Fighting Back Against Obama's Job-Killing Policies

As the economy continues to flounder, I continue to hear Obama and his administration deny any responsibility whatsoever for the terrible economic conditions. He and his people continue to tout their "job proposals" and take credit for supposedly turning things around and saving us from a depression. The truth is, Obama's job-killing policies are directly responsible for the economic mess we are in today. The new taxes and regulations his administration has pushed for are toxic to private sector job growth and have stunted what should have been a normal recovery from the 2008-2009 recession.

The two most pressing political problems facing our country right now are the poor economy and the ballooning national debt. These issues are not unrelated, as the deficit grows much more quickly in a sluggish economy. Obama has failed miserably on both counts. He has made no effort whatsoever to address entitlement reform or to push for serious debt reduction and spending cuts. After all, attacking the GOP plan for wanting to throw granny out on the street is much easier than bothering to present your own plan! Under his "leadership," our country has lost its AAA bond rating -- a well-deserved downgrade. He has pushed for tax increases, played political games with the debt ceiling, masterminded huge stimulus bills full of waste and corruption, and pushed through a health care bill that puts a tremendous financial and regulatory burden on employers. Under the "leadership" of his crony Harry Reid, the U.S. Senate went for years without passing a budget (one of the most basic duties given to Congress is to pass a budget annually).

Most of the above items should be common knowledge to people with a passing familiarity with politics and current events. What is not common knowledge to many people, I fear, are the many job-killing regulations that Obama's administration is putting into place behind the scenes. Many of Obama's top administration officials are "czars" who were never confirmed by Congress to begin with and have a free hand to reshape our country's regulatory policies in a radical direction. I highly recommend reading this article in National Review, which highlights 10 of the worst Obama economic policies and what Republicans in Congress are trying to do to stop these policies from taking effect. The Wall Street Journal is another great source for understanding why Obama's policies are hurting our economy so much.

It is vital for Obama to be defeated in 2012. But in order for that to happen, people need to know just how destructive his policies have been to our country economically. They need to know that he isn't just unlucky; there is a direct link between his policies and our current problems. I would encourage you to take the opportunity to bring up some of the facts from the article linked to above next time you are in a conversation with someone about the economy. By educating ourselves and others about how the economy works and what policies create jobs and what policies kill jobs, we can make a difference for our country. If our country is going to have a future of freedom and prosperity, we MUST get someone in the White House with fiscal sanity who understands how a free market economy works.

On a somewhat related note, National Review published a great article last week discussing the issue of global warming. The myth of man-made global warming, or "climate change" as it is now officially designated, has become a political club in the hands of power-hungry politicians. It is the basis for myriad anti-growth economic policies that are contributing to our national joblessness, including several of the ones mentioned in the previous article. I recommend this article as a relatively concise summary of the problems with the "science" behind Obama's global warming policies.

Global Warming Hoax

A few months ago, the scientific community was rocked by the leaking of a series of email conversations from scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, one of the world's premier "climate change" research institutions. The emails revealed evidence of the deliberate suppression and discarding of scientific data that did not agree with the institution's conclusions about global warming as well as attempts to discredit scientific skeptics. At the center of this controversy was the director of the Climatic Research Unit, Dr. Phil Jones, who was forced to resign his position.

Dr. Jones is making more headlines this week. He has shockingly admitted that there has been no "statistically significant" global warming over the past 15 years. He has also acknowledged that it is possible that the earth was even warmer during the Medieval Period than it is now -- which calls into question whether man-made carbon emissions are a significant cause of global warming. And finally, he has admitted that he has lost much of the data supporting his claims about man-made global warming, which explains why he refused Freedom of Information Act requests for this data. At the same time, new research by American and British scientists is casting doubt on the conclusions of the most recent United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which offered doomsday scenarios about devastating effects of climate change on human and animal life.

You probably don't know about this if you get your news from the mainstream American media, but the ClimateGate email scandal mentioned above is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to mistakes and fraud in "climate change" science. A recent editorial in The Orange County Register lists out 19 significant recent scandals involving bogus global warming scientific claims. It is well worth reading to get a sense of how badly the science has been manipulated. And finally, check out this helpful online "Global Warming Handbook," for a summary of the many erroneous assumptions and methods used by global warming advocates.

The scariest thing of all is that our government wants to pass comprehensive legislation costing our government hundreds of billions of dollars and significantly raising our individual energy costs based on this junk science.