Now that we’ve gotten a peek into Obama’s ideas for job growth I am more convinced than ever that he is more than inexperienced, he is clueless. There are so many things about the so-called “job summit” that prove this administration focus is on paving a single lane highway to socialism and their sudden attention to the plight of unemployed Americans is nothing more than political window dressing to quiet the murmuring peasants so his circle of brilliant advisors can continue with the work that is truly important to the “Hammer and Sickle Gang”.
The list of those that were invited to Obama’s job summit should say more about the President’s focus than anything else. While everyone knows that small business is responsible for 80% of the jobs that exist in the country; the true essence of small business was not represented in Thursday’s job summit. There were representatives for three companies invited by the Obama administration as “small businesses” but when you look at who they are, they were hardly representative of companies that create the types of jobs that this summit was reportedly focused on.
The first, Air Tractor, is a manufacturer of small specialty aircraft. While I am sure they make a positive contribution to the economy, their employees require special skills and their product line serves a niche market; neither of which describes a company that has the potential to expand very much beyond where they already are.
Next is Diversapack. Diversapack is a manufacturer of flexible packaging for a myriad of products such as paper towels. While Diversapack is a manufacturer that is certainly qualified to speak on job creation within small business, one of the members of the owner’s group may have had more to do with their invitation than what they produce and how many people they hire; that member is Andrew Young. Most of Mr. Young’s experience lies in politics within the Democratic Party. How convenient that Mr. Obama found a willing ally right there in the halls of small business!
Andrew Young served in Congress for Georgia’s 5th Congressional district for just over four years until 1977 when he was appointed by President Jimmy Carter as the Ambassador to the United Nations. Mr. Young was replaced as the Ambassador to the UN by Donald McHenry after the election of Ronald Reagan but did not leave politics. He was elected Mayor of Atlanta Georgia and held that office from 1982 until 1990 when he ran an unsuccessful race for Governor of Georgia.
Even though Diversapack is a company that would be deeply harmed if the Climate Bill were passed into law, Andrew Young and Barack Obama are kindred spirits where political ideology is concerned. After Mr. Young left public office, his work in community development and education was his principal vehicle to promote and advance an almost religious belief in what he considers social and economic justice. He firmly believes in the globalization of government and in international policies to create “socially responsible for-profit corporations”. For those that have never heard that term before, socially responsible for-profit corporations is radical leftist speak for the nationalization of industry. Chavez’s Venezuela has a lot of “socially responsible for-profit corporations” these days and will have a lot more of them before he’s done. In other words, Young is just another Democrat that feels it is his duty to improve world conditions with generous amounts of your money and is part of the problem, not the solution.
Oddly enough, none of Young’s core principals create jobs. In fact, his core beliefs call for the destruction of the American economy and the redistribution of our wealth and industry to poorer nations. Much as Japan’s idea of a perfect baseball game is one that ends in a tie, the globalists idea of a perfect world is one were everyone has the same amounts of wealth and opportunity even if that wealth and opportunity is considered poverty by our current standard of living.
The last so-called small business invited to the job summit was the Binary Group. Binary Group is an IT or Information Technologies company headed by Rose Wang. Ms. Wang has personally consulted or worked as principal technologist on Binary Group strategies for MCI, Fannie Mae, Sprint, Cable & Wireless, the Army, the Federal Railroad Administration, and the Department of Energy. While the company has seen expansive growth under her leadership, there is no doubt that much of that growth is linked to government projects and I suspect it is her knowledge of government based spending that earned her company a seat at the table this past Thursday. It’s just too bad that government based spending does not create lasting jobs with living wages which was proven to be an abysmal failure by the hundreds of billions already spent in stimulus money.
The balance of the attendees were representatives of enormous multi-national corporations which have proven interests in creating jobs in whatever country will give them the lowest possible cost for labor, representatives of Princeton and Columbia Universities which are metaphorical kitchens that specialize in cooking up global Socialist cuisine, labor unions which are quite possibly the only entity in this nation responsible for killing more jobs and destroying more companies than the Federal Government has and last but not least, environmental groups that are only interested in shifting the US into a “green economy”. Unfortunately, thanks to Cass Sunstein and Van Jones we already know that green initiatives are really tools for redistribution that will cost more American jobs and cripple our economy without one measurable benefit for Earth’s climate or biosphere.
