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1. Starla
   June 17th, 2011 @ 11:11 am

   Congressman West Statement on the War Powers Resolution Deadline for Withdrawal of U.S. Armed Forces in Libya

   (WASHINGTON)—- Congressman Allen West (FL-22) released this statement today regarding the Sunday deadline for President Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. forces from Libya:

   “The War Powers Act is the law and the provisions are clear. At midnight on Sunday, it will be 90 days since President Obama informed the United States Congress of the introduction of American forces into Libya. Since the introduction of American forces, Congress has not declared war or enacted a specific authorization for the use of force. Without either of these actions, the 90 days have elapsed and troops need to be withdrawn.

   Yesterday, the Obama Administration claimed our Armed Forces are not in ‘harm’s way.’ Further, the conflict in Libya does not require the approval of the United States Congress because there is ‘little risk’ to our Armed Forces. The President should realize that every time our American men and women are committed to military action, they are in harm’s way. It is an affront to the family members of the pilots flying in this conflict and supporting this mission to say that they have not been placed in harm’s way.

   Since the opening hours of military action on March 19th, President Barack Obama has had no clear direction in Libya. The President has not defined the mission nor the end state of this conflict. Further, the President has not identified who the so-called rebels are that continue to receive millions of dollars of American support in terms of weapons, ammunition, and resources.

   As a 22-year Army combat veteran, I can tell you from experience that successful mission completion is obtained by properly defining the mission- something President Obama has failed to do. We cannot continue this ‘mission creep’ kind of warfare.

   President Barack Obama is in violation of the law – plain and simple – and he must be held accountable. We do not need to give the President any more time. Many Americans, myself included, still do not understand how America is benefitting from having forces in Libya in the first place. The very foundation of our Republic lies on the system of checks and balances, and as a Member of the United States Congress, I have a Constitutional obligation to ensure this system is upheld.

   I hope that on the eve of the 90-day deadline, the President will either seek Congressional approval or halt all military actions in Libya. If the President does not take these steps, the United States Congress should hold hearings on the President’s violation of the War Powers Act. The Leadership should also move forward to eliminate funding for these military operations. Finally, the Leadership must hold the President accountable to the law in order to ensure the checks and balances that have been in place since the enactment of the War Powers Resolution are upheld. ”

2. Starla
   June 17th, 2011 @ 1:34 pm

   “SHOVEL NOT READY JOBS FROM OBAMA, NOW THIS?!”

   By Bob Rose
   June 16th, 2011

   Excerpt:

   “Obama has a commission, panel, a whatever to create jobs, and they report 2 million manufacturing jobs available, but we lack skilled applicants, so 2 billion dollars will be used for remedial training? Sound bizarre? Wait it gets better, those jobs aren’t really there!!”

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   “THE OBAMA JOB LIES PILE UP”

   By John Ransom

   “This is all you need to know about Obama’s economic program to understand why joblessness remains so persistent:

   The number one recommendation that the White House economic team and his jobs council – a council made up of the two top executives at GE and American Express- can come up with to jump start our economy is spending $2 billion on remedial training for our high school graduates.

   It’s true. This is even worse than the energy plan that Obama proposed that had no new ideas.

   The training is necessary, they say, so those graduates can fill the millions of jobs available today in manufacturing. Manufacturing what? Burgers and fries?

   For the last week President Obama and his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness- a council that’s supposed to be jump starting hiring- have been going around the country claiming that there are 2 million manufacturing jobs available right now that are going unfilled because the U.S. doesn’t have the skilled workforce to fill those jobs.

   It gets worse.

   And they are making the pitch to spend $2 billion to try to remedy this problem.

   It gets worse still.

   “There are more than two million open jobs in the U.S.,” writes Obama’s Jobs chiefs Jeff Immelt (GE) and Ken Chenault (American Express) in the Wall Street Journal, “in part because employers can’t find workers with the advanced manufacturing skills they need.”

   The Los Angeles Times cited the same figure on the 13th of June saying that Immelt’s and Chenault’s council would recommend to President Obama that the country “Develop training partnerships with community colleges and vocational schools to help fill what they said were more than 2 million job openings in advanced manufacturing in the United States.”

   Obama did a dog-and-pony show at a community college that teaches students how to work on hybrid vehicles to showcase this advanced manufacturing training. I covered the event in a previous column, Obamanauts Flunk Word Problem.

   The problem of course is that the 2 million advanced manufacturing job openings that Obama, Immelt and Chenault are talking about really don’t exist.

   Why doesn’t it surprise me that Obama, Immelt and Chenault would feel perfectly comfortable lying to the American people about job openings that don’t actually exist?

   But wait, it gets even worse still.”

   Read More Here: https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2011/06/16/the_obama_job_lies_pile_up

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