Was FBI Director Comey Threatened by the Obama/Clinton Enforcers??

TOMORROW IS ELECTION DAY. VOTE. • • • If you are one of the very few who are still considering who to vote for -- or if you think you know who you will vote for -- here is news that should send you scurrying to Donald Trump. • LABOR FORCE STATISTICS. Newsmax, with the cooperation of Newsmax Wire Services, the Associated Press, Reuters and Bloomberg News report that as of May, there are 94,184,000 Americans who are not in the labor force -- either unemployed and looking for a job or dropped out of the hunt. Newsmax says : "Behind the cheerful spin the Labor Department and government talking heads put on the official monthly jobs data is a sobering reality: a more-realistic unemployment rate is probably closer to 10% and a wide swatch of the American public remains out of work. Friday's report sketched a picture of a resilient job market that likely keeps the Federal Reserve on track to raise interest rates when it meets next month. Yet the economy remains pocketed by weaknesses that have left many feeling left behind on the eve of Election Day. Job gains have been steady, but pay raises have only recently become widespread. And millions of Americans are working part time but would prefer full-time work." • In October, the unemployment rate officially dipped to 4.9% from 5%. But, economists look past the official unemployment rate -- the 4.9%, also known as the "U-3" rate -- to other metrics that give a more "nuanced view of jobs in the country," according to CNBC. The alternative gauge of joblessness, the U-6 rate, counts not only the officially unemployed but also the part-timers who would prefer full-time work and people who have stopped looking for jobs, and the U-6 rate fell to 9.5%. That's the lowest point since 2008. Still, it is higher than is typical in a healthy US economy. CNBC says : "The official unemployment rate is defined as 'total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force,' but doesn't include a number of employment situations in which workers may find themselves. The U-6 rate is defined as all unemployed, plus 'persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons,' as a percent of a labor force" -- in other words, the unemployed, the underemployed and the discouraged. The U-3 rate has in the past few months returned to the prerecession levels that economists consider full employment. While the U-6 has improved in the past few years, it remains stubbornly above prerecession levels," CNBC.com explained. • Meanwhile, CNS News reports that "94,609,000 Americans aren't in the labor force, 425,000 more than last month's 94,184,000, and the second highest number on record." The labor force participation rate, which indicates the share of working-age people who are employed or looking for work, slipped to 62.8% from 62.9%, as the number of people in the labor force declined. In other words, 62.8% of the non-institutionalized, civilian population over the age of 16 is either employed or are actively looking for work, while the other 37.2% is not working or even looking. • When George W. Bush took office in January 2000, 69,142,000 people were not in the labor force, and when his two terms ended, the number was 80,380,000." When President Obama took office in January 2009, 80,529,000 Americans were not in the labor force, and that number has steadily risen during his two terms to its current 94-million level. The number reached a record 94,708, 000 this past May. Bloomberg News reported that some economists and policy makers claim that the US economy is close to full employment, but "blemishes" remain, with the ranks of part-time workers and long-term jobless still higher than before the last recession. • The federal government’s underemployment rate dropped to 9.5% in October from 9.7%, while the number of people working part-time for economic reasons was little changed, according to Friday’s report -- 5.89 million American employees were in part-time jobs but wanted full-time work. The New York Post's John Crudele bluntly points out that the monthly jobs data -- and not the ballot box -- is where Republicans should be looking for a rigged election : "If any trickery occurs, it will likely be in the seasonal adjustments, which can always be corrected at a later date and in the birth/death model that the Labor Department uses to guess at the number of jobs created by 'newly born' companies that it can’t prove really exist." • And, fewer teenagers worked or were looking for work last month. That trend reduced the proportion of Americans in the workforce, which is defined as people who either have a job or are actively seeking one. And, while Americans in their prime working years -- ages 25 through 54 -- extended a recent trend of returning to work, with 78% of people in that age bracket now working, the highest proportion since November 2008, in the midst of the Great Recession, it's still down from 80% before the 2008 downturn. • • • THE OBAMA ECONOMY IS NOT GROWING. • Despite October's progress, the economy is growing at the slowest pace of any in a recovery since World War II. Growth picked up to a 2.9% annual rate in the July-September quarter, according to government estimates, much faster than the 1.1% pace for the first half of the year. But most analysts foresee only modest expansion in the October-December quarter, leaving growth at an anemic rate of about 1.8% for all of 2016. Hiring in October was best in professional and business services, a category that includes mostly higher-paying jobs in engineering, accounting and information technology. Those companies added 43,000 jobs, followed by health care providers, which gained 39,100. Yet many companies are cutting workers. Manufacturers cut jobs last month, as did retailers despite October being the month where stores usually ramp up for holiday shopping. Both are factors that could weigh on economic growth this year. Consumers -- the US economy's fuel -- are showing some staying power, even though their spending slowed in the July-September period, but consumer spending did rise at a robust pace in September alone. Yet, much of that spending was on higher-priced items, including cars and homes. Auto sales are running close to last year's record high of more than 17 million. And while home sales have leveled off this year, they have done so at a nearly healthy level of 5.5 million. Businesses, though, have been cutting their spending on machinery, computers and other equipment. They have reduced such spending for the past four quarters -- the longest