l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 1 More Americans now commit suicide than are killed in car crashes as
miserable economy takes its toll
Deaths from suicide up 15pc with fears more deaths go unaccounted
$56m suicide prevention plan being rolled out after shocking statistics
Harsher penalties for drink driving credited with reducing road deaths
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 10:03 EST, 22 September 2012
Suicide is the cause of more deaths than car crashes, according to an
alarming new study.
The number of people w... 阅读全帖 |
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z****0 发帖数: 3942 | 2 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2012/10/03/fact-che
3:51PM EST October 4. 2012 - In the first presidential debate Wednesday
night, President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney packed their
responses with accusations about each other's policies and defenses of their
own.
Here are a few claims that deserve a deeper look:
Private-sector job gains
Claim: Obama said the U.S. economy has created 5 million private-sector jobs
the past 30 months.
DEBATE: Battle of economic visions
Fact... 阅读全帖 |
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y****t 发帖数: 10233 | 3 坚定的做一个民主diang人,长寿的盖率会更大.
嘿嘿....
According to a post originally from the Silence Dogood political blog report
, there were at least 758 individuals over the age of 112 who had either
risen from their respective graves, or otherwise, to vote once again for the
Democrats in charge, who might apparently have also guaranteed them an ever
-lasting vote for life and beyond.
http://www.examiner.com/article/north-carolina-registers-over-5 |
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l**********p 发帖数: 272 | 4 In a new TV ad, President Obama makes an inflated claim to have added 5.2
million new jobs. The total added during his time in office is actually
about 325,000.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/uONGtgxHjYk
1.Viewers would need to pay close attention to the on-screen graphic to know
that the ad refers only to employment gains starting in March 2010,
omitting the 4.3 million jobs that were lost in the first year of Obama’s
term.
2.And there’s no way a viewer would know that the total counts only priva... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 5 Daniel Halper
November 2, 2012 9:39 AM
With the latest jobs report, it is now the case that "Under Obama, Food
Stamp Growth [Is] 75 Times Greater Than Job Creation," according to
statistics compiled by the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee. "
For Every Person Added to Jobs Rolls Since January 2009, 75 People Added To
Food Stamp Rolls."
Here's a chart detailing the growth:
Since January 2009, as the chart shows, a net of 194,000 new jobs have been
created. During that same time, 14.7... 阅读全帖 |
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z*******3 发帖数: 13709 | 6 四大移民国
美加澳新
现在失业率分别是
7.9, 7.4, 5.4, 7.3
澳大利亚独善其身
NZ unemployment rate rises to 13-year high as jobs shrink
Thursday 8th November 2012
New Zealand's unemployment rate unexpectedly rose to a 13-year high as the
pool of jobs shrank for a second straight quarter with a flat labour market
in Auckland and fewer full-time staff. The kiwi dollar tumbled about half a
US cent.
The unemployment rate rose half a percentage point to 7.3 percent in the
September quarter, the highest level since June 1999, acco... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 7 Foodstamps Surge By Most In One Year To New All Time Record, In Delayed
Release
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/10/2012 10:46 -0500
While there had been speculation that the BLS may delay the release of its
October nonfarm payroll number until after the election, it turned out there
was no reason to worry. Perhaps this is because the number, while at stall
speed, was not quite as horrible as some had expected (even if the change in
average hourly earnings did tumble to new all time lows) and so ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 8 9:46am EST
By Robin Emmott and Michelle Martin
BRUSSELS/BERLIN (Reuters) - The euro zone debt crisis dragged the bloc into
its second recession since 2009 in the third quarter despite modest growth
in Germany and France, data showed on Thursday.
The French and German economies both managed 0.2 percent growth in the July-
to-September period but their resilience could not save the 17-nation bloc
from contraction as the likes of The Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Austria
shrank.
Economic output in ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 9 Obama’s Now Borrowed More Than All Presidents from Washington to W
By Terence P. Jeffrey
November 30, 2012
(CNSNews.com) - The federal government has now borrowed more money during
Barack Obama’s time as president than it did in the period lasting from the
time President George Washington took the oath office until July 2, 2001,
more than five months into the first term of President George W. Bush.
