When the January job numbers came out Friday, the White House boasted that 243,000 jobs were created last month. Not saved-created. The unemployment rate continued to fall, now officially at 8.3 percent. Could it be? Were we all wrong? Did the Obama stimulus do it’s job? Hardly.

Exactly a year ago I wrote that the Obama regime was playing with employment numbers then. Even economists were puzzled by the apparent drop in unemployment. Here we are again, and can use the Hilda Solis run Labor Department’s own numbers to expose the strengthening economy myth.

It appears that the people not in the labor force exploded by an unprecedented record 1.2 million. No, that’s not a typo: 1.2 million people dropped out of the labor force in one month! So as the labor force increased from 153.9 million to 154.4 million, the non-institutional population increased to 242.3 million, meaning those not in the labor force surged from 86.7 million to 87.9 million. Which means that the civilian labor force tumbled to a fresh 30-year low of 63.7 percent as the BLS is seriously planning on eliminating nearly half of the available labor pool from the unemployment calculation.”

That’s right. 1.2 million people suddenly disappeared from the labor force, and now we have to go back to the days when Ronald (happy birthday) Reagan was mopping up the mess left behind by Peanut-brain Carter. Do the math. If indeed 243,000 jobs were created, but 1.2 million are no longer being counted…that’s a minus on my calculator. But Obama can brag that the economy is coming around, mainly because he’s not being challenged.

I said before that Republicans were using a risky strategy of focusing solely on the economy, given the plethora of issues they could be using to attack Obama. Right now, Barry is BSing the public and he’s getting away with it. I could find this information over the weekend. Are we to believe that four presidential candidates have no clue what’s going on? They can ask Bloomberg, they crunched the numbers with a real calculator. Or any number of financial analysts. We aren’t any better off than we were last year. The propaganda says different though, and if the polls are any indicator, it’s working like a charm.

No wonder Barry was so adamant about getting that bill passed before anyone actually read it. No danger though. Even Harry Reid won’t bring it up for a vote. How bad is that? If he did though, this is what we could expect to see. And make no mistake; if Obama can’t get this kind of thing through here, he will certainly try it there.

The job creation bill that President Obama sent to Congress earlier this month includes a provision that would allow unsuccessful job applicants to sue if they think a company of 15 more employees denied them a job because they were unemployed.

That is correct. It doesn’t actually have to be true. If an unemployed individual thinks they didn’t get the job because they were unemployed, the money train will roll. Just about anyone can make that claim. Does an employer usually tell you why they decided not to hire you? Never in my case. But with this bill, millions of unemployed workers-qualified or not, would have been able to sue just about any company they applied to. All they have to do is think the company discriminated.

I know how tough it is to be unemployed. I’m sure we’ve all been there at some point, but at the same time, I never expected a company to hire me. I tried to present myself and my skills in the best light possible and show the company how I could benefit them. I never thought about suing anybody.

The only reason a company would not hire an unemployed individual is either they were unqualified, or they have been out of work so long, their skills have eroded. Would you hire a pilot that hadn’t been in a cockpit for 99 weeks? Either would I.

But under Obama’s plan that pilot could sue you. Luckily, this thing is DOA, but as I said, Obama will try and get it through some other way. We saw him try it with the Obamacare death counseling. He couldn’t get it in the bill, so he tried to impose it as a regulation. He failed, but he tried.

I feel for the unemployed. I could be one of them in the near future. We all could. Jobs aren’t being created in this country, and existing jobs are being shipped out. The job market is hell. But you can’t sue because a company decided not to hire you. Hopefully, the next election will bring in a hands on Republican. That’s what we’ll need to untangle the maze of regulations and edicts that Obama has smeared across the federal landscape. This would have been yet one more.

On Friday, Standard & Poors lowered the credit rating of the U.S. from AAA to AA+. That translates into higher interest rates for everybody. When the government has to pay more to borrow money, they pass that on to banks that borrow money from the fed that they in turn loan to you and I. Everybody gets hit with a downgrade, and incredibly, if we’d only listened to communist China, this could have been avoided.

China has been warning the U.S. for a few years that spending was out of control, and they had to stop borrowing the insane amounts of money it was borrowing. At the same time, China continued to buy up U.S. treasuries, mainly because at the time, we were AAA; it was the safest investment in town. It still is, but now it just isn’t as safe as it was.

