NYT in Denial on Labor Force Numbers

The "paper of record" just can't let go of it's cheer leading for Obama and the democrats crushing of the economy.
Here they are extolling the virtues of added jobs and a low unemployment rate.

U.S. Economy Added 223,000 Jobs in April; Unemployment Rate at 5.4%

The American job market rebounded in April, the government said on Friday, helping to ease worries that the economy was on the brink of another extended slowdown after a bleak winter in which the overall economy stalled. But the growth in jobs failed to translate, once again, into any significant improvement in pay.

Employers added 223,000 positions last month, the Labor Department reported, and the unemployment rate decreased to 5.4 percent, a turnaround from the disappointing performance in March, initially reported as a modest 126,000 gain and then revised down on Friday to 85,000.

“We expected a rebound following the numbers in March and we got it, but not much more,” said Guy Berger, United States economist at RBS. “Wage growth is still the missing piece.”~snip~

While they ignore the crushed hopes of Americans who have used up all their unemployment and therefore aren't counted as the unemployed.

Americans Not In The Labor Force Rise To Record 93,194,000

In what was an "unambiguously" unpleasant April jobs payrolls report, with a March revision dragging that month's job gain to the lowest level since June of 2012, the fact that the number of Americans not in the labor force rose once again, this time to 93,194K from 93,175K, with the result being a participation rate of 69.45 or just above the lowest percentage since 1977, will merely catalyze even more upside to the so called "market" which continues to reflect nothing but central bank liquidity, and thus - the accelerating deterioration of the broader economy.~snip~

Hows that 'Jobs Pivot' Working out?

Obama's done the job pivot thing so many times he should be falling down dizzy. According to the new jobs report for June things are looking up. We added 288,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dropped to 6.1%. As always I'm sure these will be revised in the next week or so but that doesn't stop some of Obama's cheerleaders from gushing over the news.

Of course they ignore the other side.

Record Number of Americans Not in Labor Force in June

(CNSNews.com) - The number of Americans 16 and older who did not participate in the labor force climbed to a record high of 92,120,000 in June, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
This means that there were 92,120,000 Americans 16 and older who not only did not have a job, but did not actively seek one in the last four weeks.
That is up 111,000 from the 92,009,000 Americans who were not participating in the labor force in April.
In June, according to BLS, the labor force participation rate for Americans was 62.8 percent, matching a 36-year low. The participation rate is the percentage of the population that either has a job or actively sought one in the last four weeks.
In December, April, May, and now June, the labor force participation rate has been 62.8 percent.
Before December, the last time the labor force participation rate sank as low as 62.8 percent was in February 1978, when it was also 62.8 percent. At that time, Jimmy Carter was president.~snip~

That reflects a huge number of Americans who have become so disillusioned and frustrated with job prospects that they have given up completely and as their unemployment benefits run out they just drop from sight. At least as far as being included in the jobs report.
I would think that anyone with a brain would know that employment prospects are pretty dismal and anyone who remembers the Carter years would be going through deja vu.
Things ain't as rosy as Obama's defenders want you to believe.
If you accept the spin then you won't believe your lying eyes.

Our Fundamental Transformation

Here's a couple of items of note.

Summertime Blues: Teen Unemployment in Major U.S. Cities Tops 50 Percent

(CNSNews.com) – A new analysis by the Employment Policy Institute (EPI) shows that unemployment among teens without a high school diploma is more than 50 percent in two of the largest U.S. cities.
Using U.S. Census Bureau data from May 2013 to April 2014, the analysis reveals that in Riverside-San Bernardino area of Southern California, the unemployment rate for teens ages 16 to 19 years old who don’t have a high school diploma is 54.2 percent.
In the Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, Ore., metropolitan area, the unemployment rate from that population is 53.8 percent.
“These numbers are staggering,” Michael Saltsman, director of research at EPI told CNSNews.com. “Teens across the country this summer are missing out on valuable work experience as they continue to suffer through an extended period of high unemployment and difficult job prospects.”~snip~

It's good to know that the absence of opportunities exist across all age groups.

1 in 5 Children Live in Poverty in U.S.