At the close of business on Jan. 20, 2009, when President Barack Obama was
inaugurated, the nation... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 10 Citi to Cut 11,000 Jobs as New CEO Moves to Slash Costs .
By MATTHIAS RIEKER And SUZANNE KAPNER
Citigroup, under increasing pressure, said it will eliminate 11,000 jobs,
about 4% of its work force, and take a related $1 billion fourth-quarter
charge. Colin Barr reports on Markets Hub.
Citigroup Inc. C +7.33% set plans to cut 11,000 jobs in the giant bank's
first major strategic shift since Michael Corbat succeeded Vikram Pandit as
chief executive in October.
The move, announced Wednesday, is th... 阅读全帖 |
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l******a 发帖数: 3803 | 11
今天的美国,不,北墨西哥,是不能由共和党白人来做这事了。
不过,黑暗里的曙光,菊然被老黑自己做了!
最近的新闻,北墨最黑的,最反安全的城市,新泽西CAMDEN的市政府官员终于
受不了公务员工会的长期折磨,准备对那些拿着工会肥薪的警察下手。
看看,还得自己养家,才知道柴米油盐贵啊。
纽约时报的标题是很含糊的,TMD还是力薄肉啊。
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/nyregion/overrun-by-crime-cam
To Fight Crime, a Poor City Will Trade In Its Police
Jessica Kourkounis for The New York Times
Janiah Rosas, 8, and her brother Jaden, 3, playing outside an abandoned
house in Camden, N.J., where crime is rampant.
By KATE ZERNIKE
Published: September 28, 2012
FACEBOOK
T... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 12 U.S.-Approved Arms for Libya Rebels Fell Into Jihadis’ Hands
By JAMES RISEN, MARK MAZZETTI and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration secretly gave its blessing to arms
shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, but American officials
later grew alarmed as evidence grew that Qatar was turning some of the
weapons over to Islamic militants, according to United States officials and
foreign diplomats.
No evidence has emerged linking the weapons provided by the Qataris during
... 阅读全帖 |
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g*****1 发帖数: 286 | 13 1. mass killing has been risen quite significantly. that is what stirred
this outcry.
2. the data you presented is not relevant to anything. The statistics you
provided do not mean that gun ban will increase the decrease the gun
homicide rate.
3. Since we haven't had complete gun ban in usa, to see the impact of gun
ban, the only way we can understand its effect is to study the meaningful
data from other countries like UK and Australia, instead of imagining the
consequence in your brain. |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 14 NRA Membership Increasing 8,000 A Day After Sandy Hook Shooting
Posted: December 20, 2012
NRA membership rolls are rising rapidly at a record-setting pace, increasing
by 8,000 new NRA members per day since the Sandy Hook elementary school
shooting. According to Fox News, both the number of individual contributions
to the NRA and their average amount have risen significantly in the period
following the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
Unlike many who are using the school shooting as a political ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 15 Tenants Feel Pinch of Rising Rents
By CONOR DOUGHERTY
Record-low mortgage rates mean that homeowners have a smaller financial
burden for their residences than at any time since the early 1980s.
But here's the bad news: Rising rents are squeezing many families and
leaving them with less to spend.
Several factors have pushed rents up. Rental and apartment housing is in
short supply but demand has grown after several years of foreclosures and
population growth.
Across the U.S., "effective" monthly ... 阅读全帖 |
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z****e 发帖数: 54598 | 16 这样下去大家一起受苦
AmEx to Cut 8.5% of Staff
Overhaul to Cost $400 Million in Severance, With Travel Unit Taking Big Hit
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By ANDREW R. JOHNSON And ROBIN SIDEL
American Express Co. AXP +0.88% set plans to cut 5,400 jobs in its biggest
retrenchment in a decade, as it pares back a travel business that has been
hammered by the rise of Internet-based hotel- and airfare-reservation
service... 阅读全帖 |
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t**********3 发帖数: 12623 | 17 Thanks, California! Thanks for your monstrous spending and absurd regulatory
overreach! America needs you. We need Connecticut and Illinois, too! We
need you the way we needed the Soviet Union, as models of failure, to warn
us what happens if we believe those who say, "Government can."
