Thursday, August 5, 2010

Spin, spin, spin

I have not been blogging a lot lately because so much of what I want to say about the Obama administration might get me arrested, or at least a visit from the FBI.

I have seen politicians "spin" all of my life and we all expect it. But this administration has taken it to another level.

Recently Larry Summers, Obama's chief economic adviser has stated; "Everybody agrees that the recession is over". In a separate interview Christina Romer, head of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers was asked if the recession was over, she responded; "Of course not". Romer has since "resigned"...was it because she told the truth? You make the call.

In July 130,000 jobs were lost and Obama makes a speech saying "We are making progress". In the meantime the federal deficit is exploding and the House has been called back into session during their vacation to pass another $26 billion bill to help the states with their budget problems - a "bailout" to the state teacher and public employee unions to keep them from laying off people. Yes this will save some jobs, but instead of facing up to the budget problems that most of the states are having, this bill will just "kick the can" down the road with more borrowed money because the democrats hope it will pick up some more votes in November.

I have never seen an administration that is so detached from the will of the American people and an administration that seems to believe we are all a bunch of idiots (probably an accurate call for a lot of the democratic voters out there).

But I believe the "spinning" is losing its effectiveness and if our lame Republican party can just get its act together we may turn this thing around in November. If not, we will hear the constant Obama spin for two more years as this country heads into the tank...but "spin" will never overcome real world economics.