Government Over Private Sector Jobs? I Don't Think So . . .

Today from "The Hill", Democrat Senator Harry Reid said that government jobs must take priority over private sector jobs.

In response to Mitch McConnell's accusation (and in my opinion, correct assessment) that Democrats were purposefully pursuing higher taxes as part of the teacher/first-responder bill, S. 1723, so that Republicans would oppose it, Reid stated, "It's very clear that private-sector jobs have been doing just fine; it's the public-sector jobs where we've lost huge numbers, and that's what this legislation is all about."

First of all, WHAT PLANET ARE YOU LIVING ON, HARRY REID where you believe that the private sector is doing "just fine"!?

As a person who is currently watching a MAJOR layoff happen at the company he is at, I can assure you that the private sector jobs ARE NOT "just fine".

As for the public-sector "losing huge numbers" of jobs, that's just a load of crap.

Now that I've gotten that off my chest, let's look at some cold hard numbers.

According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, since Obama took office:

• Approximately 2.2 million people have lost their jobs.
• 1.6 million jobs were lost in the private sector
• 600 thousand jobs were lost in the public sector.

Maybe it's just me but I think that the private sector is doing a LOT worse than the public sector.  Here are a few charts to illustrate our economy since Obama became President:

President Obama also promised that his Stimulus Plan "had to be passed RIGHT NOW" and if it was passed then unemployment wouldn't go above 8%.  Below is the unemployment chart showing Obama's predictions on where unemployment would be if we didn't pass the stimulus plan; where he said it would be after passing the plan; and IN RED where the unemployment ACTUALLY IS as a result of passing the stimulus plan.

Maybe I'm just letting the numbers blind me to what my heart, feelings and emotions tell me should have happened by passing this exorbitant boondoggle of a debt bill, but . . . I DON'T THINK IT WORKED!  In fact, according to Obama's own calculations, if we would have done NOTHING AT ALL we would have been much better off than we are now.  So forgive me if I look at the facts and think that this new "Jobs Bill" isn't going to work either!!!

Let's use some common sense here and look at some more facts:

1. Government DOESN'T create jobs.  In fact it can't "create" anything.  The only thing that it CAN do is TAX one group of people and use that money to give it to another group of people.  It's called, redistribution of wealth, or, if you are confused by that terminology, it's ALSO called THEFT or STEALING.
2. Government can only TAX from people that DO create jobs.
3. If the people who create jobs have less money they won't be able to create as many jobs and will, in fact, probably have to lay off their current employees.
4. Something that most people don't think about; taxes collected from people in the public sector with government jobs DOESN'T COUNT!  If the government uses other peoples money to create a job and then TAXES that same job it's just taking back the SAME MONEY that it just gave away!  Let's say a THIEF steals 2 credit cards.  On one credit card he spends a lot of money.  He then uses the other credit card to pay the bill.  He keeps doing this until both credit cards are MAXED OUT.  Once they are maxed out he calls the credit card company and asks for a credit increase (or, he RAISES HIS DEBT LIMIT!)

People, this is what we are doing today.  We have to wake up and say STOP THE MADNESS!!  We have to realize that government can't create.  It can only take and redistribute.  Only Entrepreneurs and Business people can create new wealth in this country and the only way we can do this is by getting out of the entrepreneurs way, reducing regulation, lowering taxes.  

This is the only way we can "expand our base" (or in plain English, create more money so that there is more of it to go around).  I'll leave "expanding the base" for another article however and let you ponder these tidbits till next time.

Racial Politics and the . . . Right? I Don't Think So.

When you don't have anything left to argue and don't have a leg to stand on . . . just pull the race card!

It seems that every day I keep hearing how people on the Right and Republicans are racists.  Just ignore the fact that there is never any evidence that this racism is occurring.  Also, ignore the fact that generally the only time you EVER hear anything about race in the media is when someone on the Left is making an accusation about how racist the Republican Right is.

Take for example the comments of Congressional Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX).  On one hand she makes comments about how the media on the Right and Conservative Bloggers (like myself) should "shut up" and "stop playing racial politics" while on the other hand moments later says that President Obama's "buy American" comment should be "buy African-American" and that if Obama's Jobs Bill passed that any contractors who "do not look like" her need to make sure that if they get federal money their employees "better be reflective of those suffering double-digit unemployment". (from The Blaze)

To me, not only does this sound like the words of a hypocrite and herself a racist, but it also sounded like a threat.  Besides the fact that no one, not even President Obama, think that his Jobs Bill is going to pass.  It has become patently obvious to all of us that he has only put this on the table in order to be shot down by a Republican House so that later, when the economy flushes further down the toilet, and he is in the heat of campaigning, he can bring it up again and blame Republicans for not passing it.  I'm sure the accusation of Republican racism will come into play then also . . . but I digress . . .

Then there are the accusations from my neck of the woods by Maxine Waters (D-CA) on 9/22/11 stating that Republicans "eat his food and drink his beer and leave, then they go and try to kill him [on Capitol Hill]".  What happened to stopping the negative rhetoric Maxine? (from The Blaze)

And on the flip side of the racist rhetoric you have the main stream media complicit in covering up acts of overt racism on the Left.  Take for instance the CBC event where Andre Carson (D-IN) stated that the Tea Party wanted to see him "hanging on a tree".  (the Blaze).  Not only were these comments despicable but it has also come to light that News Anchor Tamron Hall from the MSNBC program "NewsNation" was the moderator of this CBC event.  Why then wasn't this story broken and reported by MSNBC instead of The Blaze? (The Blaze)  Isn't it newsworthy to a reporter that a Congressman is accusing a huge organization like the Tea Party of wanting to lynch him?  It sounds newsworthy to me . . . but then again, I am a Tea Party supporter and member.

These things don't surprise me though.  In fact, they encourage me and are a constant reminder that we are winning the war of ideas, ideals, values and morals.  You see, it is only when you realize that you can't win the war of ideas that you resort to name calling.  Be encouraged.  Once the Left starts yelling "Racist! Racist! Racist!" you know you've won.  So the next time you are having one of those heated conversations with your favorite lefty friend and all they have in response to your facts and reasoning is that you are "uncaring" and you hear "racist" bigot" "homophobes", just relax and smile.