Obama’s Job Speech – A Miracle in The Works

I listened to the Job Speech pretty carefully. I was hoping that while on Martha’s Vineyard he might have experienced an economic epiphany and would use this speech to reveal a new understanding of how private sector jobs are created.

There were numerous points in the speech that I feared that the Presidents pants were likely to catch on fire. Shading the truth is something that was woven into what was clearly a campaign speech with job creation as a $470 billion dollar fantasy element.

With no clear description of a working plan for the $470 billion dollars he was proposing to spend, the President called for enactment of his proposal “right away” 17 times during the speech.

Obama has moved away from any pretense of governing and is beginning an activity which he does well. That is running for office.

Certain parts of his proposal are clearly designed to be defeated in the House of Representatives. He will than accuse his opposition as the cause of the continuing poor economic conditions that are the hallmark of his administration

If his speech is parsed for content, without the histrionics of his presentation, the expectations, if accomplished, would qualify him as a new superhero in a Marvel or DC comic book series. I think that he is determined to be a featured character in a one or the other of these publications. A fantasy series is the most likely’ with an alien persona as his role.

If the Obama dream is enacted, construction workers will be quickly employed , the teacher ranks will swell, the unemployed can relax for an additional year, manufacturing will expand, schools will all be rebuilt, we will have new roads and bridges throughout the land and research will produce new products that will bring the world to our marketplace eager to spend their Euros and Yen here.
(expanded debt is not part of his description)

All this to be accomplished with the leadership of an individual who received his total private sector economic experience and training working in a Baskin Robbins ice cream shop for six months.

The pre publication comic book title is being penciled in as The Miracle Worker. If significant jobs are created and unemployment reduced by his actions it will truly be a miracle

I suspect that a better title might be Captain Chaos.