Obama's Economic Winter: Can Adam And Steve Find Jobs?

Job Creation: With just 7% of Americans considering gay marriage the top issue, the presumptive GOP nominee asks: What about the 23 million Americans who are out of work, underemployed or have simply given up?

The battle of the steel ads between venture capitalist Mitt Romney and venture socialist and incumbent President Barack Obama has ended with the advantage going to Romney.

The Obama spot dubbed "Steel," but which perhaps could have been labeled "Vampire," will be run once during the evening news on Wednesday in five key battleground states and then be withdrawn while people stop laughing.

Such ads depend on talking-head analysis to get the word out rather than the actual ad buy, and for Team Obama the reviews have not been good.

The attack ad blaming Romney and his investment firm Bain Capital for the failure of GST Steel, a Kansas City, Mo.-based company, fell flat after it became known Romney left Bain two years before the company failed in 2001.

That was also a time when 17 other steel companies that Bain had nothing to do with failed as prices imploded from the dumping of foreign steel in the U.S. market.

The 750 jobs lost at GST are fewer than the 1,100 employees who lost their jobs at Solyndra, the stimulus-backed manufacturer of solar panels, and certainly fewer than the job losses at the "bailed out" Government Motors, its suppliers and the workers at the closed GM dealerships.

As Karl Rove recently noted, GM employed roughly 252,000 workers in 2008. Now it has 207,000, with 131,000 of them working in foreign plants.

Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund raising event.

Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal workforce is black. 12% of the population is black.

Only in America could we have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee, BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.

Only in America can we have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.

Only in America would we make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just become American citizens.

Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country’s Constitution be thought of as “extremists.”

Only in America could you need to present a driver’s license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.

Only in America could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).

Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a trillion dollars more than it has per year for total spending of $7 million PER MINUTE,and complain that it doesn’t have nearly enough money.

Only in America could the rich people who pay 86% of all income taxes be accused of not paying their “fair share” by people who don’t pay any income taxes at all.

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