According to the White House, president Obama is going to "announce a new plan next week to help Americans who continue to struggle to find jobs even as the economy recovers from recession." Following the announcement, Obama plans to go to Maryland, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Tennessee to promote (among other things) this new plan. Really? An announcement and a campaign tour is what Obama is offering?
Is it too much to ask that the president of the United States just set forth a full plan to help the unemployed? Why do we get a speech/announcement and a campaign tour? Wouldn't it be better to tell us the components in a detailed and complete written release? Aren't the American people entitled to learn the details of what Obama is supposedly going to propose? Must we always learn of Obama's plans by trying to glean the meaning from one more speech filled with platitudes and political attacks?
Obama has been in office for five years. During that time there has been persistent high unemployment. During that time, Obama has offered only two items that were to help the unemployed. The first was a stimulus package that was actually aimed at helping state employees who were members of the public sector unions that had given so much time and money to Obama's campaign in 2008. Those who were unemployed got little, if any, benefit. The second was the extension of unemployment benefits. You know how that works: people do not find work, but they get a meager income so that they can squeak by without starving. It is not a solution to the problem.
So here we are, five years into the age of Obama and our president is telling us for the umpteenth time that he has a plan to help the economy. Personally, I do not care what Obama says on that subject; he has had more than enough chances to address the issue. All I care about is the substance of an actual plan coming from Obama. The truth is that millions of Americans are hurting in the Obama economy. The real unemployment rate is well above 10%. It is a tragedy of monumental size, but Obama has ignored it except for the repeated announcement of supposed plans which turn out to be nothing more than campaign events.
There are many things that could be done with clear bipartisan support to help the unemployed. Nearly all of these measures are centrist in nature, however, so they do not fit in the liberal outlook that has total control of Obama's mind. Our president has made clear that he would rather do nothing to help the unemployed than to do something that would work but which might not meet the needs of his ideology.
Is it too much to ask that the president of the United States just set forth a full plan to help the unemployed? Why do we get a speech/announcement and a campaign tour? Wouldn't it be better to tell us the components in a detailed and complete written release? Aren't the American people entitled to learn the details of what Obama is supposedly going to propose? Must we always learn of Obama's plans by trying to glean the meaning from one more speech filled with platitudes and political attacks?
Obama has been in office for five years. During that time there has been persistent high unemployment. During that time, Obama has offered only two items that were to help the unemployed. The first was a stimulus package that was actually aimed at helping state employees who were members of the public sector unions that had given so much time and money to Obama's campaign in 2008. Those who were unemployed got little, if any, benefit. The second was the extension of unemployment benefits. You know how that works: people do not find work, but they get a meager income so that they can squeak by without starving. It is not a solution to the problem.
So here we are, five years into the age of Obama and our president is telling us for the umpteenth time that he has a plan to help the economy. Personally, I do not care what Obama says on that subject; he has had more than enough chances to address the issue. All I care about is the substance of an actual plan coming from Obama. The truth is that millions of Americans are hurting in the Obama economy. The real unemployment rate is well above 10%. It is a tragedy of monumental size, but Obama has ignored it except for the repeated announcement of supposed plans which turn out to be nothing more than campaign events.
There are many things that could be done with clear bipartisan support to help the unemployed. Nearly all of these measures are centrist in nature, however, so they do not fit in the liberal outlook that has total control of Obama's mind. Our president has made clear that he would rather do nothing to help the unemployed than to do something that would work but which might not meet the needs of his ideology.
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