Cory Booker praises Obama's economic recovery--Larry Kudlow slams him

Larry Kudlow, the National Economic Council Director knows a thing or two about economics. Senator Cory "Spartacus" Booker (D-NJ) barely knows how to comb his hair [singular].

On Sunday, Spartacus said President Trump was "taking credit for a recovery that started under [former President Barack] Obama." He was referring to an anemic change in direction that was as wishy-washy for the economy as Obama was toward ISIS.

So everything good that happens under Trump, Obama gets the credit. Everything bad, well, you know.

"What Mr. Booker and some others are saying is simply not true factually," Kudlow told Fox News' "America's News HQ".

Kudlow spoke after the publication of Friday's  jobs report for April, which showed that the American economy added 263,000 jobs last month while the unemployment rate fell to 3.6 percent, the lowest since 1969, about a half century.

Despite the high numbers, Booker insisted that the boom's effects were not being felt across all economic levels, which indicates a lack of understanding in line with that of Bernie Sanders.

"You have people on my block – I'm the only presidential candidate that lives in a low-income inner-city neighborhood. [His self-imposed victimhood is supposed to be a badge of honor.] Talk to folks, and they'll tell you: 'I have to work two jobs just to try to keep myself in housing. And, by the way, that housing isn't reflected in any of my family,'" Booker said on CNN's "State of the Union."

 "Americans are struggling. Their wages are too low ... for the last four decades, I don't think they've budged that much ... We've got to make sure that this is a shared recovery, because, right now, it definitely is not."

Kudlow disagreed with the bug-eyed 2020 presidential candidate.

"I'm just gonna use the damn facts," he told Fox News' Leland Vittert, whose sister is also an economist. "On the wage front, average hourly earnings are rising 3.2 percent overall. The bottom [poorest] quarter [of workers], 4.4 percent increase, the top quarter, 3.5 percent [increase]."

"First of all, both are good and a rising tide is lifting all boats," Kudlow added. "But the point I'm making is, it's the blue collar people that have the fastest job expansion and it's the blue collar people that have the best wage growth."

Kudlow addressed the April jobs report in a video posted on the White House's Instagram page Friday afternoon.

"Wow! Low unemployment, high jobs, high wages, big consumer confidence, major productivity and no inflation," he said enthusiastically. "It's totally awesome. We're killing it on the economy."

"I don't know how I had the energy to do that," Kudlow said Sunday. "I just walked out and, I don't know, man, let her rip. These are blowout numbers. The economy is going great guns and POTUS'  policies, to be perfectly honest, his policies to rebuild this economy have entered us into a tremendous prosperity cycle. And I don't see any end to it right now."

It's beginning to look like Booker's chance of winning the Democratic nomination is about as good as an unborn baby at Planned Parenthood.


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Hollande read the writing on the wall

France's Socialist President Francois Hollande will not seek to lose in the next election next year so he has decided not to seek re-election.

Hollande made the announcement Thursday on French television TF1 and it came soon after Manuel Valis announced that he is "ready" to compete in the left-wing Socialist primary in January and hopefully rid France of its past success in the world market.

Hollande said [in French]: "I have decided not to be a candidate in the presidential election" bring hope to the masses that the economy will flourish and people will go back to earning what they work for rather than have someone else pay their way. 

Hollande is as popular as herpes and was expected to announce his election intentions in the coming weeks, but couldn't wait any longer and "spilled the fries," as they say. He has been the most unpopular president in all of France's modern history--often saying that he would only seek re-election if he was able to curb the socialist-caused unemployment rate. It has been around 10% for years and isn't expected to recover under a socialist government as they are low on other people's money.

Things had gotten so bad in France that there was talk of bringing back the guillotine just for Hollande's use. That will no longer be necessary.

However, if Valis actually wins the presidency, France will get exactly what it deserves.



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All jihadists want is love, a job and to kill us

Poor, misunderstood and unloved

Hamburg, Germany -- He needed a job, but they didn't want to give him a job, so he snapped.

He was poor, which was why he did it in the first place. If we had just given him a job, it would have never happened. 

He needed love. A few hugs at the right time and a kind smile--that would have reassured him, it would have told him that he counts for something. But we didn't show him love, and that's why he did it.

A job, some money and some love. That's all liberals would say that it would have taken for 19-year-old Afghan from storming into the Versohnungskirche [Church of Reconciliation] in Hamburg. He threw chairs and benches, kicked down the Bible stand, threw hymn books on the floor, and splintered glass everywhere.

It was open community everning, around 7:20 p.m. and those in the church were afraid to stop the young, misunderstood lad. The fact that he was dressed in swirling Islamic garb and may have had a suicide vest underneath, may have also contributed to the reluctance to intervene.

Due to the fact that the jihadist did not speak as he went about destroying Christian symbols, and had no Salafist connections, the State Protection Department's criminal prosecution agency made the brilliant dhimmie assumption that there was no "Islamist" motive involved with the Islamic youth.

Peter, an eyewitness to the attack, sent PI the photo of the jihadist attacker as he did his damage. Once the attacker was done, Peter asked the attacker in front of the congregation why he had done it, to which came the screaming response: "Because I am a Muslim!"

Liar.

