The Observer Journal - Merl Oberon - Managing Editor
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The Observer Journal - Observation Leading to Insight: Category Archive for Economics

Dylan Ratigan attacks crony capitalism because he understands the BROKEN system. [VIDEO] The conservative political class in America better study, fully install and wake up to this RATIGAN economic narrative… and fast!!!!

Leftie billionaire Steve Wynn: "If This Is Good Government Then I Am Mary Poppins" [VIDEO] --- Finally, Obama's handling of the economy is getting a first-class, cogent, and scathing review FROM A DEMOCRAT

According to the Wall Street Journal: “Banks in the U.S. 'are slow' to take losses on their commercial real-estate loans which are being battered by falling rental payments"

According to the Huffington Post -- "Economists say the main problem is a mismatch between available work and people qualified to do it." -- MASTER MATHEMATICS in high school and you will NEVER be unemployed in America

According to the far-left Huffington Post - For Obama - "10% unemployed equals FULL EMPLOYMENT" -- However, for Bush - "4% unemployed NOT full employment" Wall Street Liberals are economic frauds

Because of redistribution policies, the young in America are becoming poor while the old grow rich --- According to USA Today: "The incomes of young Americans have fallen off a cliff"

According to a leading British newspaper – The Daily Mail – government-run, British healthcare forces British women to give birth in hospital corridors, hospital offices and even hospital toilets BECAUSE OF SHORTAGES caused by ‘government-run’ buffoonery

"An economics professor at a local college made the statement that he had never failed a single student… but he had once failed an entire class thanks to gangster socialism"

"It seems to me that given the way in which they have conducted themselves, however, that they are not, in fact, people entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention." -- Eric Holder (Barack Obama's Attorney General) on CNN in 2002

The far-left on steroids: “Ronald Reagan was wrong. Government is the solution.” The Observer kids you not. The insane, wretched, blood-soaked worldview of national socialism: “Government is the solution and the center of energy."

Can any living Democrat comprehend basic mathematics? The Huffington Post headline screams “Obama to cut $100 million out of the budget” -- Hello, the Fed budget is $3 TRILLION a year - Obama is spending OVER $100 million every 13 minutes

American far-left, Vietnam era protesters eternally disgraced in UN court - According to the BBC: "A key Khmer Rouge leader has admitted responsibility for crimes committed during the regime's brutal rule."

Obama claims GDP will be 15.6 percent higher by 2013 - NOT A SNOW BALLS CHANCE IN HELL - Jindal are you paying attention? Start screaming about insanely high unemployment now because unemployment will stay high

Because of Obama, YOU are PAYING the mortgage of an addicted gambler who gambles $1,200.00 per month on lottery tickets. His mortgage payment is $1,300.00... MILLIONS of "eternally adolescent" DEMOCRAT voters laughing all the way to the bank

“You know, we gotta work on the Fairness Doctrine, because 'they' are just shutting down progressive talk from one city after another." - said far-left talk-radio personality Bill Press

Court Rules Wiretapping Power Legal -- According to the New York Times – “…it may offer legal credence to the Bush administration’s repeated assertions that the president has the power to act…” - it's the highest court in the land, you buffoon

According to the Huffington Post: "MORE DRAMA FOR OBAMA" – wait a minute, Joe the Plummer is a “tax cheat” for having a lien yet it is merely “drama” when a DEMOCRAT does NOT PAY income taxes

Greedy unions say, “Screw You Taxpayer, Show Me the Money” --- yet another political gift to the Republican party, greedy, corrupt unions, DEMOCRAT PARTY UNIONS, out in the sunlight, openly greedy

Populist Conflicted Con-Men paltering and paltering and more paltering -- "Crises like the current one reveal the perversities of the current economic system," Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said.

On Hardball with Chris Matthews, "Congressman Moran, did you read the bailout bill?" And the Observer quotes in full, "I have to confess, I only read a summary," said DEMOCRAT Congressman Jim Moran.

The BBC's Mike Sergeant, in Jerusalem, says “This may further strengthen the determination of Hamas to resist the Israeli air assault.” -- Commentary? Another media airhead offering commentary??? How could it be?