(CNSNews.com) - One in five children under age 18, or 21.3%, are living in poverty in the United States, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
In 2012, there were 15,437,000 children under 18 years old, or 21.3%, who were classified in the “below poverty” threshold, according to the Census.
“The incidence of poverty rates varies widely across the population according to age, education, labor force attachment, family living arrangements, and area of residence, among other factors. Under the official poverty definition, an average family of four was considered poor in 2012 if its pre-tax cash income for the year was below $23,492,” according to a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report ~snip~ 

We can only hope that stats like this mean something to voters in November.

The Great Shrinking Labor Force

Normally one of the first things people think of when others are having financial difficulty is to counsel them to get a job.
Well at least that was the way it used to be before Obama and the democrats lied their way into office and then proceeded to destroy the economy.
The job market has been shrinking steadily under Obama  to the point that some people have been out of the job market so long that most employers, who are being squeezed by Obamacare mandates and regulations,can't financially take a chance hiring someone with rusty job skills.
Others are so discouraged or close enough to retirement that they have dropped out of the job market altogether.

People Not In Labor Force Soar To Record 91.8 Million; Participation Rate Plunges To 1978 Levels

Curious why despite the huge miss in payrolls the unemployment rate tumbled from 7.0% to 6.7%? The reason is because in December the civilian labor force did what it usually does in the New Normal: it dropped from 155.3 million to 154.9 million, which means the labor participation rate just dropped to a fresh 35 year low, hitting levels not seen since 1978, at 62.8% down from 63.0%.~snip~

Have no fear though because the democrats got your back.
Their solution is to pull back on employer mandates and work to come up with a solution to Obamacare.....OK I'm just kidding.
Their answer is to expand unemployment insurance into what looks like perpetuity.

 Reid backs down in unemployment fight

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) says he is now open to considering Republican amendments to a bill extending emergency unemployment benefits through most of 2014.
On Thursday, Reid clashed with several Republicans after saying he didn't want to consider any changes to an amended version of the bill. Reid's amendment paid for an 11-month extension by extending the sequester for another year, into 2024.
Republicans have other ideas on how to pay for the benefits, but Reid dismissed them.~snip~

Democrats aren't the only ones to blame here the republican minority should be fighting hard trying to find ways to get government out of the way so businesses can grow and hire more.
What we are witnessing is government at its most successful, expanding itself and creating dependency to justify its ever expanding reach.

Advancing Marxism

A lot of people seemed to be surprised about the article in Rolling Stone that advanced Marxist ideals, as they should be mostly because government is an extremely poor steward of how public moneys is spent.

One of the ideas advanced was:
#2. Social Security for All

But let's think even bigger. Because as much as unemployment blows, so do jobs. What if people didn't have to work to survive? Enter the jaw-droppingly simple idea of a universal basic income, in which the government would just add a sum sufficient for subsistence to everyone's bank account every month. A proposal along these lines has been gaining traction in Switzerland, and it's starting to get a lot of attention here, too.
We live in the age of 3D printers and self-replicating robots. Actual human workers are increasingly surplus to requirement – that's one major reason why we have such a big unemployment problem. A universal basic income would address this epidemic at the root and provide everyone, in the words of Duke professor Kathi Weeks, "time to cultivate new needs for pleasures, activities, senses, passions, affects, and socialities that exceed the options of working and saving, producing and accumulating."
Put another way: A universal basic income, combined with a job guarantee and other social programs, could make participation in the labor force truly voluntary, thereby enabling people to get a life.

It seems that this battle is pretty much lost, I mean how is extending unemployment benefits into perpetuity any different than a universal income?

In surprise move, unemployment benefits advance

The Senate begins an even tougher task after a surprise vote on Tuesday to break a GOP filibuster of legislation extending unemployment benefits.
That is: finding a way to pay for the measure.
Democrats were able to secure six Republican votes to advance the three-month extension of unemployment benefits, nabbing just the 60 votes that are necessary to move ahead. But now they must work with centrist Republicans to strike a bipartisan accord that would offset the legislation’s $6.5 billion cost, a tall task in a Senate still brimming with partisan divisions.
But it’s not at all clear that the Republicans who sided with Democrats to break the filibuster will vote for final passage. Two of them said Tuesday they would most likely oppose it without the offsets they are seeking.~nip~

The goals of leftists don't necessarily have to spelled out in plain English, they have been very adept at using what's already there to advance their agenda.

