Paul Ryan hammers Obama on shady auto bailout pension deal at Ohio rally
Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan slammed President Barack Obama for the Auto Task Forces treatment of nonunion workers who saw their pensions slashed by 70 percent, while their union coworkers lost no funds thanks to a $1 billion top-off by GM, during a rally in Sabina, Ohio, on Saturday.
The president likes to go around Ohio talking about how he saved the auto industry, how the auto bailout was such a success. Tell you what: He hasnt talked to these Oak Creek salaried employees, he hasnt talked to these Ohio Delphi salaried employees, because this is one of those examples of the government picking winners and losers, Ryan said.
Ryan took the stage after personally meeting with nine Delphi retirees. One of those retirees was Dayton resident Tom Rose, who spent 39 years with GM and Delphi as an engineer; it would have been an even 40 had he not taken a break to serve in Vietnam in 1971. Rose has seen his healthcare costs triple after losing his company medical coverage. He shared his story with Ryan in a 30-minute meeting held before the Sabina speech.
What we tried to convey was extreme frustration we feel with all of the delays from the administration; he committed to helping fix this issue, to get information about what really happened, he said, adding, to have 30 minutes with a vice presidential candidate 10 days before the election was an honor.
There are few members of Congress more familiar with Delphis plight than Rep. Ryan (R., Wisc.). The company shuttered two factories in his Wisconsin district during its five-year bankruptcy, which ended with the auto bailout in 2010.
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The U.S. Labor Department on Monday said it hasn't made a decision yet on whether to delay Friday's October jobs report, the final reading on the labor market before next week's federal elections.
A Labor official said the agency will assess the schedule for all its data releases this week when the "weather emergency" is over.
Labor is scheduled to release the employment report on Friday, third quarter employment costs on Wednesday and weekly jobless claims on Thursday.
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You bet your arse they would, even before California turned in their numbers. The only possible answer is that the numbers stink to high hell.
And I'm just waiting for the Admin to "delay" the election because of Sandy.
Prolly take at least a year to get those areas cleaned up and ready for the election.
And yes, I know people who still vote based on an editorial by a local newspaper. Probably some like that in Iowa.
As far as newspaper endorsements are concerned, Mitt Romney made a clean sweep in Iowa: all four major newspapers, including the state's largest paper, The Des Moines Register, backed Mitt Romney.
The Register's editorial board said it engaged in a "vigorous debate" over whom to endorse this election. Ultimately, the newspaper that hasn't backed a Republican since Richard Nixon in 1972, decided to throw its weight behind the Republican nominee. ...
Newspapers elsewhere also threw their support behind the president this weekend. The Detroit Free Press editorial board called Mr. Obama's record "stunning." They pointed to the auto bailout, the Affordable Care Act health care law and the end of the war in Iraq and the near end of the war in Afghanistan.
Oh, that's not the headline at the story but rather my interpretation.
President Obama isn't just getting ripped by conservatives -- he's also taking heat from the left.
Filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick criticize Obama's presidency in a forthcoming book called The Untold History of the United States, saying he has too often mimicked Republican predecessor George W. Bush.
We wish...
"The country Obama inherited was indeed in shambles, but Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse," write Stone and Kuznick, reports Politico. "Rather than repudiating the policies of Bush and his predecessors, Obama has perpetuated them."
On Wall Street reform: "The biggest winner under Obama was Wall Street."
And Dave Jon Corzine. Obama and Corzine, Corzine and Obama. I'm just doing that for Google search...
On health care: "Obama's failure to articulate a progressive vision was also apparent in the fight over health reform, which was to have been his signature initiative...Obama's health care reform effort, marked by the inability to even refute Republican charges of death panels, was so unpopular that it became an albatross around the necks of Democrats in the 2010 election."
You do have to wonder why the Dhimmicrats defend BambiCare, since it's a complete total Charlie-Fox program that looks nothing like what a good progressive would advocate.
On a troop surge in Afghanistan: "When it finally came down to decision time, Obama didn't have the courage or integrity of a post-Cuban Missile Crisis John F. Kennedy. He settled on a 30,000-troop increase, giving the military leaders almost everything they wanted and more than they expected."
You see, we haven't lost yet: there are no pics of helicopters landing on the embassy roof in Kabul. Until there are Ollie will be disappointed.
On civil liberties: "Among the greatest disappointments to his followers was Obama's refusal to roll back the expanding national security state that so egregiously encroached on American civil liberties."
My goodness, the stopped clock got one right...
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...inability to even refute Republican charges of death panels...
Because those allegations are true tough, even for Zero, to refute the truth.
[WCF Courier] A former ACORN worker who turned whistleblower on corruption in that agency served as guest speaker for a event Friday in Cedar Falls, one of four around the state to address voter fraud.
Anita MonCrief is a former employee turned vocal critic of the now-defunct Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, and its affiliate organization Project Vote. ACORN, created in 1970, disbanded in 2010.
MonCrief sees corruption as rampant in this country, not just in voter fraud, but across Washington, D.C.
"These people out here are trying to take our country away from us," MonCrief said.
She now works with True the Vote, a national organization working against voter fraud. The group has its roots in a Texas "tea party" organization and gained fame this year for fighting to get petitions thrown out for the Gov. Scott Walker recall in Wisconsin.
True the Vote has been recruiting poll watchers in swing states prior to the election this fall.
The Cedar Falls event, attended by about 25 people at the Lampost Theatre Company in Cedar Falls. was conducted by the Concerned Women for America of Iowa. People were asked to sign up for training as poll watchers.
Iowa does not have a law requiring voters to show identification. Such a law has been introduced, but blocked by the Iowa Senate, which is controlled by Democrats.
Conservative groups fear voter fraud could impact the election, while left-leaning groups cry foul, saying the fraud accusations are simply one means to suppress minority and elderly voters.
According to MonCrief, liberal beturbanned goons from the 1960s like Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground learned they couldn't succeed in a revolution by throwing bombs, so they looked to infiltrate the system. She said they have control of the academic world and even have set up roots in the Republican Party.
MonCrief considers herself a reformed liberal whose views are now conservative. When asked about the current state of the media and Fox News, she said Fox has swung too far left for her.
Tamara Scott, state director for the Concerned Women for America of Iowa, said Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz attended two of the Friday meetings.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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