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I confess to being a total ignoramus about economics and I usually rely on David Goldman or David Malpass to explain things to me. On the shutdown I have wondered what really happened? Was anyone hurt? Restaurants and movies and theaters were full; cars were on the road; traffic lights worked and to my knowledge no ambulances or garbage trucks were halted. Did we save any money while the government was shut down? Well Daniel Greenfield sums it up.
3 Weeks of Government Shutdown Cost 2.5 Days of Government Spending

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The latest media talking point is about the “cost” of the shutdown.

It’s ironic that the allies of an administration that triggers constant fiscal showdowns over its refusal to stop spending insane amounts of money that we don’t have are now pretending to be concerned about the cost of something.

Their latest revelation is that the shutdown may have cost… get ready for it… up to $24 billion.

That’s right. A whole $24 billion. In some pre-Obama universe that was maybe a lot of money. But in the Obama Era, that’s 2.5 days worth of government spending.

Every day, the U.S. government takes in $6 billion and spends $10 billion. This means that every day the federal government spends $4 billion more dollars than it has.

Three weeks of government shutdown cost 2.5 days of government spending. Six days of deficit spending.

If the government had actually shut down, we would have saved a ton of money. But we didn’t. And that’s just depending on which balance sheet we use.

Here’s what the naked shutdown really looked like.

According to the Daily Treasury Statement for Oct. 2, which was released yesterday at 4:00 p.m., the Treasury spent a total of $63.262 billion in the first two days of fiscal 2014. At the same time, it took in $25.681 billion in tax revenue.

In 2 days, more money was stolen than the whole “cost” of the shutdown. More money was spent at a deficit in the first two days of the government shutdown than the cost of the shutdown.

And more than twice as much money was spent.

That $24 billion? It wouldn’t even count as pocket change to an administration that treats a trillion dollars as play money. Obama’s 2012 budget was nearly 4 trillion dollars. To put that into perspective. Imagine that 24 billion dollars is actually just 24 bucks. Then Obama’s demented 2012 budget was 4,000 dollars.

While Obama blows trillions, the media suddenly pretends to care about a measly 24 billion dollars even as defends his right to spend unlimited amounts of taxpayer money and debt.

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Following what must have been an onslaught of protest from the American public, Rob Eshman issued the following statement to serve as an apology for a vile cartoon comparing Tea Partiers with Islamic terrorists in the Oct. 11th edition of the Los Angeles Journal. While defending cartoonist Steve Greenberg he stated

“”At the same time, we are especially sensitive to the impression many have that the cartoon somehow trivializes the horrific, real suffering wrought by Islamic terrorists. That is clearly not Greenberg’s intention– and I offer my apology to anyone who sees the cartoon exclusively in that light. I agree that even in the context of a political cartoon, this one was insensitive, and I apologize to those we have offended.”

He further stated:

“The Jewish Journal, meanwhile, is committed to presenting a multiplicity of thoughtful voices on issues that matter to all Americans. We are guided not by what are perceived as narrow ‘Jewish’ interests, but by the larger Jewish value of vigorous debate leading to mutual understanding. Satire is part of that debate.”

Clearly, Eshman does not comprehend the message. We are offended not only because it trivializes the suffering of those wrought by Islamic terrorism, but because it also equates the mission of Tea Partiers with the mission of terrorists. And for all his protestation, the Jewish Journal under Eshman’s watch has not been a forum for a multiplicity of voices. Instead it has served as a Leftist indoctrination arm of the values held dear by Marxists, Communists, and today’s term de jour, Progressives.

Similar to many Jewish newspapers across the country, the voice is primarily of the Left and its influence upon Jewish life is dismal. The recent 2013 Pew Research Center reports that only 40% of American Jews believe that G-d gave the land of Israel to Jews as compared to 82% among white Evangelicals who believe the same.

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The news on Monday, October 7th, included a notice that Heather Zichal would be leaving her White House job as Obama’s “top adviser on environmental and climate issues.” And I asked myself who is Heather Zichal?

