All of us have watched the raucous debate across the country regarding health care. It is good to have a public discussion about such an important issue. But both sides have engaged in some conduct that reasonable adults would not.
Recently, the White House posted on their web site a release called “Facts Are Stubborn Things”. The White House Director of New Media, Macon Phillips encouraged citizens to report “fishy” speech opposing the Obama Health Care Bill to the White House. Phillips wrote “If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”
Why do they want this information? What are they going to do wit it? Instead of monitoring the free speech of American citizens, the White House should be focusing on the economy and the creation of jobs.
The White House should set the tone for the Country. This isn’t the way to do it.
We are still clearly in an economic crisis. I am pleased that the jobless rate went down slightly in July, but the truth of the matter is that the economy is still losing jobs. July marked the 19th month in a row of losses. Unfortunately most businesses are not hiring. We need to do what we can to help reverse this situation.
When I read a statement by the chief executive of a hiring agency Adecco, Tig Gilliam who said “This is a very good jobs report, given where we are in the cycle, but we’re still losing 250,000 jobs. The other thing we need to remember is that we need to add 100,000 jobs a month in the U.S. economy just to stay steady.”
That is sobering news of the challenges facing the nation.
The Administration needs to focus on jobs and the economy and forget the partisan politics of asking Americans to report other American’s “fishy” emails.
Sources: NPR, Article of August 11, 2009 “Jobless Rate Down, But Hiring Remains on Hold”
CNN.com of August 2, 2009 “Geithner: Economy Healing, but Deficit Must Go Down”
Bureau of Labor Statistics, issued August 7, 2009 “Economic News Release-Employment”
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People that yell about this administration creating jobs just don't get it
izoneguy (Diary) Thursday, August 13th at 11:22AM EST (link)Obama is a Marxist, a Statist if you will. Obama does not believe in capitalism or free markets. He would rather nationalize ALL American industy. Statist’s believe that profit is evil. Obama believes that only the state is large enough or smart enough to create “jobs”.
Obama and this administration are in an all out war on business right now. You will see some of the big business’s such as GE supporting Obama – but these are sycophants. GE wants to sell $100 million windmills to the government.
Much like how the pharmaceutical giants are supporting Obama’s DeathCare proposals. They want to sell more drugs to those 47 million uninsured (Really more like 10 million uninsured) and they would love nothing better than to off-load health insurance costs to the Federal government.
So, don’t expect to see much of any private sector job creation from the Obama administration. They don’t want to do it and more importantly – they don’t know how to do it.
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.
And it's not their job.
Loren Heal (Diary) Thursday, August 13th at 11:55AM EST (link)Holding the President accountable for job creation is the wrong way to go. It just empowers him.
We should be demanding economic and personal freedom, not government solutions and quick fixes.
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