08 Aug 2010

Time to Admit Obamanomics Failed

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The Washington Examiner says it’s time for democrats in Washington to quit kidding themselves. Their economic policies don’t work.

[T]he stimulus bill has proven to be an extraordinary waste of borrowed money that has failed to create jobs, generate economic growth or do much of anything other than line the pockets of White House political allies. That and give $308 million in subsidies to BP before the Gulf oil spill disaster, and subsidize a study on what happens when monkeys snort coke.

As [Christina] Romer [chairwoman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, who retired on Friday] fades back to her teaching post at Berkeley, Obama is adding to the economic misery by creating an environment of regulatory uncertainty. The Wall Street reform law Obama recently signed potentially requires 533 new regulations, 60 studies and 93 reports, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has 29 active rulemakings, and there are 100 new rules on the Labor Department’s agenda and 26 at the Transportation Department.

Add Obama’s determination to raise everybody’s taxes by allowing the Bush cuts from 2001 and 2003 to expire Jan. 1, 2011, and it’s easy to why banks, businesses and consumers are hoarding trillions of dollars that could otherwise spur economic growth. And we haven’t even addressed the destructive effect on economic growth of Obama’s nationalization of major portions of the economy, including the banks, health care and the auto industry.

The economy is stalling, unemployment seems stuck at European levels of idleness, the federal deficit and the national debt are at historic highs, public confidence in Congress is at its lowest-ever level and big majorities of Mainstream Americans say Obama has the country on the wrong path. Obamanomics has failed miserably and it’s time for everybody in this town to admit it so we can move on.

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michael r. brown

Only someone who hates Africa-Americans cold be against bankrupting the country!



michael r. brown

could, too. :)



SDD

There has never been any evidence that government can create prosperity by taking money from one set of people and spending it with another. In order for that to be true, the projects that government chose would have to be more economically productive than those the private sector would have chosen. On average this has never occurred before in history.
The Obama administration knows fully well that their actions are, at best, ineffective. They are simply playing the “rain-dance game”. When the economy starts to recover, they will simply claim that whatever they have been doing is ultimately responsible for that recovery.



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