In the end, the job summit was nothing more than a lame attempt to show the unemployed that he (Obama) really cares. If the subject were jobs and the mission was to rescue the economy there would have been more notepads and fewer news cameras there. Obama already knows that the job market will not improve as long as business cannot predict their short term liabilities from taxes and government mandates. It is the President’s own policies that are preventing business from committing to expanding the work force. Healthcare, Cap and Trade, Card Check…there is nothing in any of those goals that does not spell doom for business and they frankly, business is refusing to play the game until they know what the rules will be.
Of course it doesn’t help when the Senate policy has shifted from consent of the governed to the buying and selling of votes because they have become so blatantly partisan. Oh Mary! I bet you thought I forgot you! Nope, it’s Monday so it’s time to remind everyone about the spotlight that Harry Reid has shown squarely upon our favorite political prostitute, Mary Landrieu. Remember Mary? She sat on the fence during the healthcare debate until Harry-the Senate Pimp-Reid offered her $300 million dollars for her vote. To give her credit, $300 million is an awful lot of money…after all, it’s not like he waved a twenty dollar bill at her in some dark hallway of the Capitol Building.
Yes, $300 million is a lot of money. In fact, since it is linked to a cut in Medicaid reimbursements that Louisiana will be exempted from in the healthcare bill, it is representative of what this will cost other states that don’t have someone “hooking” for them in Congress. It’s a shame for other states that are already in financial trouble that these cuts in Medicaid reimbursements will only deepen their budgetary problems. But hey, this is healthcare we are talking about!
We must, as a compassionate nation, make sure that illegal immigrants and all of those products of the welfare state that have never even held a job before have access to affordable healthcare insurance and to provide it for them, if need be. So what if states like California, New York, Florida or Arizona to name just a few, have to lay off hundreds of teachers and police officers; it is all for the common good. So what if our infrastructure collapses and our mass transportation network screeches to a halt; if we can pass the healthcare bill, millions will lose their jobs so less people will need those things anyway. So what if the CBO score is a lie because the bill takes in ten years worth of income but only pays out six years of benefits to give the illusion of breaking even; if we start to add too much to the national debt after the first ten years we can always raise taxes again.
Oh Mary, you are going to be an awfully popular person. Of course Harry told you that the exemption will expire right? I believe the exempted states would have to have been able to qualify for Federal Disaster aid for seven of the last ten years. Katrina struck in 2005 so you still have a couple of years before your State will be absorbing those funding cuts just like everyone else. Then you will be even more popular! Even if your constituents can’t understand the wonderful thing you did for them and wind up voting you out of office; fear not! We will never forget you here at the Vigilance Project where every Monday is Mary Landrieu Day!
Paul
The list of those that were invited to Obama’s job summit should say more about the President’s focus than anything else. While everyone knows that small business is responsible for 80% of the jobs that exist in the country; the true essence of small business was not represented in Thursday’s job summit. There were representatives for three companies invited by the Obama administration as “small businesses” but when you look at who they are, they were hardly representative of companies that create the types of jobs that this summit was reportedly focused on.
The first, Air Tractor, is a manufacturer of small specialty aircraft. While I am sure they make a positive contribution to the economy, their employees require special skills and their product line serves a niche market; neither of which describes a company that has the potential to expand very much beyond where they already are.
Next is Diversapack. Diversapack is a manufacturer of flexible packaging for a myriad of products such as paper towels. While Diversapack is a manufacturer that is certainly qualified to speak on job creation within small business, one of the members of the owner’s group may have had more to do with their invitation than what they produce and how many people they hire; that member is Andrew Young. Most of Mr. Young’s experience lies in politics within the Democratic Party. How convenient that Mr. Obama found a willing ally right there in the halls of small business!
Andrew Young served in Congress for Georgia’s 5th Congressional district for just over four years until 1977 when he was appointed by President Jimmy Carter as the Ambassador to the United Nations. Mr. Young was replaced as the Ambassador to the UN by Donald McHenry after the election of Ronald Reagan but did not leave politics. He was elected Mayor of Atlanta Georgia and held that office from 1982 until 1990 when he ran an unsuccessful race for Governor of Georgia.
Even though Diversapack is a company that would be deeply harmed if the Climate Bill were passed into law, Andrew Young and Barack Obama are kindred spirits where political ideology is concerned. After Mr. Young left public office, his work in community development and education was his principal vehicle to promote and advance an almost religious belief in what he considers social and economic justice. He firmly believes in the globalization of government and in international policies to create “socially responsible for-profit corporations”. For those that have never heard that term before, socially responsible for-profit corporations is radical leftist speak for the nationalization of industry. Chavez’s Venezuela has a lot of “socially responsible for-profit corporations” these days and will have a lot more of them before he’s done. In other words, Young is just another Democrat that feels it is his duty to improve world conditions with generous amounts of your money and is part of the problem, not the solution.
