teapartysamurai
Gold Member
- Mar 27, 2010
- 20,056
- 2,562
- 290
It's no coincidence that Christina Romer, chairwoman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, announced her retirement the day before Friday's brutal unemployment report. With 131,000 more jobs lost in July, and downward revisions of 97,000 for the previous two months, it's easy to see why she would start looking for the exits.
Romer is best known for drafting the February 2009 report "The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan," which the White House used as an ammunition belt in the fight to gain passage of its $862 billion economic stimulus bill (the actual cost of which exceeds $1 trillion when interest is included). Romer predicted that following passage of the stimulus bill, unemployment would plateau below 8 percent last fall and by this month register at 7 percent. That's not close enough for government work, as unemployment stands at 9.5 percent today. It would be higher except that hundreds of thousands of frustrated job seekers have given up looking for new jobs and dropped out of the labor force.
Predictably, the stimulus bill has proven to be an extraordinary waste of borrowed money that has failed to create jobs, generate economic growth or do much of anything other than line the pockets of White House political allies. That and give $308 million in subsidies to BP before the Gulf oil spill disaster, and subsidize a study on what happens when monkeys snort coke.
Read it all:
Time to admit Obamanomics has failed | Washington Examiner
This is no surprise to conservatives. We have been telling the "wizards of schmart" that Keynesian policy does not work.
This all boils down to the idea that the government can grow the economy. It can't. All the government can do to help the economy is GET OUT OF THE WAY.
Obama has instead, hampered and intimidated business, and now everyone is afraid to hire, for fear of what Obama will do next.
-1008050-100154469.html#ixzz0wESEq8uX