  

More "Unexpected News"

Just in time for the beginning of the school year and a couple of months away from the holidays a Gallup tracking poll shows a jump in the 30 day unemployment rate.

GALLUP: UNEMPLOYMENT RATE JUMPS FROM 7.7% TO 8.9% IN 30 DAYS

Outside of the federal government's Bureau of Labor statistics, the Gallup polling organization also tracks the nation's unemployment rate. While the BLS and Gallup findings might not always perfectly align, the trends almost always do and the small statistical differences just haven't been worthy of note. But now Gallup is showing a sizable 30 day jump in the unemployment rate, from 7.7% on July 21 to 8.9% today.
This is an 18-month high.~snip~

That's a pretty significant jump in people collecting unemployment and the number of underemployed is even worse. (same link)

Gallup also shows an alarming increase in the number of underemployed (those with some work seeking more). During the same 30-day period, that number has jumped from 17.1% to 17.9%.

The labor force participation rate ain't looking so good either.
I've raised 5 kids to adulthood and know for a fact that when they're teens most think their parents are idiots and don't know anything when you try and explain things to them. It's only after they move out and are on their own for a while do they realize you may have had something.
Young voters are the same, when someone dangles shiny new ideas in front of them they think the older folks who've been around for awhile don't know what they're talking about.
They don't understand that we've seen the shiny new thing before it was repackaged and sold to them.
Although I can say I have never seen anyone come back for seconds before.
But then again I've never seen the liberal/commie press run cover for a failure as well as they do for Obama.

The point being that hopefully, these younger voters will be 8 years older and suffered enough under Obama and the turncoat media to not fall for the next shiny new thing the democrats dangle in front of them in 2016.
Maybe then we can turn around the dismal economy for them and they can finally have a future.

The Dying Middle Class

I would think that anyone who has been paying attention to the news today would have read this article.

EXCLUSIVE: SIGNS OF DECLINING ECONOMIC SECURITY

WASHINGTON (AP) — Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream.
Survey data exclusive to The Associated Press points to an increasingly globalized U.S. economy, the widening gap between rich and poor and loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs as reasons for the trend.
The findings come as President Barack Obama tries to renew his administration's emphasis on the economy, saying in recent speeches that his highest priority is to "rebuild ladders of opportunity" and reverse income inequality.
Hardship is particularly on the rise among whites, based on several measures. Pessimism among that racial group about their families' economic futures has climbed to the highest point since at least 1987. In the most recent AP-GfK poll, 63 percent of whites called the economy "poor."
"I think it's going to get worse," said Irene Salyers, 52, of Buchanan County, Va., a declining coal region in Appalachia. Married and divorced three times, Salyers now helps run a fruit and vegetable stand with her boyfriend, but it doesn't generate much income. They live mostly off government disability checks.~snip~

That it comes from the AP is what's really amazing, usually they're very  pro Obama and loath to report on anything critical of him. Which is why you see the excuses right up front.
Things like globalization, the rich and poor gap and the loss of good manufacturing jobs without going into a lot of detail why those conditions exist.
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Although later on they do hint to the problem of single motherhood and then separate the statistic of more children living in poverty. Like there is no correlation between the two.
 Globalization and the lack of manufacturing jobs can be linked to the draconian obstacles that liberal/commie democrat politicians place in front of business driving them to other business friendlier areas.

Knowing the what does nothing to solve the why, making excuses for the piss poor administration that we have does nothing to confront them with their failure to stimulate growth in the jobs sector.

We all know what the problem is so the question is when will the media confront and make this administration accountable for these dismal statistics and demand to know what they are going to do about it.

The Other New Normal

I guess getting used to having gas prices consistently hovering around 3 dollars a gallon isn't enough. We also have gotten used to unemployment hanging at 7.6% or more.