The bribes no doubt helped. Shipping millions of jobs over to China is causing their economy to explode with double digit increases annually made them happy to buy treasuries initially. China in turn is shipping garbage products back to the United States, which are then sold to the very people that lost their jobs to the communist juggernaut. It was the best of both worlds. A safe place to put their money and being handed an economy that used to exist in the United States. You have to ask yourself though, what country wouldn’t take advantage of such generosity? After all, they’re basically lending us our own money. Those jobs used to be here, and we send what money is left in America back to China in the form of profit from the manufactured products shipped to the U.S.

Now all that could potentially be in jeopardy. As a result, China is dictating what the U.S. should do about it. The propagandory New China News Agency said it all.

“If no substantial cuts were made to the U.S. gigantic military expenditure and bloated social welfare costs, the downgrade would prove to be only a prelude to more devastating credit rating cuts, which will further roil the global financial markets all along the way,” it continued.

Sure, cut the fat-and dump that military while you’re at it. Of course, if we weren’t embroiled in three wars, that might actually be possible. Not only that, the legendary waste the government is famous for are actually hidden, painless cuts.

Don’t expect Obama to listen though. In fact, don’t expect many in Washington to listen. If the disastrous debt deal is any indicator, that crowd won’t be able to navigate the U.S. economy out of a paper bag. That’s bad news for the rest of us.

China is looking for a place to invest their capital. They aren’t happy with the U.S., but at this time, there really is nowhere else to put their money. You could say that’s very unfortunate, because it gives the big spenders in Washington a line of credit they shouldn’t have. This country rakes in plenty of revenue every month. We don’t need to borrow. If even China can see that, then we have politicians with blinders on in Washington. That is of course, unless this is the plan. Francis Piven will tell you it is the plan. Why else would Obama take a teetering economy and push it off the cliff. If he’s following the plan, it’s a necessary step. Yes, I can see how devastating a failure it will be as well. But we’re talking ideologues that just can’t be convinced their philosophy has never, and will never work. If they don’t believe that, they can just ask booming China.

According to this report from FOX (and I’ve heard the same story elsewhere), the Obama regime has assured banks that there absolutely will not be a default, even if a debt agreement is not reached by August 2nd.

In a series of phone calls, administration officials have told bankers that the administration will not allow a default to happen even if the debt cap isn’t raised by the August 2 date.

Quite different from what we’re hearing from Obama and his tax cheat goon Turbo Tim Geithner. The Goldman Sachs alum is wailing about an imminent default, even as banks are being assured that no such thing will happen. Of course, Obama could be lying to the banks, pulling a Cloward-Piven moment on steroids, but as much as Obama would love to do that, even he realizes the difference between dismantling a system and destroying something beyond repair.

This is a straight out lie for public consumption. Most people you ask on the street-if they have any knowledge of this issue at all, will tell you that we need to raise the debt limit or risk default. Or so the polls indicate. It’s all based on a lie though. What will happen though, is Obama will be able to decide what gets funded after debt interest is paid. So it is absolutely possible that granny may not get her Social Security check, while Acornian type groups, La Raza beneficiaries, and Muslim outreach programs will be spared the axe.

I thought before that Republicans should just let August 2 come and go, since they have a plan on the table. But with the specter of Obama doling out federal money, maybe that isn’t such a good idea. At the same time, the incredible amount of government waste, that will absorb much of that debt ceiling increase isn’t a much better alternative.

I don’t think we need to borrow any more money. I think there’s enough waste to go around. Sure other cuts have to be made and there will be pain. There will be pain because the government has handed out freebies for so many years that now there are those that have become dependent on those freebies. That could take a generation or more to fix, assuming the fix started right now. But we know that isn’t going to happen, and as a result we’ll end with some crap bill that raises the cap and more than likely doesn’t cut anything. Nobody in Washington wants to make the hard choices. They have their careers to think about. For the leftists, they have shown that anything that shrinks government is not an option. It philosophically goes against all their tenets.

And that’s where we are. The good news is that tea party favorites came to Washington in November, and they’ve already made their presence felt. We need more in 2012. Remember, in the end, the rank and file will do whatever it takes to remain in power. If that means making real progress in reducing the deficit-and the national debt, then they will, if grudgingly, have to comply with the voters that can throw them out of office in the next election cycle.

