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Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Why Not Talk About Jobs?


Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders take New Hampshire but who is talking about jobs? New Hampshire has one of the best unemployment rates in the country with 3.1%. The national average of unemployment is 4.9% and dropping, in 2008 it was 5%. The take home pay when you factor in the cost of living is the same as it has been 20 years ago, (with the exception of the tech boom in 2008). Yes the economy is better than it was during the great depression but not by far. 62% of Americans are working, that's the lowest since the 1970s. So why are there 5.6 million job openings?

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Black Judge Sends White Officer Off To Jail In Disgust


A Michigan police officer faced sentencing today for assaulting a black man driving a Cadillac. During a routine traffic stop the man was pulled over. As the two police officers walked up to the vehicle the black man held his hands outside of his window. The two police officers then pulled the man out of his vehicle, threw him to the ground and one officer (William Melendez) punched him 16 times in the head. The police officers joked about the incident as they wiped the man's blood off of their uniforms. The incident was captured via the police car's dash cam. The honorable Vonda Evans a black judge called them "racist police officers looking to do a (N-word)" before sentencing Melendez to 13-10 years in prison.