If you hold the pillow over the patient’s mouth long enough, sooner or later the patient is going to die. That’s what happened to the American economy. There is no doubt that President Obama inherited a mess. The financial collapse in September of 2008 was about as scary event as I have experienced. Obama makes claim that he “saved” the world from economic Armageddon, but the fact of the matter is the most draconian measures after the financial collapse were a bi-partisan solution orchestrated by the outgoing Bush administration and the incoming Obama administration. Credit or blame belongs to both.
But after he assumed office, as Obama continued to administer the bi-partisan medicine to a very sick U.S. economy, his ideology simultaneously acted as a smothering blanket preventing the patient’s own natural recuperative power from restoring it to health. Think A Charlie Brown Christmas as he tried to decorate the little tree… “I killed it!”
Starting with Obamacare which has a more than 50/50 chance of being declared unconstitutional, Obama implemented a MASSIVE regimen of regulation and income redistribution. The American people cannot comprehend the massive amount of regulation percolating just below the surface. The amount is so massive it is taking the government years to promulgate the regulations. Some of them are so draconian that by design they are not scheduled to be implemented until after the election.
The more moderate, and I use the term loosely, of Obama’s advisors have deserted the ship leaving him with an uber left wing cadre of people who agree with him and his leftist views. If he appears conflicted, he has yet to figure out how to make the American people understand that he knows best, as polls and politics drag him kicking and screaming to a more left of center position, even if just by an inch.
His speech to Congress on Thursday evening will be a combination of recycled ideas plus a lecture to Congress and the American people. It will appear shrill and defensive and accusative as he wags his finger. It will not sit well with an America that is tired of words. Slowly they have realized the truth of the mantra of right wing pundits… when it comes to Obama, look at what he does, not what he says. They are two different things. The business community looks at the former. The mainstream media looks at the latter.
Let’s look at what he has done to stifle job growth:
1) His supplicants at the NLRB sued Boeing for building a plant in a right to work state. Do you really think Boeing, one of the largest employers and exporters in the United States, will ever build another plant here again?
2) Boeing may not have to worry about it as Obama’s good buddy Jeff Imelt, chairman of General Electric, has just announced a partnership with the Chinese to compete with Boeing with planes built in China. As in all things Chinese, General Electric will be transferring proprietary technology to the Chinese. Don’t forget that GE has closed down a significant portion of its medical imagery plants and is moving them to China. This from Obama’s chairman of his Job Creation and Retention Council.
3) He sued Arizona and other states from enforcing border protections not only from illegal workers coming across the Mexican border, but from the violent drug cartels which for all intents and purposes control northern Mexico.
4) In the process, he has implemented regulations to protect both legal and illegal workers in the United States, with assurances that the illegal workers will not be deported if they report work rule violations.
5) He has announced a policy that in effect gives blanket amnesty to illegals, ordering that only illegals who are violent felons will be deported. The rest can stay.
7) He has ordered the EPA to implement the terms of Cap and Trade even though both houses of Congress have overwhelmingly voted not to implement it. Even his own party is opposed to this.
8) Speaking of going against Congressional votes, Congress voted to defeat "card check." This would allow unions to unionize shops by getting the signatures of 51% of the employees (think intimidation if you say no) rather than by secret ballot. Nobody says no to Obama, so he is attempting to do it through new regulations from this Department of Labor and the NLRB. Nevermind what Congress said.
9) He has sued the major banks relating to “fraud” in packaging all those bad loans that went belly up and then selling them to Freddie and Fannie. But that’s only ½ the story. It was Freddie and Fannie that told them to do this, EXPLICITLY, with the advice and consent of Congress, specifically Barney Frank and friends. If he thinks he will make political points with this one, he should think again. There is lots of blame to go around on this one…reference people who live in glass houses!! All this does is make getting a loan even more difficult than it now is.
10) Obamacare was a lie. Even members of the Democratic Party are admitting that the “you can keep the health care you got” promise is not quite true. That is why he has granted exemptions from compliance to all of his friends. You will get the shaft AFTER THE ELECTION. Of course, as in all things liberal, the lie was necessary to promote the greater good. Meanwhile, employers are left holding their rears as they try to figure out what is going to happen.
11) He has done everything in his power to discourage the development of the energy industry in the United States, demonizing just about everyone and everybody associated with it. At the end of the day, alternative fuels need to be developed, but it will be the market that will determine when that will be. If he would call off his dog…the EPA… energy development will prove to be the stimulus which will revive America to greatness.
12) Finally, last but not least, he has intruded into the farm industry with massive regulations now forbidding anyone from under 16 years of age from driving a tractor (ridiculous to those who farm) to the amount of dust a farm can kick up…HE IS REGULATING DUST ON FARMS.
The last one pretty much says it all. This doesn’t even begin to touch new regulations on the banking industry. The regulation on the restaurant industry by food police is staggering. It just never ends with Obama and friends. Would you open a business with this type of government activity swirling around you? Would you hire more workers under these circumstances?
And you want to know why there are no jobs. Mr. President, take the pillow off the face of America and allow us to breathe again.
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