Common Sense Commentary: Drive A Stake Through The Heart Of Obama’s Policy Agenda

Amidst freefalling poll numbers, a declining economy, Republican resurgence and a God-sent halt to nationalizing America’s healthcare system, the President and his Democratic allies in North Dakota (see Earl Pomeroy, Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad) have decided to shift focus. Where it once displayed meaningless rhetoric suited for his personal agenda, the teleprompter now pledges the President’s number one priority will be to create jobs and get the economy back on track. My take? The biggest boost for the economy occurs when a stake gets hammered through Obama’s big government-loving, tax-hiking, regulation-laden health care and energy proposals.
With extraordinary volatility in today’s markets, anyone with an ounce of business sense would tell you what the private sector needs to get back on its feet: certainty. Under President Obama, we’ve seen the most ambitious expansion of government since the Great Society. And with more big-government budget question marks looming in the distance—from health care costs to the cap and tax disaster—the unfortunate question facing most employers is, “Why would I hire anyone in this climate of uncertainty?”
Now if Obama actually surrounded himself with experts who’ve actually made a payroll—real-life private sector veterans—someone in his staff could tell him that. Instead, his cabinet is filled with Ivy League academics who only know what works “in theory.” Well your Chairman doesn’t work in the theoretical world; I like to deal in reality. And here’s the sad truth: compared to previous administrations within the past 100 years, President Obama and his cabinet have virtually zero private sector experience. Check out the numbers: In the Bush administration, 55% of cabinet members came from the private sector. Under Clinton? 48%. Under Kennedy? 33%. And today, under Obama? A woeful 8%. Is it any wonder why his policies have been a disaster for unemployment and the economy?
70% off all jobs created in a recovery come from businesses that are less than five years old. But they’re all waiting for this “change” to end so they can get back to expanding their enterprise. It’s a no brainer (that is, if you know what it’s like to sign the front of a payroll check instead of the back of a government check).
That’s my opinion, what’s yours?
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  • http://Array lock’em’up

    Scott’s “The Flag 1100 AM” had its overall share fall in the third ratings period since it debuted in 2008.

    I wonder why? I thought this was the year for the RepubliTea Revolution! How can they stay in lock step if they aren’t listening?

    It’s Over: To all the Palin believers, I feel your pain. I will someday be old and stupid.

  • sayanything-13784

    That is because we are patriots and great americans. Unlike you obamatons who follow marx and wear your douCHE t shirts smelling like hemp.

  • Zig

    ya sign the check on the back Right?

  • sayanything-2407

    I love how the right wing extremist tyrant wannabees always call themselves “patriots” and “great Americans”, and go around claiming they have “common sense”. HYPOCRISY, offensive hypocrisy.

    I guess you will fake it till you make it.

    Instead of just insults, how about you back up what you just wrote with some actual facts?

  • robert108

    You lie all the time, necrophiliac. You are a pathological liar.

  • lock’em’up

    I listen to it some “Gun Talk” Sundays between 1 & 3. I think that is the only time that there isn’t right a right winger preaching to the choir.

    By the way, even the “Gun Talk” guys don’t blindly obey and regurgitate NRA’s marching orders. You should try thinking on your own too.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Liquored up said:

    I will someday be old and stupid.

    Don’t know about the “old” part, but you’ve got stupid down pat!

  • robert108

    I think the “stake through the heart” imagery is accurate. Since vampires live by sucking the blood of others, so do the tax and spend Dem vampires, especially the Marxist ones like Obama, live off the blood of achieving Americans.
    While the ignorant necrophiliac tries to distract with nonsensical BS, the fact remains that Obama and his kind produce nothing, and yet demand the blood of others to nourish their big govt spending agenda.

  • sayanything-2407

    Did I touch a nerve? You must be a, or think Scott is a, “right wing extremist tyrant wannabee”. You are probably right,

    [chuckling]

    You didn’t touch nothing of me – I merely point out you spout insults without backing up what your talking about. You cry hypocrisy and yet don’t back it up with facts.

