Obama Doesn't Want to Stimulate the Economy

It is increasingly clear that President Obama has no intention of doing anything to stimulate economic growth and start bringing the unemployment numbers down. Those unemployment numbers are the highest since Jimmy the Peanut Carter. After all, central planners and statists thrive on crisis to achieve ends they would not otherwise be able to accomplish. Obama's chief of staff summed it up perfectly when he said, "This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before."

Why have the crisis end if it means slowing or ending your far left agenda? The absurd part is that media continues to refuse to do its job in providing that essential part of democracy: criticism of the president's policies. Criticism doesn't have to be negative, it just has to be there. There must be some healthy questioning. The first question they should be asking is: when is government too big?

Most conservatives, like myself, would say it is already too big and bloated. With each new bureaucracy and agency, individuals lose their ability to make decisions for themselves. With each choice lost, an element of freedom is lost. We cannot be so naive as to think that we are immune from oppression and tyranny if we allow government to grow unchecked forever. After all, few dictators in history have ever seized power without the initial consent of the people to "make things right" so to speak.

Jay Nordlinger has an excellent piece in the National Review exposing the hypocrisy of the media by contrasting their treatments of virile Bush hatred to the supposed "hate" directed at President Obama. Hatred is wrong by any account, and Obama should not be subject to it any more than Bush or other American president. Imagine, however, if Rush Limbaugh had said, "SNIPERS WANTED" after President Obama was elected? Yet, that's just what Craig Kilborne did after Bush's election.

Imagine if John Boehner said, "I hate the Democrats and everything they stand for." But, that's precisely what Howard Dean said about Republicans.

In 2006, Bill Maher had a conversation with John Kerry. He asked Kerry what he’d gotten his wife for her birthday. Kerry said he had treated her to a vacation in Vermont. Maher said, “You could have went to New Hampshire and killed two birds with one stone.” Kerry replied, “Or I could have gone to 1600 Pennsylvania and killed the real bird with one stone.”

These aren't fringe protesters, these are "mainstream" Democrats spewing hate without any repercussions. Yet, conservatives voice legitimate concerns and fears about Obama's radical health care plan that will surely lead to socialist health care, and they are accused of hate.

The fact is, the stimulus packages, the health care plan, the cap and tax (trade), and talk of another bailout are efforts to entrench the Democratic party bureaucratically. So the "stimulus" money that was supposed to create or save jobs, isn't and is being withheld until next year, an election year to be undoubtedly spent in a fast and loose fashion to help Democrats win re-election. Why else would only 12% of the stimulus money have been spent as of August 2009?

The claims by the administration to create thousands of jobs through "green jobs" or "health care reform" are laughable. The only way such job creation will take place is with massive new agencies filled with lazy government workers, who will, of course, be unionized. The government cannot create new industries; it never has. Just look at the disasters that Medicare, Social Security, Cash for Clunkers, and welfare have been in terms of management and efficiency. Waste is an epidemic in government and Obama is not some magician who will finally solve the problem. As government expands, so will waste.

But then again, this creates yet another crisis and thus, opportunity for the far left administration bent on reforming America into a pseudo-Euro socialist state. Obama is weakening America's defences, betraying allies, and leaving even the French frustrated by the endless dithering over Iran.

Fortunately, the American people are strong enough to endure the destructive tendencies of the Obama administration that work in direct opposition to the values that the republic was founded upon: limited government, individual freedom, the rule of law, and equality of opportunity (not result).