The Conceit of Liberals
Charles Krauthammer
A panel on Fox News points out that some of the economic groups common sense would say should have been at President Obama’s Jobs Summit were notably absent.
Charles Krauthammer, as usual, says it well:
It’s the conceit of liberals in power to imagine that the government not only should, but can create jobs. Outside of world wars, it doesn’t. Generally, it [the government] gets in the way.
Some of the things government can do to foster job creation involve getting out of the way of the private sector. These include:
- Kill government health care mandates and penalties which hinder growth and employment
- Kill the cap and trade global warming tax bill which will devastate the private sector
- Kill the “stimulus” package and distribute the remaining billions to individuals or back to the Treasury
- Approve free trade agreements with Columbia and South Korea
- Most importantly, lift the unbelievably absurd restrictions on drilling for gas and oil, which would create a “gold rush of jobs” and would help secure America’s energy needs
Of course, all of these are outside the liberal model of “government as god” so they are not interested in them.
But they are what works. Socialist approaches do not; history teaches this lesson over and over and over and over.
Therefore, the American people must sweep these people totally from power in 2010 and 2012, so we can get our nation back on track within the free-market model that made us the most prosperous nation on earth.
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