* 25%
Speaker of the U.S. House, John Boehner, has an approval rating of 25% (see DailyKos poll). Could it be because Boehner and his Republicans still haven't passed one jobs bill even though the Republicans said their focus would be on creating jobs.
Boehner and his Republicans have been driven by ideology. Boehner and his righties have attacked those aspects of American life that they find not conservative enough like Planned Parenthood, NPR, Sesame Street, public education, civil rights, voting rights, the environment, public transportation, Medicare, Medicaid, Pell Grants, help for the disadvantaged, etc., etc. Boehner and Republicans have caved into the demands of the extremists of the Republican Party, aka Tea Party activists. I'm surprised that Boehner's approval is as high as 25%.
With Boehner scheduled to speak at Ohio State's spring commencement, graduates should ignore anything that the unpopular Speaker says.
* 51,000?
Innovation Ohio, released this information:
Innovation Ohio, a progressive think tank headquartered in Columbus, released an analysis today which finds that passing the Kasich Administration’s proposed two-year budget could mean a direct loss of 51,052 existing Ohio jobs. The study, including the methodology used to calculate the losses, is posted at www.innovationohio.org and can be accessed directly by following this link.
Job losses of that magnitude—which are more than double the 22,000 jobs that have been created since Gov. Kasich took office—could easily stall the state’s still-fragile economic recovery....
Could Ohio stand to lose 51,000 additional jobs? Check out Plunderbund's take on all this.
****** 7 Times More------
ThinkProgress:
In 2009, Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol joined a teen pregnancy prevention nonprofit called the Candie’s Foundation. Today, the Associated Press reported that the Candie’s Foundation released its 2009 tax information, revealing that Bristol was paid a salary of $262,500.
But a closer examination of the tax form by ThinkProgress shows that the group disbursed only $35,000 in grants to actual teen pregnancy health and counseling clinics....
....Thus, the nonprofit paid Bristol over seven times what it paid to teen pregnancy prevention groups. In addition, the Candie’s Foundation spent $165,000 on advertising....
What a scam!