The Financial Times
on July 30th had an interesting article in its European edition. It reported that the White House sincerely
believes that “occupational red tape costs millions of jobs…”
Well, DUH!
If the White House believes that state and local
regulations stifle job creation, what the hell do they think massive federal
regulations do? What does Obamacare do
to prescription drug research and development, and what does the federal tax on
medical devices do to the companies creating and manufacturing these important
tools for the handicapped? What do the
EPA’s non-stop introduction of job-killing regulations do for the unemployed?
I believe that Obama must be jealous that the states
are out-regulating him and he wants them to stop competing to see who can kill
the greater number of jobs or raise consumer costs the most. But, according to the article, our Barry is
on the case to reduce regulations and wants to spend $15 million studying the
matter, which means wasting more tax-payer money jawing the issue instead of
setting an example and reducing federal regulations in order to demonstrate to
the states how it’s done. Our Barry loves to blame others for his own failures
so he takes this opportunity to blame the states for the national unemployment
disaster that is of his own making.
And of course the White House’s heart is in the right
place, because Obama is wringing his hands over the number of people with
criminal records for whom these regulations are job killers. It appears Obama is more interested in jobs
for the criminal element than in creating jobs for college graduates who are
trying to raise families but can’t find a decent job that will pay them well,
if they can find a job at all. Obama
sees merit in pleasing the criminal element in America today because they’re
called Democrats.
But how about reversing the logic of getting rid of
harmful regulations that kill jobs and consider Obama’s favorite tactic for
getting what he wants: ignoring laws and regulations already on the books and
just make policy by edict. Does our president ever consider the harm done to
society when he dictates his opinions and imposes his will on the nation? For example, Obama unconstitutionally and
unlawfully allows uncontrolled immigration; he re-writes the Obamacare regulations
on-the-fly to please himself and accomplish his political ambitions; he ignores
IRS scandals that could hurt him; he allows Hillary Clinton to sell influence
from her Sec State position and pretends he doesn’t know of her use of a
personal email server in violation of the law. These tendencies of Obama
undermine our entire society and cause a drawing back on the part of companies
as they see uncertainty in their future and they make no major investments or
expansion of their business as a result. So no matter which way Obama goes, he
kills jobs and makes the population quake waiting for the next edict that will
negatively impact the nation.
Obama’s policies are more contradictory and idiotic
than a drug-crazed loon’s, but that’s our Barry.
