March 03, 2012
Barack Obama
The president has a knack for oversimplifying very complex issues and in a city where nobody is ashamed to read Us Weekly, this suits them just fine. When Obama says he’s cut trillions in tax they smile and assume anyone who has a problem with that must be racist. The truth is that he only cut trillions from his projected spending spree. It’s still unprecedented spending. John Stossel described it as the president on a diet bragging that he only put on ten pounds. When questioned Obama would explain, “Without the diet, I would have put on fifty pounds.” Using White House logic, he lost 40 pounds.
Margaret Thatcher was accused of losing Britain millions of pounds and it’s true that unemployment soared after she got into office. However, economics is a complicated beast and before you go putting her in a stupid GOP Bubble, find out what kind of jobs were lost. If they were government bureaucrats, I”m glad they lost their jobs. Judging by how the British economy was thriving when she left in 1990, I”m guessing the jobs she lost were slowing everything down.
Obama is the opposite of Thatcher. He’s coming into office and “creating” employment. This doesn”t bode well and it’s not likely we will see an economy that looks like 1990 Britain when Obama finally steps down. This is because government cannot create jobs. I thought everyone knew this, but I didn”t find one person in California who had even considered the possibility. No wonder this is where Scientology is headquartered.
When Obama hurled money to “rebuild the roads” and “rebuild this nation” as the vice president put it, the fake jobs he created were gone soon after. You can pay someone to dig some troughs and then fill them back up again, but that’s not something a worker can take pride in, and it certainly isn”t a job that will last. Everyone knows this. Even the government’s own studies confirm this.
I”d go even further than the studies and say government kills jobs. When South Carolina tries to get out from oppressive unions and keep the factories alive by lowering wages, the government sues them. When Arizona tries to stop illegal aliens from milking taxpayers, Obama sics the Justice Department on them. Why are they getting involved? The vast majority of employed Americans are non-union, and only a tiny fraction of them get paid minimum wage. They get paid more because they”re worth more. As Thatcher said in 1988 at the Church of Scotland when she was invoking St. Paul, “If a man will not work, he shall not eat.”
When the left coast hears “create jobs,” that’s all they hear. I”m from the right coast and when I hear those words I say, “I ain”t buyin” it.” Then the government says, “Yes you are” and takes half my wages to pay for it. Busy work that politicians invented using other people’s money to sustain it doesn”t count. The only jobs that matter are those the market created. If the government made them in a bubble, they”re bound to burst.
