Adding more Federal, state and local
government jobs is not the answer
It was
stunning to hear the President say on national TV the other day that this was
the answer to the unemployment problem.
Oh, and the private sector was doing just fine; the problem was with
government jobs – apparently not “saved” after all, despite stimulus money.
He’s either
a complete idiot, or …
Scratch that. He is a complete idiot.
He’s an
idiot with many clearly idiotic supporters, nonetheless.
Recently, David Letterman said of Obama – “What more do we want this man to do for us, honest to God?”
Here’s an
answer: resign. Or announce that he’s
decided not to seek a second term.
He’d be
doing us all a huge favor by taking one for the team. He should take Biden with him. Right now our country is being led by a
tandem that’s truly dumb and dumberer.
It has to end.
Obama’s in
way over his head. Has been and will be.
There’s really no hope for him. Biden’s
worse.
Obama’s
clueless about how the economy works. Saying
the private sector is doing fine only proves he has no idea what’s going on in
the U.S. economy. More government jobs
will not solve anything; he proved that by pumping billions of “stimulus” money
into “saving” government jobs – that was
a short-term fix at best, and more likely a complete waste of our tax
dollars.
When the
stimulus money ran out most of those “saved” jobs ended because the state and
local governments that couldn’t afford them before, still couldn’t afford them.
The answer
to fixing the economy – as always – has
to come from the private sector. He
can’t control or mandate what the private sector does. He can’t force them to hire more people. No President has that power. So in a desperate last-ditch effort to jack
up employment numbers before November, he’s trying to push the only button he thinks
he can control – add more government jobs.
He doesn’t
care what those government jobs are, or even if they are necessary, or how to
pay for them. He sees the net gain in employment they might produce as a silver
bullet that will help him get re-elected.
And that’s really his only focus – getting re-elected, regardless of the
cost to the country.
He’s
oblivious to the real reason businesses aren’t hiring – it’s certainly not
because there aren’t enough government jobs. It’s because businesses have no idea what the
Obama Administration has up its collective sleeve. What
loony-tune rules and regulations may be coming.
What impact ObamaCare may have on business. What new taxes or penalties the
administration and liberals in Congress will try to push through. Even what “Wag the Dog” events – or leaks
designed to portray Obama as a tough “git ‘er done” leader – might be engineered to try to buff up Obama’s
stature.
Businesses
hate instability and unpredictably. Obama offers both, along with a profound
disdain for those of us who run small businesses. He sees us as hamsters on a treadmill who
will just inexorably keep running and running no matter what he throws at
us. He can tax us, chastise us, attack
us, and make us the villain, and we’ll just keep running on those treadmills as
if nothing else matters. He honestly
believes that; everything he does bears witness to that
He is so
wrong.
He needs to
read Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn
Rand. It might reveal to him the future
he’s creating. And it might give him a
clue as to what millions of small business owners could do: simply give up.
Obama keeps
clinging to the mistaken belief that government is the answer – more government
jobs, more unfunded entitlements, more onerous regulations, more bread and
circuses to appease the population, more spending – all the things he admires
about Europe.
Look how
well Europe has done by following the same path … as Herman Cain once
said: “How’s that workin’ out for you?”
Only the
private sector can turn the economy around.
Not government hiring.
But the
private sector will sit on its hands until Obama and Biden are out of office and there’s more stability and predictability in the marketplace as a
result.
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