Barack Obama: The Great Jobs Killer

[Janice]

http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/barack-obama--the-great-jobs-killer-97758294.html?numComments=174

Barack Obama: The Great Jobs Killer

As former President Ronald Reagan might have said, "Obama, there you go again."

The current occupant of the White House claims to know how to create jobs. He claims jobs have been created. But so far the score is Great Obama Depression 2.2 million lost jobs, Obama 0 -- a blowout.

Obama is as hopeless, helpless, clueless and bankrupt of good ideas as the manager of the Chicago Cubs in late September. This "community organizer" knows as much about private-sector jobs as Pamela Anderson knows about nuclear physics.

It's time to call Obama what he is: The Great Jobs Killer. With his massive spending and tax hikes -- rewarding big government and big unions, while punishing taxpayers and business owners -- Obama has killed jobs, he has killed motivation to create new jobs, he has killed the motivation to invest in new businesses, or expand old ones. With all this killing, Obama should be given the top spot on the FBI's Most Wanted List.

Meanwhile, he has kept the union workers of GM and Chrysler employed (with taxpayer money). He has made sure that most government employee union members got their annual raises for sleeping on the job (with taxpayer money). He made sure that his voters got handouts mislabeled as "tax cuts" even though they never paid taxes (with taxpayer money). And he made sure that major campaign contributors collected billions off government stimulus (with taxpayer money).

As far as the taxpayers -- the people who actually take risks with our own money to create small businesses and jobs and pay most of the taxes -- we require protection under the Endangered Species Act.

You won't find proof of the damage Obama is doing on Wall Street, but rather on Main Street. My friends are all part of the economic engine of America: Small business. Small business creates 75 percent of new jobs (and a majority of all jobs). I called one friend who was a wealthy restaurant owner. He says business is off by 60 percent. He's drowning in debt. He won't last much longer. His wealth is gone.

I called another friend in the business of home improvement. He says business is off 90 percent from two years ago. My contractor just filed personal bankruptcy. She won't be building any more homes. The hair salon where I've had my hair cut for years closed earlier this year. Bankrupt. But here's the clincher -- ESPN Zone just closed all their restaurants across the country. If they can't make it selling cheap food and overpriced beer with 100 big screens blaring every sporting event on the planet to a sports-crazed society, we are all in deep, deep trouble.

I've polled all my friends who own small businesses -- many of them in the Internet and high-tech fields. They all agree that in this new Obama world of high business taxes, income taxes, payroll taxes, capital gains taxes, and workers compensation taxes, the key to success is to avoid employees. The only way to survive as a business owner today is by keeping the payroll very low and by hiring only independent contractors or part-time employees provided by temp agencies.

The days of jobs in the private sector with big salaries, full benefits, and pensions are over. We've all seen where those kinds of jobs get you as a business owner -- in Bankruptcy Court or surviving on government welfare like GM and Chrysler. Or in the case of government itself -- completely insolvent, but surviving by ripping off taxpayers and fraudulently running printing presses at the Fed all day and night to print money by the trillions.

Unfortunately, small businesses don't have the power to impose taxes or print money. So unlike government, we'll just have to cut employees and run lean and mean.

It has now become clear that, outside of the burgeoning field of Census takers, there will be no major increase in new jobs for years to come.

Outside government, Obama has created a wasteland of economic ruin and depression that looks much like the landscape of Mel Gibson's first movie "Mad Max." Without a printing press in Obama's world, you're just plain out of luck.

The days of believing the Obama propaganda about a jobs recovery are over. The trillion-dollar corporate handouts (neatly named "stimulus") may have kept big business in the money for the past 18 months, and artificially propped up the stock market, but small business is the real canary in the coal mine.

My small business-owning friends aren't creating one job. Not one. They are shedding jobs. They are learning to do more with fewer employees. They are creating high-tech businesses that don't need employees. And many business owners are making plans to leave the country. In a high-tech world where businesses can be run from anywhere, Obama has a problem. His one-trick pony -- raise taxes, raise taxes, raising taxes -- is chasing away the business owners he desperately needs to pay his bills.

So who is going to pay Obama's taxes? Not his voters. They want government to pay them. Who is going to create Obama's jobs? Not his voters -- they've never created a job in their lives.

So what is Obama going to do? Maybe he can get Pamela Anderson on the line.

[catlover79]

You got that right!!

[ABlairican Pie]

Very strange how Obama criticizes Big Business and corporations, like BP and Goldman-Sachs, yet he's in bed with them. Screw the little guy, he thinks, what have they done for him lately? Elitist all the way.

[catlover79]

HYPOCRITE is more like it!!!!

