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May 24, 2011 | 1856 views | 44 44 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend | print

Dear Editor,

Obamanomics 101. Let’s look at the facts: At Obama’s Inauguration, the price of gas was $1.83. It has more than doubled since and heading higher. The official U.S. unemployment is back up to 9 percent, but it is 15.9 percent when factoring in those who have quit looking and those who took part time jobs (Bureau of Labor Statistics). According to Zillow, home prices have plummeted at their fastest rate since the Lehman collapse and an all time record 16.3 million families owe more than their homes are worth. A study by New America Foundation shows 8.5 million people receiving unemployment checks and over 40 million receiving food stamps. Wal-Mart’s CEO says its customers are running out of money and purchases will be falling off by end of the month even more than last year. The Wall Street Journal says the dollar today is lower than at any time since major currencies began floating in 1973. It’s 13 percent lower than 30 years ago and 28 percent below its peak in 2002. Standard and Poors downgraded the outlook for the US to negative from stable on its credit. All of this is a recipe for disaster, which we all see fast approaching. The Lame-Stream Media will never tell the truth about the failed economic record of this failed administration. I would suggest that folks stop relying on the LSM to get real news. Start checking into fact-based journalism by The Heritage Foundation, Americans for Prosperity, RedState, League of American Voters, National Review, Civitas, and yes, Fox News. No slant, just facts. They are stubborn things, aren’t they?

Tim Seigla

Rockingham



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June 03, 2011
ObamaNation- GET IT?
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June 03, 2011
According to common sense, you Republicans are idiots. And THAT my friends, is a fact.
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June 02, 2011
Mrs. Wheeler, I am surprised that you took my comment about President Obama and the price of gas as a serious thought. I like to provoke you every once in a while with stupid comments like you post all the time.

My question for you is: "do you really believe all this garbage you post?"
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May 30, 2011
To edwardash: We don't blame Obamba for those who bought homes they could not afford - we blame Clinton, and his administration. The very Liberal, democratic, biased New York Times agrees.

In a 1999 New York Times editorial observed: "Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Bill Clinton administration to expand mortgage loans among low-and moderate-income people and felt pressure to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits."

You need to brush up on history. This nation was founded on small government and individual freedom. Both principles have been violated by both Clinton and Obama, however, Obama is not to blame for the housing crisis - Clinton is.

Each time government increases our freedoms decrease. Nothing is as despicable is depriving one of his wages to give to someone else.

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May 30, 2011
LOL - Tell they must have figured out they didn't after a couple of months. They must think they have a friend in the White House now, huh?

Tell, do you speak like you post - without thinking thinking it through?

Not a good post to prove the point you are trying to make.
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May 30, 2011
Mrs. Wheeler, the price of gas fell in November of 2008 because the oil industry knew they had lost their friend in the White House. They knew Obama would not bow to the wealthy oil barons like Bush did.

I am still waiting on the jobs promised if only Congress extended the tax cuts to the rich, they were extended. Where are the jobs?
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May 30, 2011
You liberals did not have any problem blaming Bush for all of the above and more. As for the housing crisis, you can thank your hero Bill Clinton and liberal groups for pressuring banks to loan to unqualified people. You can trace every financial problem we have to liberal thinking.

Tax, tax, tax, spend, spend, spend. They have exhausted all their avenues of revenue, so now they want to demonize the successful and seize their gold so they buy votes with their giveaways.
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May 29, 2011
As far as gas prices, corporate greed by the oil companies not President Obama. How do you blame President Obama for people purchasing houses they could not afford, reaching Tim. 8.5 million unemployment checks, company moved over seas (NAFTA), cheap labor, not the President. I quest you will blame him for floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc... Wall St. failed because Bush wanted small government, and there you have it Madoff, etc... Let's blame him for the death of Richmond Co. also Tim. You may have facts but do they piont to his lack of leadership or a corrupted country.
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May 28, 2011
Telltales, gas didn't stay 4.11 per gallon long in 2008. Perhaps Obama should call George Bush and and ask him what to do.

January 2, 2008 $3.05 per gallon.

April 21, 2008 $3.50 a gallon

June 9, 2008— $4 per gallon.

July 7, 2008 $4.11 per gallon.

Oct. 16, 2008 - $1.99 a gallon gas

Nov. 3, 2008—U.S. Gas o $1.72 a gallon.

Dec. 26, 2008—Gas $1.64 a gallon.

Dec. 31, 2008—$1.61 a gal

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May 28, 2011
Guys, after much thought and inner conflict, I am forming a committe to locate and demand the return of Murray to our group, something is missing and he owes us Repubs an opportunity to say we told you so.

In the event that we cannot locate Murray, we have decided to seek an alternative person of the same type and that is Mrs. Chuck Sauls, she also is due a well prepared meal of Crow and to deny us Repubs our just revenge is indeed outragous.

