I’ve been watching with some fascination the opening skirmishes of the US Presidential election. It really is a battle for the heart, soul and future of the American Republic, and it promises to be bloody. Although of course it’s damned hard to give a bloody nose to a column of smoke.
One thing which infuriates me is when the Chimera-in-Chief talks about “saving or creating” jobs.
No politician ever creates jobs. They are the parasitic class. They do not create jobs. The very best, most economy-buildingest, job-creatingest politician, from Ronald Reagan to Margaret Thatcher, did not create a single job during their time in government. The very best a politician can do is to minimize the number of jobs they destroy, or they prevent the private sector from creating. And Pres Barry is doing a fantastic job of preventing the private sector from creating jobs.
Even a politician who repeals laws and regulations, which unleash the private sector to create millions of jobs, is only reversing the damage done by his predecessors. Pres Barry has signed off on literally hundreds of laws and regulations, wrapping private business up in so much red tape they can hardly move, and will (once he gets reelected and has more flexibility) massively ramp-up taxes on income, capital gains and dividends. Further strangling business. And that’s just the beginning. Man, Mitt Romney is gonna get a sore hand signing off on all those repeals (or so I hope).
So please, politician parasites, don’t talk about jobs you’ve created. You’re lying. Talk instead about removing or at least reducing the insane amount of regulation and red tape you use to prevent people who *do* create jobs from so doing. And then do it. As for creating jobs, leave that to people who work for a living. Just get the hell out of the way.
(Cross-posted, just for fun, on Facebook) :popcorn
Outstanding post Gantt Guy.
Thank you, Sir. The Gantt Guy is grumpy about the lies, and is fast coming to believe the only good politician is a dead one. Or at the very least, the desire to enter politics should automatically disqualify one from doing so.
The world will be a better place when we hang the last politician with the guts of the last bureaucrat?
Yes indeed, PFZ. And the sooner the better.
A little history lesson – In the early 17th century, the English business establishment started colonies in far off North America at Jamestown, Virginia.
The directors of this new colony had a brainstorm: “Let’s make big profits quick in North America by the requirement that the colonial government be communist.”
You would think business leaders knew better, but they didn’t and the logical result was that the Virginia colony was quickly reduced to starvation, and the survivors would have taken ship back to Merry Olde England had not a relief ship from London arrived before they set sail.
Thus was born capitalism in America, as the next wave of colonists told the East India Company of London: “Thank you very much for the advice, but we’ll do the colony thing our way.”
This idea worked well for all concerned.
Then in the late 18th century, the English dumped a group of colonists in a far off place called Australia under a strict regime that in time did the colony thing their way, which was pioneer capitalism.
And this idea worked well for all concerned.
Fast forward to the 21st century – in both America and Australia the ruling elites have turned once again to communism…
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/australias_green_ideological_disaster.html
Time to tell them to “bugger off” once again…
Excellent point GG,but certain politicians DO create jobs.Obama has actually created plenty of them……..for his fellow parasites primarily the hoard of :gunner bureaucrats and I and the rest of the producers have to pay for them.
Captain Zero’s job-creation is actually worse than it first appears. Every new government job actually costs a minimum of 2 real jobs.
First, there’s the FTE taken from real work and given a job working in the non-productive sector. The funding for this job must be stolen from the private sector, meaning a minimum of 1 fewer jobs in the private sector.
Secondly, with the exception of protection forces (armed forces, police, fire, etc.) it is the role of every single government employee to prevent the private sector from doing something. Hundreds of government employees whose role is to lobby the government on behalf of one subsector of the community. Hundreds of government employees whose role is to stop development. Hundreds of government employees who carry clipboards, wear hi-viz vests and spend their days telling people what they can’t do. And 16,000 new tax inspectors to enforce ObamaCare.
The only good politician is a dead one.
“The only good politician is a dead one.”
YESS!!!!!!
Then we have a real dictator in North korea creating jobs for Mickey Mouse. Barry has done serious damage to my country.
You’re absolutely right, Contempt. Your country stands at a crossroads. There is NO middle path. Come November (assuming His Imperial Majesty doesn’t suspend elections), the American people will need to decide whether they want a bankrupt, European (and Australian and New Zealand) socialist state, or if they want to spend the next several decades returning America to that shining city on a hill.
