Posted on 07/12/2010 6:42:23 AM PDT by yoe
As former President Ronald Reagan might have said, "Obama, there you go again."
The current occupant of the White House claims to know how to create jobs. He claims jobs have been created. But so far the score is Great Obama Depression 2.2 million lost jobs, Obama 0 -- a blowout.
Obama is as hopeless, helpless, clueless and bankrupt of good ideas as the manager of the Chicago Cubs in late September. This "community organizer" knows as much about private-sector jobs as Pamela Anderson knows about nuclear physics.
It's time to call Obama what he is: The Great Jobs Killer. With his massive spending and tax hikes -- rewarding big government and big unions, while punishing taxpayers and business owners -- Obama has killed jobs, he has killed motivation to create new jobs, he has killed the motivation to invest in new businesses, or expand old ones. With all this killing, Obama should be given the top spot on the FBI's Most Wanted List.
Meanwhile, he has kept the union workers of GM and Chrysler employed (with taxpayer money). He has made sure that most government employee union members got their annual raises for sleeping on the job (with taxpayer money). He made sure that his voters got handouts mislabeled as "tax cuts" even though they never paid taxes (with taxpayer money). And he made sure that major campaign contributors collected billions off government stimulus (with taxpayer money).
As far as the taxpayers -- the people who actually take risks with our own money to create small businesses and jobs and pay most of the taxes -- we require protection under the Endangered Species Act.
You won't find proof of the damage Obama is doing on Wall Street, but rather on Main Street. My friends are all part of the economic engine of America: Small business. Small business creates 75 percent of new jobs (and a majority of all jobs). I called one friend who was a wealthy restaurant owner. He says business is off by 60 percent. He's drowning in debt. He won't last much longer. His wealth is gone.
I called another friend in the business of home improvement. He says business is off 90 percent from two years ago. My contractor just filed personal bankruptcy. She won't be building any more homes. The hair salon where I've had my hair cut for years closed earlier this year. Bankrupt. But here's the clincher -- ESPN Zone just closed all their restaurants across the country. If they can't make it selling cheap food and overpriced beer with 100 big screens blaring every sporting event on the planet to a sports-crazed society, we are all in deep, deep trouble.
I've polled all my friends who own small businesses -- many of them in the Internet and high-tech fields. They all agree that in this new Obama world of high business taxes, income taxes, payroll taxes, capital gains taxes, and workers compensation taxes, the key to success is to avoid employees. The only way to survive as a business owner today is by keeping the payroll very low and by hiring only independent contractors or part-time employees provided by temp agencies.
The days of jobs in the private sector with big salaries, full benefits, and pensions are over. We've all seen where those kinds of jobs get you as a business owner -- in Bankruptcy Court or surviving on government welfare like GM and Chrysler. Or in the case of government itself -- completely insolvent, but surviving by ripping off taxpayers and fraudulently running printing presses at the Fed all day and night to print money by the trillions.
Unfortunately, small businesses don't have the power to impose taxes or print money. So unlike government, we'll just have to cut employees and run lean and mean.
It has now become clear that, outside of the burgeoning field of Census takers, there will be no major increase in new jobs for years to come. Outside government, Obama has created a wasteland of economic ruin and depression that looks much like the landscape of Mel Gibson's first movie "Mad Max." Without a printing press in Obama's world, you're just plain out of luck.
The days of believing the Obama propaganda about a jobs recovery are over. The trillion-dollar corporate handouts (neatly named "stimulus") may have kept big business in the money for the past 18 months, and artificially propped up the stock market, but small business is the real canary in the coal mine.
My small business-owning friends aren't creating one job. Not one. They are shedding jobs. They are learning to do more with fewer employees. They are creating high-tech businesses that don't need employees. And many business owners are making plans to leave the country. In a high-tech world where businesses can be run from anywhere, Obama has a problem. His one-trick pony -- raise taxes, raise taxes, raising taxes -- is chasing away the business owners he desperately needs to pay his bills.
So who is going to pay Obama's taxes? Not his voters. They want government to pay them. Who is going to create Obama's jobs? Not his voters -- they've never created a job in their lives.
So what is Obama going to do? Maybe he can get Pamela Anderson on the line.
Wayne Allyn Root, a former vice presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party, writes from Henderson. His column appears every other week.
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/barack-obama--the-great-jobs-killer-97758294.html
Oscumbag and BP are deliberatly destroying thousands of jobs in the gulf not to mention our food source and it aint over
The Census taker positions will continue - He is still looking for his Civilian military. People, when they are hungry and homeless, will take a baseball bat to anyone they are told to for $10.
Good post. Let’s not give Congress a pass though. Every Republican running in November should feature this graph in their ads. Make this election about Pelosi/Reid the way Obama made the last one about Bush.:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/Dow%20roller%20coaster.jpg
“So what is Obama going to do?”