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More Illegals than unemployed Americans

According to The Washington Free Beacon, illegal aliens (I refuse to call them immigrants) now outnumber American unemployed workers. The numbers are: 11.3 million illegal aliens in 2014 vs. 9.6 million unemployed Americans in the same year. The data comes from Pew Research Center and Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Of the criminals from other countries who came here, along with visa-holding workers, and those with expired visas who are now engaged in criminal activity (being an illegal alien, that is) 8.1 million are in the American work force  and account for 5.1% of the total labor force and soon-to-be Democrats. 

That puts a lot of actual American citizens on the unemployment line.

"Unauthorized immigrants [read: illegal aliens] make up 5.1% of the U.S. labor force. In the U.S. labor force there were 8.1 million unauthorized [illegal aliens] immigrants either working or looking for work in 2012," Pew says.

Pew goes on to say: "Last year, President Obama took executive action to expand an existing program and establish a new one that would offer work permits and deportation relief to an estimated 5 million unauthorized immigrants. The actions--which are on hold because of a lawsuit by 26 states--would be open to unauthorized immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, who are parents with a child who is a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident as long as they meet certain requirements."

Yes, certain requirements require they vote Democrat. That is the rhyme and reason for Obama's "generosity" in the first place. You can bet if immigrants tended to vote for the GOP, this would not be a story.

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We'll Have Fun Fun Fun Now That Barry Took Incentive Away Now

President Obama wants to extend unemployment benefits for at least a million Americans, in spite of the fact that four million jobs are actually available at this time. But who can blame our president--he just wants to give a helping hand to those Americans who are too incapacitated to work. 

"My Teleprompter says . . . "

Wait. . . this just in: these unemployed people are actually able-bodied men and women who have grown accustomed to  staying home studying law via Judge Judy, and social science, via As the World Turns. Some of these unemployed are going so far as to study medicine via General Hospital. And like the soap operas and Judge Judy shows, the benefits seem to go on and on, having no end in sight.

When you pay people to stay home, they tend to stay home. When unemployment poses no emergency, they have no incentive to get off their duff and look for work, or even when they do, the jobs they interview for aren't exactly what they're looking for, so they keep looking. They become very selective.

Some Seriously Taxing Issues & Michael Moore's Tutu

 It seems that government is involved in everything nowadays--from your child's education, to the food that you aren't allowed to eat, even if you want to. We pay taxes and expect services from the government, but how much is too much and where should we draw the line?

One thing that must be provided to Americans by the federal government is the infrastructure--roads, bridges, tunnels, and highways, and these must be maintained by the government with our tax money. I believe the government has the right to collect tolls for bridges and roads, but the people should have a say in the amount that we pay. It's ludicrous to think that paying $14.00 for the Verrazano Bridge toll is reasonable. We were promised that once a structure such as this bridge was paid for, the toll would be removed. With the threat of Islamic terrorism, I concede that we need to continue to pay for security for these structures, but to think the government can rake us over the coals for money that goes beyond these needs is unfair and probably illegal. And the worst thing of all is that the infrastructure of our country is crumbling and throwing more money into it hasn't helped.


Secondly, the government is responsible for our defense as a nation. I know President Obama doesn't take that too seriously, and even W. said that Islam is a religion of peace, but most Americans know otherwise. Our military should not be cut and we need to continue to keep military defense as a priority, rather than cutting back in this area. If I had my way, I'd cut back on $16.00 muffins and $8.00 coffee for our government officials who, like Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama, spend our tax dollars for their personal pleasures. I have written about this in a previous blog here.

Grand Jete

Thirdly, well, that's difficult to say. There isn't much more the government should be involved with because they have the Midas touch when it comes to running things, except instead of turning things into gold, they turn it into human waste. They do education like Michael Moore does an arabesque or grand jete. Also, we all know that the government does not create jobs, although they do provide them, as can be seen in the US Postal Service. In fact, there are so many jobs in the postal service that we are paying people not to work because there isn't enough work for them to do. Millions of taxpayer dollars is wasted at USPS every year and that's our money. Of course, we can blame it on government but the real culprit here is the union, which negotiated to protect jobs that don't need to exist. We need to remember too that government jobs do not generate more jobs, and unions do not generate more jobs--they're designed to maximize their workers salaries and benefits, often at a huge expense to management.

Michael Moore?

School teachers are also protected by unions and it practically takes an act of God to fire a teacher, even if he or she commits a crime involving their students. Since liberals like to see everything as equal, like the US is morally equivalent to Saudi Arabia, for example, teachers also have an equal situation with USPS because there is a significant number of them getting paid to sit in a "Quiet Room" and not teach. I wonder if the walls in the Quiet Room are padded to protect them from themselves.


So it should be clear that the purpose of the government in a free society is to take care of its citizens. It is not the role of government to take away their money to share with those who have less, for whatever reasons. Fact: Republicans are more generous than Democrats when giving to charities. Democrats only pretend to be the morally superior. 

My final brain flushing for today is: if we trained people who receive unemployment benefits, rather than to simply give them two years of sitting on their duffs, we would do more for them in the long term. Giving them more time to find a job has only extended the amount of time they tend to be out of work. We have spent our grand children's money on frivolous entitlements for too long and we need to become responsible again for their sake and the sake of our country. Just saying.


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