Jobs by Obama-What Jobs?
In October I wrote a post concerning the Obama Administration and their approach to reducing unemployment through a public works type stimulus plan and other brainless schemes.
Through the first year of this administration it has become evident that they have no sense of history and what has never worked in the past in creating jobs. Jobs are created by the private sector. Government programs designed to create jobs drain money from the economy and do not work.
Check out my October thoughts that outline the musings of Henry Morgenthou concerning the Roosevelt job creation programs in the 30’s during the depression
It is evident that none in Obama’s administration have taken time to review the job creation results of the New Deal set in motion by Roosevelt. Obama is following the yellow brick road laid out by Morgenthou and Roosevelt who at that time were guided by utopian thoughts that did not work. Obama has the opportunity to see the lack of results in job creation during the 30’s. Barack must suffer from an attention deficiency since he hasn’t followed the Roosevelt road to the end and observed it’s failure to create jobs.
Rigid political doctrine in the current administration says that government knows best and the private sector needs to follow the dictates of the governing body. More taxation is part of Obama’s plans even though it will reduce spending in the private sector which is the important activity in a prosperous economy.
Tax incentives and expanded credit for small business are needed to create jobs. Movement on these issues will start the recovery on the jobs front. Small businesses are stymied by lack of available credit and are disheartened by the total lack of business understanding by the Obama group.
How can this be happening? The Obama Administration has fewer appointments from the private sector than any president in the last 80 years. They do not know or care how the private sector creates jobs; They simply are political ideologues with a new vision for America that has Statist goals for us all.
Government dependency is a good thing for the Statists. If we need the government to get a job, education or food stamps to stay alive it gives the government greater control over our actions. What we eat, what we drive, what we hear on the news and how we vote come under greater government control. The government takeover of heath care, the auto industry and the banking system is part of Obama’s version of the Golden Rule which is, he who has the gold rules. The Obamanistas have been working overtime to take control of all of America’s wealth producing elements
We will be required to pay the government pipers who are going to be determining the tunes of our lives. I hope it’s not too late to change the Obama tune. It is one in which I will not join in the dance. The unemployed are not a worry of this administration. They will become dependents of the government and simply another brick in the government surround wall being built by Barack, Harry, Nancy and Rahm.
2010 is perhaps our last chance to start disassembling that wall.
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Obama in “08″ Stickers
I pulled into a parking lot next to a Prius that still had a proudly displayed sticker proclaiming support for the Obama candidacy. I thought that I probably didn’t want to see who was driving the Prius since it might be someone that I knew. I would hate to think that anyone I knew who had supported Obama was still openly displaying their mistaken action.
Everyone has made mistakes. It is part of life. Most thinking, mature adults learn from mistakes and move on to more secure actions with the knowledge gained from those mistakes. I don’t know what thinking happens in the mind of an Obama supporter who still is displaying that sticker. I guess they didn’t think through the vote clearly and have continued to have the brain’s reasoning cells turned off
I’m not asking for Obama voters to gather in the town square proclaiming Mea Culpa for the record breaking deficit, expanded war and the rights of citizenship being granted to terrorists in the trials being organized by Obama’s Justice Dept. The ill thought out Heath Plan and the proposal for Cap and Trade as well as the pull back from securing our borders seem to be enough reasons to scrape the sticker off the window.
The sticker got me thinking about a lot of related issues that need review at the end of Obama’s first year as well as the current activities of those who supported him. I clearly recall the protestors on street corners and at Bush rallys during the campaign. The Obama supporters were vocal and visible in their protests of the Bush Wars. Obama rode those protests to victory with promises to bring these wars to quick conclusion and have our troops’ home quickly. He further promised to close Gitmo within a year and end all the uncomfortable interviewing tactics practiced by our intelligence community.
We know now that he had no viable plan for almost anything he promised. He should be in the baloney business since he seems adept at producing that product.
The totally unanswered question is; where have all those dedicated opponents to war gone? They were at every Bush appearance and brooked no excuse for Iraq and were against any expansion of military action anywhere. The financial costs of war as well as the human cost were displayed at every protest. The NY Times ran detailed accounts of every life lost with pictures of our fallen warriors.
The evening news on TV covered with heartfelt detail each sad element of the wars being fought. I have no objection to reports that outline the horrors of war but the realization that the coverage was primarily designed for Obama’s political advancement is another sad element of the coverage..
The wars continue, Gitmo remains open and the Bush deficits look like child’s play next to Obama’s. The mess that Obama, Harry and Nancy and their administration have made of Heath Plan reform will go into history as an example of gross political incompetence.