such stretch since the recession officially ended in mid-2009. • THE BOTTOM LINE is that Obama economic, regulatory and tax policies -- and the drag of the costs to business nqd the rise of pqrt-time employees to avoid Obamacare costs -- have cost Americans jobs and there is no end in sight if Hillary Clinton is elected to continue the Obama tax-and-spend approach to the economy that sacrifices jobs for the Progressive goals of putting huge numbers of US workers on the government dole ahndout system that ties them to voting for the very Democrats responsible for their joblessness. • • • In Florida, voters seem to 'get' the problem with Hillary and the Democrats. Only 24 people in Fort Myers, Florida, showed up to meet Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine on Saturday. The line began with three people outside a building at Florida Southwestern State College in Fort Myers, The Gateway Pundit reported. The line then grew to eight people -- later reaching "a couple of dozen" before the doors were opened to the room where the Virginia senator was speaking -- and 24 showed up finally. • And the latest Fox News poll, reported Friday, confirms the movement of US workers to Trump. The Fox poll shows Trump’s lead among white high school educated men is approaching landslide proportions. In the current poll, he leads Hillary among these voters by 41 points (61% to 20%). One week ago, he led by 31 points (59%-29%) and two weeks ago, his lead was only 16 points (48%-32%). This huge swing in Trump’s vote -- and the equivalent crash in Hillary’s vote -- is moving the major industrial states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and Minnesota in Trump’s direction. Hillary is still trailing Trump among high school educated women where she now trails by 21 points (53% to 32%) having been 27 points back (58%-31%) previously. • • • BREAKING NEWS : WAS JIM COMEY THREATENED OR BLACKMAILED BY PROGRESSIVE OBAMA ENFORCERS? Despite the fact that Fox News reported on late Sunday afternoon that FBI Director James Comey has written a new letter to Congress saying a review of recently discovered Hillary Clinton emails does not change the agency's conclusion reached in July that no charges were warranted in the probe of her private email server -- and that the Hillary email server investigation is closed -- Again!! Who is pulling Comey's strings??? • The announcement comes just two days before Election Day, following harsh criticism of Comey for his October 28 letter on the latest portion of the investigation. Comey wrote on Sunday : “Since my letter, the FBI investigative team has been working around the clock to process and review a large volume of emails from a device obtained in connection with an unrelated criminal investigation. During that process we reviewed all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State. Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with respect to Secretary Clinton." • DEMOCRATS REACT. In a tweet, Clinton campaign press secretary Brian Fallon said : "We were always confident nothing would cause the July decision to be revisited. Now Director Comey has confirmed it." According to the New York Times, Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri made a statement on the campaign airplane Sunday afternoon, saying : "We are glad to see that he has confirmed the conclusions he reached in July." The ranking Democrat member of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Adam Schiff, quickly responded to the news : "As expected, the review of the additional emails has not changed the FBI's original conclusion that no reasonable prosecutor would move forward with such a case. While the original letter should never have been sent so close to an election, the expeditious review of these emails should put to rest -- once and for all -- the irresponsible speculation indulged in by the Trump campaign and others. Voters can now make their decision based on the merits, and that decision should be simple: it is the choice between a woman superbly qualified to be commander in chief, and a man patently unfit for office." • GOP DISBELIEF. But, House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz tweeted Sunday afternoon that the Hillary Clinton investigation was again closed, being the first person to comment on the FBI letter. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who supportsTrump, said FBI Director James Comey caved over the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State : "Comey must be under enormous political pressure to cave like this and announce something he can't possibly know." • • • Dear readers, this turn in events will fill all the media space on Monday, the last campaign day before the election on Tuesday. It defies reason to think that the FBI could review 650,000 emails in 10 days. Comey's twisting and turning in the political wind is breathtaking. After announcing in July that the FBI would not recommend criminal charges over Hillary's use of the private email server, Comey sent a letter to lawmakers on October 28 informing them that the FBI had found emails potentially relevant to the investigation into Clinton's server and would be digging into them with just 12 days to go until Election Day. The emails were found during a separate FBI investigation into disgraced Representative Anthony Weiner, who is the estranged husband of Clinton's top aide, Huma Abedin. In the week that followed the first letter, the Clinton campaign, Democratic lawmakers, and some Republicans, criticized Comey, saying he violated longstanding Justice Department practice not take steps in an investigation that could affect an election. The emails referred to in the October 28 letter were 650,000 new emails, raising questions about whether a conclusion would come before election day. An unnamed senior law enforcement official -- whether of the FBI or the Department of Justice, we do not know -- told NBC New’s Pete Williams the emails on Weiner’s computer were “nearly all were duplicates of emails previously seen by FBI agents investigating the email server.” Others were not related to government business, Williams added. • The NYPD has threatened to publish what it has on the Hillary Clinton investigation if the FBI fails to indict. Will we hear from the NYPD on Monday?? • The election decision is now even more fundamental. There is only one choice on Tuesday. Vote Trump-Pence for an America where the enonomy grows, jobs are created -- and the FBI and DOJ are not bought and paid for by corrupt Obama / Clinton politicians and their supporters.