Henry Payne for December 17, 2014

Every president from Texas has gotten us involved (or more involved) in unwinnable wars for reasons that do not make sense. One would think we would learn from this.

Yet another chickenhawk. If we get him in ‘16, there won’t be a bumper sticker in ’48. The kids will be off fighting his wars, or those will be wheelchairs, and 1984 will seem like the promised land.

From September 2008 to December 2008, 2.6 million jobs were lost — a rate of 650,000 per month. In January 2009, the month Barack Obama took office, 818,000 jobs were lost.President Obama did not inherit a slowdown or a recession; he inherited a total economic COLLAPSE. There has been uninterrupted monthly job growth since October 2010. In September 2010, there was job growth in the private sector but net job loss due to government layoffs. Currently, we have the lowest initial weekly jobless claims (WJC) since 2000, when the economy was humming at a remarkable rate. The WJC for week ending 10/11/2014 was 266,000 — the lowest WJC since April 2000. Just for reference, the WJC number economists look for is 400,000; that is considered the break even mark between jobs created and jobs lost.Mitt Romney promised to reduce the unemployment rate to 6% by the end of his first term, 2017. It isn’t 2015 yet and the unemployment rate 5.8%.Newt Gingrich promised to get gas $2.50 a gallon. There are places where gas is now below 2.50 a gallon.

He’s from Detroit.

The employment participation rate peaked at 68% in 2000, at the time of the lowest unemployment in the last 40 years.It has steadily declined since then, at 66% in 2008. The number of people reaching retirement age started to rise at an increased rate in 2006. The number of people reaching retirement age at a higher portion of the population will continue for the 10 to 15 years.Math wasn’t Churchill’s best subject — as the loved ones of those who died at Gallipoli and Anzio can tell you