Romney took his first lead in electoral college
predictions this week according to Real Clear Politics, with a 206 to 201 advantage and 151
electoral votes left as toss-ups. As polls have tightened since the first
debate between Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack
Obama, analysts have altered their estimates and predictions to match who
Americans say they plan to vote for. RCP averages several state polls and,
depending on the size of a candidate’s lead and changes in poll numbers over
time, determines which states appear to be likely wins or are leaning that way
for a candidate. Of states polling solidly for one candidate or the other, RCP
gives 13 to Romney, totalling 76 electoral votes, and 10 go to Obama, with a
total of 142 votes. The toss-up
states, RCP said, are: Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Hampshire,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Colorado, and Nevada.
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CIA found militant links a day after Libya attack
WASHINGTON (AP) - The CIA station chief in Libya
reported to Washington within 24 hours of last month's deadly attack on the
U.S. Consulate that there was evidence it was carried out by militants, not a
spontaneous mob upset about an American-made video ridiculing Islam's Prophet
Muhammad, U.S. officials have told The Associated Press. It is unclear who,
if anyone, saw the cable outside the CIA at that point and how high up in the
agency the information went. The Obama administration maintained publicly for a
week that the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi that killed U.S.
Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans was a result of the mobs
that staged less-deadly protests across the Muslim world around the 11th
anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks on the U.S. Those statements have become
highly charged political fodder as the presidential election approaches. A
Republican-led House committee questioned State Department officials for hours
about what GOP lawmakers said was lax security at the consulate, given the
growth of extremist Islamic militants in North Africa.
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President
Obama’s Taxpayer-Backed Green Energy Failures
The
complete list of faltering or bankrupt green-energy companies:
- Evergreen Solar ($25 million)*
- SpectraWatt ($500,000)*
- Solyndra ($535 million)*
- Beacon Power ($43 million)*
- Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million)
- SunPower ($1.2 billion)
- First Solar ($1.46 billion)
- Babcock and Brown ($178 million)
- EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)*
- Amonix ($5.9 million)
- Fisker Automotive ($529 million)
- Abound Solar ($400 million)*
- A123 Systems ($279 million)*
- Willard and Kelsey Solar Group ($700,981)*
- Johnson Controls ($299 million)
- Schneider Electric ($86 million)
- Brightsource ($1.6 billion)
- ECOtality ($126.2 million)
- Raser Technologies ($33 million)*
- Energy Conversion Devices ($13.3 million)*
- Mountain Plaza, Inc. ($2 million)*
- Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Company ($10 million)*
- Range Fuels ($80 million)*
- Thompson River Power ($6.5 million)*
- Stirling Energy Systems ($7 million)*
- Azure Dynamics ($5.4 million)*
- GreenVolts ($500,000)
- Vestas ($50 million)
- LG Chem’s subsidiary Compact Power ($151 million)
- Nordic Windpower ($16 million)*
- Navistar ($39 million)
- Satcon ($3 million)*
- Konarka Technologies Inc. ($20 million)*
- Mascoma Corp. ($100 million)
*Denotes
companies that have filed for bankruptcy.
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