More jobs gone… (via Fellowship of the Minds)

Solyndra was touted by the Obama administration as a prime example of how green technology could deliver jobs.

Solyndra to Declare Bankruptcy Via NBC: Solyndra announces it plans to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy, is suspending operations and seeks a reorganization.  Solyndra is a major manufacturer of solar technology in Fremont, CA and has shut its doors, according to employees at the campus. As a result of the suspension of operations approximately 1,100 full-time and temporary employees are being laid off effective immediately. From their statement: "Desp … Read More

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Washington state’s glumness index dives off the charts

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Pollster Stuart Elway put an exclamation point on what many Washington state residents are feeling. Expectations about the future are at an all-time low.

WASHINGTONIANS are smart enough to know instinctively — without a poll — that expectations about the future are down in the dumps. Way, way down.

Pollster Stuart Elway put an exclamation point on what many people feel. His latest poll asks voters if they expect things to get better during the next year for the country, the state, community and their own households.

The optimism — or, in this case, pessimism — index plunged below zero, the lowest since he began polling in 1991. (Yes, even lower than the depths of the Great Recession in 2008 and 2009.)

Statewide, voters have what you might call recession fatigue. They expected things to be better by now, but that’s not really happening. We all know about recessions. They come, they go. They are not supposed to last this long.  read more

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120,000 foreign students invited to US each summer to work, some are now striking (via Refugee Resettlement Watch)

This belongs in a not-yet-created-but-needed category called OMG! Can you believe it—the US State Department has a program known as the J-1 Visa that allows 120,000 foreign students to come to the US to work! This when AMERICAN KIDS HAVE NO SUMMER JOBS!

Update:  Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit reports today that the percentage of young people (ages 16-24) working this summer is the lowest ever, here. For those of you who are going to wonder what this has to do with refugees, I'll tell you right now.  The unemployment rate for refugees is probably around 50%.  Of course that's a guess because the Office of Refugee Resettlement is several years behind with the facts on that, but here you have the US St … Read More

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Gibson Guitar Corp. Responds to Federal Raid

How the Obama administration destroys jobs and forces them to move to China.

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The Four Stages Of Muslim/Islamic Conquest (via THE WAKING GIANT)

Increased anti-western propaganda and psychological warfare.

STAGE 1: INFILTRATION Muslims begin moving to non-Muslim countries in increasing numbers and the beginning of cultural conflicts are visible, though often subtle. First migration wave to non-Muslim “host” country. Appeal for humanitarian tolerance from the host society. Attempts to portray Islam as a peaceful & Muslims as victims of misunderstanding and racism (even though Islam is not a ‘race’). High Muslim birth rate in host country increas … Read More

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