Outlook for Workers is Worst in Decades, Thanks to Obama

by BETSY MCCAUGHEY, PHD

President Obama used his weekly Saturday radio address to mark the 131st anniversary of Labor Day. He swore his "highest priority" is to "reverse forces that have conspired - for decades - against American workers." Yakkity-yak.

Don't believe that demagoguery. The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that workers - especially low-wage workers - are losing ground under Obama.

After 4-1/2 years of the Obama presidency, an unprecedented number of Americans have given up looking for work, wages are stagnating, low-wage earners are suffering most and the U.S. is fast becoming a nation of part-time workers.

• Payroll tax hike: American workers got clobbered on Day 1 of 2013, when the president engineered a "fiscal cliff" agreement with Congress that, among other things, boosted the Social Security payroll tax rate - the amount deducted from a worker's paycheck - from 4.2% to 6.2%. A worker earning $30,000 a year immediately felt the pinch, with $50 a week less in take-home pay.

UN VOTES TO SEIZE JERUSALEM FOR MUSLIMS

 

 

In yet another failure of the Obama Administration's foreign policy, the United Nations General Assembly voted 138 yes, 9 no, and 41 abstain, to divide Jerusalem and seize much of Israel, declaring "Palestine" an independent non-voting member nation. 

Violating international law that forbids taking away land previously given to Israel by the UN in 1948 (and given to Israel by Almighty God before the beginning of time), the only major nations to vote "no" were the USA, Canada, and Israel.  Britain and Germany abstained, while France, Spain, Italy, and Switzerland all voted yes.

Hamas immediately repeated how they do not recognize Israel as a state, ignoring history. Yesterday's vote "was taken on the 65th anniversary of the vote to divide the former British mandate of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab, a vote Israel considers the international seal of approval for its birth," reported the NY Times.
Dr. Chaps' comment:  This proves in 1948 the UN already gave Arabs land called Palestine, which is trans-Jordan.  The Muslims still have that Jordanian land today, so how dare the UN seize more Jewish land?

Our friend Jay Sekulow warned this new declaration will make Israeli citizens vulnerable to lawsuits in the International Criminal Court.  His brother Jordan Sekulow warns of the folly of rewarding Muslims with more land for their recent violence.  "Not only did Arab Palestinians reject the principles laid out for the creation of two states in 1947, while Jewish Palestinians accepted them, Arabs immediately attacked the new Israeli state and there has been a perpetual state of conflict ever since. One need only be reminded of the Palestinian rockets that rained down on Israeli civilians a little over a week ago."
 

Dr. Chaps' comment:  If Israeli citizens can now be tried for crimes, why not prosecute the Muslims that launch rockets from Gazainto Tel Aviv in that same International Criminal Court?  They wanted membership, so let the "Palestinian" Muslims be tried for crimes, in their new International Court.