Morning Briefing
For July 12, 2013
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1. The Real Scandal: No Jobs
While the unemployment numbers for June
contained some positive news, the coverage to date has obscured the
continuing negative trends and ObamaCare’s increasing impact. It’s time
to take a realistic look at how the fragility of our economy and the
specter of big government are restricting both growth and job creation.
The actual state of our labor market is a good place to start.
The “official” unemployment rate held steady
at 7.6%. The economy created 195,000 jobs in June. The BLS revised
payrolls for the last three months upwards and the labor participation
rate (the percentage of the total population over the age of 16 in the
labor force) improved slightly moving from 63.4% to 63.5%.
However, there were several very troubling
indicators. The number of people who gave up looking for work because
they believe no jobs were available increased by 206,000 from a year
earlier to 1 million. The number of individuals who were working part
time increased by 432,000, twice the number of jobs created. Full time
jobs actually declined by 272,000.
In part,
this increase in part time jobs and decline in full time jobs reflects a
change in hiring practices in anticipation of ObamaCare taking effect.
The new law substantially increases the cost of businesses providing
employees health insurance but only requires that they provide coverage
to full time employees. As result, employers are dividing available
hours of work among more jobs, creating more part time employees and
reducing the number of full time jobs. This actually reduces the
official unemployment rate which counts part time jobs as equal to full
time jobs. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. ACTION ALERT: Call Senator Reid and read his 2005 quotes on the Nuclear Option.
As the Democrats push forward with their plan
to change the Senate rules so as to end the minority parties ability to
filibuster legislation and require 60 votes, sources close to the
Majority Leader’s office tell the Huffington Post that he appears
determined. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Senator Ted Cruz Gets It. Will Others?
Senator Ted Cruz has come out forcefully
today against half measures on Obamacare. Instead he wants the GOP to
unite behind completely defunding the law. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. Living in the small spaces around the State
Like Erick, I hate the hyper-politicization of American life. I despise totalitarianism, no matter what uniform it wears, or how popular its leaders profess themselves to be. I
don’t understand why people with a birthright of dignified liberty are
so eager to indulge the totalitarian impulse for supposedly benevolent
ends. How many enforcers of any blood-spattered total State did not claim to act in the best interests of society? . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. Millennial Liberals Will Make You Care
The
millennial liberal of America is a creature who sees government as a way
to get ahead and get absolution and protection from life’s mistakes.
Where once one turned to family, friends, the church, and charity, the
millennial liberal believes government is there to provide them their
safety net so their actions can have no consequences, they can pursue
their dreams without worrying if the market will bear them, and impose
their own hedonism on others. Where once one turned to invention and
entrepreneurial to make a name for oneself, now one must get into
government and pass laws to ensure that no one can dare compete and
possibly one day rival the money that got the millennial into office. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
6. Pro-Abort Intimidation: YMCA Evicts Pro-Lifers In Texas
As the
abortion battle continues in Texas, a local YMCA chapter told Students
For Life Of America (SFLA) to leave the premises after anti-lifers
intimidated the assistant branch director to renege on their agreement
to use the center’s shower facilities. The
SFLA had embarked on a 3o-hour bus ride to Austin to rally in favor of
the pending Texas bill that will ban abortions twenty weeks into a
pregnancy. Pro-aborts
have also staged demonstrations against the new regulations, which
passed its first legislative hurdle in the Texas House. The Texas Senate expects to pass the bill soon. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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