With the failures, lies and broken promises surrounding every review of Obama and his administration, where have all the protestors gone? They seem to be content and in their lairs watching with a perverse joy as Obama attempts to disassemble America.
Obama in 08. This was perhaps our greatest mistake as a nation. I hope we are mature enough to admit the error of our ways and send Nancy and Harry to some seats in the back come November 2010 and Obama using the exit doors at the White House two years later.
I don’t think the guy with the sticker on his Prius has thought this through yet.
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Threats to Freedom Never Stop
In a discussion on a talk show, the question of Obama’s intentions concerning the immigration problem was raised. The moderator stated that the people creating our problem “are not immigrants and it is not a question of immigration.” (Peter Boyles KHOW AM)
The problem is the illegal intrusion of millions of people into our country. The image of these lawbreakers is softened by the terminology used to describe the situation.
“Undocumented immigrants” is one of the media references frequently used. Illegal as an adjective in describing these lawbreakers is almost never used in the media
Political correctness has intruded itself into the discussion and negative references to the illegality of the massive migration across our border, is typically ascribed to racism. This is a play from a deck with few meaningful cards. It is a Saul Alinsky move to take opposition out of a discussion by discrediting dissenting motives with character assaults.
Federal and local governments have succumbed to the Alinsky tactic and have failed to take aggressive legal action against the illegal entrants, fearing for their political future if the are branded as racist.
The same tactic is currently being use concerning Super Bowl ad bought by Focus on The Family that is scheduled to air on Sunday. The ad features Pam Tebow the mother of Tim Tebow, Heismann Trophy winner and quarterback of the University of Florida football team.
When pregnant with Tim she developed a condition which caused her doctor to suggest that she abort the fetus. Her faith caused her to say no and Tim Tebow was the result of that pregnancy. The Focus on the Family ad tells her story.
The NFL and CBS are under attack from various left wing woman’s groups with demands that the ad not be shown. No one has yet seen the ad and Pam Tebow is being attacked as a liar with accusations that this did not take place as described.
The vicious commentary by the Pro Choice proponents is brutal. What are we becoming as a nation when there are such demands, to stop opposing views from being heard. Character assassination is a Saul Alinsky tactic and the cries of liar and racist being used in the opening of discussion is right out of his manual, Rules for Radicals.
The First Amendment is a primary guardian of our freedom. Alinsky understood that shutting down thoughtful discussion would be the first step in controlling the direction of the country’s governance. His philosophy was that any means could be used to get the radical results being sought. The cries of racist concerning opposition to the illegal entry of millions into our country and liar to a woman professing a Right to Life message should have no respected position in any discussion of these issues.
Equal economic opportunity and free voice of opinion are pillars of American society and need to be defended. Turning our backs on illegal actions at our borders and allowing the diminution of the rights provided by the First Amendment are steps on a slippery slope of expanded government control of our freedoms.
Note: The last major legislation referring to immigration was enacted by the Clinton Administration in 1996 Summary follows:
1996 Immigrants lose benefits. President Clinton signs welfare reform bill that cuts many social programs for immigrants. Legal immigrants lose their right to food stamps and Supplemental Security Income (a program for older, blind, and disabled people). Illegal immigrants become ineligible for virtually all federal and state benefits except emergency medical care, immunization programs, and disaster relief.
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Budget “Strategy?” by Obama
The President has given public notice of his intent to instill fiscal discipline in the government operations. To implement the first step in his strategy he has submitted a budget that will produce the biggest deficit in the history of the country.
He has shown an example of his determination by announcing a freeze on spending in broad areas of the government. That freeze will take place in a year from now. A record breaking deficit is not a sufficient “stimulus” to take immediate action. It will be interesting to see what kind of freeze actually takes place a year from now.
The President spent the introduction period of his budget outline defining the causes of his financial problem. It was, of course, outlined as the fault of the previous administration. Little notice was given to the fact that Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and his party controlled Congress for the two years prior to his election. The giant stimulus allocation was depicted as the life saver for all that ailed us as he took office.
I’ve been studying the proposed budget as carefully as I can with my economically untrained eyes. My budget knowledge is rather rudimentary but I understand there are two columns involved. One column is what you intend to spend and the second column is where you think you will get the money to pay for the expenditures.
The record deficit is noted in his budget but there is an interesting aspect of the presentation. Unless I am mistaken it seems that part of the income side indicates receipts from a Cap and Trade Bill. Unless my memory has failed me completely I don’t remember Cap and Trade being legislated. If my reading is correct that means that the income side includes hopes and dreams. The record breaking deficit projections may be on the way to breaking their own deficit projection before the budget year passes.
