Rather than jobs The President offers the ‘idea’ of jobs

President Obama spoke yesterday in front of auto workers in Michigan. Reuters reports (emphasis mine):

President Barack Obama sought to reassert economic leadership on Thursday by pledging to deliver new ideas every week to create jobs, and he slammed Congress for "bickering" that hurts economic recovery.

"I'll be laying out more proposals in the days ahead," Obama, a Democrat, said. The problem was not a lack of answers to the pressing issue of economic growth and hiring, rather it was people "playing political games,"

Zzzzzzz, um, is he done, sorry dozed off for a second there. Okay, let's see, a new idea every week to create jobs. Wowsers, this ought'a be entertaining. Just yesterday Jay Carney came out with this week's hi-fi-slam-a-jamma 'idea' - unemployment checks. Can't wait for next week's idea. I know, how about more stifling regulation? That will really get the job market booming! A new idea every week, I ask you, have you ever seen a group of people so clueless in your life? Obama's been in office 30 months and this is the best he can do?

And let's not forget who's to blame. That's right Congress. It's the 'na-na-nu-boo-boo-stick-your-head-in-do-do offensive.

Obama's inability for self-inspection is truly breath-taking. Mr. President, do you think that there might be the ever-so slightest possibility that you are the problem and not the solution? Maybe all this Keynesian nonsense you've been ramming down the throats of the business sector might, just might, have a detrimental effect on the jobs market????

I almost feel sorry for this guy. All his life he was told that capitalism is bad, socialism is good, and when he gets a chance to prove it, reality slaps him squarely in the face. Welcome to the real world Mr. President.

Unemployment insurance, the new job creator!

I swear you cannot make this stuff up. The Specter of Spin, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, had this to say in response to a Wall Street Journal reporter's question. "How the White House can claim that extending unemployment insurance actually creates jobs?" (emphasis mine):

"Oh, uh, it is by, uh, I would expect a reporter from the Wall Street Journal would know this as part of the entrance exam."

What a jerk. I tell you what Jay, why don't you enlighten us unwashed rubes if you don't mind.

"It is one of the most direct ways to infuse money directly into the economy because people who are unemployed and obviously aren't running a paycheck are going to spend the money that they get. They're not going to save it, they're going to spend it. And with unemployment insurance, that way, the money goes directly back into the economy, dollar for dollar virtually."

This isn't just a peek into the minds' of those who've partaken of the Keynesian philosophical Kool-aid, it's a full-blown exposé. So, my man Jay, if I'm to understand your, ahem, argument correctly, by paying people not to work, it will create jobs. Really? Well then let's take this to the extreme, shall we? How about everybody quits their jobs and you and your Keynesian morons in the White House just pay everybody not to work and we will have zero unemployment!! Woo Hoo, sign me up for that baby.

Seriously, where does he think the money comes from to pay these people? Oh wait, that's right from the people that actually create jobs. If you take money from them then they can't hire those same souls that are getting paid for not working.

This is exactly what happens when you get rookies in the White House. They have no basic understanding of how capitalism works (primarily because they hate capitalism). Rather than looking at all the obstacles that are preventing small businesses from hiring (e.g. oppressive regulation, uncertainty from Obamacare, the threat of rising taxes), no these idiots think that unemployment insurance is actually a job creator.

Come on everybody, let's all go get drunk and quit our job so we can help reduce unemployment!

True dat!

One of the smartest men alive, Walter E. Williams, has an excellent column out concerning the unintended consequence of government intervention. Please read it all.

‘Greenhouse’ Gore in 2016!

I saw this while eating my morning cereal and literally shot milk through my nose. Seems Brent Budowsky wants to draft, ahem, Al Gore for president in 2016 (emphasis mine):

Let me be the first to propose a national movement to draft Al Gore for president in 2016, carry the banner of the New Frontier heritage of the Democratic Party

On the playing field of national politics, Gore is the conscience of the Democratic Party, the soul of what true Democrats stand for, and the fighting spirit that Democrats everywhere hunger for.

Hell and Yes!! Please, Please, Please draft this barely marginal lunatic for the Democratic nomination. My guess is that you could get donations from the right as well.

After lamenting the disappointment of the current administration, albeit not by name, Mr. Budowsky gives 'Greenhouse' Gore's qualifications:

If Gore runs in 2016 he would be the most qualified candidate for the presidency in a century.

Gore was a first-rate member of the House. A leader of substance and depth in the Senate. An influential vice president in the highly successful presidency of Bill Clinton. A Nobel laureate who earned the honor through decades of service to save the earth from poisons that could destroy her, and from those who threaten her with their lust for profits and their cult of greed.

Wow, a member of both the House and the Senate. Um, any real work experience? Nope, just a career politician. Oh, yeah, and a Nobel prize winner for a left-wing movie that has been thoroughly debunked. Niiiice. A career politician and a liar, wait that's redundant. Oh, and Brent don't forget he invented the interwebs too!

Mr. Budowsky goes on for another eight paragraphs further solidifying his bromance with Gore comparing him to both John and Ted Kennedy and, gulp, Reagan. By implication Budowsky has all but given up on Obama's chances in 2012, and rightfully so. That being said I really think he is on to something here.

GORE 2016!!


 

Pivot time!

Obama to talk about Jobs in Michigan, Fox News has the story (emphasis mine, snarky comments in parentheses):

President Barack Obama was making a pitch Thursday about the (non-existent) job-creating potential of investing in clean energy before talking up his re-election at a pair of fundraising events with high-dollar campaign contributors

Obama planned to tour a Holland, Mich., factory that makes advanced batteries for alternative-fuel vehicles such as hybrids or all-electrics (That nobody wants).

Investing in clean energy, huh? Again, our socialist overloads are trying desperately to create a market that just does not exist. The so called 'green' technology is NOT viable. So the same nobody's that were lining up not to buy the Chevy Volt, will line up to not buy this piece of crap. But then he goes on to justify this nonsense:

In Michigan, where the unemployment rate was 10.5 percent in June, higher than the national rate, Obama was expected to talk about the benefits of spending (other peoples') money on producing such clean-energy technologies as advanced batteries: jobs and reduced consumption of foreign oil.

Ah, that sounds great. So electricity is free right? And since Obama's EPA is hell bent on shutting down all the coal plants in America, there will be no energy to charge the batteries for these lemons. Great planning!

He calls them "jobs of the future" (sounds like a Disney ride) and says the U.S. should lead the way in developing energy sources that pollute less.

Why? Why should the US lead the way into a dead-end, left-wing agenda driven, technology that is going nowhere? The arrogant presumption that this technology is 'right around the corner' is stunning in its naiveté and dangerous in its execution. Let's say this nonsense works to some degree. Has this genius figured out what the hell we are going to do with all these batteries when they go bad? Where the hell are we going to put them? Yucca Mountain Nevada? Do they think that maybe these spent batteries might, just might, be an eco-hazard? That the danger could quite possibly be far worse than burning evil fossil fuels.? Lastly the money quote:

Johnson Controls Inc., the energy company that owns the plant that was welcoming Obama, has received a $3 million federal grant and expects to create 150 (subsidized) jobs at facilities in Michigan and Wisconsin, White House energy adviser Heather Zichal said.

Really? Create 150 jobs. How the hell does he work that out? The rest of the country is giving the plant $3,000,000, that's not creating jobs, that subsidizing them my friend.