Moving to California was once the dream for many Americans. Its population
grew at almost triple the national average -- until 1990. Then big
government, in the form of endless regulation and taxes, killed much of... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 18 Since 1960, entitlement transfers have grown twice as fast as personal
income—to $2.3 trillion annually.
By NICHOLAS EBERSTADT
In President Obama's second inaugural address, he not only outlined an
ambitious agenda for his second term but also seemed intent on shutting down
debate about the social-welfare state and its impact on American life.
"The commitments we make to each other—through Medicare, and Medicaid, and
Social Security—these things do not sap our initiative; they strengthen us... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 19 Black, Female Unemployment Higher Than When Obama Took Office
February 11, 2013
By Matt Cover
(CNSNews.com) – Unemployment for both women and African-Americans is higher
today than it was when President Barack Obama first took office in 2009,
according to federal government data.
Despite an economy that has technically been in recovery since June of 2009,
many economic indicators are the same or worse than when President Obama
gave his first address to a Joint Session of Congress in February 200... 阅读全帖 |
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c*****g 发帖数: 21627 | 20 Excellent article
英文原文:
Barron's Cover | MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2013
The Next Boom
By KOPIN TAN
Cheap natural gas and increasingly competitive labor costs are bringing
factories and jobs back to the U.S. Eight ways to win.
As the only industrialized superpower not decimated by World War II, the
United States once made nearly 40% of the planet's goods. These days, that
number has shrunk to 18%. We make American Girl dolls in China, Levi's jeans
in Mexico, and enough movies in Vancouver to nickname ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 21 Obama on Skyrocketing Gas Prices: We’re ‘Saving People Money at the Pump’
by Jammie
Let’s overlook the fact gas prices have risen every single day since his
inauguration. Instead, believe the lies, you idiot, low-information voters.
Chard also spoke with President Obama about rising gas prices in
Charleston.
“Gas prices continue to be an ongoing problem,” said Obama. “I’m
proud of the fact that under my administration, oil production is higher
than it has been in a decade or more. We hav... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 22 数据都在那里你自己看不就知道了.
inflation rate我贴的那个网站从1973年开始, 你看到过去的14年有什么改进? 要知
道石油的价格过去14年涨了可不是一点点.
你还是没有回答这么一个石油资源丰富的国家为什么政府会控制牛肉价格? 即使退
一步来说, Chavez前面的人做的不好,那也不是你替Chavez洗地的理由
吧.你要说也就是说Chavez和他的前任一样的糟糕而已.
犯罪率,已经有人贴了一个, 我再给一个,文章作者特别的指出说是poevert
y下降,但犯罪率反而狂涨.
Venezuela crime soars amid declining poverty
Analysts say President Chavez must re-examine idea that decreasing
inequality will lead to less violence.
Chris Arsenault Last Modified: 23 Oct 2012 10:39
With 144,294 murders between 1999-2011, Venezuela is... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 23 March 12, 2013
By The Associated Press
The price of oil rose for a fourth straight day Tuesday and topped $93 for
the first time this month.
At midday in New York, benchmark oil for April delivery was up 74 cents to $
92.80 per barrel after earlier rising to $93.47.
Oil has now risen nearly 3 percent in the last four trading sessions.
Whether it maintains that momentum could depend on this week's reports on U.
S. oil supplies.
Many traders believe the large supply of oil in the U.S. has kept a l... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 24 In that dreary winter of 1979, the piles of uncollected trash in London's
Finsbury Park seemed to stretch for miles. The garbagemen were on strike. So
too, at one time or another, were hospital workers, ambulance drivers,
truck drivers, railwaymen. Also gravediggers: In Liverpool, corpses had to
be warehoused as they awaited burial—yet another long queue that socialist
Britain had arranged for its patient masses.