54 Months: Record Stretch of 7.5%+ Unemployment Continues

(CNSNews.com) - Since January 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as president, the United States has seen 54 straight months with the unemployment rate at 7.5 percent or higher, which is the longest stretch of unemployment at or above that rate since 1948, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics started calculating the national unemployment rate.
Today, BLS reported that the seasonally adjusted national unemployment rate for June was 7.6 percent, the same it was in May.
In December 2008, the month after Obama was first elected and the month before he was inaugurated, unemployment was 7.3 percent. In January 2009, it climbed to 7.8 percent. In February, the month Obama signed what the Congressional Budget Office would later determine was an $830 billion economic stimulus law, the unemployment rate climbed to 8.3 percent.
In the Obama era, the unemployment rate peaked at 10.0 percent in October 2010. It did not dip below 9 percent until October 2011, when it hit 8.9 percent.  From August to September 2012, it dropped from 8.1 percent to 7.8 percent—the first time during Obama’s tenure it went under 8 percent.
Since then, the lowest it has gone has been 7.5 percent—the rate it hit in April. But after April, it ticked back up to 7.6 percent in May and stayed at 7.6 percent in June.~snip~

Add to that number of workers at involuntary part time as opposed to full time and we have a shift in wealth all right as our middle class shrinks. All thanks to Obamacare as employers try to avoid the penalties mandated by it.
It's a shame that the war on the middle class doesn't get the same amount of press as the "war on women" or even the george Zimmerman trial.

Pining for Jobs that may not Exist

Wow what a historic presidency, Obama pushing for all those really important things like repealing DADT, crippling the energy industry (thank god those jobs won't be available.
 Warning Christians around the world not to resist the Muslim Brotherhood and trying to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants to compete with the few jobs he and administration hasn't managed to destroy yet all the time neglecting those who want to enter the workforce.

Believe it or not these airheads who helped propel president failure into office have the nerve to complain that the opportunities they expect to be handed to them ain't there.

College Graduates Take Jobs They Don’t Want Every 5 Minutes

More than 120,000 college graduates who obtained a bachelor’s degree took jobs in fields other than those that they most preferred last year, which works out to an unwanted job taken every five minutes.
The numbers come from a recent report from McKinsey On Society, an online publishing forum for the consulting firm’s research on pressing social issues. The report says that 48 percent of college graduates took a job that required less than a four-year degree. Four to five times as many graduates are working in the retail and restaurant industries than would prefer to. The report also noted that 15 percent of taxi drivers have a college degree, up drastically from 1 to 2 percent in 1970.
In an interview with the Huffington Post, a recent college graduate, exasperated, said she’d take any job offered. “My ultimate goal right now is just to get a full-time job that has benefits; I don’t care if it’s in my field,” she said.
At a time when student debt has reached more than $1 trillion and Congress struggles to come up with a bipartisan plan to alleviate it, the fear of not being able to afford the bills is tangible for recent college graduates. ~snip~

Oh the horror, to swallow hope and change hook line and sinker and then to find out the world isn't made up of rainbows and unicorn farts.

Here we got an article about a bunch of self important little children who expert to go out into the world and get a cushy dream job that will make all their problems go away.

I guess there isn't that much of a demand for that BA in transgender lesbian feminist studies as they thought.

Under Obama's economy not only are there millions out of work right now but there are millions who, after years of trying, have given up altogether trying to find a job.

Quite a few, who I'm sure, have way more experience in that "preferred job" you're looking for.  

You voted him in and then watched him destroy the economy and then wonder why you can't get the job you think you're entitled to.

Now you get to feel the pain you inflicted on the rest of the country while you spent 4 years insulated from reality by mommy and daddy.

Not a lot of sympathy here.

Surviving Hope and Change

Unfortunately it doesn't do any good to say I told you so but I don't see how anyone can spin this into a positive.
Unemployment is down because so many people have given up. Simply because the jobs are not out there.

People Not In Labor Force Soar By 663,000 To 90 Million, Labor Force Participation Rate At 1979 Levels

Things just keep getting worse for the American worker, and by implication US economy, where as we have shown many times before, it pays just as well to sit back and collect disability and various welfare and entitlement checks, than to work .The best manifestation of this: the number of people not in the labor force which in March soared by a massive 663,000 to a record 90 million Americans who are no longer even looking for work. This was the biggest monthly increase in people dropping out of the labor force since January 2012, when the BLS did its census recast of the labor numbers. And even worse, the labor force participation rate plunged from an already abysmal 63.5% to 63.3% - the lowest since 1979! But at least it helped with the now painfully grotesque propaganda that the US unemployment rate is "improving."~snip~

For those who need charts they are at the link.
Unfortunately it's just not the democrats and pandering RINO's who don't understand how the economy works. Just go to facebook and choose some liberal "progressive" time lines and behold the number of ninnies that are out there.