"I think this is a case where Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are fundamentally sound." -- DEMOCRAT Barney Frank - July 14, 2008 -- the Observer presents the #1 dumbest utterance of 2008

The Jimmy Carter gift that keeps on giving and giving and giving and giving... Jimmy's far-left revolutionary bro, Robert Mugabe

“I condemn in the strongest terms Israel’s action in launching air strikes in Gaza against Hamas targets which have resulted in widespread civilian fatalities,” said Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheal Martin – the quintessential EU goof

"What a difference a year makes," exults NBC White House correspondent Savannah Guthrie -- far-left press “thrilled to be with Obama” -- "Media Airheads" dominate CNN, MSNBC, NBC, etc

“Our contract doesn't allow him to do this," said Jim Herron Zamora, SEIU, the largest union in CA -- The highest law in California – the union contract!!! – we kid you not - The Observer is laughing to the point of tears

Breaking News -- DEMOCRAT Congressman Jim Moran on Hardball with Chris Matthews when asked if he would use water boarding to protect Washington DC said, "I would let the professionals tell me what to do."

The New Deal did not work... back in the day seventy years ago "The New Deal" had a SLANG name, everyone called it "The Great Depression"

Riding Reagan Off a Cliff - "The Republican Hustler Class of the Late 80s"

DEMOCRAT Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich ARRESTED by the FBI – DEMOCRAT Governor charged with trying to sell DEMOCRAT Senate seat (formerly held by DEMOCRAT Barack Obama) in DEMOCRAT state run by the DEMOCRAT PARTY

New Zealand already OUT OF RECESSION in 2008 - this is exactly what happened in 1932! - New Zealand was growing again by 1932. Because of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the USA had eight extra years of totally unnecessary economic Depression...

According to CNN: Former President Jimmy Carter, who returned from a five-day trip to neighboring South Africa this week, declared Zimbabwe "a basket case." - The Observer's head just exploded... Jimmy Carter is the buffoon who installed Robert Mugabe

Prior to Roosevelt, average unemployment was 3% ... T-H-R-E-E percent ... According to CNN: “In 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected our 32nd president and brought with him a number of wonderful programs." ...keeping it above 6% ever since...

American far-left horrified, Chavez and socialism rejected by Venezuelans at the ballot box – According to Reuters: “Opposition gains ground in Venezuela elections”

URGENT BREAKING NEWS: smelly (reportedly not to have bathed for weeks) Norm Coleman REPUBLICANS pour into the streets burning cars, waving the communist flag, screaming “No justice, no peace!” -- just kidding

On election day 2008, Obama voters possessed a border-line idiotic level of understanding according to a Zogby International telephone survey of Obama voters nationwide

Obama Spokesman says quote, “Obama Ready to RULE on Day 1” – Translation from liberal into English: The Messiah Obama is here to rule like a king, not govern in a Republic.

Via the BBC: a “House Negro” according to Ayman al-Zawahiri, the al-Qaeda number two. The Observer dryly notes Ayman is so full of empathy and love just like… ah say, Hitler.

Are Fanken and The Far-Left Totally Insane? Take a look at an actual ballot Franken's lawyers had rejected...

BUSH played yet again – DEMOCRATS ROLLING ON THE FLOOR because Bush is a gentleman and conducts himself honorably - Drudge: "OBAMA AIDES LEAK CHAT DETAILS"

Barack’s backlash against capitalism?

Paul Krugman on the Charlie Rose Show: "I am slightly hopeful."

Whenever a government bails someone out of trouble, the government, at the very same moment, always puts someone else into trouble.

According to MarketWatch: “Alaska Sen. Stevens found guilty in corruption case” – meanwhile, in far-left La La Land, TWO YEARS LATER… William Jefferson, D-La., still awaiting trial…

Toyota DELAYS Mississippi plant – the far-left scares off, over regulates, forces unionization, browbeats, and then drives out of North America the competent car manufacturers and subsidizes the incompetent car manufacturers – UNREAL…

Single Women Prove Decisive Political Force: 70% vote for Obama, anchoring Obama’s election as the margin of difference

Conservatives asleep at the switch, working their day jobs – DEMOCRAT fraud during recounts? – THREE Senate races are NOT OVER – DEMOCRATS making stealth grab for “MAGIC 60 SENATE” using fraud, again?

