The Obama Administration has been in a veritable panic ever since unemployment rose beyond 10 percent. Last week Obama hosted a “Jobs Summit” at which members of business, labor, and academia converged to brainstorm about ways to create jobs.
Tangent: The reason Obama needs to have all these people from the real world come and tell him how to create jobs is because neither he nor anyone in his administration has ever worked in the private sector.
Thus far all efforts made by the White House this year to “create or save” jobs has left Obama scratching his head. The Stimulus didn’t work; the Bailouts didn’t work; lying to the American people about saving or creating 1 million jobs didn’t work.
Now, apparently, the job Obama is most concerned about saving is his own.
This bogus “Jobs Summit” is reminiscent of the good-old-days back in February (when unemployment was a paltry 8 percent), when Obama held his “Fiscal Discipline Summit” five days after the largest pork-laden, crony-paying, dysfunctional bill in American history was signed into law. Obama at a fiscal discipline summit is the equivalent of an alcoholic promising to never drink again.
During the “Fiscal Discipline Summit” (I seriously chuckle every time I type that) the POTUS made a couple wild assertions — wild assertions for a free-spending liberal, that is.
The first assertion was that he was going to cut the deficit in half (!) by the end of his first term. Fabulous goal. The second wild assertion was that he would release a budget that’s “sober in its assessments, honest in its accounting…and [restores] fiscal discipline.”
A mere three days later the President killed two promises with one stone when he unveiled the largest budget in U.S. history (intriguingly entitled “A New Era of Responsibility”). According to ABC News most of the spending in Obama’s bloated budget would be done with “money the government does not have, creating a $1.75 trillion deficit next year alone.”
Fiscal discipline? I don’t think so.
It will be interesting, if not scary, to see if the policy changes that spring forth from last week’s “Jobs Summit” work as well as those policies which followed the “Fiscal Discipline Summit.”
Let’s hope not.
Cross posted at The Daily Dose.
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Daniel Horowitz
If Obama wants to create jobs
izoneguy (Diary) Monday, December 7th at 10:34PM EST (link)then why did he allow the EPA to designate CO2 as a danger?
This will be THE biggest job killer that America has ever seen.
Forget the Great Depression – This will be the Grand Canyon
of job loss. Tomorrow the domestic oil & gas industry will start packing up and leaving America. And along with it – millions of jobs. And they won’t come back. They won’t come back until a steak is driven through the heart of socialism. And I mean all over the world. Until then the pockets of freedom & wealth will keep shrinking while the huddled masses start getting really pissed off & violent.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
He only wants to create jobs
Deidre Henderson (Diary) Monday, December 7th at 10:42PM EST (link)in government or the “green” sector. One of the ideas he tossed around during the jobs summit was incentives for home weatherization. That ought to do the trick.
Deidre H.
Home weatherization - what a joke
izoneguy (Diary) Monday, December 7th at 10:48PM EST (link)That is just one of the cards he keeps flashing on his 3-card monte table. Obama is the biggest flim-flam man the world has ever seen.
“Green sector” jobs only destroy other jobs.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
The whole Country was "weatherized" in the '70s and
Achance (Diary) Monday, December 7th at 11:04PM EST (link)all building codes brought up to the economic standard in the late 70s and early ’80s. I’ll guarantee you there weren’t then and aren’t now two Republicans in the whole Country doing that kind of work; it is just another scam to funnel money to a bunch of companies owned by leftover hippies and which employ Democrats. Also most of the work is so mindless and hard to evaluate that it is good “work” for people who like to stay stoned a lot.
We had a huge program here and armed with the courage of my Democrat connections in those days, I sure got my hands on a bunch of that money. Even at today’s prices, or even last years’ astronomic fuel prices, it isn’t economic to do much more than caulk and add easy attic insulation if the house was built since the ’70s and was built to current codes. Just another scam like the stimulus to get more walking around money to Democrats.
In Vino Veritas
They do have a weatherization plan:
gekster (Diary) Monday, December 7th at 11:57PM EST (link)Thinking about selling your house – A look at H.R. 2454 (Cap and trade bill) This is unbelievable!
From here,
http://www.nachi.org/forum/f14/cap-and-trade-license-required-your-home-44750/
a few excerpts:
Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Cap and Trade Act, you won’t be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy and water efficiency standards of this Act. H.R. 2454, the “Cap & Trade” bill passed by the House of Representatives, if also passed by the Senate, will be the largest tax increase any of us has ever experienced.
Sect. 202:
Building Retrofit Program mandates a national retrofit program to increase the energy efficiency of all existing homes across America .
Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Act, you won’t be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy and water efficiency standards of this Act.
Sect. 204:
Building Energy Performance Labeling Program establishes a labeling program that for each individual residence will identify the achieved energy efficiency performance for “at least 90 percent of the residential market within 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.”
Sect. 304:
Greater Energy Efficiency in Building Codes establishes new energy efficiency guidelines for the National Building Code and mandates at 304(d), Application of National Code to State and Local Jurisdictions, that 1 year after enactment of this Act, all state and local jurisdictions must adopt the National Building Code energy efficiency provisions or must obtain a certification from the federal government that their state and/or local codes have been brought into full compliance with the National Building Code energy efficiency standards.
They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.
We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway
Ok folks, 2012 is here. Get involved
Could NObama be worse than Jimmy Carter?
redpens (Diary) Tuesday, December 8th at 9:49AM EST (link)Carter was an Evangelical Christian when he was President. This President and his administration is evil.