Comments on: Jobs is Job #1

By: Sassy

Sassy — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:27:13 +0000

Out with the old, in with the new.
Formerly, businesses liked local employees which led to stronger communities, which led to good employees.
Now, the bottom line is a scaled-down labor force, and every piece of legislation from Congress is putting more pressure on employers to avoid expansion.
The business owners we know personally are no longer willing to put in the hours required of them, and are retiring.

By: mountainaires

mountainaires — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:57:26 +0000

Clever!

By: Docelder

Docelder — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:50:47 +0000

I found the solution quite simple. I disconnected the cable. I made an antenna out of 4 copper wires, shaped them into a Hoverman design and stapled them to the trusses in the attic, soldered in a transformer and now get 30+ channels off air for free. They look and sound great by the way. Plus, That One isn’t played over and over all day on regular TV like he is on cable. When he is coming on we just watch streaming TV off the Internet. I haven’t even seen his face on TV in over a month that way. It is great. Almost like he doesn’t exist anymore… almost.

By: mountainaires

mountainaires — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:14:45 +0000

Egads, Another Speech.

Yeah. My thoughts exactly.

It’s really getting tiresome isn’t it? He’s not only the most scripted actor this side of Hollywood; he’s also the most overexposed.

I am frankly SICK of this man. He’s a menace to society.

He’s in the pocket of Goldman Sachs and Wall Street. He’s leading us right into the Great Depression 2.

What a miserable failure.

Thanks LD. You’re right about Job One:

Hey, POTUS, It’s the Jobs Stupid!

By: wbboei

wbboei — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:05:50 +0000

He is the most scripted actor this side of Hollywood.

By: wbboei

wbboei — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:03:53 +0000

Under Obama, banks are not lending, businesses are not hiring, job losses are escalating, and taxes are increasing. He has taken a bad situation and made it infinitely worse. And for everyone who says give him time, I say the problem will grow worse over time not better because he hasn’t a clue what he is doing.

By: wbboei

wbboei — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:50:34 +0000

What will we learn and hear from business leaders? The environment of uncertainty created by Obama’s attempt to massively overhaul large parts of the American political landscape is anything but conducive for jobs growth. Why? Business leaders see a strong likelihood of their fixed costs headed higher under this adminstration.
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Good job Larry. That is the bottom line. Obama is the drag on this recovery. It will not improve until he is given his walking papers. Small business produces the jobs in this country, and the effect of his ridiculous policies will be to drive them out of business or to not provide new jobs. If you talk to small business owners as I have that is the consensus.

By: Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:16:57 +0000

One other thought on how Obama is doing things that make him just another self serving POLITICIAN in the White House running HIS Scam…with HIS Cronys..

He is PROOF that the “White Mans System”..is not to Blame..All one has to do is look at all the lawyers ..politicians ..wall street types and other guests on Obamas White House State dinner Guest list and one can see the parasites who really are to BLAME…Democrat or Republican..all types and races of people are Involved in Buying Influence and power in the United States..

They both now steer the Ship of State Radically Left or Right..but never on a Steady Course..

One of them is going to Wreck her Completely..My Bet is its on Obamas Watch…

By: MBC

MBC — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:04:29 +0000

Excellent post Larry, thanks for the reminder. KISS is not a principle that our government lives by, more like HUG – Hell-bent Uber Government.

By: Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:49:00 +0000

You are right on Point here Larry and i always appreciate your insightful articles and comments..

No one has provided the kind of priority Leadership for job creation you and i expect from Our Presidents like the way Roosevelt did with the CCC camps and other stimilus projetcs..or the way John f. Kennedy did with the Manpower Development Act that created all kinds of Jobs and job training all over america..

These types of programs should have been created by G.W. Bush immediately after Katrina to train displaced and unemployed folks suffering from that event..instead of throwing billions in Welfare handouts that were Fraudently Wasted and Abused..

Many could have been trained in Building Homes…..Clean up..Equipment operation..electricians..etc..with the same money being used for Jobs and training that would have carried on for years and benefited society..

Now, its one wasteful spending program after another…with billion being scammed..
I agree Larry..its ALL a scam now..thats the way Governments Operate..

By: Ani

Ani — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:23:26 +0000

If Americans are not at work, then American principles and policies won’t work. I think Barack and team are learning that lesson right now.

It is shocking that he would not have known this before now. Odd as it may seem, I don’t think any of this is real to him. He truly does seem to live in an academic bubble.

In the Politico article that came out today, 7 stories Obama does not want to have told, one of the narratives is that he thinks he is playing with monopoly money. If you look at the Obama’s personal financial records, they have been living beyond their means for a long time and have been helped out in the past. Combine that with the fact that he has never had to run a business of any kind and many on his WH team have no experience in this regard either, the current situation is not surprising.

Thanks, as usual, LD, for your great insight.

By: Arabella Trefoil

Arabella Trefoil — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:02:31 +0000

Obama has no concept of business. “Business” is stuff people do for him.

He doesn’t understand profit/loss, never mind “fixed costs.”

I don’t think we’ve ever had such an ignorant man as president.

By: Obama: Dubya 2 Electric Boogaloo

Obama: Dubya 2 Electric Boogaloo — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:18:29 +0000

Yeah, there’s KISS but in Obama’s case he needs SYPADS (Shut Your Piehole And Do Something!)

Eegad, another speech? Maybe this one will be an epic speech on jobs. Sadly, the guy working on a “jobs” program is someone who’s never held a real “job” in his life.

By: I'm a Linda too

I'm a Linda too — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:14:13 +0000

Yeah, it’s KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)me, first, but when that’s ignored, we go straight to “kiss me, before doing sex to me”.

Obama didn’t think he had to do the work, he swore alighning himself with all his advisers, they would do it for him. ROFL, they are, and it’s turning out as we predicted, that’s the problem.