The rest of us don’t have that choice, so you can be grateful for that, at least. And pray sufficient numbers of your countrymen crave freedom and liberty.
Turn up the volume and watch Krysta Branch sing
I AM AMERICA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0heL2Czeraw
Good stuff! And there’s a great clip called “liberal hypocrisy” on the same Youtube page.
That’s great! :rant
In the run-up to November, let’s help to make sure this is not forgotten:
“This is my last election, after the election I will have more flexibility”
http://youtu.be/MNxEDomUlXw
he’s already started giving away US lands-
http://carolmsblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/bho-give-away-us-oil-rich-islands-in.html
We are SO ASLEEP -STILL!!!
My heart is heavy – sometimes-because of the 80+ years of ‘closed eyes and minds’-
C-CS
we in the US got rid of “royalty” starting 1776!
Ms. Branch sings of ‘royalty’ because she knows that there are those from BOTH parties who honestly believe they are ROYAL—
thank you mawm for the heads up-
and – it looks like another WOMAN has put her toe to the line- to fight for FREEDOM!
have you ever seen a band of mama horses (Mares) circle – w/ their young in the middle–to defend -to the death – against their natural predatory enemies– —full intimidation!-make no mistake- !!
don’t mess with MAMAs!
defending their country and – thus – their young!
Carol-CS
BTW-’swiping’
the vid…
Gecko just put up a pic for you, Carol.
Thank you for the heads up- I went over – thank you Gecko!
C-CS
I recently had an in depth chat with an ex Mormon. I have to say he shed some light on the mindset of the devout Mormon. It did not make me want to rush out an endorse Romney.
This election really is a case of anyone being better than Obama…
PFZ, I think everyone knows Romney is not the solution to all their problems, or even any significant number of them. The main reason why people need to coalesce behind him is because for the Republic to stand, Barack Hussein Soetero MUST be removed from office in November. Which is why it is so important for those 30 million Conservatives who stayed home in 2008, to go to the polls and pull the level for Romney. They can then go home, take 3 showers and get drunk to wash it off if they like. But vote they must, and in sufficient numbers to negate the massive fraud the Holder Justice Department, in partnership of course with the NBPP, are planning.
Romney will not use the Constitution for toilet paper the way Barack Hussein Soetero has, but that said, just doing no more damage is not enough. That’s why the Senate races are also so vitally important. And why Romney’s choice for VEEP is getting so much attention.
But he must NOT select West as his VP. :rant West must keep himself unsullied by RINO politics so he can lead the nation away from the wilderness of Beltway cronyism and corruption.
mawm. :censor
no Condi PLEASE.
I completely agree, Anonymawm. West must remain above the RINOs until he runs in 2016 or 2020. It should be Rubio, but is most likely going to be Pawlenty or Portman.
GG, do you ever read The Ulsterman? Read the link below. It might be pure fabrication but I think some is his “analysis” is grounded in fact. Time will tell. If he is correct, it is more frightening than we can comprehend. http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/07/19/military-insider-president-obama-by-any-means-necessary/
:rant mawm
I had never read The Ulsterman, Anonymawm, but if that interview is even half-way accurate, and I believe if it isn’t an interview of someone with direct, first-hand knowledge then it’s someone who can figure out that 2 plus 2 equals 4, then I would suggest patriots start stocking up on ammo now, for come November it will be too late.
Redbaiter used to link to his White House Insider “interviews”. I think he has some contacts within the Obama circle as some of his predictions have been spot on. Anonymawm
America is now very like Ancient Rome in the Crisis of the 3rd Century. Economically flat-aback, plummeting self-confidence, and bereft of leadership to a point were everyone says “I hope the next emperor will be better than the one we had last week, ‘cos he was a shocker.”
Francis Porretto, today:
“I no longer care whether the miscreant is a natural born U.S. citizen. I want to see him impeached, tried, convicted, and removed from office for being an asshole. Surely that’s enough to disqualify him for the highest executive office in the land”.
Amen