Posted on 12/10/2011 1:27:07 PM PST by John Semmens
President Barack Obama launched his reelection campaign with a firm slap at efficiency as the cause of the nation’s economic doldrums.
“While the pursuit of efficiency may serve selfish interests it is a body blow to the nation’s collective well-being,” the President asserted. “Saving time or money may help the individual, but it hurts the opportunity of others who need to make a living.”
“Automated systems that save a person time also eliminate job opportunities for others,” Obama pointed out. “If you go online to book a trip you are costing a travel agent a job. If you use e-mail rather than the Post Office you are costing a mail carrier a job. The technologies that enable these efficiencies are costing jobs.”
“The argument that these technologies also save money further illustrates the economic cost of these innovations,” the President added. “In a time of recession the need is for higher spending. Thus, every innovation that saves money is taking us further from our goal of full employment.”
The president urged voters to “get outside the narrow perspective of one’s own self interest and consider what’s best for the country as a whole. The Democratic Party’s program of increased regulations and taxes is a program for creating jobs. Think about it. Adding regulations requires more government employees to impose and enforce them. It requires more private sector employees to assist firms to comply.”
“The same can be said for boosting tax rates,” Obama continued. “More government employees will be needed to impose and enforce them. More private sector employees will be needed to comply. Further, the funds that higher taxes extract from the private sector will give the government more to spend to stimulate the economy.”
“It’s time that we reject the false god of efficiency and make the workers’ benefit our standard,” Obama demanded. “We need policies that will replace machines with human workers wherever it is feasible to do so. This will be the program of my Administration. If you agree, vote Democrat next year.”
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Mr. Obama, blames all of his failures on somebody or something. If he really wants to view the problem he should look in a mirror.
This commie hack is pathetic, and so destructive, it makes me cry and laugh at the same time.
The White House MUST be cleaned out in January 2013.
To quote Bugs Bunny: “What a maroon!”
A low-life, America-hating, foreign communist, homosexual, drug-using, muslim pervert will NEVER blame himself.
Beware: this is satire, however close to the truth.
The “chickens have come home to roost” This guy is as stupid as we had thought all along. We have a community organizer agitator on the lines of Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson as the leader of of the free world. The only thing we see as transparent is the lack of grey matter in between those ears.
The “chickens have come home to roost” This guy is as stupid as we had thought all along. We have a community organizer agitator on the lines of Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson as the leader of of the free world. The only thing we see as transparent is the lack of grey matter in between those ears.
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