Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week 46: Get a Job

“Sha na na na, sha na na na na, Get a job

Sha na na na, sha na na na na, Get a job

Sha na na na, sha na na na na, Get a job

Sha na na na, sha na na na na,

Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip

Mum mum mum mum mum mum

Get a job, Sha na na na, sha na na na na”

The Silhouettes

Forty-Six weeks ago our Human Resources Director-in-Chief, Barack “According to the White House WebsiteThe Creator and Savior of 1.6 Million Jobs (Maybe in China)” Obama, made the audaciously false claim that if Congress failed to pass his Trillion dollar plus so called Economic Stimulus Package life on earth as we know it would cease to exist. He also confidently informed us passage of this humongous spending bill was the only way to keep rising unemployment under 8 percent.

Forty-Six weeks and a Trillion dollars of tax payers hard earned money later our Stimulator-in-Chief’s Socialist economic policies have been an abject failure. Unemployment has jumped from 7.65% last January when our Killer of Jobs-in-Chief took the Oath of Office to current levels of 10% plus.

Since infesting the White House the “Yes We Can Plunge the Economy Down to the 9th Level of Hell” gang’s policies have forced an additional 3.2 million of our fellow Americans to the unemployment lines with a total of almost 16 million looking for work. That equates to 70,000 wage earners a week getting a pink slip, or the entire population of the cities of Dothan, Alabama; Lake Charles, Louisiana; and/or College Station, Texas getting the boot every 7 days.

Untold heartache, carnage and devastation has been heaped upon millions of American families as a result of our Marxist-in-Chief’s efforts to transform the world’s largest and most successful free market/capitalistic economy into a Government run Socialist Nanny State. As with any “Revolution” collateral damage is an expected necessary evil, in this instance historically high unemployment and unprecedented deficit spending, because from the wild eyed true believer Revolutionary’s radical way of reckoning the ends always justify the means.

Our Socialist Revolutionary-in-Chief has achieved the dubious honor of reaching unemployment levels of truly historic proportions. A review of US Employment since WW2 compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the severity of our current situation into perspective:

· Our Employer-in-Chief’s first year in office, 2009, will result in an annualized Unemployment rate of 9.3%ish
· Since 1948 Unemployment has exceeded 9.3% on only 2 occasions, 1982 and 1983, 9.7% and 9.6% respectively, during Ronald Reagan’s first term in office
· Reagan’s 8 year annual Unemployment average resulted in a slightly high but respectable 7.5%
· The lowest Unemployment rates of the last 60 years occurred during the Truman, 1951- 3.3%, 1952 – 3% and Eisenhower years, 1953 – 2.9%
· The lowest average Unemployment rates for a President who served at least one full term: 1. Truman – 4% 2. LBJ – 4.9% 3. Slick Willie Give Me Another Lewinski Clinton – 5.2% 4. W – 5.3%
· The highest average Unemployment rates for a President who served at least one full term: 1. Ronald Wilson Reagan – 7.5% 2. Jimmy Peanut, just plain ole nuts, flake, the most infamous embarrassment to the Southern Gentry of the 20th and 21st century, Carter – 6.5% 3. Daddy Bush – 6.3%
· It is interesting to note that during the 4 Presidencies with the lowest Unemployment, with the exception of LBJ, the GOP held a majority in one or both Chambers of Congress for at least half of their terms in office.
· For example, during the 16 years of the Clinton and W years Republicans held majorities in both Chambers for 12 years. Unemployment averaged around 5.1% accompanied with significant job growth. Lesson learned – boneheaded liberal Democrat economic policies the likes of big Government; high taxes; wealth redistribution; intrusive regulation; and Socialist welfare programs kill US Jobs and send them overseas faster than a scalded dog

Watching his job approval numbers drop like a led balloon it finally dawned on our Lowest First Year Presidential Job Approval in the History of Gallup Polling -in-Chief that he best stop spending all his time dithering on his Afghanistan strategy and propagandanizing about his Marxist dreams of Socialized medicine and pay a little attention to a real crisis, 16 – 20 million fellow Americans in dire need of a steady paycheck.

In typical fashion the White House’s response to this crisis was to quickly organize a made for TV event; fire up our Great Orator of Empty Rhetoric-in-Chief’s tele-prompter; invite a couple hundred supporters and CEO’S from companies with too much Federal Government work to risk publicly criticizing the President’s policies to the White House; and alert the media that our Financial Wizard-in-Chief will be holding court at a White House Jobs Summit.

All the usually suspects showed up standing tall and grinning from ear to ear like they had good sense for an afternoon of liberal bloviating and diatribes of Marxist doctrine. Attendees included folks from all the President’s Labor Union faithful; pointy headed academics who never made a dime in the private sector; Government bureaucrats; Obama political hacks; Media elite the likes of liberal extremist head case New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman; CEO’s from Google, Disney, and Fedex for appearances sake; and representatives from the President’s good friends at ACORN and the American Socialist, Communist, and Fascist Parties.

Glaringly missing from this august gathering were representatives from the US Chamber of Commerce, several manufacturing related associations and business trade groups who have been publically critical of the Administration. Considering these groups represent millions of small businesses that actually create most of the jobs in this country their exclusion from the process by our thin skinned fearless leader is a sure sign of his lack of conviction to seriously address this issue.

Five days later our Speech Maker-in-Chief made what seems like his 300th national address advocating 3 new job creation initiatives:

1. The temporary elimination of the capital gains tax for small businesses
2. Tax credits for small businesses
3. Use of Billions left over from the TARP Fund, a W initiative to keep the banks open that actually worked with money to spare, for so called shovel ready infrastructure projects

At first glance certainly sounds reasonable but with the same restrictions and strings attached the first massive Obama spending/political payback bill contained – eligibility contingent upon utilizing Union labor, millions for ACORN and other Socialist Community Organization activist, and rampant political patronage – there ain’t a snowball’s chance in hell of stimulating even a frog hair’s worth of real job growth.

As for shovel ready projects, the only shoveling this President is doing is the load of BS he’s been spreading since the first day he entered public service.

President Obama’s Socialist economic policies have put millions of hard working Americans out of work. Socialized medicine; Cap and Trade; exploding deficit spending; a massive redistribution of wealth; and enough debt to choke a herd of elephants will most likely force employers to show millions more to the curb.

In closing, anyone currently seeking employment should seriously consider a position as a Presidential Czar.

1. The White House is one of a very few employers still hiring
2. Great pay and benefits
3. No specific skill set or qualifications required
4. Communist; Socialist; Fascist; Eco-Nazis; terrorist sympathizers; tax cheats; blame America firsters; pacifist wimps not only welcome but strongly encouraged to apply

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

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