Part of the payments will be from new taxes on the rich (no surprise there). Part of the deficit will be swelled by new money flowing to the educators through a revision of “No Child Left Behind”. Grades for teacher and school performance will be modified so that increased funding will flow to schools that continue to fail in improvement. The educators will vote twice for Obama now that he is bowing to their objections to stiff responsibility requirements.
Congress has a hand in this budget process and it ordinarily is an “underhand” working the system. The outrageous Entitlements that are spent each year seem to be permanently ensconced in those seats in Congress, no matter who is sitting in the seat.
I would like to see a column in each Representatives web site that lists the Entitlement pork that he or she is responsible for spending. This will be part of my judgment for support in 2010 of any candidate. As an effort to contribute information on the subject I am identifying responsible Blogs that deal with the subject and will be sharing that information as we move towards 2010.
There is no doubt that we need a change in Congress in the next election but the change must be a useful one. Responsible alternatives need to be identified so that we do not make a mistaken change as we did one year and 2 months ago. Fiscal conservatives need our support 10 months from now. All candidates need to be on notice that we are making a careful review of qualifications
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Sorry State of The Union
Obama loves to be the President. That is apparent since he plays the role somewhere in public almost every day. He is Presidential in speaking to elementary schools, retirement villages, union gatherings, educators and on and on. It is almost impossible to keep up with his speaking schedule and his obvious enjoyment of people being excited because the President is in their midst.
He has kept an election schedule going since he was sworn in one year ago. In his State of the Union Speech he continued his stance of making presidential pronouncements as he has done for a year. Once again he looked backwards to blame others for the dilemma we find ourselves facing.
Obama does not seem to understand that he was elected to the Presidency which requires actual solutions to the problems of the Nation. We have heard enough promises and excuses blaming the previous administration. Political double speak has no more traction with America. He is President and it is his job to work through and solve the problems. Talking to kindergarten groups will solve no problems other than salving the massive ego of the President. 17 % of the American work force is either unemployed or underemployed. There is economic pain everywhere and it is growing under Obama’s leaderless administration
Obama says that jobs will be a priority and he wants a jobs bill on his desk. What is a jobs bill? There is no such thing. Does he expect to pass a bill that requires jobs to appear? The problem is that he never has had a real job. He has no clue as to what creates jobs. Allowing the energy of the private sector to flourish is the answer needed and the answer that will not appear from this administration. They have not studied the history of economic downturns and are repeating the missteps taken by Satists every time there is a recession. His expansion of government intervention do not produce any answers to economic problems. Check out his Stimulus Bill. Stimu-less was the result
Increasing the debt he inherited from $400 billion to $1.5 trillion in a year with continued growth of unemployment is the answer Obama, Reis and Pelosi have given us in the last 12 months. The Sorry State of the Obama Union would be a better choice of a title for last night’s presentation
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Obama after Year One
I have a meeting tonight which will make me miss the Obama State of the Union speech. This hour of my evening is going to be spent in a more productive fashion than listening to another “Yes We Can” baloney sandwich. It is reported that Obama plans to pledge tax credits to stimulate jobs in small business. Apparently he or one of his Chicago gang has been reading Buck Says. Faithful readers know that this has been a suggestion I have repeated many times along with companion suggestions needed to make the tax credits work.
Obama, will likely gloss over his failures to deliver on his promises of a year ago. The nearly $800 billion stimulus package was sold on the promise that unemployment would be held to 8% as a result of this package. Unemployment is at 10% and 43 states saw unemployment rise last month. This fact and his failure to deliver must be kept in mind when his soaring rhetoric makes new promises tonight.
Months ago Buck Says pointed out that new home construction has led us out of every recession in the last 50 years. Government encouraged the sub prime mortgages that led us to the current recession and until housing construction is revived there will be no significant improvement in the economy.
Lat month new home sales declined by another 7% and sales of existing homes sagged by 17%. These two elements of housing are tied together with existing home sales as a bellwether of the housing industry and it is not encouraging. The average person needs to sell an existing house if a new one is to be purchased. The 17% decline of existing home sales is a real indicator of where new home construction is heading.
After his Presidency ends Obama might be in demand by toy manufacturers because of his demonstrated ability to spin things. Spinning Yoyos and Tops provides endless hours of enjoyment for small children, but spinning the results of failed programs is another story. The spin of Obama’s administration can no longer cover the absolute incompetence being demonstrated on an almost daily basis.
The President's Speeches
A new and improved spin will be heard tonight. Count on it. The “Yes We Can” chant will soon become “No You Can’t” as America becomes fully awake to the duplicity of this President and his minions.