There's one guy I read who claims that if only the minimum wage was raised by several dollars then welfare will basically disappear................ I know right?

I realize that there are some people who would rather sit back and collect from uncle sugar and not bother to work at all but the reality is that Obama and the democrats are doing everything they can to stifle business and kill jobs. A lot of those who've dropped out of the workforce for disability, welfare and other entitlement benefits are doing it to survive.
Want to stimulate hiring?
Remove the uncertainty of Obamacare, get the democrats to quit threatening to raise taxes, create a budget and repeal bullshit regulations that burden business.
Do at least that much and then see what the participation rate is or we can continue on this path and see if we can out malaise the Jimmy Carter era.

Pay the World

Whelp, here we go again with the never ending amnesty of illegal immigrants with the entrenched RINO's falling all over themselves to out amnesty Obama's amnesty and prove to illegals that the GOP *hearts* them more than the Obamessiah.
Hell even the unions love illegals now that their membership is declining and dues dwindling done. Another group for them to exploit and collect millions for distribution to their democrat party overlords.
What a racket huh?

We're getting ready to force people into Obamacare, we can't really make a dent in the number of citizens who are unemployed but now we're going to allow millions more to compete for jobs and benefits.
Oh....and we're going to run out of money for it all eventually and then have millions more in line with us to get their bowl of soup and slice of bread.

But the good news is that the RINO's are getting advice on how to pass illegal immigration reform from none other than Hispanic groups.


Hispanic Group to GOP on Immigration: Avoid Saying 'Illegals,' 'Amnesty,' 'Reagan'

A moderate Republican Hispanic group in favor of comprehensive immigration reform wrote a memo to GOP lawmakers urging them to watch their tone.
The Hispanic Leadership Network wrote the memo to GOP lawmakers on the day a bipartisan group of Senators announced a framework for a comprehensive immigration reform deal. The note encouraged Republicans not to use words like "illegals," "anchor babies," "Reagan," and "amnesty" if they want to pass comprehensive immigration reform. The advice came on the eve of President Barack Obama's announcement of his immigration reform proposal Tuesday.
In the memo, the group urges Republicans to acknowledge that "our current immigration system is broken and we need to fix it." The group believes saying things like "we are against amnesty" makes people think Republicans will be opposed to any immigration reform plan.
In addition, the group also believes Republicans should use "earned legal status" instead of "pathway to citizenship" when discussing the various forms of amnesty that may be included in the bill. Regarding border security, the group advises Republicans to say "enforcement of our borders includes more border patrol, technology, and building a fence where it makes sense," while avoiding phrases like "send them all back," "electric fence," and "build a wall along the entire border."~snip~

Like RINO's need tips on how to kiss illegal immigrants asses.

Fairness...as Defined by Obama

Well, since the election Obama's agenda has been moving steadily forward. Requiring employers who cannot afford to do so to provide medical insurance to all employees.
In order to maintain their business some are scaling back and are forced to layoff workers, some are even closing down their businesses because of the burden of Obamacare and stifling regulations.

But fear not, even with the economy going into the crapper and jobs and small businesses going the way of the Dodo, Obama and his administration are moving forward to ensure equal results across the board.

Obama To Unleash Racial-Preferences Juggernaut

If your organization has a policy or practice that doesn't benefit minorities equally, watch out: The Obama administration could sue you for racial discrimination under a dubious legal theory that many argue is unconstitutional.
President Obama intends to close "persistent gaps" between whites and minorities in everything from credit scores and homeownership to test scores and graduation rates.
His remedy — short of new affirmative-action legislation — is to sue financial companies, schools and employers based on "disparate impact" complaints — a stealthy way to achieve racial preferences, opposed 2 to 1 by Americans.
Under this broad interpretation of civil-rights law, virtually any organization can be held liable for race bias if it maintains a policy that negatively impacts one racial group more than another — even if it has no racist motive and applies the policy evenly across all groups.

If this keeps going then the only logical result will be minority preference at soup kitchens and unemployment lines.
Elections do have consequences.

Surviving the Next Four Years

One of the things we have that wasn't around during previous financial and economic hardship is the Internet.
There is a lot of information out there on how to save money, garden, and various other ways to cope with a deprivation of income. It would probably be a good idea to get familiar with these things while you still have Internet access.

