Does Shakedown Become Takedown?

According to President Obama, the economy is growing, jobs are being created with the unemployment rate decreasing and everything is just fine.  Thanks to him.

Obviously, this is Orwellian doublespeak, and nothing could be further from the truth.

The economy is growing, but at a historically small rate buoyed by exponential levels of stimulus, and the figures are certainly massaged.  Jobs are being created, but more jobs are being lost.  The unemployment rate is decreasing, because the pool of those counted continues to decline as less people are looking for work, as they recognized few job opportunities exist.  For a real gauge of the health of the American workforce, see the labor participation rate for full time workers, which is at rates not seen since the Carter administration.

Not withstanding the horrendous economic policies of the Obama administration, job killers most, perhaps the real culprit for job loss is Obamacare.  Yes, I know that Obama and his legion of handlers and yes men claim the opposite, but they have no idea what the truth is they lie so much.



Kathleen Sebelius/Washington Post

On Monday, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was in Orlando speaking to boost enrollment in the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, and presented an enthusiastic proclamation that the job market is gaining health and that Obamacare has not been responsible for any job losses.

There is absolutely no evidence -- and every economist will tell you this -- that there is any job loss related to the Affordable Care Act. Part-time positions are actually down since 2010, not up. The number of full-time workers continues to increase, so I know that that's a popular myth that continues to be repeated, but it just is not accurate.

The administration rarely checks facts on the ground, given they make up their own statistics, but had Sebelius taken the pulse of the Orlando market in recent days, she would have seen an article on the front page of The Orlando Sentinel within the prior week discussing how a major local employer in the mortgage industry was set to layoff approximately 750 staff members, although many may remain on in part time or independent contractor status and the company adopts a hybrid workforce model.

Certainly, real estate industries, from appraisers, who were already staggering from Andrew Cuomo's brainchild of the Home Valuation Code of Conduct regulations to mortgagers, who are reeling as 63% of residential sales in December in Florida were cash sales, are in turmoil in part thanks to governmental interference in the marketplace. Homebuilder sentiment is crashing, housing starts are dreadful and mortgage applications have hit a two decade low due to what Obama and Sebelius cannot see; a horrendous economic market and a bleak job market led by their orchestration.

As a company evaluates making the painful decision to layoff workers, not a signal of a healthy enterprise, each and every factor of where costs can be saved is thoroughly examined.  While a single reason may sometimes result in corporate layoffs, perhaps the loss of a major client, it is most often a collection of issues which make the move necessary.

In this day an age, notwithstanding the idiot thugs running our federal government, Obamacare is without question a major contributing factor to the greater majority of any layoffs taking place. 

However, this may not be stated publicly.

As Chris Stirewait, A FOX News contributor reports, the thought police are in control.  It seems that in the latest unconstitutional delay of Obamacare regulations, firms will be required to certify to the IRS – under penalty of perjury – that ObamaCare was not a motivating factor in their staffing decisions.

A corporate executive who certifies and signs such a document would be committing fraud, particularly if a public company, as a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to present all facts as known, which would be inclusive of causation for employee layoffs, exists.

So, the IRS is willingly forcing executives to commit fraud, potentially placing themselves and their company in a box without escape, illegally, in an effort to prohibit Obamacare from facing negative publicity and shield the public from he hard truths of not only this horrendous piece of legislation, but the great level of peril our economy is statused in.

Governmental thugs should not dictate to public or private companies what their correspondence to employees, clients, partners or customers should be.  Sadly, many companies who, for whatever reason have found themselves in bed with the government, find that corporate independence quickly eludes management.  GM and the banks are classic, timely examples.

America is facing a coup from within.  As promised, the fundamental transformation of America by the takeover of major industries either through legal legislation and executive orders to legal and potentially illegal intimidation to unchallenged and potentially illegal regulatory and legal action.

Controlled lawlessness with a complicit electorate and mainstream media drunk on power.

It is far time for this encroachment to be thwarted by any and all legal means necessary.  In a seemingly obvious statement, it will take more than a handful of republicans; it will require you.

Help freedom loving America stop the shakedown before it is officially scored a takedown.