Probably take a vacation and play some golf.
Obama needs to be impeached and tried for treason.
He is also more interested in how we treat radical Islam than he is about this country. I understand that he wants to strip all reference to “radical Islam” from government documentation. This will ruin this country even more.
Good article. I don’t understand why liberals have such a hard time wrapping their heads around this.
"She continued with something to the effect that America was at the same time the great hope and the great obstacle for Communism.
America would have to be converted to Communism and Barack was going to pave the way.""
So, what does this conversation from 1992 prove?
Well, it’s definitely anecdotal. It doesn’t prove that Obama has had Soviet Communist training nor that he was groomed to be the first black American president, but it does show one thing that I think is very important. It shows that Soviet Russian Communists knew of Barack from a very early date. It also shows that they truly believed among themselves that he was raised and groomed Communist to pave the way for their future. This report on Barack came personally to me from one of them long before America knew he existed. Although I had never before heard of him, at the time of this conversation Obama was 30+ years old and was obviously tested enough that he was their anticipated rising star.
Tom Fife
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Wait Obama is a Marxist?
Who doesn’t have friends that are domestic terrorists and committed Marxists?
Who doesn’t go to a Marxist church where the head fool sais God Damn America and blames the world’s problems on rich white people?
Who hasn’t gone to Pakistan on Spring Break while in college?
Who didn’t actively seek out Marxist professors and write about it?
Who didn’t have a your terrorist buddy write two autobiographies for you when you haven’t done a thing?
Who doesn’t work with union leaders that want the workers of the world to unite?
Honestly, while the future tax increases are ghastly...it’s something else that is killing jobs today.
Society is over-regulated, for one thing. Doing something as simple as renting a parking lot in Georgia means complying with local water runoff and landscaping laws for the new renter that the prior renter was exempt from due to being grandfathered.
So while everyone *wants* to blame the federal government...the local level shares in the blame for killing jobs.
Another problem is a lack of credit availability. Globally, credit availability has been cut to half today what it once was at its peak in 2006. This is causing some bizarre behavior, such as gas stations having to order half-fuel deliveries twice a month because they no longer have the credit to pay for a single full monthly delivery.
Federal regulation is a problem, too. It costs $3 to $4 million to get an old drug approved by the FDA after its 30 or 40 year old exemption from “way back then” runs out today. In other words, long-used drugs have to go through an approval process from Hell in order to make new sales.
Tort is another problem. Look at Chinese drywall. The Chinese stuck industrial waste into drywall that they then shipped around the world to unsuspecting customers. Well, each country is suing the unknowing businesses who bought the tainted drywall...leaving the Chinese manufacturers unsued.
To avoid being sued, you have to move your manufacturing to China. Lawyers refuse to sue the Chinese. Of course, they’ll sue American businesses into the ground...gleefully.
Well, rinse and repeat that cycle long-enough and you’re going to get a lot of new manufacturing in China...at the expense of everywhere else.
So the unfair lawsuit climate gives the Chinese an edge in global competition.
And moving jobs out of the U.S....is...wait for it...a jobs killer. All because greedy tort lawyers only go for the easy-to-sue U.S. companies...leaving Chinese firms alone.
So this focus on future taxes is mis-guided. Yes, the future tax increases will be bad when Bush’s tax cuts expire next year...but we’ve been losing jobs due to a fall in credit availability, over-regulation (especially at the local level), and tort for the past 3 years.
That's fine with me. More time tearing up a golf course, less time spent tearing up the country.
I tried but couldn’t find Michelle Obama’s speech where she describes how “Barry is going to change things in America even our ‘traditions....” Remember when Hillary said “we’re going to take things from you”? These Progressives are really communists - they all want power and money AND they want the hoi-polloi stripped of a way of life that has been the envy of the modern world and then some to make us dependent on them, i.e., government. Barrack and Michelle will live the rest of their lives like royalty just as the penny less Clinton’s are now.
Bush is the one who is makin’ Obama hurt America, you know. Here’s an idea for Obama’s re-election theme.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SLifea3NHQ
Nailed it.
Always remember that in Moscow the Communist elite had THEIR OWN highway lane for their own and sole exclusive use!
Amazing.
George Orwell tried to warn us
before he starved to death in the UK.
I was reading Chapman Pincher’s book Too Secret Too Long: from 1984:
over 60 Members of Parliament were found to be secret members of the UK Communist PArty (secret meaning at the request of their Russian masters i.e. KGB)
and several Lords in the upper House of Lords too.
Truly amazing.
He died of tuberculosis . His was already in the hospital at the time.
Yes
And I read that the complete lack of English support for his literary works led to his extreme poverty and thus his tuberculosis and thereby his death.
From an UK author who knew Orwell at the time, not from me.
Barrack and Michelle will live the rest of their lives like royalty just as the penny less Clinton’s are now.
Yes
All four scummy lying lawyers .........
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