A while ago I ran across this lovely woman's videos  on depression era cooking, while she shows different ways to stretch an anemic food budget , she also shares stories of her childhood during the depression.
Nanny Bloomberg obviously wouldn't approve, her recopies are easy and use common, inexpensive ingredients.

Here's a sample of Great Depression Cooking with Clara.



I'll look for other hints and tips to help people get through the next four years of fiscal hardships.

Give us our free sh*t!!!!

Obama has won another term in office.
So what does that get us?
Another 48 months of 8% plus unemployment?
Higher gas prices?
An outrageous deficit?
More American citizens abandoned in a foreign country to die?
A loss of our medical decisions?
Erosion of religious freedoms?
More pandering to our enemies?
Abandoning of Israel?

All of the above?

We used to believe in freedom, now this is what we have.

Now it's time for his "revenge", get ready for it because it' coming.

A Simple Choice

I gotta tell you that reading the polls and various prognostications on who will win this election befuddles the hell out of me.
After watching more and more people lose their jobs, the price of gas and groceries go up, the Obama administrations exploitation of our warriors and then the abandonment of our ambassador and brave citizens in Benghazi, how could this election possibly be close?
In 2007, during Obama's campaign, I saw people posting all over the internet about how John McCain would be just another G.W. Bush and anyone would be better than that.
Well we've had near four years of "anyone but Bush" and are paying the price of expediency over reason.

So the question Ronald Reagan posed during his final debate against Jimmy Carter in 1980 has come full circle to echo among voters now.



Come next Tuesday vote responsibly and end this national nightmare.

The Lefts Great Expectations

So Barry got his clock cleaned in the first debate and Joe basically showed his ass during the VP debate but no worries, liberals say Barry'll really bring it tonight.
The excuses are legion, he had an off night, he didn't prepare properly etc.,etc..
To bad he didn't think he had a bad night.

But progressives are fired up now, they say Obama does much better in town hall type debates, They even got a far left CNN "journalist" moderator to pick and choose the questions of the "undecided voters" *cough* leftist plants*cough*  and to throw a little spin into the mix if Obama gets a little confused.
Yup, lots of expectations for a guy who got a Nobel Prize for scratching his behind promising "Hope and Change" to get elected in 2008.
I guess Mitt ain't got much of a chance what with the economy the way it is, gas prices way up and the deficit just chugging along. As far as I know we still ain't got a budget either.

Barry just needs to sell us on his accomplishments, like Obamacare...that hardly anybody wants, along with gays being able to serve openly in the military...while millions have dropped out of the work force because there ain't no freaking jobs. Killing the coal industry and hobbling oil and gas production.
And of course bringing awareness to Big Bird.
Oh yeah....and he killed Bin Laden.

I gotta tell you, the biggest mystery to me is that how could they possibly have been able to find any "undecideds" for this debate at all. Because to me it seems like a no-brainer....Barry has got to go in November and there ain't no way he'll be able to weasel out of it in this debate or any other.

Look!! Another Squirrel!!

So this week we have another idiotic sound bite by another politician. The really news worthy thing was that it wasn't Joe "put ya all in chains" Biden making the moron hit parade.
It was Todd Akin from Missouri.
And of course his remarks have generated a much deserved backlash
Rep. Akin resists mounting calls to withdraw from Senate race after 'rape' comment

The Obamessiah has even jumped into the fray denouncing Akins remarks, as they should be. But herein lies the problem.
Obama has time and uses the press to denounce someone in a single senate race but doesn't seem to have the time or resources to address unemployment, the lack of a budget, rising gas prices, the sky rocketing deficit or any of the other problems that face the people of this nation.
This is just an excuse for Obama to talk about anything else but his piss poor record in office.
Were Rep. Akins remarks stupid and should he be held accountable?
Yes and yes.
The question is should Obama spend his time calling out some GOP senate wannabe from Missouri?
The media, old and new, will make sure Akin's remarks will get a full airing to his constituents and they will decide by ballot.

Obama needs to stop with the distractions and face accountability for his actions and policies over the last 4 years.
Fat chance of that happening.

Abandoning "Hope and Change" Dems go for Gay Marriage

So with unemployment staying stagnant at 8% and above for over three years and women and minorities being hardest hit along with the GDP shrinking towards a dribble ,finally the democratic party has a platform that they can really get behind.

