That is the current mystery!


Yeah, those darn Bush years.

Look how well things are working under Obama-----We are experiencing labor participation rates under 63! It's now at the lowest rate since 1978. Why the participation rate has fallen so much is one of the most hotly debated questions in economics, yet all progressives can do is make excuses about the baby boomers (smaller than Gen X & Y, by the way).

19% of those working are in part time jobs of 35 hours or less per week versus a historic rate in the very low teens.

Real unemployment, U6, is still at about 11.5%.

All these stats are much, much worse in large urban centers and with minorities, especially young black men.

Health care costs still going up (ADDING $2500 per year to middle class costs versus the promise of a $2500 drop), health insurance rates through the roof, hospital ERs getting even busier, fringes of war in the Middle East, Korea, Russia......

Yeah, things are sooooooo nice with the guy who never ran anything running the country! His best skill? Like most progressives, blaming Bush for all of his inadequacies.

True that. There is, as always, more to the story with Cuba than just saying we want to be friends with them.

The unpleasant smell in the "Cuba is great let's be friends with them" room is the huge amount of money owed to US companies and US and Cuban citizens that were expropriated by the Castro Brother in the name of the State of Cuba. Under US law these can not be simply swept under the rug and forgotten about. That debt must be paid prior to any normalization of trade relations between the countries. Or, of course, change the law.