Obama Summit – Assigning the Blame
Obama Summit – Assigning the Blame
President Obama hosted a ‘Jobs Summit’ on Thursday this week ostensibly to identify new ways to create jobs for more Americans. It hasn’t dawned on the brain trust running the Federal Government that if there was a way to do this, in two hundred years of history, there had to be someone that has accomplished this in the past.
And actually, they have! Unfortunately for Team Obama, the solution was clearly identified by none other than conservative and arch enemy of the lefty libs, Ronald Regan. Coming into office on the heels of the last feeble-minded Democrat to occupy the Oval Office, Ronald Regan introduced tax cuts, limited government and reduced regulation. (I know..Clinton qualifies as just as ‘feeble minded’ but Newt Gingrich kept Clinton’s budget balanced for most of his Presidency.) The result of Regan’s economic policies was an unprecedented boom in employment and upward mobility. But for a progressive, man-of-the-people President, learning from a conservative president though is akin to acknowledging that conservatives defeated the Soviet Union.
Now that another Democrat has emerged selling Jimmy Carter’s economic peanut oil, a new conservative resurgence is on the distant horizon. In the meantime, those interested in earning a better life for themselves and their families are compelled whittle away their days working at Starbucks or UPS, waiting for American voters to get a brain and throw out the current crop of Democrats.
But seriously, what about those that need jobs or want to improve their economic situation now? President Obama at least understands that citizens aren’t willing to remain without opportunity to earn an income stream that offers a chance to trade in the ’79 Pinto for a Lexus. Unfortunately for team Obama and the lefties running Washington, the Stimulus Bill has stolen capital required for economic growth and channeled that money into non-wealth building spending by individual states. History shows that two economic disasters will result from excessive government borrowing – inflation and high interest rates which kills jobs growth. Additionally, increasing taxes on the wealthy only leads to additional job losses (another historical fact). So what is a Progressive President to do?
Obama will no doubt fall back on what He does best – blame others. Only this time, he has recruited a team of experts to come up with things to blame. Union leaders of course will blame ‘corporate greed.’ ACORN will blame racism, discrimination and maltreatment of the poor. Senate and House Democrats will continue to dredge up class warfare issues to increase animosity amongst the population. Although these aren’t solutions to the jobs problem, they are useful because these are the only things the President has to work with.
The real reason for this “Jobs Summit” then was to come up with a litany of ills that can be blamed on others. Since Obama is approaching his one year anniversary in office, the tried and until now true tactic of blaming George W. Bush is looking more and more childish – even to the childish Chris Mathews, whose leg has returned to delivering normal sensation to its owner.
Barack Obama has now come face to face with the reality that all Democrats ultimately confront – liberal policies fail in America. They actually fail everywhere else as well, but some societies such as in the UK and France, have chosen to live with them for while anyway. The only thing Obama can do to hang on to His power is to come up with credible excuses. But sooner or later, someone from MSNBC will ask the President when He will take responsibility for His actions on the economy.
With the country’s mood now soured on additional government spending, Team Obama is backed into a corner… they can’t really implement another Stimulus and they certainly won’t cut spending or tax rates. This leaves the only available action to utilize friends in the media to blame others and to ultimately change the subject.
This is a process already underway. Jobs figures released Friday morning show the unemployment rate supposedly dropping by two tenths of one percent. Wowee! Unfortunately, if unemployment were measured in the same way as they were under the Peanut Farmer’s reign the figure would be closer to 15 to 17%. At the end of the week, Obama and company were left to celebrate the fact that only 11,000 jobs were lost during the past month. Had this happened under GW Bush, Chris Mathews would have thrown up on his desk.
While losing only 11,000 jobs is certainly a step in the right direction, no consideration is given to the real reasons unemployment figures are dropping. The simple reason is that people have exhausted their unemployment benefits. When someone drops off his state’s unemployment role, it is assumed that he is no longer unemployed. He therefore is not added to the number of unemployed. As the first major waves of layoffs occurred about one year ago, these workers are now exhausting their benefits, leaving the incorrect impression that unemployment is declining when in fact unemployment is still increasing.
Team Obama fully understands this and is using its efforts to take over and ruin American health care to take the weak-minded media off the unemployment issue. This will only work so long though. As James Goober Carter discovered, when voters understand the damage liberalism does to the country and the economy, conservatism makes a huge come back. Stay tuned!