"Facts are stubborn things." Part 1
In 2008 Barack Obama’s campaign shtick was “change.” That resonated because President Bush was spending too much and the country meant to change Washington. But Obama meant to change the country.
In response the Tea Party movement has arisen to implement the real change, putting brakes on that out of control big government growth. Our message to Washington is simple: you have run out of our money, stop excessive spending. You cannot borrow your way out of debt; you cannot spend your way out of deficits.
What is President Obama’s response to our message of fiscal responsibility? Shared sacrifice; everyone must feel his pain. By everyone he means the people, not the government. Winston Churchill was more eloquent when he observed that “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy,its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
Last year Obama used Pennsylvania’s Allentown Metal Works as a backdrop to tout his so-called stimulus spending as a success. A couple of months later, the plant closed.
Then Vice President Joe Biden bragged to a Pittsburgh crowd that all the runaway deficit spending would produce 250,000 to 500,000 jobs created each month by the start of last summer. We’re still waiting Joe.
Obama claimed his extreme spending spree would prevent unemployment from going above 8%. It’s been above that for the last 27 months.
To be fair, not everyone has done poorly under Obama. Federal government union employees have prospered. Federal employment has grown by over 100,000 positions. Federal civil servants average pay and benefits were $123,049 in 2009 while private workers that year earned $61,051 average pay and benefits, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Take the Department of Transportation as a specific example of excessive government growth. Before Obama, only one bureaucrat there made over $170,000. After Obama’s spending spree, 1,690 bureaucrats are paid over $170,000 a year. How has Departments services improved the nations transportation services, has anyone noticed? Now Obama claims austerity by wanting to freeze it at that exponentially higher level for a short while before increasing it again.
I guess that is what Obama meant when he said he “will not rest” until he creates jobs, jobs, jobs. But growing the government is not the same as growing the economy. Extending unemployment insurance payments is not a jobs program. Adding more Americans to food stamps is not a jobs program. Redistribution schemes do not create more wealth; it just shuffles the stack of what was already there, nothing new. No real help there.
News flash to Washington politicians: you don’t create jobs. The American people do. In the private sector, without government money, ordinary Americans start businesses and hire people. All that is needed is that the government leaves our money in our pockets and gets out of the way ending excessive and burdensome regulation.
If you succeed, Obama’s government would take your profits in oppressive taxation, to consume on growing the government overhead and whatever is left over is redistributed to government dependents who will vote for more handouts.
The truth is only 30% of the money intended to be redistributed actually gets to people liberals claim they want to help. If the government were a United Way charity with 70% overhead expense, would you contribute to it voluntarily? If the government were a company, would you buy its stock? When you hear that Obama wants to raise taxes on anyone, what you are hearing is his call for big and bigger government. The government does not deserve a pay increase. It’s time to cut spending.
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Comment by Doug Nicholson on November 16, 2011 at 11:49pm -
BTW, Corey, I just read the article from Forbes magazine you linked to in an earlier post. Once again, it demonstrates that "government can only create government (and some temporary) jobs", but yes, it certainly can destroy jobs, sometimes by the millions, like Odumbo has been doing for the last 3years.
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Comment by Doug Nicholson on November 16, 2011 at 11:32pm
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@Corey, the companies that make the items you named created the jobs, not the government. Granted, the government, to some extent, finances some jobs temporarily (as I noted in my earlier post). Once the contract runs its course, many or all of the employees hired to help fulfill it will be laid off unless the company can replace the business lost with another contract from somewhere.
I reassert my statement that "government can only create government (and some temporary) jobs".
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Comment by Norma J. Sears on November 16, 2011 at 8:51am
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So if you don't work for the government you're toast. The problem: Toast can't pay taxes.
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Comment by Doug Nicholson on November 16, 2011 at 3:20am
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Really, Corey? Really? Can it be any more obvious that government can only create government (and some temporary) jobs? And who pays those government workers whose jobs the government created, Corey? I'm not going to answer that one for you, Corey. You'll have to stretch that little pea brain of yours to figure it out for yourself.
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Comment by Jo Gonzalez on November 16, 2011 at 3:19am -
I didn't spend the money, so don't send me the Bill!!! This Maniac calls us lazy, and all he's done for three years is run up the debt, run his mouth off, and vacation on our dollar. This nation is not lazy,and his insults are becoming pretty disgusting to me. I "SHARE" enough of my money through Federal Income Taxes, and for what, to keep him and his Trashy wife in caviar, and his Labor Buddies in his Army in "high cotton" where the rest of America is struggling to find employment. I am in no way ready to share what I have worked for, with People who won't. I'll share with who I please, the real life Needy. Will the year just go by faster!!!!
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Comment by Gene Swank on November 16, 2011 at 12:30am
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Corey you live in never never land, in other words you never tell the truth. Obumer has spent more then any other President in history and we are all worse off. The only jobs he has created were government jobs for his union buddies. And we have to pay there outragous salaries and benifits.
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Comment by Pat Glisson on November 15, 2011 at 10:52pm
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Then you all might like to read how Perry wants to rid of the big government. check it out you might like it.
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Comment by joana briggs on November 15, 2011 at 9:28pm
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The Russian news piece from Youtube was very good. We need to move steadily on this front from every point to keep him off ballots.
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Comment by William Homolka on November 15, 2011 at 8:16pm
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Correction - Ovomit is going to prison & be sued endle$$ly!!!
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Comment by Mike NQR on November 15, 2011 at 7:34pm -
We're not going to eradicate the entire Democratic party in one election, or two if you include 2010. But we don't really have to kill the party. All we have to do is not allow Ovomit another term. Pelosi as already mostly mute. Reid will be next. Ovomit can return to Kenya. Presumably he won't need lifetime Secret Service protection there.
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