In fact, Ms. Zichal had served in an advisory position for five years. In her current position, she replaced the “climate and energy czar”, Carol Browner, who left in March 2011. Browner had formerly been the Director of the Environmental Protection Agency where she did her best to impose some of the most draconian environmental policies; a task taken up by Lisa Jackson until she recently stepped down and was replaced by Gina McCarthy. It says a lot about this agency that during the government shutdown, it furloughed 93% of its employees as “non-essential.”

In July Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) penned a Wall Street Journal’s commentary, “The EPA’s Game of Secret Science”, noting “As the Environmental Protection Agency moves forward with some of the most costly regulations in history, there needs to be greater transparency about the claimed benefits from these actions. Unfortunately, President Obama and the EPA have been unwilling to reveal to the American people the data they use to justify their multibillion-dollar regulatory agenda.” Rep. Smith is chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

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Obama The Agitator — on The Glazov Gang
Kai Chen, Karen Kenny and John Duffy dissect how the Radical-in-Chief stirs division and hate.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/obama-the-agitator-on-the-glazov-gang/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/18/pruden-and-now-the-blame-game/

The blame game begins, and the usual suspects are shooting into their own ranks. If you think you can’t hit your own feet, you aim at the toes of someone else.

The Democrats have put their nasties on hold, better to celebrate their victory. Only yesterday, the Democrats in Congress were elbowing each other away from the microphones to see whose fangs could squirt the most poisonous venom. Barbara Boxer called the Republicans “domestic abusers.” Nancy Pelosi, having misplaced her meds, shouted “anarchist” and “bomb throwers” and “hijackers” at the likes of Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. Harry Reid said the Republicans were guilty of “economic treason,” whatever that is. He had to add the modifier lest he be called as a witness if Mr. Cruz is to now be put on trial for his life, “treason” being a serious crime. This morning, the Democrats are laying sloppy wet kisses on John Boehner and Mitch McConnell. They’ll learn later that love you pay for is expensive at any price.

John McCain, who has never recovered from the memory of how nice the boys on the bus treated him when he was trying to take down George W. in his first race for the White House. He has been trying to recover the love since, like a man trying to rekindle the romance with an ex-wife, couldn’t wait to say “I told you so.”

He told CNN that the public has been so traumatized by the Republican mischief that “we may still have some gridlock, maybe we’ll have continuing resolutions, [but] we’re not going to shut down the government again. I guarantee it.” Lindsey Graham, his reliable echo, is thought to still be working on his own gloat.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/17/editorial-wheres-the-outrage/

President Obama has no concept of accountability. His minions know that no matter what they do, they’re never going to suffer consequences for their mistakes, no matter how grievous or embarrassing. Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of Health and Human Services, presides over the biggest flop the Internet has seen since Al Gore invented it. White House press secretary Jay Carney says Mrs. Sebelius, despite spending $634 million on the Obamacare website disaster, still has the president’s “full confidence.”

Mr. Carney’s predecessor, Robert Gibbs, now that he no longer has to say things he doesn’t believe and can speak for himself, disagrees. Mr. Gibbs characterized the rollout of the health care takeover as “excruciatingly embarrassing.” He told MSNBC that it was “bungled badly.” Would-be Obamacare enrollees and curiosity-seekers alike have encountered technical malfunctions, including error messages and crashed pages, when they tried to log on to healthcare.gov. The initial “traffic jam” explanation — that it was simply the happy crush of eager enrollees all trying to sign up at once — was abandoned in the face of complaints that even attempts to log on in the wee hours of the morning failed.

The president likens the opening of the Obamacare exchanges to glitches that Apple encounters when it introduces a new operating system for its cellphones and electronic tablets. “I don’t remember anybody suggesting Apple should stop selling iPhones or iPads,” the president protested, “or threatening to shut down the company if they didn’t.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/18/us-debt-jumps-400-billion-tops-17-trillion-first-t/ U.S. debt jumped a record $328 billion on Thursday, the first day the federal government was able to borrow money under the deal President Obama and Congress sealed this week. The debt now equals $17.075 trillion, according to figures the Treasury Department posted online on Friday. The $328 billion increase shattered the previous high […]