Why is it that every time I think Mr. Obama may have moderated himself, and may have started doing things that make sense, he proves me wrong?
Today, Obama has announced his five point plan on getting us out of our economic crisis and creating jobs! First, I would like to congratulate Mr. Obama for coming up with five ideas. Not exactly original ideas, or even good ones, but five ideas is a lot for him to come up with at one single time.
So, lets go through the plan and point out some of the things that he doesn’t mention.
Plan 1) A massive effort to make public buildings more energy efficient. Here are some quotes from the speech, “Our government pays the highest energy bill in the world.” Ok, so far he has a point, what is he going to do about it? “We need to upgrade our federal buildings by installing efficient light bulbs. That won’t just save you billions of dollars each year. It will put people back to work.”
What??? What????? Can anyone explain to me how changing light bulbs in government building will put people back to work? Do we not already have janitors capable of changing light bulbs???? That was one of the most ridiculous statements that I have ever heard Obama make, and that says a lot.
Plan 2) Roads and Bridges. “We will create millions of jobs by making the single largest new investment in our national infrastructure since the creation of the federal highway system in the 1950’s.”
Wait a sec. Aren’t these the jobs that the democrats (and even George Bush) argue that American’s wont take??? Wasn’t that the reason why John McCain desperately tried to get comprehensive immigration reform passed??? Democrats and Liberal Republicans have argued for years that we need to relax our immigration policies because Americans will not take jobs doing road construction. I don’t know about where you live, but here in central Texas, the road crews are 100% Hispanic, and probably 95% illegal. Are we trying to create jobs for Americans, or are we trying to boost the Mexican economy????
Plan 3) Schools. “We will repair broken school buildings, make them energy-efficient, and put new computers in our classrooms.”
Who cares???? The reason that the US ranks 57th in the world in education isn’t because we don’t have energy-efficient schools. It is because our government mandates on schools are absolutely ridiculous. My nieces go to a school in El Paso where they are the only ones who speak English. Teachers are required to teach Spanish speaking students in Spanish, using textbooks from Mexico. The school district in Dallas is so corrupt that they recently had a multi-million dollar accounting scandal, and they admitted that they have been giving fake social security numbers to illegal immigrants to come and teach the Spanish speaking children. How are a few computers and new light bulbs going to fix these problems?
Plan 4) Broadband Internet. Every American should have it. Whoopdie-Friggin-Doo! Now every preteen American boy should have access to cyber porn at broadband speeds. Mr. Obama...who cares?????
Plan 5) Electronic Medical Records. “We will make sure every doctor’s office and hospital in the country is using cutting edge technology and electronic medical records. This won’t just save jobs, it will save lives.”
Again, what????? There are hundreds of thousands of people employed in the medical records rooms throughout the United States. This will not save their jobs, it will eliminate them. Furthermore, what happens when a hospital is having problems with their ISP??? What if a hurricane hits and the internet is down? How will this save lives. Also, I know personally how dangerous this practice can be. My medical provider is the local VA Medical Center. I have been notified by the VA twice in the past year that my medical records were stolen or lost. Isn’t that great? Lets just put everyones medical records on the internet so that cyber-criminals can access them. Thank you for your insight Mr. Obama.
What a lot of people do not understand is that the economy is cyclical. We grow, we shrink, we grow again. There is nothing, short of TAX CUTS for small businesses, that a president can do to influence the cycle. If Mr. Obama implements his plans, we will see either an increase in taxes or an increase in the deficit. I personally would hope for an increase in the deficit. If we were in good economic times, we could raise some taxes, but not now, it would make things much worse. If you don’t believe me, get a college economics book and look up the term “Keynesian Economics”. There may be a few jobs created, but they will be happily filled by our illegal neighbors from the south, who provide their services for a lower fee than us Americans.
Mr. Obama, how about you think of an actual plan????? This is ridiculous. I think the single best plan for our nation is to get you a one way ticket back to Kenya.