This was the "Winter of Discontent," when Great Britain came about as close
to econ... 阅读全帖 |
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c*****g 发帖数: 21627 | 25 给下面这篇左逼霉文做一个摘要:
“大赫非法移民,不会增加福利负担,也不会增加就业
相反,会促进就业,增加财税,增加鸡的P”
文章甚至“伟光正”到了连“Amnesty ”这个词的使用都被视为不当
而是要说什么“earned residency.”
Alejandrino Honorato’s introduction to America began with a smuggler who
led him across the Rio Grande into the Texas desert. Eventually he was
guided to a North Carolina field, where he paid for his passage by picking
tobacco. Living illegally in a labor camp, Honorato didn’t know politicians
in Washington were deciding his future. It was 1986, and Congress was
weighing an ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 26 How Obama Betrayed America
A policy of appeasement and intervention abets our enemies.
By David Horowitz
“If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the
indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see farther into the future.”
— Madeleine Albright, secretary of state (1997–2001), Clinton
administration
It is a judgment on Barack Obama’s timorous, apologetic, and irresponsible
conduct of foreign affairs that Madeleine Albright’s words, spoken little
more than 15 years ago, now sou... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 27 Gun crime has plunged, but Americans think it's up, says study
May 7, 2013, 12:46 p.m.
Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the middle of
the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes, two
new studies of government data show.
Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more than half believe
gun crime has risen, according to a newly released survey by the Pew
Research Center.
In less than two decades, the gun murder rate has been nearly... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 28 CARACAS, Venezuela – First milk, butter, coffee and cornmeal ran short.
Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities — toilet
paper.
Blaming political opponents for the shortfall, as it does for other
shortages, the embattled socialist government says it will import 50 million
rolls to boost supplies.
That was little comfort to consumers struggling to find toilet paper on
Wednesday.
"This is the last straw," said Manuel Fagundes, a shopper hunting for tissue
in downtown Caracas... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 29 Newly Released Documents Detail the Department of Justice’s Role in
Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests
DOJ deployed obscure section to play role in Florida protests. Also read:
Justice for Trayvon, Race-Hustler Style, by J. Christian Adams
by
Bryan Preston
Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained documents proving that
the Department of Justice played a major behind-the-scenes role in
organizing protests against George Zimmerman. Zimmerman is on trial for
second-degree murder in the s... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 30 by Jammie
This is so obvious that someone should write a book about it. Oh wait,
someone did already. And yet again, the anti-gun nuts are proven wrong. Not
that facts and statistics will work as a deterrent.
Amid calls nationwide for stricter gun control laws, Virginia is
experiencing a unique trend: the state’s gun-related crime is declining but
firearms sales are increasing.
Firearms sales rose 16 percent to a record 490,119 guns purchased from
licensed gun dealers in 2012, according ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 31 Obama: ‘Forces Have Conspired – For Decades – Against Working Americans’
»
by Jammie
Left unexplained are who these mysterious “forces” are. The hapless
community organizer, before coming out for his bizarre Syria speech and
hitting the links Saturday, gave an incoherent address about the middle
class or something Saturday morning.
President Obama on Saturday called for “bold steps” to help U.S.
workers, remarks that arrive two days before Labor Day and ahead of the fall
’s fiscal poli... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 32 by Jammie
Gee, if they were so confident there actually was so-called global warming,
why won’t they share the results? Why are they afraid the public will find
out the truth?
Scientists working on the most authoritative study on climate change
were urged to cover up the fact that the world’s temperature hasn’t risen
for the last 15 years, it is claimed.
A leaked copy of a United Nations report, compiled by hundreds of
scientists, shows politicians in Belgium, Germany, Hungary and the Un... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 33 US in the Hole about $10 Billion on GM Bailout
Wednesday, 30 Oct 2013 07:36 AM
The U.S. Treasury’s bailout fund has lost about $9.7 billion on its rescue
of General Motors Co. and would need to sell its remaining shares in the
automaker for an average of $147.95 to break even, a report to Congress said
. That would be four times the current price of the shares.
The Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program in a
report issued Tuesday estimated the realized losses on all GM s... 阅读全帖 |
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S***e 发帖数: 957 | 34 By Fred
Obama went for a ride in a hot air balloon. After an hour he suddenly
realized he was lost. He lowered his altitude and spotted a man in a boat
below. He shouted to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised some
supporters I would meet with them an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, "You're in a hot air
balloon, approximately 30 feet above ground elevation of 2,346 feet above
sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north lat... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 35 Power costs shrink as share of Europe's rising energy bills
* In EU15 about half the household bill is charges, tax and subsidies
By Karolin Schaps and Barbara Lewis
LONDON/BRUSSELS, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Europeans are paying the steepest energy
bills in four years and face ever higher payments as governments pile on
extra charges to help finance a 1 trillion euro ($1.4 trillion)
modernisation of Europe's energy infrastructure.
Politicians from Britain to Germany, Italy to Romania, under pressure fr... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 36 美国国会预算办公室数据,2010年美国高收入40%家庭负担106.2%联邦所得税,低收入
40%美国家庭不叫联邦所得税,还净得9.1%补贴
CBO shows top 40% pay more than 100% of taxes
By: Randall Holcombe
12/19/2013 04:09 PM
This article originally appeared on heartland.org.
The Congressional Budget Office has published a study, The Distribution of
Household Income and Federal Taxes, 2010, which shows that the top 40
percent of income earners paid 106.2 percent of total federal income taxes,
while the bottom 40 percent paid -9.1 percent. This isn’t the study’... 阅读全帖 |
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T*********I 发帖数: 10729 | 37 By John Stossel Published January 22, 2014 FoxNews.com
The Hill, the newspaper that covers Congress, says this year, there will be
a major policy battle over "climate change." Why?
We already waste billions on pointless gestures that make people think we're
addressing global warming, but the earth doesn't notice or care. What
exactly is "global warming" anyway?
That's really four questions:
1. Is the globe warming? Probably. Global temperatures have risen. Climate
changes. Always has. Always wil... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 38 In the face of a surge of Latin youths pouring over the U.S.-Mexico border
this year, the public has shifted to a much harder line and want Washington
’s focus to be on better border security and tougher enforcement of
immigration laws, said a new Pew Research Center poll.
Pew said the public has turned away from a dual approach calling for better
border security and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. “The
share prioritizing tougher border security and law enforcement has risen
since ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 39 Leo vs. science: vanishing evidence for climate change
In the runup to the Sept. 23 UN Climate Summit in New York, Leonardo
DiCaprio is releasing a series of films about the “climate crisis.”
The first is “Carbon,” which tells us the world is threatened by a “
carbon monster.” Coal, oil, natural gas and other carbon-based forms of
energy are causing dangerous climate change and must be turned off as soon
as possible, DiCaprio says.
But he has identified the wrong monster. It is the climate scare... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 40 $4.10 Per Pound: Ground Beef Price Climbs to Another Record High
October 22, 2014 - 9:32 AM
By Ali Meyer
(CNSNews.com) – The average price for a pound of ground beef climbed to
another record high--$4.096 per pound--in the United States in September,
according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
In August, according to BLS, the average price for a pound of all types of
ground beef topped $4 for the first time--hitting $4.013. In September, the
average price jumped .0... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 41 CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf testified before the House Budget
Committee Tuesday and may have burst the Presidential bravado about the
economy exhibited during last week's State of The Union Address. Rather than
speaking glowingly about the recovery, Elmendorf said, "this recovery is
certainly much weaker than the average of the past half-dozen or so
recoveries."
During his State of the Union President Obama bragged:
The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is str... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 42 Taxes Would Increase by Almost $1,600,000,000 Under Obama Budget
February 6, 2015 - 11:26 AM
By Michael D. Tanner
In announcing his $3.999 trillion budget proposal for FY 2016, President
Obama said that he was putting an end to “mindless austerity” in federal
spending. In response to which, one wants to ask, “What color is the sky on
his planet?”