Please join me in my quest to locate and demand their return to the scene of their crimes.

louis b long
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May 28, 2011
Trip7, According to Consumer Reports the highest gas prices ever occurred in July and August of 2008. The average price was $4.11 per gal. Guess who was President?
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May 27, 2011
You know, I heard somewhere that "Ignorance is Bliss", well if that is true then Richmond county must be a happy place, we have been under tight, I mean tight Democrat control for ever it seems and we have remained at the bottom or near bottom of all 100 North Carolina countys. It would seem that we would realize that we need to look at alternative solutions from other political opinions, that is obviosly the Republican agendas, but we keep on keeping on being lead like ignorent sheep being hearded along by the same old Democrats that got us here. Just for once lets try the beef and not the pork, lets refuse some of the grants we recieve for, lets say our airport and send the money back, our airport is fine but it seems that our county commissioners are always over joyed to announce that we got some more money to waste and all we have to do is match some of it, look airport expansion is about the last thing on our list of needs, I just use this as an example, but we finally are able to pay our water bill with our credit card, how many counties accepted credit card payments for water and property taxes before we did, I would really like to know, but for years all we heard was we need our airport to expand so that we can land corprate jets when these big shots come to town to look at locating a new plant here, they`ll be right behind the "tooth-fairy" and we`ll pick them up in a borrowed limo and drive them into town down the airport road for a scenic tour.(no disrespect intended to airport road residents)and Oh`yeah they will swoon when they see our race tracks,spare me the ignorence that this attitude displays.

Our people need jobs, any jobs not just show place positions, we need income, not handouts, we need wages not unemployment checks and most of all, we need leadership from our leaders and they are capable of providing it if they quit trying so hard to agree on everything and use their ideas even if the others disagree with them, so County Commissioners, step-up do the job we thought you could when we elected you,

louis, you know who .
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May 26, 2011
Oh yes you did by calling the very principles that they believe in 'fascist.' I believe in the same principles and I will defend my country against faxcism, socialism and communism as long as I am able to do so. We are Capitalists, the fairest and most successful system in the world. It means individual freedoms and individual responsiblility. I
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May 26, 2011
Osama, that's a pretty wide brush you paint with.

Using your logic, if all Democrats must be atheist or at least it's prefered,

Then all Republicans take a wide stance in airport toilet stalls, or all Republicans are stalking young boys.

Of course that is NOT true. Everyone with half a brain knows that.

Anyone with a half a brain would know that all Democrats aren't atheists.

So what's your story? Are you just stirring the pot or do you half less than half a brain? I'm voting pot stirrer.

One of the atheist Democrats
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May 26, 2011
Is it required that a Democrat be an atheist or is it just preferred?
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May 26, 2011
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm........Here's my 2 cents,5,10 whatever.

Obamanomics is the opposite extreme of Reaganomics.Obviously....you libs really messed up.You know it too.How can you not?How can you deny it?I mean, rrrrreally?

Political debates are fun,advantageous to those out of the loop, but I fear liberalism has gone far,far left in our time.Too bad.I thought Carter was bad but this is an atrocity.Obama is too smart for his own good and politically atrocious.His policies are a bladent disregard of American Capitalism,the American way in total.



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May 26, 2011
Patriot, for all your gas, I'll bet you've never been in an actual fight, have you. Probably not a scar on your smarmy little face. That's alright. You're actually pretty typical of most fascists. As a general rule the bulk of you are cowardly, sexually repressed and have weight problems. You can add those to your adjectives list if you like. That's why when you pick up bored married women in singles bars, more often than not they're married to conservative republicans.
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May 26, 2011
All of this was done in anticipation of the world ending on May 21st. Can't count on anything anymore!
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May 26, 2011
And Goth - I don't know a single conservative who is supporting Newt Gingrich as the Republican nominee. He has no chance. I suppose you consider real leadership to be embodied by the Senate Democrats who have refused to pass a budget for over 750 days (as required by law) in the midst of a fiscal crisis. Or maybe you consider real leadership is simply refusing to acknowledge that this country's entitlement programs are on an unsustainable path headed for bankruptcy and doing nothing about it.

Or "leading from behind" as this administration is apt to do on every foreign policy issue that has come before them.

Intolerant? Just read your own, hate-filled, cringe-inducing, name-calling posts. That is a fine definition of intolerance...and petulance, if you allow me to add.
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May 26, 2011
Goth - Nothing self-important about the Patriot. Just a simple truth-teller (I realize it's difficult for you libs to recognize truth when you see it). Let's see...we can add buffoons, goose-stepping psychos, intolerant, stupid and lazy. You must possess an Olympian intellect. What incisive, wise and knowledgeable arguments you employ.

And Danny...if you care about saving this nation - you better be ready to fight. You tell me where to find acceptable compromise with an ideology that permits the murder of unborn babies, that refuses to accept the fiscal reality of a nation well on its way to insolvency, that considers it moral and fair to "re-distribute" money from one group to give to another group. Our Founding Fathers would have called that what it is - theft. How do you begin those negotiations?
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