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Obama Health Plan-Still Alive
David Axelrod is a senior adviser to President Obama. In the administration’s attempt to re-energize the Health Plan consideration, he made the following statement.
“As a political matter, the foolish thing to do would be for anybody else who supported this to walk away from it,” he said. “The underlying elements of it are popular and important, and people will never know what’s in that bill until we pass it, the president signs it and they have a whole new range of protections they never had before.”
A majority of Americans are not in favor of this bill being enacted. His suggestion indicates a complete disregard for the public view. His statement that the public will not know what is in the bill until it is passed and the president signs it is a clear indication of the unbridled arrogance of this administration.
Axelrod treats the issue as if the public were kids at Christmas with wrapped presents under the tree. We like children are sure to love the presents that Obama has wrapped in a 2000 page piece of legislation. Axelrod doesn’t think we need to know the details, we should sit back and trust the Obama gift givers.
There are a few items that Axlerod has not spelled out in his statement. The public may not know all the details in that 2000 page “present” but they understand who is going to pay for it, The presents selected to wrap and put under the tree do not have a bill attached for the recipients to pay in January. The Presidents Health Plan has a big bill attached.
Watch closely. The administration is acting to rework the presentation , not the bill.
The President is structuring a populist smoke and mirrors act with new proposals to ease the burden of the middle class by enlarging child and elder care programs. These proposals are clearly political moves with little substance involved
It is impossible for these people to deal with truth. Their proposals in every instance indicate their disdain for the population they are governing. Their inability to understand that jobs are the issue needing attention is a clear indication that they really don’t know what is needed or maybe simply are incapable of doing the job of running the country.
I think that is the situation. We simply need to fire them in 2010.
I heard a suggestion last week: We can help to decrease crime in America by reelecting no one.
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Unemployment Rises Again
The government figures show that unemployment increased in 43 states last month, Job creation continues to be the missing element in Obama’s daily morning schedule review. Reelection strategy of this administration does not include any reasonable plan to help small business, which is where most new jobs are created.
The obvious first step in encouraging job creation is with tax cuts and or credits that will allow small businesses to expand their operations where needed. Tax cuts are not an activity that Obama , Pelosi and Reid understand. Their thoughts run in the opposite direction. They understand how to increase taxes to enable the expansion of their government programs.
The Health Plan had not been set aside for 24 hrs before Obama came out swinging with a proposal to add taxes to banking transactions. This populist move is obviously designed to divert attention from his support of actions that have made a number of financial institutions stronger than ever.
The new taxes on banks can be debated but the self serving timing of Obama’s proposal has had a chilling effect on the market. His proposal was followed by the stock market having two straight days of triple digit losses totaling more than 500 points. He followed the bank proposals with an attack on the Supreme Court for it’s ruling that enabled free speech for corporations in regard to elections.
A commentary reported in the Christian Science Monitor lays out the opposing views on the Court ruling: “To those for whom MoveOn.org and the countless left-wing 527 operations are the forces of truth and justice, and corporations the font of rich evil men of the 1930’s plutocratic cartoons, this case is a disaster for the commonweal,” writes Clarice Feldman on the conservative Pajamas Media website. “But for those of us who think free speech is inviolate, and more important in the context of elections than it is in flag burnings or obscenity cases, this decision is a long overdue righting of a preposterous error of legislative judgment.”
New taxes, attacking the Supreme Court and stating a determination to move ahead on his unpopular Health Care Plan all in a days work for Obama. The major change in the Health Plan was a new strategy of introducing it a piece at a time. These were his next day contributions to the commonweal following Scott Brown’s significant victory.
This administration is a train wreck in the making. The people running the country couldn’t handle the management of a pizza shop or any other entity that required concern for the customers acceptance of the product being produced.
The Obama administration has the lowest number of appointees from the private sector of any administration in the last 80 years. Obama makes Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton look like conservatives. They were not conservatives but were interested in hearing what the public thought about their proposals. Nothing coming out of the administration indicates an interest in responding to the public objections to the Health Plan Proposal. They are not even listening to their party’s reasonable members of congress who recognize the need to answer the public concerns.
The Republican suggestions are not admitted to any serious discussion. I’m trying to remember : Why did we elect Obama and his supporters?. Do we have a secret vein of political masochism running through our nation?
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Obama-A One Trick Pony
The President reminds me of what is referred to as a One Trick Pony. In the music business it is a performer who had one hit and tries to parlay that into greater success but doesn’t succeed. It is a chef who does one great dish but can’t get anything else right
It is a President who captures the office with an appeal to a moment of particular public discontent and can’t get anything else right. We have a President that is a one trick pony and the audience is not interested in the trick that they are seeing over and over again.