    Try links, facts, quotes – something others can sink their teeth into instead of garbage insults and patting yourself on the back like you just scored some sort of point. You didn’t.

  • robert108

    Another irrelevant pornographic revelation from your diseased mind, necrophiliac!

    Don’t you ever have anything relevant to the subject matter at hand?

  • lock’em’up

    I love how the right wing extremist tyrant wannabees always call themselves “patriots” and “great Americans”, and go around claiming they have “common sense”. HYPOCRISY, offensive hypocrisy.

    I guess you will fake it till you make it.

  • sayanything-13784

    Are you saying you have no control of bodily functions??

  • lock’em’up

    Did I touch a nerve? You must be a, or think Scott is a, “right wing extremist tyrant wannabee”. You are probably right,

  • sayanything-453

    No! Some store brand.
    Dillards.

  • spartacus

    “fruit” of the loom?

  • sayanything-453

    So you smelled my t-shirt, and it smells like hemp.
    Care to smell my underwear too?

  • sayanything-453

    Want to find out?
    You appear to be a good underwear sniffer.
    I will send you my underwear.
    Then post your conclusions on SAB.

  • bikebubba

    They also left out LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Bush 1…..must be a conspiracy!!!!!

    Or maybe sometimes you don’t need to present all the data when you have representative data. For reference, given historic spending in federal and state government at around 30-40%, one would hope at least 60-70% of presidential appointees would have significant private sector experience. The fact that Comrade Obama speaks volumes for his ability to accurately gauge what helps the private sector.

    Or, put differently, the man drove through the South Side of Chicago every day for 20 years, and somehow he didn’t figure out that what Hizzoner and the Democrats (there’s a name for a death metal band) were doing wasn’t working.

  • sayanything-453

    A known trick.
    You cull data that does not fit your agenda and present data that supports your position

  • sayanything-453

    And here’s the sad truth: compared to previous administrations within the past 100 years, President Obama and his cabinet have virtually zero private sector experience. Check out the numbers: In the Bush administration, 55% of cabinet members came from the private sector. Under Clinton? 48%. Under Kennedy? 33%. And today, under Obama? A woeful 8%. Is it any wonder why his policies have been a disaster for unemployment and the economy?

    I wonder why you left out the R. Reagan administration’s numbers.
    Could it be that the percentage of cabinet secretaries having private sector experience is low?
    Nah! You would not do that. Would you?

  • sayanything-453

    Telling one lie or even consistently lying about one subject…doesn’t make you a liar…

    robert108 on May 18, 2009 at 03:23 pm

  • sayanything-1317

    All you do Lock is tell everyone that they’re stupid. Or extremist. Or evil.

    It’s a boring, but altogether common tact for those of you on the left: yourself, Hanni, Dino, AV (who recently derided the idea of offering proof as tedious and beneath him), IDLGOP, and a few others.

    Disagreements among the non-liberals here are based in differences in ideology, with each position arguing why they believe what they believe, and offering facts to support themselves. Arguments with liberals and non-liberals tend to be pseudo-intellectual on one side, as the one party still feels the need to defend their ideas, just in case others who are undecided are reading…and the other side calling us stupid in return. Granted the conservatives and libertarians feel less need to explain ourselves to you guys, because we know you won’t listen, read, or (even if you do read) actually even understand the arguments put forward.

    It’s like a debate between a rocket scientist and a small child. The rocket scientist spends a few minutes explaining something in broad terms, and then the small child simply says “Wrong, poophead!” and walks away.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    Scott’s “The Flag 1100 AM” had its overall share fall in the third ratings period since it debuted in 2008.

    Actually, that adjustment is within Arbitron’s margin of error. So statistically speaking, it was a flat period.

    Still not great, but not bad either for a brand new station started in the midst of a national recession.

    No need to worry, lock ‘em. AM1100 will be around for a good long time.

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