Doing Fine?

Red State ^ | Friday, June 8th | Reince Priebus

[IbJensen]

Obama can’t fix a problem he can’t see.

No, you heard him right. At a press conference this morning, the President of the United States actually said, “The private sector is doing fine.”

Mr. President, are you paying attention? Take off the rose-colored glasses. (Although, thanks to your fashion industry fundraising friends, I’m sure they’re very stylish rose-colored glasses.)

The private sector is small businesses. It’s middle class families that run them. It’s entrepreneurs and start ups and job creators. And it’s not “doing fine.” Incomes are dropping, prices are rising, and the future is becoming more uncertain.

Twenty-three million Americans are struggling to find work. Forty-six million are living in poverty. Families can barely figure out how to make ends meet. The unemployment rate has been above 8 percent for 40 months—the longest period of such chronically high unemployment since World War II.

We knew President Obama was hostile to the private sector. We knew he did not understand free enterprise. We just did not realize he was this astoundingly out of touch.

President Obama has candidly, honestly, exposed his economic worldview. He believes big government needs to create more jobs, not the private sector. Forget free enterprise, he says. We need more government! More bureaucracy! More deficit spending!

The people of Wisconsin have something to say on that matter.

This is the danger of a president who has zero private sector experience. He does not understand what policies are good for the economy because he does not even recognize what’s wrong with the economy.

So we get ObamaCare, massive regulations, and plans for higher taxes. The president’s policies are job-killers. Job creators cannot hire new workers because Obama’s policies have made hiring unaffordable and impossible.

We need a president with private sector experience. If it was not clear before, it is now painfully obvious. Thankfully, Mitt Romney has excellent private sector experience. Even former President Bill Clinton praises his “sterling business career.”

Gov. Romney knows the truth about the American economy. He knows Americans are hurting, and he has a plan to create jobs. He put his business experience to work as governor of Massachusetts and got results. He will do the same as president.

Any voter who wonders whether to vote for Gov. Romney or for President Obama in November should remember this: President Obama thinks the “private sector is doing fine.” If you don’t collect a government paycheck, he thinks you’re “doing fine.” And that means he doesn’t think you—or your neighbors, or your children looking for work—are struggling.

Is that the kind of president we want?

[IbJensen]

The economy this stupid, marxist, muslim, sodomy lover thinks is so ‘fine’ dropped 250 plus Dow Points, Friday last. The following Monday many employers who were previously hiring put a freeze on all hiring.

Confidence is screeching to a standstill. But “It’s All Fine” in Barry’s World.

BHO’s just gotta go; he's America's Enemy Number One!

[Norm Lenhart]

Reince, Should this bit of wisdom reach your monitor, Why not come out and tell the truth. Obama thinks the PS is doing fine because in his worldview, it IS doing fine. It’s just that his worldview is anti-capitalist/Communist and in that view, a decimated private sector is the desired outcome.

Why you people in the hierarchy of the GOP refuse to call it what it is, is partly the reason that despite the worst president in American history being up for reelection, you have so little enthusiasm from the ‘base’.

Please remove your head from behind your own pair of rose colored glasses, see reality and DO SOMETHING OTHER THAN SPEW PLATITUDES.

Yours Truly,
Normie

[ryan71]

I’m 45, have been working since I was 16, and I’ve never seen it like this. Luckily I have not been laid off but everyone around me has. Sure, there have been brief recessions through the years but never the feeling that we wouldn’t soon come out of it. It’s hard to see light at the end of the tunnel and that’s scary.

I suppose we would be “doing fine” if we were all communists. Maybe that’s what he meant.

[Texas resident]

I think baraq’s statement that the middle class is doing fine is his thinking that he is satisfied with how they have been decimated.

BTW, my business partner is 72 and has in the same boat, has never seen a downturn last so long. He has been in the working world since ‘66.

[DH]

My favorite saying is: “If the boss sees no problem, there is no problem. If you show him a problem, you become the problem.”

The truest statement ever said.

[Tao Yin]

I suppose we would be “doing fine” if we were all communists. Maybe that’s what he meant.

What he meant was a pep talk to public sector workers. Get motivated, get energized, get out and vote. He was trying to build a narrative that the public sector is hurting and under attack. He was trying to pull a "I feel your pain" to all of the government workers. He realizes that his voting block is feeling depressed and he is trying to reconnect.

[Erasmus]

There are really only two kinds of problems the President can’t fix.

1. The problems that he can’t see.
2. The problems that he can see.

[P.O.E.]

[Texas Eagle]

... the President of the United States actually said, “The private sector is doing fine.”

I think it was David Adolf Axelrod who actually said on one of the weekend talking head news shows that the private sector is doing better than the public sector.

HA! Worst Jedi mind trick ever.

Adolf Axelrod on CNN

[wayoverontheright]

What’s so damaging about Obama’s comment is not his assessment that the “private sector’s doing fine”, but the proposal to help the economy by government hiring of teachers, police, and firemen.

It proves that liberals truly do believe in “trickle-down”, but only if government employees are doing the spending.

[Windflier]

"Gov. Romney knows the truth about the American economy. He knows Americans are hurting, and he has a plan to create jobs. He put his business experience to work as governor of Massachusetts and got results. He will do the same as president."

Reince, you're either as ignorant as the day is long, or you're a lying sack of sh!t. Here's Romney's real economic record as Governor of Massachusetts:

Mitt Romney’s Dismal Record

"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.

* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.

* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.

* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.

"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.

In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."

[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]

You'd better hope like hell that he doesn't "do the same as president."