Democrats Draft Gay Marriage Platform

Democrats appear ready to embrace same-sex marriage as part of their party platform, a policy shift that reflects an expanded acceptance of gay rights in mainstream politics.
The move would place the party in line with the beliefs of President Obama, who in May became the first sitting president to declare that gay men and lesbians should be able to marry.
Democratic Party officials had squabbled over the issue in the past. But at a platform-drafting meeting over the weekend in Minneapolis, they approved the first step to amend their platform, placing the amendment on track for adoption. In two weeks, the entire platform committee will vote at a meeting scheduled in Detroit. Then, if approved as expected, it would go before convention delegates in Charlotte, N.C., for final passage in early September

Glad to see they got their priorities straight. I guess since they can't seem to do anything about the other stuff they decided to give up on improving the economy and go to something else their good at whining about.

I mean what could be better than having gay married couples join the ranks of families losing their jobs, running out their unemployment insurance benefits, go on food stamps, lose their homes and end up living in over crowded shelters or on the streets?

There's some "equality" for you.

Careful What You Wish For

A lot of voters bought into the "hope and change" offered by Obama and the lick-spittle liberal media in 2007-2008.

Now them chickens have come home to roost.

The Hill Poll: Majority of voters believe Obama has changed country for worse

Two-thirds of likely voters say President Obama has kept his 2008 campaign promise to change America — but it’s changed for the worse, according to a sizable majority.
A new poll for The Hill found 56 percent of likely voters believe Obama’s first term has transformed the nation in a negative way, compared to 35 percent who believe the country has changed for the better under his leadership.
The results signal broad voter unease with the direction the nation has taken under Obama’s leadership and present a major challenge for the incumbent Democrat as he seeks reelection this fall. 
Conducted for The Hill by Pulse Opinion Research, the poll comes in the wake of last month’s Supreme Court decision that upheld the primary elements of Obama’s signature healthcare legislation.

Life has taken a fundamental change for a large segment of America since hope and change has arrived. Employment is stagnant, the number of people on food stamps continues to rise. The national debt has sky rocketed and a large portion of the population has dropped out of the workforce.

Some "change" huh?

Cause and Effect, GOP Governors Reduce Unemployment

It's easy to blame the unemployed for their predicament but the truth is that there needs to be jobs available for them to seek before they can contribute to the work force.
If the federal government creates a hostile environment for business to thrive in then it's no wonder that there are more people out of work.
But we can do something about it and some states already have.

New Republican governors rapidly bringing down unemployment in their states

Voters in 17 states elected new Republican governors in November 2010. This new breed of fiscally-conservative, tea party-supported Republican governors took office in January 2011. Here is how those states have fared since then, in terms of their unemployment rates:
Kansas - 6.9% to 6.1% = a decline of 0.8%
Maine - 8.0% to 7.4% = a decline of 0.6%
Michigan - 10.9% to 8.5% = a decline of 2.4%
New Mexico - 7.7% to 6.7% = a decline of 1.0%
Oklahoma - 6.2% to 4.8% = a decline of 1.4%
Pennsylvania - 8.0% to 7.4% = a decline of 0.6%
Tennessee - 9.5% to 7.9% = a decline of 1.6%
Wisconsin - 7.7% to 6.8% = a decline of 0.9%
Wyoming - 6.3% to 5.2% = a decline of 1.1%
Alabama - 9.3% to 7.4% = a decline of 1.9%
Georgia - 10.1% to 8.9% = a decline of 1.2%
South Carolina - 10.6% to 9.1% = a decline of 1.5%
South Dakota - 5.0% to 4.3% = a decline of 0.7%
Florida - 10.9% to 8.6% = a decline of 2.3%
Nevada - 13.8% to 11.6% = a decline of 2.2%
Iowa - 6.1% to 5.1% = a decline of 1.0%
Ohio - 9.0% to 7.3% = a decline of 1.7%

Fact is that we can do better by selecting politicians who will encourage business growth in their states and ultimately for the country.
Conservatives ain't looking for someone to love, we're looking for someone to lead, the libtards and MSM can continue to seek a love affair all they want.
But the time has come for the star struck masses to wake up and put America back to work again.