There has been no austerity, mindless or otherwise, during the Obama
presidency (or, for that matter, the Bush presidency before that). Consider
that f... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 43 New York Cigarette Smuggling Up 62 Percent Since 2006
February 16, 2015 - 1:21 PM
By Ali Meyer
(CNSNews.com) - New York ranks as the number one importer of smuggled
cigarettes in the United States and has seen cigarette smuggling rise 62
percent since 2006, according to data from the Tax Foundation.
“One consequence of high state cigarette tax rates has been increased
smuggling as criminals procure discounted packs from low-tax states to sell
in high-tax states,” explains the Tax Foundation’s re... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 44 Unraveling Obama's Poverty Myths
By Stephen Moore | May 20, 2015 | 10:56 AM EDT
Our class warrior in chief was at it again last week complaining about our
“ideological divides that have prevented us from making progress” in
solving problems like poverty. Just when you thought you’d heard it all.
Our most ideological president perhaps ever is arguing that there is too
much ideology in Washington. Wow. Apparently an ideology is a firmly held
belief that is held by other people—especially those on ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 45 Published on CNS News http://www.cnsnews.com
The American Family: An Endangered and Disappearing Species
It is quite common to hear persons bemoaning the state of the family and of
families in America. Is that just hype and rhetoric? Are American families
really “disintegrating” today? Sadly, a lot of evidence seems to indicate
that traditional American families are an endangered and disappearing
species.
Several statistical indicia suggest that traditional families (husband and
wife with chi... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 46 Mexico deports 49 percent more minors in first 5 months
By the Associated Press | June 22, 2015 | 12:35 PM EDT
MEXICO CITY (AP) — While the wave of child and teen migrants has dropped
off at the U.S. border, detentions of Central American minors are up sharply
in Mexico this year.
Mexico's National Immigration Institute says detentions of Central American
minors have risen 49 percent compared to the similar period last year. It
says about half of the 11,893 underage migrants detained between Jan... 阅读全帖 |
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S*********g 发帖数: 24893 | 47 【 以下文字转载自 Automobile 讨论区 】
发信人: StephenKing (金博士), 信区: Automobile
标 题: Approved death claims related to GM ignition switch recall rise to 121
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jul 8 17:37:44 2015, 美东)
on July 06, 2015
DETROIT, MI - The number of approved death compensation claims related to a
recall of a faulty General Motors ignition switch has risen to 121, compared
to a total of 119 one week earlier.
The claims were approved by a fund set up by GM to compensate victims of a
defective part in mid-to-l... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 48 21,995,000 to 12,329,000: Government Employees Outnumber Manufacturing
Employees 1.8 to 1
By Terence P. Jeffrey | September 8, 2015 | 11:14 AM EDT
(CNSNews.com) - Those employed by government in the United States in August
of this year outnumbered those employed in the manufacturing sector by
almost 1.8 to 1, according to data published by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
There were 21,995,000 employed by federal, state and local government in the
United States in August, according to BLS. By con... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 49 America is being bullied into sympathizing with 9/11 attackers
America-loathing has risen to a new level on university campuses around the
US. A freshman-level English course called “The Literature of 9/11’’
features writings from the perspective of Islamic butchers, as Paul Sperry,
a visiting media fellow at the Hoover Institution, wrote in a piece
published in The Post.
The highly ranked University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is just one
institution that has adopted the ugly curriculum (t... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 50 Elusive crime wave data shows frightening toll of illegal immigrant
criminals
By Malia ZimmermanPublished September 16, 2015
The federal government can tell you how many "Native Hawaiian or Other
Pacific Islanders" stole a car, the precise number of "American Indian or
Alaska Natives" who were arrested for vagrancy or how many whites were
busted for counterfeiting in any given year. But the government agencies
that crunch crime numbers are utterly unable -- or unwilling -- to pinpoint
for the pu... 阅读全帖 |
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