thepeoplesrecord:
americanfall:
thepeoplesrecord:
whitehouse:
Share the news: Our economy added 176,000 private-sector jobs last month, while unemployment dipped to its lowest rate since December 2008. http://at.wh.gov/kGdc9
Share the news - Barack Obama is a war criminal.
Share the news - poor people don’t know what you’re talking about, we’re still jobless or over-worked & underpaid and yes, poor.
Share the news - it was a really bad idea for the White House to get a Tumblr. You are not welcome here.
Share the news!
Share the News: Under the Obama Administration, a 16 year old American citizen was killed by a drone bomb, and the same Administration continues to justify this.
Share the News: Barack Obama has signed away the 5th and 6th Amendments of the US Constitution with the passing of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
Share the News: Barack Obama has signed the Monsanto Protection Act, which allows for major companies to not tell you what is actually in your food. Funny, the guy really wants to cut out obesity, but then passes a bill like this.
But keep saying this man (and his entire administration) is great because he watched the Avengers or looked at a kid’s science project. Barack Obama is ruining this country, and just because he has a tumblr doesn’t make it any better.
Share the news, 22 veterans kill themselves everyday after the terror they’ve been coerced & manipulated into committing under the imperial, war-time leadership of Presidents Barack Obama & George W Bush! Share the news!
Share the news, 9.5 million people have left the labor force altogether since President Obama was inaugurated. The U6 measure of unemployment takes into account part-time workers and other individuals who are marginally attached to the labor market. That measure puts the real unemployment rate at 13.9%.
Thanks, Obama!
(via lillabet)
4:55 pm • 4 May 2013 • 2,370 notes
thinksquad:
“The education BLOB – that immovable jelly-like ball of teachers’ and janitors’ unions, school board bureaucrats, PTAs, etc. – just keeps growing. The number of students has increased 96%, but administrative staff increased 702%!” - John Stossel
This goes back to that delusion of the left that 90% of taxes goes to education or other public services.
9:48 am • 22 April 2013 • 122 notes
thinksquad:
Since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, states have passed more measures expanding rather than restricting the right to carry guns. View the full interactive graphic here: http://on.wsj.com/14H07V9
1:17 pm • 4 April 2013 • 30 notes
barticles:
Did the stimulus really create jobs? Judging by the chart above, it doesn’t look that way. Had it done so, you’d expect some kind of correlation — the higher the stimulus, the better the improvement in employment figures. It wouldn’t have to be 1:1, but there would have to be some kind of pattern. Yet there doesn’t seem to be.
Backstory and explanation here.
P.S. - yes, fact-check organizations say otherwise. And in a narrow sense they are correct: If you take the money out of Joe’s wallet and pay Fred to dig a ditch, you have created a job for Fred. That is undeniable, and it is silly for Republicans to try to deny it.
What the analysis misses is the unseen effects. If you had left the money in Joe’s wallet, he would have paid Mike to mow his lawn. So, in creating a job for Fred, you took a job away from Mike.
Government stimulus spending, then, does not so much create jobs as reallocate them. The chart above seems to give that conclusion statistical heft.
10:20 am • 28 February 2013 • 11 notes
hipsterlibertarian:
“If Congress allows this meat-cleaver approach to take place, it will jeopardize our military readiness; it will eviscerate job-creating investments in education and energy and medical research. These cuts are not smart. They are not fair. They will hurt our economy.” — President Obama on the sequester
Oh yeah, I totally see how the meat-cleaver analogy works! Look at how our spending decreases dramatically over the next eight years! Look at that huge drop-off as we head back to 1840s-level spending! Catastrophe lurks at the door! Hide your kids; hide your wife; they’re cutting everybody out here!
…OH WAIT, none of that is accurate, and the President’s quote is completely disingenuous. The sequester is not a spending cut. There are no spending cuts. The sequester is a slight slowing of the rate at which DC’s spending increases.
This is a big distinction, and to imply otherwise deserves no better name than “malicious alarmism” and no glossier name than “lies.”
(via existenceandidentity)
8:42 am • 22 February 2013 • 162 notes
mutualistvanguard:
antigovernmentextremist:
mutualistvanguard:
enemyofthestatist:
The beauty of this chart is that from “did it work” there is no “yes” option.
the crisis is capitalism
Right, because nothing says capitalism more like a central bank.
well, the chart is titled “federal reserve crisis”
the crisis is not the FED it’s the corporate capitalist system tho it does help it isn’t the root of all financial crisis
Capitalist. You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.
The word you’re looking for is corporatism.
(Source: paleolibertarian, via pizzavanguard)
12:56 pm • 24 December 2012 • 144 notes
mutualistvanguard:
enemyofthestatist:
The beauty of this chart is that from “did it work” there is no “yes” option.
the crisis is capitalism
Right, because nothing says capitalism more like a central bank.
(Source: paleolibertarian, via pizzavanguard)
11:20 am • 24 December 2012 • 144 notes
enemyofthestatist:
The beauty of this chart is that from “did it work” there is no “yes” option.
(Source: paleolibertarian)
9:01 am • 23 December 2012 • 144 notes
eltigrechico:
Realized this chart didn’t exist, and that it definitely needed to. As I continue reading this book expect more updates of awesome gun stats
(via eltigrechico)
6:41 pm • 18 December 2012 • 385 notes
Gun ownership vs murder rate by country
georgeoughttohelp:
In the discussions following the recent Newtown shooting, several people have told me that data regarding gun ownership and violence supports the case for more restrictive gun prohibition. I believe that the above plots, on their face, discredit this view.
If all countries are included in the plot, there is a negative correlation between gun ownership and rate of homicide. Only when the plot is limited to OECD countries (with the outliers of US and Mexico included), does a very small positive correlation appear.
Disclaimer
Because of the many uncontrolled variables involved in comparisons between countries, I don’t believe such statistics can help the case for or against gun control. I’m posting them here to counter the claims by advocates of increased governmental gun control that the statistics legitimise their preference.
The plots above use data from the following sources:
List of countries by intentional homicide rate
Number of guns per capita by country
Thanks To
Mark Reid lately posted some gun control related plots and helpfully included instructions on how to recreate them using the statistics program R.
Diego Basch adapted the plots to compare intentional homicides against gun ownership.
Regarding the question of gun control, intentional homicides is a more relevant figure to look at than rates of gun-related deaths. This is because if an attacker expects that a victim may have a gun, they’ll be less likely to attempt any kind of attack.
For this post I recreated Diego’s plots by feeding R the same data sets, and getting it to draw regression lines for ease of reading.
10:48 am • 17 December 2012 • 96 notes
