We can now stop calling it “The Big Jobs Speech” and start calling it the “American Jobs Act” as that is what Obama will, later today, unveil before a joint session of congress. “The American Jobs Act” and I can tell you now, before the speech is made, that Obama has failed.
How can one say, before the speech that it has failed? Because in it’s very title, we find the fundamental flaw, the precise thing which will cause its self destruction. “The American Jobs ACT.”
What this president cannot grasp, because of his ideology is that GOVERNMENT does NOT create jobs and any ACT of government aimed at doing so will fail. Government creates government jobs and sure those jobs look shiny and attractive…for a while…but they cannot be sustainable.
What are we to expect from a president who has never had a job in the private sector, never created jobs in the private sector and who’s revolving door of top economic advisers has never spit out anyone who has any economic experience beyond the halls of academia?
The PEOPLE who create jobs, the entrepreneurs, small business owners, and corporate business owners all want the same thing. They want government OFF their backs…PERIOD. When those people catch onto to some ACT of government meant to create jobs are they going to breathe a big sigh of relief? Will they just start creating jobs out of thin air? Of course not because this is exactly more of the same as far as they are concerned.
Another government act, another government program, another promise to put Americans to work right now…from the GOVERNMENT.
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Palestinian statehood. Scrambling is the key word. Why exactly are we scrambling? Should we not have taken the steps we now scramble to take months ago?
