This morning Reuters has am article out with the banner headline "Obama Weighs New Steps to Boost Jobs". According to the article, president Obama does not want the American people to think that he has forgotten the need for new jobs. Now, if you are like me, you ask what are these new steps. Indeed, what has Obama come up with as a means to promote job growth?
Here is the answer according to Reuters. Next week Obama is going to North Carolina (which they note he narrowly won in 2008) to have a meeting with a jobs advisory panel headed by the CEO of General Electric. That's it! No new steps are identified by Reuters. This will be another Obama chance to give a speech. We all know how well those speeches have worked to revive the economy. As of now, the only industry to benefit from the Obama rhetoric has been the manufacturers of teleprompters (he keeps wearing them out).
Even by the standards of Reuters, this is a dishoonest headline. (Sorry for using Reuters and standards in the same sentence.) For the entire year people have been asking Obama for his plan for helping the economy. The answer has always been another speech, another claim that things are getting better, another downplaying of disaster as a bump in the road.
Here is a bit of good advice to the president: Why not shut you mouth and actually work on a solution to the problems Americans face?
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