I realize I've been nagging about Obama's failings incessantly, but here's another, SERIOUS bone I have to pick: During campaign 2008, Barack made much of his "plan" to create 3 million+ "green manufacturing jobs." Was Barack Obama simply being the consumate, cynical politician, telling the electorate what he correctly figured they desperately wanted to hear? Or did he truly believe his own pipe dream?
Remaining cognizant that Mr. Obama was then a senator rather than a prophet, one nevertheless has to directly confront the lamentable fact: few if any such jobs were created, and the plan never came to fruition.
There is a highly dubious assertion being widely propagated on the Democratic side of the aisle, to the effect that Obama's "Economic Stimulus" has created or saved 2+ million positions nationally. While it's (officially) true that 700,000+ jobs aren't disappearing monthly as they were when the Obama administration assumed the presidency, job growth remains indisputably stagnant. The probable reality is more unfavorable than that - I'm guessing the US economy continues to actually shed more jobs every day than it adds. Nationally, official unemployment hovers stubbornly in the neighbourhood of 10%; most realists understand it is actually at least twice that level. The "Recovery," never much more than a fantasy, is over.
I know the President isn't a magician, but he could have at least fought passionately on behalf of the Amercan Worker. He didn't. Health Care? Taking into account "Single Payer"was politically impossible, Obie could have at least stood by his commitment to a "Public Option." He didn't, and what we got instead is basically a Byzantine maze of half-measures putatively destined to benefit the uninsured, but in truth destined to fatten the already bulging wallets of Big Insurance CEOs.
Who among you believes anything this guy says anymore? And why, in the face of all the evidence, would anybody believe positive Change of any kind has been accomplished, or will be accomplished before November 2012?
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