According to Paul Krugman writing for the New York Times: "This is very big news. One of the key questions about the new Democratic majority was whether Congress would try to play it safe, backing down on big ideas..." OH, Crap...liberal "big ideas"

OBAMA planning to IMPORT al QAEDA TO AMERICA - The new "OBAMA and Michael Dukakis CATCH AND RELEASE PLAN" for Gitmo.

The economy is like a super tanker. Right now, we are in the middle of the North Atlantic, in a Cat 5 hurricane. Why in the hell would you flood the engine room with ice water especially when rich people are the engine?

Barack picks the "Tom Delay of the Left" as his White House Chief of Staff – Barack's first move spooks markets DOWN 450 points on Wednesday, DOWN another 450 points today

Video of the far-left performing the Jihadi Jump in front of the White House election night while Obama Supporters Wave Communist Flag

OBAMANOMICS -- "Obama voters to receive government checks directly funded by McCain voters"

On Obama: “Every Obama program, policy, and proposal has been tried repeatedly in other countries — and failed repeatedly in other countries.”

Obama Audio -- Obama says he wants to "Bankrupt Coal Fired Power Plants" - average people in China get cheap, abundant electricity BUT not the American mid-West -- NoBamaNation

DEMOCRATS in Senate and House write bill and leave out escrow -- According to Simon Duke writing for the Daily Mail: Goldman Sachs ready to hand out £7bn bonus package... after its £6bn bail-out --

Barack intends to utterly change agriculture in America – THE CITY SLICKER telling farmers how to run their farms – FULL transcript here: “Joe Klein interviews Barack Obama in Time Magazine”

Obama buddy Ayers dedicates 1974 book "Prairie Fire" to RFK assassin -- HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? -- How can any Democrat even associate with a Kennedy killer?

Joe the Plummer’s PRIVATE driver's license and his sport-utility vehicle RECORDS pulled from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles database three times shortly after the debate –

Could anything be more incongruent than an Obama Democrat?

Democrats are a joke -- one month ago, “If you make less than, $250,000, you get a tax cut…” -- two weeks ago, “If you make less than, $200,000, you get a tax cut…” – Joe Biden yesterday, “If you make less than, $150,000, you get a tax cut…”

According to the Huffington Post: “Early Voting Avalanche” – people who don’t have day jobs or any job at all voting for Obama, getting off the couch and going to the polls – far-left hails victory

According to the Washington Post: "Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations" -- big money politics define Obama DEMOCRATS -- FRAUD?

Since the GOP acceptance speech – the Associated Press has run 141 highly NEGATIVE, major, HEADLINES on Palin – during same period, zero negative AP headlines on Obama -- vicious AP headlines listed here

“You cannot trust Republicans with your money. They will borrow and spend, borrow and spend, borrow and spend,” DNC Chairman Howard Dean said on MSNBC -- political jujitsu at its finest

Deep Blue Mess

DRUDGE REPORT – BOMBSHELL – tape of Obama openly SOCIALIST – Bottom-line: if you have a job or ever want a job, you are a MORON to be voting for Obama

Far-left DEMOCRAT Henry Waxman in a PANIC – most Americans now realize Freddie and Fannie had the STARING ROLE in this mess – latest far-left straw-man, “Were Fannie and Freddie the (only) cause of this financial crisis?”

Unintended humor in it’s highest form – endless amusement – “OBAMA SELLING election night coverage” – rolling on the floor over here

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s chief of staff: “I was fully expecting the grand wizard of the Klu Klux Klan to arrive from Maryland and endorse McCain. ”

According to the Telegraph: “Police fear riots if Barack Obama loses US election” -- Oh crap, the open minded, enlightened, bigcity, far-left is going to riot

California secretary of state, a DEMOCRAT, timed arrest to distract from ACORN's voter fraud scandal -- DEMOCRAT VOTER FRAUD scandal, large and growing

DEMOCRATS in Argentina nationalize ALL private pensions – Argentinian DEMOCRATS steal private savings! DEMOCRAT George Miller’s 401(k) play book? DEMOCRAT George Miller wants to ELIMINATE 401(k) contributions

DEMOCRAT Congressman, Barney Frank: “Plenty of rich people that we can tax” – YOUTUBE clip here – the Observer kids you not, he actually said it on CNBC – it’s the start of a new TV series: “Barney’s Butt Probe Socialism”

“Global climate change is the issue of our future and it relates to everything,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, DEMOCRAT, California said on the Charlie Rose show.

