In his health care address to Congress, Barack Obama bragged that his administration had pulled America out of financial disaster. New unemployment data makes him, as Joe Wilson might put it, a liar.
by Michael Naragon
Even The New York Times had to admit things are bad. After months of the president and his lackeys proclaiming the recession is over, that the stimulus and TARP experiments had saved the day, that, to quote the president, we had been brought back “from the brink” of financial ruin, the September unemployment numbers climbed to 9.8% nationally.
The Obama/Democrat stimulus, which they promised would keep unemployment under 8%, has failed miserably. The Times, predictably, tried to put the best spin possible on the numbers for their president, claiming that the slide has slowed considerably since the first months of Obama’s reign. Perhaps the media should attempt to explain that to the 263,000 Americans that lost their jobs this month.
Obama has made claims that his monstrous health care plan–which is a misnomer, since he personally has no plan, having committed to sign off on whatever plan his Congress approves–will create hundreds of thousands of jobs. This may be true in one respect. The myriad of new government agencies created under any federal involvement in the health care industry will undoubtedly create new bureaucratic positions, further inflating the size of an already bloated ruling body. What the president does not take into account, however, is the number of jobs lost in the private sector by businesses who will be required to tighten their belts in the interest of government mandates while that same government continues to loosen its waistline and expand uncontrollably.
In a recent town hall meeting, Congressman Jim Marshall (D-GA) blamed obesity for the health care “crisis” facing our nation. The only obesity that seems to be a crisis for the United States is the sizeable expansion of our bureaucracy and the power that goes with it. As the federal government continues to engorge itself on the power of the people and the states–while claiming to be doing good for the economy and the citizenry–how long will it be before it does irreparable damage to its heart and suffers a fatal constitutional infarction?
