Obama's campaign -- theater of the absurd

http://reason.com/archives/2012/10/25/the-new-economic-patriotism-is-not-a-job

It's truly amazing that Obama is traveling the swing states making speeches with a straight face that tout his trustworthiness and his ability to create jobs. In Iowa yesterday Obama said it's vitally important to have a President you can trust -- this is the same day it was revealed that intelligence communications shortly after the Benghazi attack show the White House knew it was a planned terrorist attack, and that there was no protest over a Youtube video which ignited spontaneous violence. It appears the administration allowed Chris Stevens and 3 other Americans to die. If Obama is not guilty of gross negligence of duty, then his deception surrounding the cause of the attack on the consulate is unfathomable.

Just recently, Obama has lied about Romney's auto bailout stance, his, Obama's, job creation record, and Benghazi, but the deception has been obvious since the beginning of his presidency. This administration is perhaps the most untrustworthy administration since Nixon.

Morning Joe 9/10/2012 -- Entitlements are only promises, but debt must be paid

On Morning Joe today, the crew talked about the lack of specifics offered by the Presidential candidates regarding what they will do to create jobs and reform taxes. A clip was shown in which Paul Ryan was asked by an interviewer which tax loopholes and subsidies Romney will remove. Ryan said he wants to have the debate with Congress so that all representatives are involved in the reform and so that it has a chance of being passed. This sounds reasonable, but Scarborough and others believe it's a cop-out.

The main point made on Morning Joe is that Americans want leadership -- they welcome honest plans that show them the tough choices which have to be made in order to turn around this failing economy. The problem is that neither candidate knows how to turn around the economy, and standing against special interest groups in order to remove loopholes and subsidies can't be accomplished unless you first make systemic changes.

The fact that systemic changes have to be made is something that politicians won't accept -- it's also something that the political class in general, including Scarborough and the Leftists and moderates who parade through his show, won't accept. The political class believes that there are statist solutions to problems created by statism, but government has to be limited and a free market has to be implemented before the economy will start growing sufficiently to deal with the debt and deficit problems. Statists say that a true free market and a truly limited government can't serve a complex society, so debt rises and the few power-elite gain control -- this is how complexity is handled appropriately.

The problem is that as our interventionist government deals with complexity a very simple problem has arisen -- businesses don't know what will happen next or how much it will cost them. Politicians are rattling their sabers, anxious to tax the rich, as statists say that government must "invest" in needed infrastructure that only government can provide, that this is how jobs will be created until the private sector is confident again. If Obama and the Democratic Party get their way, and it looks like Republican moderates are on their side regarding government "investment", there will be thousands of interventions as hundreds of billions of dollars flow to this crony and that, to this government pet project and that, and it will only cause further lack of confidence in the private sector business world and a misdirection of capital.

David Walker came on the show and presented the true debt, which is around 70 trillion dollars, when the promises related to entitlements are taken into account. Steve Rattner said that entitlement promises can be changed, but that debt is a promise that must be paid. Listen up all of you who are dependent on government -- if you've been told that if you pay into government, you will get a return when you retire and your healthcare problems will be covered, according to Rattner, this is not a real promise, and it can be changed when politicians decide they want to change the arrangement. There's probably fine print somewhere. Entitlements are not really entitlements, just a temporary arrangement that might change when government spends the money you've sent in and can't make good on what it said it would do, which wasn't really a promise. Got it? Don't worry, you'll get it alright.

We need more honest, mature people in government

I guess the political game has become so corrupted and perverted that most decent, smart and honest American citizens have no desire to enter the political realm. The awe that some still experience regarding popular politicians becomes more absurd as the people in office suffer in comparison to the quality of intelligence and character the private sector has to offer. I guess at one time, intelligent and successful Americans would enter high office for the good of the nation, or maybe it's always been an illusion. In the Information Age the flaws of public figures are certainly obvious. It's a little scary when you consider the power we're giving these people.

Incompetence to manage an economy is a main reason why we need limited government. But, first, we have to elect honest, mature people to office. President Obama is an example of dishonesty in DC, along with Boehner, McConnell, Pelosi, Reid -- they are all professionals who care only about the political game and little or not at all about facts and real solutions. I don't think there's an incompetence/corruption equivalency between the two parties, because the GOP at least has enough new representatives to shake up the status quo leadership, but Democrats are following the President off a cliff.

