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To: i-node who wrote (663812)	7/25/2012 2:48:01 AM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574794

What To Do With Obama T-shirts Nobody Wants? July 24, 2012 By Dr. Kevin "Coach" Collins 5 Comments One of the leading online election-related merchants is Café Press. They sell T-shirts and anything else with candidates’ names on it. This is their business. Café Press has no political bent; they are just merchants selling what people want. If people like what they are selling, they will make more of that product. If people show little interest in a particular product, they move on to offer what will sell. This is why Café Press’ (CP) latest sales figures for pro-Barack Obama items are significant. When CP compared its Obama items sales figures this past week, it revealed some telling information. They found that compared to this time in 2008, their Obama items’ sales figures were down sharply. Where the ratio of anti- to pro-Obama items was 14% to 86%, that figure today is 56% anti-Obama to 44% pro-Obama. The “anti” figure has taken a huge jump up, and the “pro” number has sagged. CP reports that since January, not only have sales of pro-Romney items been greater than Obama’s 2008 figures, but the ratio of pro- to anti-Romney items has substantially exceeded Obama’s positive side sales. Just 5% of all Romney-related merchandise has been “anti”, with a whopping 95% being pro. Using what is calls an “Election Meter” to track these sales, CP has developed its own theory about what the results might mean in November’s election. Its director of marketing explained the meaning of these sales this way: “We believe that how people spend money on political merchandise is a leading indicator of how they will ultimately vote. At Café Press, we track the spending on candidate-related gear and report our trends through The Meter, which are often in line with polls and voting results.” People vote with their feet and their wallets; this disparity tells us something the Democrat cheerleaders in the media don’t want us to know. It strongly suggests that Romney is gaining strength while Obama is getting weaker. It helps explain why current polls have to include lopsided numbers of Democrats to achieve the appearance that Obama is close.

To: i-node who wrote (663812)	7/25/2012 11:18:59 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574794

In case you have a hard time believing how the national work ethic has deteriorated, read this. It's a quotation I got today from one of my "informers". " 8,753,935: Workers on Disability Set Another Record in July; Exceed Population of 39 States The number of workers taking federal disability insurance payments hit yet another record in July, increasing to 8,753,935 during the month from the previous record of 8,733,461 set in June, according to newly released data from the Social Security Administration. The 8,753,935 workers who took federal disability insurance payments in July exceeded the population of 39 of the 50 states. Only 11 states—California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina and New Jersey—had more people in them than the number of workers on the federal disability insurance rolls in July. Virginia, the twelfth most-populous state, had 8,096,604 people in 2011, according to the latest Census Bureau estimate. That would make Virginia’s population about 657,331 less than the number of workers who took federal disability insurance payments in July. I thank Scott Pluschau for sending me this story posted on the cnsnews.com Internet site on Monday...and the link is here. " If this is true it means we have either turned into a nation of people with chronic weaknesses, or there is a whole lot of fraud being paid for by the taxpayers. And if all such disability claimants were put into one (heretofore empty) state, that state would have a population larger than all but 11 others. How much further can this go one before people wake up? /Taro