Small businesses aren't optimistic
By Neal Boortz
It was no surprise to read this headline today: U.S. Small Business Optimism Weakens Again in August. Wow, you mean to tell me that small business optimism hits the skids the very same month that the private sector manages to create zero jobs? At least it didn’t read: Small Businesses Optimism “Unexpectedly” Weakens. I guess after six month of declining confidence numbers from small businesses, the journalists have finally given in to the fact that this is exactly what you would expect – especially with an anti-business president in office.
For the sake of millions of Americans who are still without work, I hope that the employment numbers start to increase. I even held out some hope --- not much, but maybe just a little, that Dear Ruler’s job bill would truly be something to cheer about … though I was absolutely not surprised when he delivered the final result: more government spending to save union jobs and tax increases on the rich.
The truth, I suspect, is that Obama never really thought that his “American Jobs Act” would create any significant increase in private sector employment. For his first presidential campaign Obama wrote a book, for his second campaign he writes legislation. This was a campaign bill, nothing more. Unions were mightily ticked off at Obama because he failed to deliver the Unionization by Intimidation (Card Check) bill to them, and they’re not thrilled with the Panama, Columbia and South Korean trade agreements. He needed to throw them a bone to get them out and actively working for his reelection next year. He thought his jobs bill would take care of that.
Then Lord Obama discovered that he could also use the jobs bill to appeal to the wealth envy crowd while advancing his income seizure and redistribution philosophy. So four days after the jobs speech he announced it would be funded with tax increases on the evil rich.
So it would seem that the problem here is the American people, not Obama. He knows what he’s doing; pandering to wealth envy and unions. He knows you don’t promote employment in the private sector by raising taxes on the very people you want to create all those new jobs for you. He also knows that a huge segment of the American public doesn’t get it --- so off he goes on his phony jobs bill tour.
Clearly Obama thinks that there are enough people who aren’t paying attention out there who won’t know any better. In his speech last week, he sold us the same goods and didn’t even bother to change the wrapper. To those of us who are paying attention, the audacity is verging on insulting. It almost feels as though Obama is looking for an excuse to raise taxes on the rich .. as if it will fulfill some sort of inner, brooding Marxist. He tried it to pay for ObamaCare. Didn’t work. He tried to end the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. Didn’t work. And all of this occurred when Democrats had complete control of the Congress. A smart person would learn from his mistakes. But instead, Obama will continue to beat the class warfare drum from here until 2012, because it is all he has left. He panders to the lowest common denominator. And if he manages to win on this class warfare campaign … BOHICA!
