John W. Lillpop
After 99 weeks of extended benefits, two million Americans face December without those small, but sustaining, unemployment checks.
This disaster could not come at a worse time.
Indeed, while the rest of America celebrates the start of the Christmas season by making merry and decking the halls with balls of holly, millions of unemployed face depression rather joy, angst rather than peace, and dread rather than spiritual abundance.
Unfortunately, some liberals see the “benefits crisis” as a way to make political hay out of the financial misery afflicting so many.
Indeed, opportunistic lefties are refusing to “waste the crisis” and are seeking political advantage by blaming the disaster on Scrooge clones serving in Congress under the Republican banner.
That blame game simply does not make sense.
The truth is that President Obama has waged a non-stop, personal vendetta against private enterprise including his crazed campaign against the Chamber-of-Commerce during the last election.
No administration has been as hateful of free enterprise and American exceptionalism as is the case with Obama and friends.
For fools and slow learners, private enterprise is where jobs are created and filled.
The oddity is that businesses enjoyed historic levels of profit during 2010, so why is unemployment stuck close to 10%, with 15 million or more Americans out of work?
Simple: Under the socialist regime of Obama, private business owners face unprecedented government hostility and meddling.
From stalling on the Bush tax cuts to the onerous mandates of ObamaCare, business owners simply do not have confidence that the Obama administration will work with, rather than against, private enterprise in putting America back to work.
In addition, Obama and his cohorts in the Democrat Party are chomping at the bit to grant amnesty to tens of millions of illegal aliens, criminals who are in jobs that should be filled by American citizens.
Those looking for a scrooge-like character to blame for the lump of coal in the current unemployment stocking need look only to 1600 Pennsylvania where the notion of a “White Christmas” is held in utter contempt for more than one reason!