The politician with a narrow view that cannot recognize the audience and keeps performing the same trick is soon performing to an empty room. The Obama audience is heading for the exits and Scott Brown may have started the rush to the doors. The Obama script has been recognized as amateur in the area of the audiences’ interest, which is “Jobs”
Obama and his minions are focused on their Statist big government agenda and they have little interest in the view of the public whom they supposedly represent. The support of major financial interests is where Obama has placed his interest. Goldman Sachs has received more attention than the issue of jobs. Chase and JP Morgan are only one year away from the supposed edge of demise and are showing huge profits on their balance sheets.
The support of George Bush with his Troubled Asset Relief Program and the intensified continued support of Obama has produced a new structure of financial institutions larger and more complex than the structure that was advertised as “too big to fail”. Chase is bigger than ever and seems to be taking over smaller banks on a daily basis. The new bigger banks have not demonstrated an interest in supporting the growth of small businesses. This is where the jobs are created. The public is recognizing that the Obama administration does not have a real interest in or perhaps lacks the understanding as to how new jobs are created.
The nation is starting to see that Obama is an empty suit and his egotistic approach to the Presidency shows his lack of real knowledge about many important areas of economics. The massive ego has blinded any understanding of the American people. They are an audience that says “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me” It is not often that this audience can be fooled twice. Scott Brown and the election of Republican governors to New Jersey and Virginia are indications that America is not going to be fooled twice by the Obama rhetoric and the inept, sad leadership of Reid and Pelosi in Congress..
Character is the important, first element needed to build an administration and that is no part of Presidents administration. Can anyone seriously describe Reid and Pelosi as leaders that possess any moral characteristics. They are characters all right and could be the stars of a comedy of errors. The moves they have made with their moment on stage are all variations of the same trick which is to expand government control of our lives and expand their power .
The Obama role is to lend a charismatic oversight to the Statist movement. They apparently thought that their one trick pony would hold the audience through the several acts of their political plan. The big mistake is that they underestimated the audience. The American public always has stepped up in a moment of crises. Scott Brown stepped up in our moment of need and is leading the way to the exits with his victory in Massachusetts.
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Brown vs Coakley
The Massachusetts race for the vacant Senate seat is a harbinger of an awakening that is sweeping the country. American is quickly recognizing the mistake of turning the government over to a determined group of radical leftist Statists. For the Obamanistas Martha Coakley would clearly be a comfortable philosophical replacement for Ted Kennedy.
She has promised to vote for the Health Care Bill in whatever form it finally takes. She favors elimination of the historic definition of marriage. She opposes increasing troop levels in Afghanistan. She favors Cap & Trade and almost every one of the Harry Reid moves to expand government control of each aspect of life in America.
The worry of the Obama administration is that if Brown wins , their drive for Socialized medicine will be derailed. There is no concern evidenced by Reid or Pelosi that a growing majority of Americans do not want their Health Bill. Once again the Statist administration has determined that they know best and are ignoring the will of the people. With little concern for public opinion they are pushing ahead with their plans for government takeover of another major aspect of the Nation’s economy.
The drive for an Oligarchy by Obama, Reid, Pelosi and Schumer has not taken into account the innate conservative nature of the American public. Obama has campaigned for the Democrat candidates for Governor in New Jersey and Virginia. The both were defeated by the Republican candidates. The President and a host of Democrat luminaries have sprung to the aid of Coakley and her candidacy. She is in danger of losing despite their help.
In the bigger picture whether Martha wins or losses, a clear pattern is emerging which rejects the Obama path of governance. It is unbelievable to the liberal political pundits that the seat held by Kennedy for 46 years would be in peril of becoming held by a Republican. They have failed to understand that this is the beginning of the end of their short reign. As America awakens to the gross mistake we have made in recent elections the change will be like the flood tide sweeping across the country.
The successors need to demonstrate greater character and political integrity than we have experienced in recent years. The expansion of government has not only been the path of the Democrats. The last decade has seen a continuing expansion of government. There really has been no creditable Conservative voice in DC for years. The last reduction of government that was meaningful was the Clinton reform of Welfare programs. That is hard to say and give credit without gagging a bit, but it is true. We cannot make the mistake of replacing the Obamanistas with another example of the pseudo conservative economic policy we have experienced in recent years.
We need to line up creditable replacements for leadership positions in Congress starting in 2010.
As a first step check out Senator John Thune of South Dakota. He looks like someone we can trust, but we need to be careful of our support as recent evidence indicates.
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