There are a lot of issues Americans are concerned about. Islamic terrorism and Ebola rank at the top of the spectrum of things we worry about. Or do they? According to a new poll from Fox News, that may not be so much the case. No doubt, we are concerned about the rise of Islamic terrorism and Ebola. We want neither of them on our shores, yet here they are. Most Americans despise ObamaCare, even though it was rammed down our throats and into our pocketbooks. But among all the issues we look at, it seems the one that is first and foremost, the one issue that may very well define the election results on November 4, is the economy.
Yes, I know we have been told the economy is doing just fine. President Obama is famous for the claim he made on 60 Minutes. “The country is definitely better off than we were when I came into office.” He then went on to admit that Americans are not feeling the “better” he was talking about. He laid the blame for that lack of feeling on the fact that incomes and wages are not going up.
President Obama: They don’t feel it. And the reason they don’t feel it is because incomes and wages are not going up. There are solutions to that. If we raise the minimum wage, if we make sure women are getting paid the same as men for doing the same work, if we are rebuilding our infrastructure, if we’re doing more to invest in job training so people are able to get the jobs that are out there right now, because manufacturing is coming back to this country. Not just the auto industry that we’ve saved, but you’re starting to see reinvestment here in the United States. Businesses around the world are saying for the first time in a long time, “The place to invest isn’t in China. It’s the United States.”
Well, duh! I would submit that the reason income and wages are not going up rests directly on the shoulders of the man making that statement. His policies, from the day he took office until now, have been focused on taking money from those who have it and giving it to those who do not. The small businesses and companies who are supposed to be the driving force of job creation in America are unable to perform the innovation and other tasks that precede the creation of said jobs. They can not expand their businesses and hire more people because they are constantly fighting against a government bureaucracy that seems determined to tax them into oblivion.
President Obama isn’t the only one who believes the best way to create jobs is to tax businesses and corporations until the bleed. Hillary Clinton had this to say at a campaign stop for Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, D-NY
Don’t let anybody tell you that it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs. You know that old theory, trickle-down economics. That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly. One of the things my husband says when people say, ‘What did you bring to Washington?’ He says, ‘I brought arithmetic.’
The only thing she got right with that comment is the part about arithmetic. These liberals seem to think the only way they can help the economy is to tax corporations and businesses, both large and small, to the hilt. That’s all they want to talk about, as if it were some magic wand they can use to create jobs. Because of that attitude and the policies that stem directly from it, Americans are not feeling the “better” President Obama claimed into existence on 60 Minutes.
I am hopeful that enough Americans will realize the song and dance they have been sold is so much smoke and mirrors that they will send a decisive message to Washington on November 4. If we can focus on the job performance of the entire Obama administration, as well as the liberal Democrats in Congress, then possibly we can see our way through the fog and send the lot of them packing. I’ll even though this in, for good measure. If the Republicans who like to play nice with the liberals on their tax and spend ways, I hope they are sent packing as well. It’s time for the adults to take charge and pointing out the failure of the Obama economy is a good place to start.
