President Obama The Magician

The Washington Post has a new Op-Ed piece by Charles Krauthammer called “The Great Non Sequitur“.  In it Mr. Krauthammer points out how bogus President Obama’s stimulus agenda really is and how truly magician like the President has passed it by the American people.  Remember in the President’s speech how he indicated 2 trillion dollars in identified savings?  Well according to Krauthammer, the President’s budget director has since acknowledged that 1.6 trillion of that money only existed if the United States were to keep the surge in Iraq until 2019.  According to this article, that is “11 years after George Bush ended it, and eight years after even Bush would have had us out of Iraq completely.”  Another wards, it’s a sham designed to make you feel good – do you feel good yet?

But the biggest magician act yet is the Presidents claim that the lack of energy independence (something he and his party are largely responsible for), education and lack of universal health care are the real reasons our economic system has imploded.  Notice, it was not the power hungry stupidity of our elected leaders who lowered and also refused to re-enact restrictions on the housing industry (largely the Democratic Party including the then Senator Obama), it’s not the highly educated wall street CEO’s who played the “get rich quick” games at the expense of American’s or the fuel companies sticking it to us because they can, no it is our need for carbon cap’s (increased taxes), universal healthcare, and more federal dollars pumped into the education system.

There are several things that have played a major role in the collapse of our economy and employment market, and from where I am sitting those three bullet points of President Obama’s focus really are not related to the problem nor are they now the fix.  To be  honest, I don’t consider the individuals who played key roles in the economic collapse to be the best characters in fixing our economy – but I guess that is why I am blogging about it and not sitting in Washington passing legislation that ultimately will bring about the $10 dollar loaf of bread.

Read Charles Krauthammer’s Op-Ed piece here (you may need to register for free with the Washington Post to read it).

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