Yesterday we had the happy, fluffy reports. Economic think tanks that apparently this newspaper concluded were competent released reports suggesting that June would be a banner month for job creation in the United States. Various economic geniuses predicted between 100-200,000 jobs created for June. Not nearly enough for a struggling economy, but still, a few hundred thousand folks back on payrolls is a good thing. Well, it would have been a good thing.

Today the government released their numbers, and they didn’t come anywhere near what these experts predicted. 18,000. A far cry from 200,000, or even 100,000. Unemployment ticked up to 9.2 percent. Many of those were government jobs. Local government that is.

Remember the stimulus bill? That was supposed to create or save X number of jobs. Well, these were some of the jobs. That temporary money is now gone, and those folks are unemployed. Of course they are. Nobody addressed the core issue of job creation. Stimulus money was thrown at existing jobs, propping up bankrupted governments across America. Everyone knew these days were coming, and now they’re here. The response of the Obama regime is to raise taxes, possibly come up with yet another stimulus scheme, raise the debt ceiling, and maybe even QE3. All the worse things you can do when you’re broke. Spend more, borrow more, pay more taxes, and devalue the dollar. Only someone that is trying to collapse the econony would push such an agenda. That brings us back to Obama.

What has this guy done to better the economy? Not only has he pushed the above debacles, but he has left the border unattended, allowing millions of existing jobs to go to illegal aliens. Then he piles on an Obamacare scheme that will punish all businesses-except the pals he gave waivers to. What is the logic in torching companies that have the propensity to ship jobs out of the country already?

We go back to the confused public that doesn’t know what to think. Anyone in their right mind would not give Obama another four years. But with the number of people that just don’t pay attention, or agree with the slauhgtering of the economy, or those that vote based on something other than content of character, or those that shouldn’t be voting at all, or those that are flat out clueless, Obama still has a chance 2012. That’s bad news for all of us, including his followers.

Obama slithered into North Carolina today, a state that boasts an unemployment rate under 10 percent only because the government no longer counts those whose jobless benefits have dried up. He didn’t come to visit those folks though. He stopped in at a company called Cree, Inc., an LED light manufacturer. Oh yes, they are a green company. That’s Obama green though, not greenbacks, unless you count the stimulus tax credits this company has received.

Cree has received $39 million in tax credits, compliments you and I. What did they do with that money? Well, they have created 375 jobs in the last year and plan on creating 300 more. As long as we keep filling the pot. Those jobs are just temporary though, and if you believe the CEO of Cree, Chuck Swoboda, the jobs will eventually end up in China.

More Than 50% Of Cree’s Employees Are Now Working In China And Cree CEO Chuck Swoboda Says They “Will Continue To Expand Our Operation In Huizhou.”

Remember, $39 million in stimulus money. Swoboda doesn’t think he can compete with cheap Chinese labor though, and on some level he is correct. That doesn’t stop him from taking out money though. After all, Cree is a NASDAQ listed company, and stockholders come first. That means cutting the overhead.

“Though Cree is a US-based, Nasdaq-listed company, Swoboda said that ‘Cree management never runs this company as a US company. We consider Cree to be a global company with local wisdoms.’”

No, he never intended Cree to be a boon to the North Carolina economy. He’s thinking outsourcing, and he expects you to pay for it. This is where Obama stumped with his stay the course rhetoric, and a continuing death spiral to a green economy. Green for China maybe.

How would you feel being an employee at Cree? The CEO is saying he can’t compete with you on the payroll. Talk about days being numbered. But Cree isn’t the first company that took stimulus funds and handed them over to China, and they won’t be the last. But Obama wants us to believe that the stimulus is actually working. Well, I guess it is; for China, and CEO’s who ship American jobs there.

Obama folded when he had a chance to call China on their currency manipulation. How can you compete with a country that is keeping their currency intentionally undervalued?

He’s not competing, he’s fattening up a communist regime and funding their historic military buildup. That’s going to be somebody else’s problem though, not his. And companies like Cree, and goons like his economics czar Jeffery Immelt from GE and his schemes to make it even easier to insource as well as outsource will all be somebody else’s problem. Well, we could blame George Bush for all those things as well. I think Obama and Bush traveled the same road, but for different reasons. Either way, America gets the short end of the stick.

So there was a Republican presidential debate tonight. I hear Romney did very well. Great. Super. What do you do when nobody is on the horizon? That usually translates into reelection.