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Under Obama, Your Electricity Costs Have Already Necessarily Skyrocketed

Posted on November 24, 2013 by Ask Marion

By Terresa Monroe-Hamilton – NoisyRoom: Actually, in the last 10 years, electricity costs have gone up 42%. I noticed, did you? While not all the blame can be put on Obama (Bush was enabling the EPA as well), a great … Continue reading →

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Labor Day

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Ask Marion

This Labor Day, in a country of 350 million people, depending on the count of our illegal immigrant population, only 100 million people are working full-time and only 155 million are working full and part-time, and many of those people … Continue reading →

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NYT: Real Unemployment at 21.9 Million

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Ask Marion

Breitbart.com: On Friday, President Barack Obama’s Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Alan B. Krueger took a victory lap of sorts after the Labor Department’s jobs report showed the U.S. added 165,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in April. “Today’s employment … Continue reading →

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New York Times Admits Reaganomics Worked

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Ask Marion

After 30 years, The New York Times has admitted that Reaganomics worked (photo:  afp) Breitbart.com:  The inadvertent revelation comes in a November 29th article by Binyamin Appelbaum chronicling the steadily falling tax burden Americans have experienced since the 1980s. AEI … Continue reading →

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America’s Middle Class Net Worth Dips to 43 Year Hold… Homeless and Jobless at a High

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Ask Marion

Breitbart: The angle of a just-released New York University study is, of course, that ole’ left-wing canard known as "income inequality," but the findings are still useful in drawing other conclusions, and not ones that are very pleasant. Is America … Continue reading →

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More Americans Will Use Food Stamps For Thanksgiving This Year Than Ever Before and TANSTAAFL Is About To Become A Common Term

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Ask Marion

More Americans Will Use Food Stamps For Thanksgiving This Year Than Ever Before By Elizabeth Flock – November 20, 2012 RSS Feed Print More Americans will use food stamps to buy their Thanksgiving dinner this year than ever before, according … Continue reading →

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First They Came For The Cupcakes, And I Did Not Speak Out

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Ask Marion

By: Citizen Scribe From LaborUnionReport.com Please pardon me for borrowing the opening line from pastor Martin Niemöller’s condemnation of standing mute. His quote is only tangentially related… and yet… germane. Allow me to expand. On Friday, an American icon in … Continue reading →

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Full List of Obamacare Tax Hikes

Posted on November 18, 2012 by Ask Marion

Americans for Tax Reform: Complied by Americans for Tax Reform WASHINGTON, DC — Obamacare contains 20 new or higher taxes on American families and small businesses. Arranged by their respective sizes according to CBO scores, below is the total list … Continue reading →

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Denny’s to charge 5% ‘Obamacare surcharge’ and cut employee hours to deal with cost of legislation

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Ask Marion

DailyMail.co.uk – Cross-posted at True Health Is True Wealth: President Obama’s election victory ensured his Affordable Care Act would remain the centerpiece of his first term in power – but that has left some business owners baulking at the extra … Continue reading →

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How Many Businesses Have Announced Closings or Lay-Offs Since Obama Won A Second Term?

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Ask Marion

The Blaze: Do elections have consequences? If you have been paying attention to the financial markets, you might think so. Wall Street has had two horrible days since President Obama won a second term. However, stock prices are not the … Continue reading →

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