Obama's New Movie: Jackass - The Government

The Patriot Room ^ | November 24, 2008 | Bill Dupray

[Bill Dupray]

There was an article in the Washington Post yesterday talking about Obama's plan to tackle rising unemployment. An odd sub-headline stuck out like a sore thumb: "Plan Aims to Create or Save 2.5 Million Positions by 2011."

I get the create part, but saving a job sounds like a liberal weasel-word for patting yourself on the back for the status quo. So for example, if I don't fire any of my employees and Obama enacts his proposals, whatever they are, has he saved a job?

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[WayneS]

I get the create part, but saving a job sounds like a liberal weasel-word for patting yourself on the back for the status quo.

You are 100% correct. It's also known as "defining success DOWN".

After all, we can't have the Obamessiah perceived as going back on any of his campaign promises, can we?

[Uriah_lost]

Good article but the pic is priceless!!

[KoRn]

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[KoRn]

What puzzles me is Hussein claiming he’s going to create jobs. Tell me if I’m wrong here, but doesn’t the government have to effectively TAKE something from someone before it can do anything? If the government intends to “create” a job doesn’t the resources to create that job have to come from someone in the form of taxes? It seems to me, the result of this could be a net loss to the economy as a whole, if you are raising taxes just so you can “create” a paycheck for someone. I find the whole “Green Jobs” thing to be particularly amusing as well, because you are creating a job out of thin air, a job for which there has been zero market for in the real world. If such a job were truly necessary, it would already exist.

[LottieDah]

Don’t be so hard on Zero. We are now in the midst of an “Obama” rally on Wall Street. Stocks biggest two day rally since 1987 according to Drudge. By golly he is a Magic Mullato!

[Bill Dupray]

It is wishful thinking trying to trump the free market: classic liberal delusion.