The Job-Killing President and Congress

Washington Examiner
November 13, 2009

Last Friday, the unemployment rate jumped to 10.2 percent. The underemployment rate -- including part-time workers who want full-time jobs and those who have simply quit looking for work -- reached 17.5 percent.

How did Washington react? The next day the Democratic-controlled House passed a trillion-dollar increase in government disguised as a health care bill.

In the face of the worst jobless rate in 26 years, the Obama administration and congressional Democrats don't seem to realize that adopting bad policies kills jobs.

What's most remarkable about this is that the president should know better. We now have proof that the Obama administration's job-killing policies are hurting America.

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By gedoug @ Sunday, November 22, 2009 2:22 PM

Doesn’t make sense does it Newt. Such blatant incompetence is hard to imagine. I suggest that it’s not incompetence at all but it is intentional. If one had the desire to destroy the American economy they could hardy do better than promoting the policies of Obama administration. Passing a Health Care bill, cap and trade, raising taxes, using stimulus dollars to pay off political cronies rather than promoting job growth, on and on......all of this at a time when the only focus should be on the economy. It is IMHO by design in order to produce a failed America. Failure by design is the only way these polices make sense. What is more troubling however is that we do not seem to have any politicians with the courage to challenge him. That, or they no longer believe in the America of our founders. Fortunately we, the American citizens, are waking up, standing up, and speaking out. Hopefully it will be enough. Sadly I no longer believe politicians, ANY Politician, in office right now believe in that America or the Constitution. They are there for them.....nothing else. It is so very discouraging to recognize that the American experiment, one that has accomplished so much for not only it’s citizens but for the world, is coming to an end in such a short amount of time.

By Hot @ Monday, November 16, 2009 4:26 PM

I see that if you aren't "POLITICAL CORRECT" on this site Newt will delete your post.

DON'T ROCK THE BOAT OR IT WILL OFFEND OMAMA or NEWT.

That's what is wrong now Newt, people are afraid to speek the truth.

By JimOakley @ Monday, November 16, 2009 1:38 AM

I agree that Obama’s policies are geared towards bigger government and empowering the Democrat party. I am frustrated that Bush’s policies were similar. What if the US had been reducing spending since the surplus of the late 1990s? Also I wonder how many people in Washington understand the concepts of pro-cyclical and counter-cyclical spending. An intelligent recession recovery plan is to spend less during a robust time of growth so that taxes can be reduced during a recession without incurring massive debt. Or even more intelligent, would be to realize that a recession is mostly the effect of the government or some monopoly creating a damping effect on the free market by taking capital out of the system and consuming it. Government did not regulate the out of control credit default swaps, but it did regulate health care competition across state lines, tax gas/oil by over 54%, and tax corporations more than most industrialized nations. How is that Capitalism failing? Government is creating problems.

By tcoss @ Saturday, November 14, 2009 8:16 PM

Difficult to tax people who aren't working to pay for a budget with so many zeros, that most calculators can't handle

I don't see any issue more important to the administration than unemployement, and it is the single issue for whcih they have so little to offer. To affect an improvement in employement, the administration would have to abandon their desire to directly manage the affairs of the economy in healthcare, energy and financial risk.

This means that labor recovery will be glacially slow, and more expensive. This happens when well meaning people are so impressed with their own knowledge, they insist they can do better than we.

They are always wrong.

Thomas A. Coss

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