The Heritage Foundation - Leadership for America

April 29, 2009 MAS1916 - Denver, CO writes:

With the recession continuing unabated in Q1, Obama will need to hang onto this illusion that the outrageous spending actually saved a job. Of course if one works for the government, the job saved may have been his, but this President has no idea how a free economy works.

Private investment, incentive and production are the keys to overall economic success.. It just isn’t more complicated than that.

April 29, 2009 Steve -- Fort Nyers, Florida writes:

If jobs is the criteria, the USA would do well to repudiate the so called free trade agreements and bring the millions of jobs, factories and industries back to America. The government should negate all the laws that favored the export of our jobs and instead, provide incentives to companies to return production to the United States. Instead of losing 800 billion dollars a year on a trade deficit, that same 800 billion dollars would serve as a permanent economic stimulus for the people of America.

It sounds too good to be true, but until 1975, the USA was able to generate a trade surplus. Either we begin producing for our own needs or we will become subservient to the nations of the world still willing to work for a living!

April 29, 2009 Ed Brown - Louisville, KY writes:

The New Deal failed to restore economic health, but it did expand the power of government over the people. It was not the usual contest of partisan or bipartisan, Republican versus Democrat, rather it was more basic. It was the classical republic versus the classical democracy. Government, since the 1910 constitutional amendment to permit the electorate to choose senators directly, rather than through their state legislatures, was becoming less a representative republic than it had once been. It was now being more directly controlled by the people. Voters no longer asked what government was doing on behalf of the general welfare, voters were asking in a very democratic way what the President was doing for them.
As Amity Shlaes points out in The Forgotten Man, the real heroes of the day, were those people, extraordinary individuals who embodied the American Character by aiding and inspiring their fellow citizens in a variety of innovative ways. Roosevelt claimed that his administration had endeavored to “establish new institutions of public power” but as usual it was the the act of “reconciliation.” One side, namely the government, gets the power while the other side, the people, gets reconciled to it. Obama seems to be saying “it’s your money and I want it now.”
In October 1933, unemployment was 22.9 percent. By 1940, after years of big government intervention in the form of the 100 days of the New Deal plus ever increasing government attempts to gain more control over the free market system and the lives of all Americans, unemployment was still 14.6 percent. Do you really believe Oabama is going to have anything but a disastrous effect on this country?

April 30, 2009 Normca writes:

Saved or created 150,00 jobs - must have been at Catapillar. Oh, I forgot, the young president grew government and shrunk the private economy. Never let a crisis go by without taking advantage to implement what you wanted for eight years.

April 30, 2009 Ben C, Ann Arbor, MI writes:

Thank you Ed for your insightful comments. What seems to be missing is the fact that “Small Business” is the backbone of our economic system and the single greatest employer other than the federal government. If private enterprise and Small Business are allowed to prosper the country will thrive. The present administration seems to ignore us little people thinking our national economic engine is big business. I have no intention of absorbing the looming tax hikes - I will pass these costs to my clients. I am sure other Small Business people will do the same. And this my friends, is how inflation begins.

April 30, 2009 HOUSTON writes:

THIS ADMINISTRIATION’S STIMULUS JOBS ARE FOR GOVERNMENT. GOVERNMENT JOBS. IT SAVED AND EXPANDED THE GREAT TEACHERS UNION. NOW THEY HAVE MORE MONEY TO WASTE. EVER JOB WAS A GOVERNMENT EXPANSION., AND TO ENLARGE HE SOCIALIST AGENDA. ALL THIS SO CALLED PRESIDENT KNOWS IS GOVERNMENT. HE HAS NEVER WORKED IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR. HIS INCOME HAS COME FROM THE GOVERNEMNT. THE GOVERNMENT ACORN HE WORKED FOR, THE GOVERNMENT HAND OUTS FOR HIS GREAT EDUCATION AT HARVARD. HIS HOME. ALL HE AND HIS GROUP KNOWS IS GOVERNMENT.

THEY FAIL TO UNDERSTAND SOMEONE OUTSIDE THE GOVERNMENT HAS TO PAY FOR THEIR GOVERNMENT JOBS. (OR DO THEY) AFTER ALL THEY ARE HARVARD AND PRINCTON GRADS.

April 30, 2009 duelles, Santa Fe, NM writes:

Davis said. “That was a clever political gimmick to make it even harder to determine whether this policy has any effect.”

Davis might have said the man is a sociopath and is incapable of telling the truth. While the little he may know of economic matters gets blended with his version of Nirvana, we end up in Narnia and it will be hard to back into the comfort of the old familiar closet of free markets and entrepreneurship. Giant debt animals chasing us forever.

1st 100 days - YYYYUCK!

April 30, 2009 Obama’s “Create or Save” Jobs Farce writes:

[...] by ToddK on April 30, 2009 From: The Foundry [...]

April 30, 2009 Kevin, Addison,TX writes:

It is obvious the president has no clue what to do. let’s all help him in 2010, and vote the democratic congress out.

May 7, 2009 The Real Deal on Stimulus 'Jobs Now' - Columns - American Issues Project writes:

[...] March alone, private employers cut jobs by 742,000. The President claims his policies have already created or saved some 150,000 jobs, but 1.2 million jobs have been lost in the American economy since his [...]

May 12, 2009 Congressman John Tanner Has Never Created (Or Saved) A Single Job « The Mike Slater Show writes:

[...] latest ad he says he has “created or saved” 8,000 jobs. First of all, that number is completely made up. Congressmen don’t create jobs. People like Jim from Newburn create [...]

May 30, 2009 Obama Reveals His Porkulus Was Bogus In His Own Claims « Start Thinking Right writes:

[...] rational human being has to mock Obama for claiming he “created or saved” jobs.  The national media would NEVER have allowed George Bush to get away with such pinheaded partisan [...]

May 30, 2009 Obama Reveals His Porkulus Was Bogus In His Own Bogus Claims « Start Thinking Right writes:

[...] rational human being has to mock Obama for claiming he “created or saved” jobs.  The national media would NEVER have allowed George Bush to get away with such pinheaded partisan [...]

June 23, 2009 This is How to Save a Life, er Job. « The Carbon Fibber writes:

[...] This is How to Save a Life, er Job. Captain Stimulus President Obama has been fond of claiming recently that his stimulus package was “creating or saving” millions of jobs.   Rational people immediately recognized the backpedal from his claim that the stimulus package would “create” millions of jobs, and saw the potential for Bernie Madoff-like accounting practices. [...]

July 25, 2009 utopiaorbust writes:

If you read the White House document, they use GDP as an estimate for job-creation. That sounded really suspicious to me, so you check out my critique of it here:

http://utopiaorbust.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/obamas-job-creation-multiplier-explained/

September 29, 2009 Obama and Afghanistan « Grand Rants writes:

[...] as he could explain away Reverend Wright, and morph “create a million jobs” into “create or save a million jobs“, Obama will find/explain a way to make Afghanistan a political win. He’ll bail. [...]