DEMOCRATS love big money in politics – Obama $150 million month – ironic - brutal - unintended consequences, McCain/Feingold destroying McCain --

Schumer spreading SHORT rumors for DEMOCRAT vulture billionaires?

CEOs getting slaughtered holding one stock during the stock market down turn, mutual fund diversification wiser, John Q. Public doing better than CEOs --

"Burning Down the House" LINK HERE - CENSORed, super popular, anti-Democrat Party VIDEO – liberal-left San Francisco executives fail to SUPPRESS FREE SPEECH --

DEMOCRATS creating enduring 'recessionary conditions' -- no jobs and millions trapped in long-term poverty, dependent on 'Obama Welfare'

YOUTUBE clip here – ‘Joe the Moron’ BIDEN – quote: “…a three letter word, J-O-B-S…” – the Observer kids you not, another DEMOCRAT mega gaffe... YET Palin gets hammered

“This is the equivalent of what FDR had to do with the SEC, to regulate capitalism,” said Rep. Barney Frank, DEMOCRAT

'Joe the Plumber' Takes Center Stage at Final Presidential Debate - according to the far-left, 'Joe the Plumber' is a tax cheat

Unintended Humor -- Bad Idea Barack has relabled 'welfare checks' -- no joke -- Want to know the new, DEMOCRAT name for 'welfare checks'? -- I kid you not -- 'Lower-middle-class-tax-cuts'

DEMOCRATS rejoice – “Bush destroyed the Republican Party and the conservative movement” -- always good for a chuckle, our buddies on the far-left opine, endlessly about Democrat party rule for the next 100 years

DEMOCRATS staking out the sidewalks of Palin political events, bating thousands of people walking into or leaving these venues and video taping their responses. Per the far-left, “As we've seen in video after video..."

Tennessee DEMOCRAT bigwig -- PALIN EMAIL HACKING -- State Rep. Mike Kernell of Memphis, DEMOCRAT chairman of Tennessee's House Government Operations Committee – DEMOCRAT son INDICTED in PALIN EMAIL HACKING

The Observer found a 'political jujitsu gem' – verbatim from the leading far-left guiding light -- “In general, Alaska has double the national average of birth defects. While the causes are unknown…”

DEMOCRAT George Miller wants to ELIMINATE 401(k) contributions (starting with high-income Americans per Miller) – far-left radicals with a border-line idiotic level of understanding of basic economics are working to destroy wealth

DEMOCRAT, U.S. Senator, Claire McCaskill said, "I spit on this before I put it in." try an internet search for "Dirty Senate Tramps" -- you'll find a picture of Claire McCaskill

An average stock market crash lasts 30 months with stock prices plunging 50% -- OK, from DJIA 14,000 on 7.18.2007 to DJIA 7,000 on 7.18.2009

The media does the dirty work – “…the McCain/Palin campaign's attack on Obama because he happens to know Bill Ayers…” Meanwhile, back on earth, every Palin statement is shredded - the press is comical

"Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews..." said DEMOCRAT Congressman Alcee Hastings

Chris Matthews totally cracks me up - "Barack looks good on TV, that's GOOD" -- two days later on the same TV channel -- "Palin looks good on TV, that's BAD" -- the media willingly doing the dirty work

SHORTS jumping sharks – ‘gold ban’ canard just flew by the window again... the last time the Observer saw this 'unique bird's migration' into the press was in 1980... gold was at $850.00 ($2,000.00 inflation adjusted) per ounce

Democrat Leadership Mostly Morons -- per ABC News -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev -- "One of the... major insurance companies... one with a name that everyone knows that's on the verge of going bankrupt.”

Morons Moving Money -- “Businesses and institutions with large accounts started withdrawing money to lower their balances to below the federally insured $100,000 limit.” Carlos Evans, Wachovia's wholesale banking executive, said in an interview.

Asked about the Community Reinvestment Act on 'The View', President Bill Clinton said Fannie and Freddie had lots of money in 90s and he gave the money to poor people for subprime loans

The Observer is watching a YouTube clip of Bill Clinton telling Larry King he is going to “hustle up the ‘cracker vote’ in Florida” ...

“The era of cowboy capitalism has died, largely of self-inflicted wounds. Who knows what’s coming now? I do: A new era of tight business regulation and government intervention.” – Howard Fineman writing for MSNBC