Obama’s Unhelpful Rhetoric on Jobs’ Forum
By Matthew Rothschild, November 12, 2009
When President Obama announced that he’s going to hold a jobs forum at the White House next month, he said something that betrayed his unwillingness to do what is necessary to solve the crisis.
He said, "We all know that there are limits to what government can and should do, even during such difficult times.”
I’ve got a problem with the “can” and the “should,” and the “we all know” in that sentence. (He did follow it up with: “But we have an obligation to consider every additional responsible step that we can to encourage and accelerate job creation in this
country.” Still.)
Obama hasn’t done what FDR did when he confronted an economic crisis similar to the one we’re facing now.
FDR started a massive public jobs program.
Obama hasn’t done what some governors did in the 1930s who were facing a foreclosure crisis similar to the one we’re facing now.
They imposed a moratorium on foreclosures.
Clearly, the government can do such things, even during such difficult times.
And it should do them, too.
It should on moral grounds so as to put a tourniquet around the bleeding that millions of Americans are suffering from.
And it should on economic grounds, so as to make sure that the so-called recovery takes hold across the country, and not just on Wall Street.
But Obama hid from these fundamental solutions under the thin blanket of what “we all know.” And by so doing, he feeds the falsehood
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Greg, I am interested to hear your logical arguments and/or fact checking on:
1. Why Obama is the "worst president ever"
2. How Obama is "deliberately and systematically DESTROYING the U.S. economy in order to usher in the sort of "change" Fidel Castro and Ugo Chavez believe in."
3. "Only 14 percent of the stimulus money has been spent to create jobs. The rest will be skimmed by Democrat politicians for paybacks, payoffs, re-election funds. (The rest will be spent unethically.)"
In a side note Greg, I must say that anyone who lumps Republicans, Democrats, liberals or conservatives all together and then uses this as a premise for any argument is guilty of not only a mistake in reasoning, but prejudice as well.
To be completely honest with you, reading your posts makes you appear to be an idiot who is driven by political rhetoric and completely void of logic.