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Obamanomics and the stimulus plan is a huge success (not). Unemployment is now at 9.5%.

By the end of  June jobs were lost in the following sectors:

1) Professional/Business 118,000 jobs lost.

2) Construction 79,000 jobs lost.

3) Manufacturing 136,000 jobs lost.

4) Durable goods and motor vehicle parts 27,000 jobs lost.

5) Fabricated metals 18,000 jobs lost.

6) Computer and electronics 16,000 jobs lost.

7) Mining 8,000 jobs lost.

Shall I go on ? Well lets just say the monthly losses totaled 467,000 jobs lost!!

Are we all feeling stimulated yet ? The rate is now at its highest in 4 decades. Now this is change you can count on! This is the change America asked for and the change it is getting. I just can’t wait for the full effect of Obamanomics if the socialist health care plan takes hold. Maybe once the feces hit’s the fan we can all pay in IOUS, ask California how that’s working out for them. We can get rid of the dollar and convert to the IOU.

Clay County commissioners begin their 2009-10 budget review process on Monday.

At the 2 p.m. meeting of the commission's Finance Committee, County Manager Fritz Behring will discuss budget issues and and seek commissioners' input on their priorities for the upcoming year.

I am attaching a link that the members of Congress and the President did not like to see.  There have been numerous times we all have complained about our elected leaders.

I understand from unreliable sources that the originator of this speech was invited to the White House, however that source was from the internet so who knows if it is true.

We have so many boon doggles that we the taxpayer have to pay.  The Belt way, infrastructure for developers, and the list goes on.  So I invite you to send a Tea bag to those elected officials responsible for overlooking who they work for, OGV you may want to send Jennifer a teabag just to get her attention.

My Fellow Bloggers,

I'm taking this opportunity to explain to you what I just did.  You'll probably hear more from JB on this.

I slept in a bit today so I didn't get to scan the blogs until @ 0645 this morning.  I decided to read One Mann's post on "BCC & Private Roads," since I know little about the subject.  Finder posted the first reply, One Mann replied to that & the third post was titled, "Hot Blondie Ally Gets."  The user name was Bashibozuk.  I couldn't figure it out from the title, but upon reading, it became apparent, & rather quickly, that it had nothing to do with the BCC or roads, at least not the ones in the original subject.

I hate the way politicians talk around things. Happened again Tuesday when the Board of County Commissioners discussed both emergency maintenance and establishing municipal services taxing units for regular county maintenance of private roads.

Not one of the Commissioners, four of them since Travis Cummings sat out this meeting, offered the blunt, "this could get me unelected" truth. Government, even if it is reimbursed through emergency fees or regular special tax assessments, should not be in the business of maintaining or improving private property. Period.

Harsh, I know, and certainly not what the many citizens living on private roads who attended Tuesday's meeting would want to hear. But that's the bottom line. It's a private road. The owners need to keep it maintained at whatever quality they desire because it's their property.

At Tuesday's meeting of the Clay County Board of County Commissioners, our elected officials were asked to endorse the concept of Foreign Trade Zone services areas.

I can't figure out why the Board would vote its endorsement, and unanimously at that, of something that will only result in more revenue for Uncle Sam to waste.  And it won't be coming from foreigners, either. Uncle Sam's dipping his hand into our pockets again.

The Foreign Trade Zone service areas are just a tax adjustment, and we all no there's only one direction government knows how to adjust taxes. Now, when foreign parts are shipped to the United States, there's usually a 10 percent duty - or tax - paid upon entry. In the proposed Foreign Trade Zones (FTZs) service areas, that won't be the case any longer. Uncle Sam decided to adjust that duty and collect its pound of financial flesh as 2.5 percent on the locally-manufactured good when sold.

It has been strangely quite.  Rants against that godless, radical, left leaning democratic, liberal, Obama & his administration have been numerous.  Wrongs, real or imagined, substantiated or not, have been put forth.  Everything he & his administration has done, or have tried to do, has come under the scrutiny of the right in their ever present vigilant effort to be fair & balanced.  Even the name calling has been fair & balanced.  You name it.  Socialist.  Marxist. Liberal, (spit when you say that mister).

But while insisting on being fair & balanced, word one has yet to be seen in print on two conservative Republicans, pillars of the community, vociferous proponents of "family values," (genuflect when you say that) one, a proponent of impeaching Clinton for infidelity, hankieus pankieus in the White House & having the temerity to lie to the Congress & American people.  GASP!  The cad!  How dare he do something so heinous?  Oh.  OK.  I guess the criteria is that it's OK as long as you're not the president & didn't do it in the White House.  Yes.  That must be the absolute distinction.  So it must be OK for these conservative paragons of "family values,"  to break the law, break their vows & break their trust with their families & the people who voted for them.  That must be the "fair & balanced part," & why nothing has been seen in some second hand, rehashed copy & paste from some, any, right leaning publication.

Or how I came to be unfond of  Normal 0 Omelettes

N. Korea is making a lot of noise about being able to hit something with their missals.

 I say the tax-payers in both N. Korea and the US should see if they are getting their respective monies worth.  The N. Koreans need to see that their missals work and we need to see if Star Wars works.  It sounds like a good plan.

 I will say this, if N. Korea hits my kid in Hawaii I will personally walk thru N. Korea from one end to the other and I will make the Stone Age look like a high technology playground compared to N. Korea.

JD

Thursday, July 2nd, Freedom Rally at the Jacksonville Landing, 5:30 to 7:00 PM. Hosted by First Coast Tea Party. Republican Liberty Caucus of Northeast Florida will be providing volunteers to support the event. Statement about First Coast Tea Party: Our Mission at FirstCoastTeaParty.org is to promote the principles of our Founding Fathers — individual liberty and responsibility, limited government, and moral leadership.

For more info: www.firstcoastteaparty.org

On July 4th the Republican Liberty Caucus of Northeast Florida will be holding a Liberty Independence Day Celebration at Confederate Park, 956 Hubbard St., JAX. Events start at 10:00. Thomas Dilorenzo economist and author of Hamilton's Curse and the Real Lincoln is scheduled as the keynote speaker for the event. The lineup is to include Local Navy Band, military and flag dedication ceremonies music, singers and inspirational talks; and the print debut of the Jacksonville Liberty Journal. Please remember to bring a lawn chair, as seating arrangements may be overwhelmed.