Thread: Obama, the great jobs-killer

As former President Ronald Reagan might have said, "Obama, there you go again."



The current occupant of the White House claims to know how to create jobs. He claims jobs have been created. But so far the score is Great Obama Depression 2.2 million lost jobs, Obama 0 -- a blowout.



Obama is as hopeless, helpless, clueless and bankrupt of good ideas as the manager of the Chicago Cubs in late September. This "community organizer" knows as much about private-sector jobs as Pamela Anderson knows about nuclear physics.



It's time to call Obama what he is: The Great Jobs Killer. With his massive spending and tax hikes -- rewarding big government and big unions, while punishing taxpayers and business owners -- Obama has killed jobs, he has killed motivation to create new jobs, he has killed the motivation to invest in new businesses, or expand old ones. With all this killing, Obama should be given the top spot on the FBI's Most Wanted List.



Meanwhile, he has kept the union workers of GM and Chrysler employed (with taxpayer money). He has made sure that most government employee union members got their annual raises for sleeping on the job (with taxpayer money). He made sure that his voters got handouts mislabeled as "tax cuts" even though they never paid taxes (with taxpayer money). And he made sure that major campaign contributors collected billions off government stimulus (with taxpayer money).



As far as the taxpayers -- the people who actually take risks with our own money to create small businesses and jobs and pay most of the taxes -- we require protection under the Endangered Species Act.



You won't find proof of the damage Obama is doing on Wall Street, but rather on Main Street. My friends are all part of the economic engine of America: Small business. Small business creates 75 percent of new jobs (and a majority of all jobs). I called one friend who was a wealthy restaurant owner. He says business is off by 60 percent. He's drowning in debt. He won't last much longer. His wealth is gone.



I called another friend in the business of home improvement. He says business is off 90 percent from two years ago. My contractor just filed personal bankruptcy. She won't be building any more homes. The hair salon where I've had my hair cut for years closed earlier this year. Bankrupt. But here's the clincher -- ESPN Zone just closed all their restaurants across the country. If they can't make it selling cheap food and overpriced beer with 100 big screens blaring every sporting event on the planet to a sports-crazed society, we are all in deep, deep trouble.



I've polled all my friends who own small businesses -- many of them in the Internet and high-tech fields. They all agree that in this new Obama world of high business taxes, income taxes, payroll taxes, capital gains taxes, and workers compensation taxes, the key to success is to avoid employees. The only way to survive as a business owner today is by keeping the payroll very low and by hiring only independent contractors or part-time employees provided by temp agencies.



The days of jobs in the private sector with big salaries, full benefits, and pensions are over. We've all seen where those kinds of jobs get you as a business owner -- in Bankruptcy Court or surviving on government welfare like GM and Chrysler. Or in the case of government itself -- completely insolvent, but surviving by ripping off taxpayers and fraudulently running printing presses at the Fed all day and night to print money by the trillions.



Unfortunately, small businesses don't have the power to impose taxes or print money. So unlike government, we'll just have to cut employees and run lean and mean.



It has now become clear that, outside of the burgeoning field of Census takers, there will be no major increase in new jobs for years to come. Outside government, Obama has created a wasteland of economic ruin and depression that looks much like the landscape of Mel Gibson's first movie "Mad Max." Without a printing press in Obama's world, you're just plain out of luck.



The days of believing the Obama propaganda about a jobs recovery are over. The trillion-dollar corporate handouts (neatly named "stimulus") may have kept big business in the money for the past 18 months, and artificially propped up the stock market, but small business is the real canary in the coal mine.



My small business-owning friends aren't creating one job. Not one. They are shedding jobs. They are learning to do more with fewer employees. They are creating high-tech businesses that don't need employees. And many business owners are making plans to leave the country. In a high-tech world where businesses can be run from anywhere, Obama has a problem. His one-trick pony -- raise taxes, raise taxes, raising taxes -- is chasing away the business owners he desperately needs to pay his bills.



So who is going to pay Obama's taxes? Not his voters. They want government to pay them. Who is going to create Obama's jobs? Not his voters -- they've never created a job in their lives.



So what is Obama going to do? Maybe he can get Pamela Anderson on the line.

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[quote name='kmiller1610' date='06 July 2010 - 03:57 AM' timestamp='1278406656' post='163445']

The economic theory behind Obama's policies does not make sense to ANYONE. If it did, someone would explain it.

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They're scared to explain it. The people would revolt. It's a Jack Nicholson thing - "you can't handle the truth!"



kmiller1610, let me float an idea your way. We have to take a long-term view to these things. Consider what has happened over several presidencies. Clinton began by de-regulating financial services, with things like Gramm-Leach-Bliley. Bush then piggybacked on the deregulation, and introduced additional constitutional violations in the area of siezures and due process. Obama is now introducing the idea that the government takeover of the private sector is "okay" in times of distress (things like buying AIG and GM, and owhing a significant percentage of Citibank).



Taken together, these trends represent a pattern. At the same time this was going on, the Supreme Court redefined eminent domain, okay'd an ex post facto law, and sold our political process to the corporations.



All these things are part of a trend. They represent an enormous expansion of government power, way outside of the constitutional scope. And these things are being done slowly, over a period of many years, and so skillfully that the people grumble "only a little". And they throw us a bone or two whenever we do ("free" healthcare, "more" unemployment benefits, and corporate welfare to artifically maintain the economy).



But if you look at the numbrs, the results are quite clear. A very large fraction of the middle class (especially the upper middle class) has taken pay cuts in the last 6 years. Benefits are declining, and those that aren't are now taxable. Meanwhile taxes are skyrocketing, and they're being attached to "little" things so the politicians can get away with saying they didn't raise income taxes. But schools and libraries and hospitals are closing, while at the same time government is shelling out millions for unnecessary services like 511 systems for traffic information.



All these things are the unconstituional expansion of government. Think about it - what good is a 511 traffic information system? How about, they tell people to go "this" way and not "that" way - well, when is that useful? In times of crisis! Right? Like, when they have to evacuate a whole city maybe, like.... during Katrina.... or.... (fill in the blank).



There is a battle for market share, and therefore for control. Government can not afford to let the corporations grab market share. And, a nanny corporation is just as bad as a nanny government.



So, where does this logic lead you? The conclusion is rather inescapable, isn't it? This type of power grab is the hallmark of an insecure and top-heavy government. It has happened many times before in history, you don't have to read too much to find plenty of examples.

There really is no cogent economic plan. It really has been a mishmash of monies funneled into slush funds for political payoffs. I don't think the powers that be planned on a few things. The first being that the majority of Americans would awaken quickly from the delirium of expiation from having voted for a black president. The second being that Europe, well, and the rest of the world, while wanting Obama to be President of the U.S. wasn't for the same reasons that they thought.

[quote name='Devil505' date='06 July 2010 - 10:21 AM' timestamp='1278429687' post='163474']

Total partisan BS!

My daughter is a public school teacher who, along with thousands of cops & fire fighters ...would be out of work without the stimulus money.

This thread is total BS right out of the RNC.

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So what are they going to do when they run out?