The United States Secretary of Labor for the Obama Administration, Hilda Solis, disregards an old Bush policy of not raising the salary of incoming government employees above 20 percent. She hired 6 of her old congressional staffers to cushy appointments in the Department of Labor and rewards 5 of them with large increases in their salaries well above 20 percent. Honestly, it must be nice to have political connections so that you can get a huge income boost for doing nothing other than knowing someone. Isn’t that nice? You too can make a whole lot of money working a Federal job for Hilda if you worked with her before, and just think how you can spend all that new cash!!! CHA-CHING!!!

It’s all Hope, Change, and Progress in this new administration so we got a little silly and presented this in a Game Show format to change up our regular coverage of federal politics… enjoy

UPDATE: So what about the salaries of these staffers today? They’ve grown even more since this video was made… it’s all up up up! Remember these numbers and percentages were just the numbers used when they were hired. All of them are well over 50 raise right now, and many are over 100…So you can sleep safely in your bed knowing that some Department of Labor political staffer can afford a second beach house due to your tax dollars! YAY! Hope, Change, and CHA-CHING!… I mean Progress…

Is the US shipping green jobs overseas? We took a quick look at the destruction of a recently expanded manufacturing plant that created solar panels. The plant had been working steadily in Maryland for 30 years and recently had to shut its doors. The question is why? With the new initiatives and calling for Green Energy by the Obama administration you would think that these kinds of established jobs should have multiplied rather than be eliminated.

Needless to say Federal and local regulations in Frederick Maryland helped cause a negative business climate in which BP sent their jobs elsewhere. Looking at how much it costs in terms of government subsidies to create these jobs, the United States is following the example of Spain, in which for every green job created, another 2 jobs are lost in separate fields due to taxation. If the Administration was serious about green jobs then they should allow the free market to help allocate resources rather than creating a glut of solar products which lowers prices and kills jobs.

Shot on location in Frederick Maryland

Update: This was shot and edited well before the Oil spill in the gulf, so stop emailing us about energy theories please. We appreciate the enthusiasm but these two situations are unrelated.

The following featured video from ALG News featuring Barack Obama, Paul Krugman, and Sarah Palin gets to the truth about the true role of Independent Medicare Advisory Board (i.e. death panels).