Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 136: “Metaphorically Speaking”

Then it's flat top, dirty bob, coppin' a feel
Grubbin' on the livin' room floor (so sore)
Yeah, they send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge,
But all you want to do is learn how to score

Yeah, but now I'm gettin' old, don't wear underwear
I don't go to church and I don't cut my hair
But I can go to movies and see it all there
Just the way that it used to be

That's why I wish I had a pencil thin mustache
The boston blackie kind
A two-toned ricky ricardo jacket
And an autographed picture of Andy Devine “A Pencil Thin Mustache”, Jimmy Buffett

President Obama’s selection this week of Professor Alan Krueger to take over as Chair of his Board of Economic Advisors is a metaphor for the train wreck known as the Obama Administration. Placing pointy headed academics or boneheaded career bureaucrats in high level government positions that don’t have any idea what so ever how capitalism or the private sector works.

These so called brilliant public servants who for the most part never made a dime in the private sector not only have oversight and/or regulatory authority over our free enterprise capitalist based economy they also bring a hidden agenda to the job. Just like their boss man Comrade Obama most of these folks are card carrying members of the ACLU; Code Pink; Greenpeace; Big Union Labor; NAG; Marxist; Communist; Socialist; Blame America First extremist hell bent on fundamentally transforming our great nation into an oppressive nanny state.

Professor Krueger is no exception. After exhaustive research we can’t find a shred of evidence the man has ever really put in an honest day’s work in his pampered, prep schooled, Ivy covered life of internships, fellowships and tenured faculty positions.

Not even a lemonade stand, paper route or summer job flipping burgers. Actually meeting a payroll, growing a business and investing his own money on a long shot but calculated risk in a private sector enterprise is as foreign a concept to Professor Krueger as honesty, integrity and class are to President Obama.

Following is a brief bio of Professor Krueger’s many academic and government accomplishments:

• Professor of Economics, Princeton
• Known as a labor economist, is likely to provide a voice inside the administration for more aggressive government action to bring down unemployment
• Professor Krueger already did a stint at the Treasury Department working with Timmy Geithner. He worked on analyses of a variety of programs, including tax incentives to encourage employers to hire the employed, the "cash for clunkers" initiative to jump-start auto purchases and Build America taxable municipal bonds. All misguided initiatives that failed miserably
• Extensively published including Redistributing Wealth – The key to Financial Nirvana; Spending Other People’s Money; Capitalism Sucks
• Economist Fellowships – Paris Institute of Socialism; Mao College of Advanced Communist Economic Theory; Castro Scholar, University of Cuba

Professor Krueger will be joining two fellow Marxist Comrades at the President’s Board of Economic Advisors, Katharine G. Abraham and Carl Shapiro. Both are hardcore liberal elitist hopelessly addicted to spending other people’s money. Following is a listing of their Socialist credentials:

• Abraham is currently on leave from the University of Maryland, where she is a faculty associate in the Maryland Population Research.
• Abraham’s research has included work on employment and unemployment, labor market policy and the measurement of economic activity.
• She has held appointments in the Department of Economics, University of Maryland; the Brookings Institution; and the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and of the American Statistical Association
• Dr. Abraham earned her B.S. in Economics from Iowa State University in 1976 and her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1982.
• Carl Shapiro is on leave from the University of California at Berkeley, a fantasy land chock full of pin headed liberals where he is the Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy at the Haas School of Business and Professor of Economics
• Shapiro has published extensively in the areas of industrial organization, competition policy, the economics of innovation, and competitive strategy. He is co-author of the 1999 book, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy.
• Shapiro served from 2009-2011 as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics at the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice

Only a genuine bonehead would have a Board of Economic Advisors without a lick of private sector economic experience. All things considered it would seem fair to say our current severely fiscally challenged Commander-in-Chief is a genuine bonehead.

At least they are consistent:

• A bunch of Socialist with no experience in healthcare restructured our entire healthcare system
• Political Science majors and lawyers were given control of the US auto industry
• Egg headed ultra liberal econazie professors are running our energy industry
• Corrupt, incompetent, tax cheats are regulating the financial industry

“Metaphorically Speaking” we’re screwed.

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

Ron W. Garikes