Posted on 12/03/2009 9:23:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Today, the White House holds its “Jobs Summit” stunt. It’s typical Washington-think: Assemble interest groups and concoct special tax credits and handouts to the politically connected. What conceit. The political class think that economies revolve around them, that Washington makes things happen, that politicians are the most important players.
Today’s Washington Post suggests that the way to create jobs is public spending by the federal government:
Obama's options are limited, as the administration already has signaled that it is unwilling to make any investments that would add significantly to the nation's ballooning deficit.
At least the Administration talks about the private sector:
"We want to make sure it is not just the public sector doing this in a vacuum," said Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama. "It's important we engage the private sector as well." Administration officials, however, have excluded major trade associations from the summit... .
Some of those groups privately complain that their job creation ideas, including enactment of stalled free trade deals that they say would boost exports, are opposed by labor unions, which will be heavily represented at the forum.
The White House, which has clashed with some of the business groups over their opposition to health-care reform and other initiatives, says it has met repeatedly with those organizations and wants to hear fresh ideas.
Yes. I am sure those "fresh ideas" will come from the trade unions whom the White House just hasn't heard from much over the past year. At the summit they will also hear from environmental groups “Green for All” and “Coalition for the Green Bank.” I’m sure they’ll have great ideas for job creation.
Will at least some free-market economists get to speak? No. The White House will hear from Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz, and Jeffrey Sachs.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com ...
Obama was saying some cr*p today about asking businesses to create jobs. What a fool. Atlas shrugged dumba*s!
No business owner is going to expand and higher more people when they will be taxed more, regulated more, be demonized, get sued more and on and on.
The evil Kenyan idiot thinks job creation is like turning a light on.
I can't see where the government provides either one.
In typical Community Organizer fashion, Obozo gets other people to come up with solutions. He has NONE himself.
0bama is no President, he is a FOOL acting as president who has FOOLED the majority of (IGNORANT) Americans.
The rats have spread fear and loathing into the private sector. A substantial part of the private sector has allied itself with the rats to avoid the storm. The remainder of the private sector has been thrown under the bus. The rats have unleashed a blizzard of new regulations, laws, litigation, taxes, fees, government ownership, and threats against the private sector. It is laughable that the rats are now blaming the private sector for this economic quagmire.
Even a tin-eared RINO like Arnold Schwartzenegger is smart enough to realize that we need a healthy private sector to generate the tax revenue necessary to feed government growth. I beleive he actually said something to that affect. But ObaMao can’t even figure out that much.
Not the government.
Looking at where we are now, I can't say the "free trade" agreements we made have done us much good at all. I suppose free trade works when it's with a nation where market access is truly free both ways, and one side isn't paying workers $2 per hour and have a artificially low pegged currency....
Right on. King Obama is an arrogant ignorant as@ but the majority of Americans I cannot forgive. These brain dead Americans will never get it that they destroyed their own as@. Supporting King Obama taking down American economy will take down their handouts with it.
Woop! There it is!
We've lost over 40,000 MANUFACTURING PLANTS in the process ... oh wait - that's right ... they told us we're going to be "Service Economy" ... you know, like doin' each others laundry ... and sellin' each other Life Insurance.
Thanks alot all you Glo-Baloneyists.
Businesses don’t create jobs to make Obama look good. Businesses create jobs to make the business more profitable.
Obama expects jobs to be created from the private secotr, but shut out the oil and gas industry from the summit?
http://rightinaleftworld.blogspot.com/2009/12/missing-boat-on-job-creation.html
They are prepared to offer hundres of thousands of jobs and don’t get the time of day.
Stossel is also no friend of American citizens. His suggestion is to outsource more jobs, which will in turn magically create more jobs here. This is the kind of RINO stupidity that bled the US dry over the past two decades, and opened the door for Obama. The Democrats are simply driving a stake through the nation's heart.
Fortunately, the voters are waking up, and waking up hungry and angry. They are not about to simply go back to letting the RINOs bleed us dry.
No more RINOs; no more Democrats.
But these Globalists have successfully rammed their Free Trade Agreements through a corrupt Congress in order to go into partner$hip with the 3rd World $lave Tyrant$/Commie$ in order to suck the equity out of the USA.
Stossel/ Sarah-bot 2012
The “Jobs Summit” may provide cover for some additional BHO spending, but does anyone here remember a young inner city Detroit resident shouting gleefully about “Obama money, maybe from Obama’s stash!”? Do you wonder how much “fiat money” Ben Bernanke’s magic wand has created (from thin air), and BHO’s minions have squandered? And how long it took, is taking, or will take BHO and Company to bankrupt us permanently? If so, when’s the last day we can stop him, and will anything short of a blood bath do the job? The only thing worse than that bath would be for him/them to succeed. Just some very distasteful food for horror-filled thought.
Peter Y. Solmssen, interim U.S. chief executive of Siemens Corp., a German conglomerate, said fixed policies would help businesses, large and small. "We both need a certain amount of certainty, which gives us the opportunity and capability to plan."
Bingo! Too much uncertainty, due to too much government meddling by the "do-gooder" pols of both parties who never came across a human condition they didn't think the government should try to fix.
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