Oddly enough, none of Young’s core principals create jobs. In fact, his core beliefs call for the destruction of the American economy and the redistribution of our wealth and industry to poorer nations. Much as Japan’s idea of a perfect baseball game is one that ends in a tie, the globalists idea of a perfect world is one were everyone has the same amounts of wealth and opportunity even if that wealth and opportunity is considered poverty by our current standard of living.
The last so-called small business invited to the job summit was the Binary Group. Binary Group is an IT or Information Technologies company headed by Rose Wang. Ms. Wang has personally consulted or worked as principal technologist on Binary Group strategies for MCI, Fannie Mae, Sprint, Cable & Wireless, the Army, the Federal Railroad Administration, and the Department of Energy. While the company has seen expansive growth under her leadership, there is no doubt that much of that growth is linked to government projects and I suspect it is her knowledge of government based spending that earned her company a seat at the table this past Thursday. It’s just too bad that government based spending does not create lasting jobs with living wages which was proven to be an abysmal failure by the hundreds of billions already spent in stimulus money.
The balance of the attendees were representatives of enormous multi-national corporations which have proven interests in creating jobs in whatever country will give them the lowest possible cost for labor, representatives of Princeton and Columbia Universities which are metaphorical kitchens that specialize in cooking up global Socialist cuisine, labor unions which are quite possibly the only entity in this nation responsible for killing more jobs and destroying more companies than the Federal Government has and last but not least, environmental groups that are only interested in shifting the US into a “green economy”. Unfortunately, thanks to Cass Sunstein and Van Jones we already know that green initiatives are really tools for redistribution that will cost more American jobs and cripple our economy without one measurable benefit for Earth’s climate or biosphere.
In the end, the job summit was nothing more than a lame attempt to show the unemployed that he (Obama) really cares. If the subject were jobs and the mission was to rescue the economy there would have been more notepads and fewer news cameras there. Obama already knows that the job market will not improve as long as business cannot predict their short term liabilities from taxes and government mandates. It is the President’s own policies that are preventing business from committing to expanding the work force. Healthcare, Cap and Trade, Card Check…there is nothing in any of those goals that does not spell doom for business and they frankly, business is refusing to play the game until they know what the rules will be.
Of course it doesn’t help when the Senate policy has shifted from consent of the governed to the buying and selling of votes because they have become so blatantly partisan. Oh Mary! I bet you thought I forgot you! Nope, it’s Monday so it’s time to remind everyone about the spotlight that Harry Reid has shown squarely upon our favorite political prostitute, Mary Landrieu. Remember Mary? She sat on the fence during the healthcare debate until Harry-the Senate Pimp-Reid offered her $300 million dollars for her vote. To give her credit, $300 million is an awful lot of money…after all, it’s not like he waved a twenty dollar bill at her in some dark hallway of the Capitol Building.
Yes, $300 million is a lot of money. In fact, since it is linked to a cut in Medicaid reimbursements that Louisiana will be exempted from in the healthcare bill, it is representative of what this will cost other states that don’t have someone “hooking” for them in Congress. It’s a shame for other states that are already in financial trouble that these cuts in Medicaid reimbursements will only deepen their budgetary problems. But hey, this is healthcare we are talking about!
We must, as a compassionate nation, make sure that illegal immigrants and all of those products of the welfare state that have never even held a job before have access to affordable healthcare insurance and to provide it for them, if need be. So what if states like California, New York, Florida or Arizona to name just a few, have to lay off hundreds of teachers and police officers; it is all for the common good. So what if our infrastructure collapses and our mass transportation network screeches to a halt; if we can pass the healthcare bill, millions will lose their jobs so less people will need those things anyway. So what if the CBO score is a lie because the bill takes in ten years worth of income but only pays out six years of benefits to give the illusion of breaking even; if we start to add too much to the national debt after the first ten years we can always raise taxes again.
Oh Mary, you are going to be an awfully popular person. Of course Harry told you that the exemption will expire right? I believe the exempted states would have to have been able to qualify for Federal Disaster aid for seven of the last ten years. Katrina struck in 2005 so you still have a couple of years before your State will be absorbing those funding cuts just like everyone else. Then you will be even more popular! Even if your constituents can’t understand the wonderful thing you did for them and wind up voting you out of office; fear not! We will never forget you here at the Vigilance Project where every Monday is Mary Landrieu Day!
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