In a recent address to the nation, Obama showed his astounding leadership, once again, as he stated that it is only fair that those who are wealthy pay more taxes and he told us we need to turn our focus to job creation. Run for the hills everyone, Obama wants to try and improve the job situation again! Everytime he does that the economy gets worse.
Obama has stated at least 7 times, during his administration, that he would focus on jobs. Here are the dates he said we needed to improve the job situation and promised that, “he was on it.”
February 2009, in a speech to Congress, Obama said his economic plan was to focus on jobs.
November 2009, during the Health Care debate, Obama promised again, “This is my administrations overriding focus.”
January 2010, he said, “What they can expect from this administration, and I know what they can expect from you, is that we are going to have a sustained and relentless focus over the next several months on accelerating the pace of job creation, because that’s priority number one.”
April and May 2010, Obama did a “Main Street” tour to stop and talk about jobs to the people on the street.
June 2010, he talked about the “beginning of the recovery summer.”
December 2010, he said, “And I think we are past the crisis point in the economy, but we now have to pivot and focus on jobs and growth.”
January 2011: Obama talked about job creation in the State of the Union address and launched the “Startup America” initiative.
And just recently after the debt ceiling was raised, he once again said we needed to “pivot” towards job creation.
Is is just me or does it seem to you like he is having a lot of trouble staying focused. Why does he have to keep pivoting and focusing? Is it the head wind that he keeps talking about that keeps messing up his focus or is all this pivoting making it hard for him to focus? It sounds like he is just spinning in circles between the pivots and coming in and out of focus. It sounds like he has been on the merry-go-round or as I like to call it the whirl-o-puke.
Guess what? Senator Majority Leader, Harry Reid wants to get in on the act. He recently said, “Congress must return to its most important job, creating jobs.” I wonder of Reid can pivot and focus as well as Obama?
It is obvious that Obama and the Democrats are baffled that Keynesian economic theory didn’t work. It didn’t work at all. In fact it made the situation worse. Did Obama learn anything from the experience? Not a thing. If he had his way he would spend more government dollars and put our nation further into debt. For all his whining and moaning about the need to cut spending, the new debt ceiling bill probably will have little impact on spending reductions. You would think if Obama was serious about job creation he would go look at what is happening in Texas rather than spending all his time focusing on California. Maybe that’s the problem. Maybe he is focusing on the wrong things.
You think?
He really has to work on his pivot.
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What I am baffled by is the theories by those on the left as to how we are to get out of this mess. It is certainly counterintuitive. What i read is no suprise, but they say we need to increase revenues and spend our way out of this mess. Apparently it is obvious to them that if the government cuts spending, that removes money from the market and the economy dips. So instead we should spend more government money. Tax and spend. Then they blame republicans for spending too much durringthe Bush years and the resession is all rep fault (I wonder if they realize that the democrats controlled comgress) Isn’t spending what got us here? Why would that work? I don’t think nation wide economics are that different than basic small scale economics. If you spend more than you bring in, that is too much, so cut back.
here is a little something I saw today:
“If the US Government was a family, they would be making $58,000 a year, they spend $75,000 a year, & are $327,000 in credit card debt. They are currently proposing BIG spending cuts to reduce their spending to $72,000 a year. These are the actual proportions of the federal budget & debt, reduced to a level that we can understand.” – Dave Ramsey