By John W. Lillpop
Reflecting back on that awful September 11, 2001, morning, who would have imagined that the economy of the United States would deteriorate to the point where importing terrorists would become a viable option in addressing sky rocketing unemployment?
Yet, that is precisely the current situation as the trillion dollar “stimulus” bill signed into law by President Obama has failed to produce the 3.5- 4 million new and saved jobs promised by spend happy liberals.
Obama’s jobs fiasco has been complicated further because the administration’s numbers have been found to be inaccurate and unreliable, usually in the direction of overstating the “success” of the stimulus.
Unable to cook the jobs books without being exposed, President Obama has decided to bring real CHANGE to the way the government addresses job creation.
As reported, in part, at ABCnews.com, (1):
“President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers has prepared an economic analysis of job creation if the federal government takes over the underutilized Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois for the purposes of housing detainees currently at Guantanamo Bay as the Obama administration is strongly considering doing.
“Over the first four years, the CEA assessment states, the facility would create 840 - 910 temporary jobs and 3,180 - 3,880 ongoing jobs, increasing local earnings by a cumulative $793 to $1,015 million.
"Approximately 80% of all of the jobs created by the facility will be held by people residing in Illinois, while people in Iowa will fill the remaining jobs," the study states. "These jobs could reduce the unemployment rate in Carroll County, Illinois, where Thomson is located, by 2 to 4 percentage points."
As a spokesperson for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky correctly pointed out, this is the same CEA that promised that the stimulus would keep unemployment from exceeding 8 percent!
What will it take to arouse President Obama and his Marxist pals from their desperate and dangerous fantasy thinking?
Rather than importing terrorists or implementing foolish stimulus spending sprees, Obama and pals should immediately cut taxes for both private individuals and business interests.
Obama and the nutty left need to be reminded of a vital truth about America: The economy can and will recover when the government gets the hell out of the way, thereby allowing American ingenuity and grit to take over.
In other words, Mr. President, given your ideological bent, doing precisely nothing would be the very best thing that you could do for America!
By the way, that admonition also applies to the issue of health care!
(1)
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/11/white-house-study-looks-at-job-creation-in-illinois-if-gitmo-prisoners-transferred-there.html
