Being bored, I checked out some political cartoons on Slate. I would estimate a quarter of the ones I looked at were against both parties, ten percent were against the Democrats, and the bulk of them were against the Republicans for not going along with whatever Obama wants to do. Herein, I will debunk this:
The economy was bad when he got elected, right? So, why didn’t Obama concentrate on getting jobs back then? Instead, he was more prone to concentrate on the Health Care Bill.
This President has single handedly destroyed jobs in the oil industry while at the same time loaning our tax dollars to help other countries drill off our coastline. Of course, when you hurt one job sector, you hurt all the jobs in the area as there are less customers. I should imagine that he will also destroy insurance jobs as companies start to crash and burn under the Health Care Act.
To my knowlege, this new jobs bill is basically another stimulus bill just like the massive one before it. Why is it that we think that we can solve the problem with more spending when the first spending had no effect? Stopping someone from throwing gasoline on a fire when they say that liquid is what is needed to put out the flame isn’t being obstructionist…it’s being rational.
You can claim the Republicans only want to protect the wealthy, but the fact of the matter is that even if you take 100% of the wealthy’s income, it still would not be enough to cover Social Security, federal/state pensions, and Medicare/Medicaid (let alone Obamacare) by the 2020′s. Just like in the real world, it’s not what you make, it’s what you spend. There are people living on $25,000 that can put money away and there are people making millions that will go bankrupt in short order. It’s not what you make. It’s what you spend.
Finally, government meddling is why were are in the mess we are in because they pretend that humans will do exactly what are expected of them. The reason why the sub-prime mortgages caused a crisis was because they brought in physicists to devise the mechanics of the derivatives. What these complex mathematical computations failed to consider is that humans are not like physics. There are no set laws. People are governed by self-interest and will act accordingly. Economists would have been better since that’s their supposed speciality. However, there are two major branches of economists: Keynesian and Supply Side. All Republicans view Keynesians as partisan hacks, and all Democrats view Supply Siders as partisan hacks. I believe in Supply Side, but I admit that economic theory is close to religious beliefs as it is generally impossible to isolate variables when dealing with macroeconomics.
Long Live the Constitution!