[James]

Regarding the ESPN Zone restaurants, there are two still in operation--Los Angeles and Anaheim, California. Interestingly the only one I've seen is the first one that opened in the late 1990s in Baltimore on a trip in 2004 (didn't eat there; opted for Legal Sea Foods instead).

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN_Zone

[steevo]

The key to getting the economy going again is to lower taxes and cut the restraints on small business and entrepreneurs (regulation,ect.) This would allow for them to expand, and in turn, hire more people. Reagan did this in the early 80's and the economy boomed for almost the entire decade. Raising taxes never helps, but our socialist-in-chief doesn't care.

2012 can't come soon enough.

[MickeyMac]

The unemployment rate has risen since January 2009.


'nuff said.

[old grouch]

Originally Posted by steevo

The key to getting the economy going again is to lower taxes and cut the restraints on small business and entrepreneurs (regulation,ect.) This would allow for them to expand, and in turn, hire more people. Reagan did this in the early 80's and the economy boomed for almost the entire decade. Raising taxes never helps, but our socialist-in-chief doesn't care.

2012 can't come soon enough.

That would make too much sense. But don't be so hard on Obama. He's got a lot on his plate, with his golf game and parties at the White House and taking foreign leaders out for hamburgers.

[MrCleveland]

This Birthday is going to be important...

We'll have people in there who can stop Obama the Spending Machine!

[bossradio93]

Obama? Jobs killer? Come on, you know better than that! The real job killers in the last thirty years were, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush (Bush I), George W. Bush (Bush II and founder of his Crime Family). I could include Bill Clinton into this. He may be responsible for U.S. manufacturing jobs leaving as well, however, he raised taxes on the wealthy which stimulated the economy and produced amazing job growth and the nation prospered successfully as a result.

[Dr. John Becker]

Originally Posted by bossradio93

Obama? Jobs killer? Come on, you know better than that! The real job killers in the last thirty years were, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush (Bush I), George W. Bush (Bush II and founder of his Crime Family). I could include Bill Clinton into this. He may be responsible for U.S. manufacturing jobs leaving as well, however, he raised taxes on the wealthy which stimulated the economy and produced amazing job growth and the nation prospered successfully as a result.

1. Crime family? Please explain.

2. Raising taxes on the wealthy never stimultates the economy. The '90's were good economic times because the Republicans controlled Congress. In other words DESPITE Clinton, not BECAUSE of him.

3. Ronald Reagan killed jobs? Please explain this one (although I know you won't)

[Dr. John Becker]

By the way, I noticed something with Bossradio's post. No where does he defend Obama's policies! He blames both Bushs, Reagan and even Clinton but not one word about Barack.

[ABlairican Pie]

Originally Posted by bossradio93

Obama? Jobs killer? Come on, you know better than that! The real job killers in the last thirty years were, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush (Bush I), George W. Bush (Bush II and founder of his Crime Family). I could include Bill Clinton into this. He may be responsible for U.S. manufacturing jobs leaving as well, however, he raised taxes on the wealthy which stimulated the economy and produced amazing job growth and the nation prospered successfully as a result.

So, okay, let's say that Bush and all those guys are to blame for the economic downturn and lack of jobs. Well, if Obama has done nothing to improve the situation, isn't he just part of the problem? He sits there and plays the "Blame-Bush" game all the time. Fixing blame all the time is best way not to do anything about it, rather than roll up his sleeves and get busy on the problem. The only thing I've heard so far is that the 12% jobless rate
("ONLY 12%!!") is actually a good thing according to Obama and his minions! Bush may have been bad, according to libs, but if Obama just spends his hours basking in the spotlight of 'The View' and playing golf rather than doing the work, he's not much better. Is he just simply trying to say
that the "mess he inherited" from Bush is much greater than he can deal with?
Then how does he get to become this wonderful HERO to so many?? He's doing NOTHING!!!!

[ThomasE]

Originally Posted by bossradio93

Obama? Jobs killer? Come on, you know better than that! The real job killers in the last thirty years were, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush (Bush I), George W. Bush (Bush II and founder of his Crime Family). I could include Bill Clinton into this. He may be responsible for U.S. manufacturing jobs leaving as well, however, he raised taxes on the wealthy which stimulated the economy and produced amazing job growth and the nation prospered successfully as a result.

Right on! Obama has taken on a mess that was already in progress. He is in part cleaning up a mess that has gradually developed over time. Keep going Barack!

[Janice]

Originally Posted by ThomasE

Right on! Obama has taken on a mess that was already in progress. He is in part cleaning up a mess that has gradually developed over time. Keep going Barack!

Not ONE thing has improved since Barack took office. Everything has gone downhill. He's spending like a nutjob, no jobs and taxes are going through the roof come January. When Bush was in office, the jobless rate averaged around 6%. Now, Barack actually said that 10% is the "new norm".