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September 28, 2009

How's that vote for Obama working out for you?

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The dead end kids: The unemployment rate for young Americans has exploded to 52.2 percent -- a post-World War II high.

Al Angrisani, the former assistant Labor Department secretary under President Reagan, doesn't see a turnaround in the jobs picture for entry-level workers and places the blame squarely on the Obama administration and the construction of its stimulus bill.

"There is no assistance provided for the development of job growth through small businesses, which create 70 percent of the jobs in the country," Angrisani said in an interview last week. "All those [unemployed young people] should be getting hired by small businesses."

Obama presses for longer school year: President Obama said Tuesday that American children should go to school longer — either stay later in the day or into the summer — if they're going to have any chance of competing for jobs and paychecks against foreign kids.

"We can no longer afford an academic calendar designed when America was a nation of farmers who needed their children at home plowing the land at the end of each day," Obama said, adding U.S. education to his already-crowded list of top priorities.

"That calendar may have once made sense, but today, it puts us at a competitive disadvantage. Our children spend over a month less in school than children in South Korea. That is no way to prepare them for a 21st-century economy.

Related: That vote for W could also use a rethink. Mainly with the question, "Is there a man in the West we can elect to defend the West?"

Amid Western hue and cry over Iran's newly-disclosed nuclear enrichment facility, two of the country's neighbors have voiced support for Tehran's nuclear energy program. Iraq and Turkey have cautioned the West against imposing any new sanctions and urged guarantee of Tehran's right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

Iraqi president Jalal Talabani said that Western sanctions against Iran would not work and that only a real negotiation would help resolve the issue. He also warned that his country will never allow Israel or any other country to use its airspace to carry out attacks against Tehran's nuclear facilities.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at September 28, 2009 05:58 AM

Comments

We have nipple.

I repeat... we have nipple.

Posted by: agent bedhead [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 28, 2009 11:02 AM

I hadn't seen his work-out togs yet.
Pretty impressive.

Posted by: harrison [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 28, 2009 11:07 AM

It is a little hilarious that Iraq gave airspace transit the thumbs-down, while the Saudis said it was okay.

Posted by: Chris Taylor [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 29, 2009 06:48 AM

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