Thursday, November 12, 2009
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Yet Another Summit
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Posted by:
Carol Platt Liebau at
3:30 PM
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Whenever the Obama administration seems confronted with a domestic political problem, one solution comes to the fore: Hold a summit.
A symphony of chin music may be silly but meaningless when it comes to effecting "reconciliation" between a Harvard professor and a Cambridge cop, but it's somewhat more frustrating when the President offers it as proof positive of his commitment to employment. But that's what he's doing: He's proposed a "jobs summit" for December.
The problem for the Democrats -- most notably, the President -- is that they don't want to do the things that will stimulate the economy and put people back to work. They're not interested in things like payroll tax cuts, or corporate tax cuts, or income tax cuts. After all, they need the taxpayer money to fund, as best they can, the huge (and hugely unpopular) expansion of government, from health care to cap'n trade, that they've been working toward.
In order for businesses to want to expand, those who do the hiring have to feel confident that a big-taxing, high-regulating, ever-more-intrusive federal government isn't going to make their lives miserable. And right now, that's a confidence no rational person could feel.
And no amount of learned chit-chat from the chin-strockers and deep-thinkers at a summit is going to change that.
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...will be at this "jobs summit"? My bet is there will be SEIU officials, Teacher union officials, and Joe Biden. Anybody who ever had to meet a payroll will not be allowed to enter. |
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I think you have the list right. Surely they will not include the people who could actually give them valid ideas. You know like tax breaks for small businesses. No saddling businesses with fines and extra costs right now for the health care fiasco. No they will not invite the people who will tell the truth, they will only invite those who will tell them what they want to hear. Those who will say we definitely need a second stimulus much bigger than the first. |
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is what he apparently thinks Presidential Leadership is about. 10-months of his narcissistic blather and more blather and more TOTUS keyed blather has worn all of us out--Even many of his drooling minions.
"Watch my mouth so you won't see what I'm(not) doing, Y'all!" |
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How in the world did the total loser, bald faced liar, narccist ever get elected. Says a lot about us. |
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Or is it a Carrie Prejan moment, intellectually speaking that is? |
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There's no jobs because the US government interferes far too much in the private sector. Knock it off. |
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Remember that the initial attempt at a "stimulus" was around $150 B? And instead of doing the easy, immediate action step - reduce payroll taxes on the ensuing payroll period, they took the scenic route and waited for the Treasury to print and mail the checks! Cripes sakes! Besides, it did nothing to stimulate long-term growth.
Businesses make short, mid and long-term plans but those plans depend on stability in tax and fiscal policy. Where there is uncertainty, they (we) hold back on purchases of supplies, inventory, advertising, personnel, durable goods like equipment, etc. That spells a slow economy.
You don't need to know what those who have never run and operated a business would do to stimulate the economy - they have no answer. |
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that will unearth the evidence of the 'Pooch' summit. I was estimated to occur around the first of April 2009, shortly before the announcement that Obama had finally settled on the 'first dog'- announced around April 11, 2009.
Hmmmm, this was long after the much publicized 'promise' to the kids-- made Nov 7 2008.
There is a pattern being revealed- 22 weeks to make a trivial decision and no end in sight for making the Afganistan Troop decision!
Keep at it "Fearless Leader". |
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this turns out to be another summit like his bunch of doctors for Obamacare. He will conclude we have to spend more money. |
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Obama will have his job summit and then he will have a "WAys to cut the budget" summit, then
a summit on double talk called "Saving the planet" summit.
It is much easier to make your few friends believe in you when you tell them what they want to hear.
Of course, the rest of the world knows better.
What we need is a "Summat else for President" summit. |
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"they don't want to do the things that will stimulate the economy and put people back to work. They're not interested in things like payroll tax cuts, or corporate tax cuts, or income tax cuts."
In other words, they're not interested in things that YOU SAY will simulate the economy. Given that right-wing policies and governments got us into the trouble we're having, that sounds like the correct policy; listen to what wingnuts say, then do the opposite. |
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