Barack Obama claims, and I hear it every day from one of his many speeches, that US businesses have created 4.2 jobs in the last 25 months or something like that. Obama is trying to give the impression that his administration and Democratic policies have turned around the deep recession, and we're on our way to recovery -- yes, he will say, it needs to be faster, but...plug in an excuse. If you want to be cynical, you can say no one can blame Obama for fudging when all politicians do it during election time. The problem is that, again, the Information Age doesn't allow these tricks to work, plus, we're in such a crisis that game-playing is political suicide. What's happening, and Obama can't yet see it, is that things have changed in media and public awareness and only honesty and mature debate regarding solutions will work. America has the most powerful economy in the world, so even during a bad recession a certain amount of jobs will be created even if everyone's twiddling their thumbs.

There have been created jobs of less than 100,000 a month during the time period referred to by Obama. Monthly population growth is about 160,000. Do you see the problem? It does neither Obama nor the nation any good to pretend that 4.2 million jobs in 25 months is recovery, because the truth always wins, and it wins faster in the Information Age when you can google the facts in seconds. Obama would serve himself and the nation much better if he told the truth about the numbers -- real unemployment is around 11% -- and asked the nation to pull together and weather this recession -- that he will break down all government barriers to recovery, allow people to keep more of their hard-earned money, and then it will be up to American innovation and creativity to find the productive economic activity of the 21st century.

Morning Joe 5/25/2012 -- I can't take it anymore!

It's too much. On Morning Joe today, the crew continued their efforts to help Obama perfect his Bain Capital/job creating attack against Romney. Loaded again with liberals and progressives, Donnie Deutsche, Eugene Robinson, Jeffrey Sachs, David Gregory, John Meacham and other Obama flunkies were making suggestions such as Obama simply sticking with Romney the rich guy out of touch who doesn't understand the problem of people suffering from unemployment. Some said that Obama's approach is not a slam on Bain Capital but is stating that Romney's experience with Bain doesn't qualify him to create jobs.

The reason this discussion is so frustrating is because it's misleading in so many ways. First of all, no company in any industry is in business to create jobs, per se. All companies would just as soon do business without any labor costs. The fact that business activity creates jobs is incidental to business activity, not the purpose of business activity. I don't know if Romney has ever claimed that one of the duties of President is to create jobs -- if he did, then he is just another interventionist. I think Romney has said he understands what environment is necessary for businesses to grow, and that growth will create jobs.

I don't know why Romney is not responding in this vein. He might be responding like this and media are not reporting it -- I don't know. Romney should say that the problem with Obama is that he thinks his job is to create jobs. I would say to Obama, if I were Romney, that I never said the job of President is to create jobs, if Romney hasn't said this, but, rather, I understand what conditions are necessary for economic growth. Obviously, I would say, Obama doesn't understand what conditions are necessary for economic growth, and that Obama's focus on Bain is indicative of his immature, confused ideas about business and the market conditions necessary for growth.

I believe Romney has said that regulations need to be rolled back and that business taxes need to be competitive with other nations. These speak to the conditions necessary for private sector companies to create jobs, not Presidents. If the Morning Joe crowd understood anything but political strategy, they would have put this controversy in perspective.

If Romney uses his success at Bain to underline his management skills, then this experiences is more pertinent to an executive job, even in government, than community organizer. I just don't get how the GOP allows Obama to confuse this issue. Surely, Obama's tactic will not work, because even if the GOP can't figure out a good response, it just doesn't stick with people who have any understanding at all of the private industry.

26% and falling

When you consider that voters are mainly concerned with the economy, in essence we can say that Obama's approval rating is around 25% and that 75% think he's doing a lousy job. Some probably think that Obama can actually create some kind of government program to create jobs and turn around the economy, but that he isn't for some reason. But, if Obama could create jobs, surely he would've done so by now. I hope the majority of the 75% correctly fault Obama for not pushing to reform regulations and taxes. Maxine Waters is apparently one who thinks Obama can create a jobs program. Someone should ask Waters why Obama would simply refuse to create a workable jobs program. That doesn't even make sense. Of course Obama would have pushed with all his might to create a jobs program if there was one out there that could create jobs and turn around the economy -- why wouldn't he? His approval rating would be off the charts.

Perhaps Waters sees an opportunity to become the black leader in Washington, and this is why she has berated Obama on his failure to create jobs. This is not good for blacks, however. When educated, middle class blacks across the country are realizing that the Democrat Party consists of empty, unrealistic promises, the dynamics begin to change and black leaders Allen West and Herman Cain and Thomas Sowell begin making more sense in a managed economy that's killing jobs. When we get past political rhetoric, good, lasting jobs are created in the private sector, and they're neither black jobs nor white jobs -- they're just jobs.