Americans are called constantly to swallow fables that are economically implausible. We are WEARY of being insulted.
Think about being told we are in a recovery summer...or that there are jobs saved/created or shovel-ready... or that we can be saved by the slush fund called stimulus... the bogus your healthcare costs won't go up...the ridiculous I won't raise your taxes...the miracle we staved off a depression...and blah, blah, blah.
Reality says our May job numbers are dismal even though President Obama called them "a bump in the road". Half of those meager 54K new jobs listed were McDonald's jobs. No one is hiring or creating in a hostile business climate.
Unemployment is @9.1%. Food costs a fortune. Gas bites. We've lost our home value, which was our nest egg. Spending continues to freely pour out of a boot. Government regs squash free enterprise. We pay Brazil to drill for oil so we can turn around and buy it back...and we have joined into another expensive armed conflict in Libya.
After 2.5 years in office, all this can no longer be hung on the last guy. The big my bad belongs to someone else.
And that someone has had a flawed plan from the beginning. If you tried to SPEND your family's way out of debt, it wouldn't work. Government is no different; government cannot create wealth. They can pay a man to work a shovel (with MY money), but when my money runs out, so does the "job".
Criticizing the plan usually draws the "racist" or "party-hack" label. Sometimes criticism is even judged to be unpatriotic (as in..."why would you NOT want your president to succeed?"). The kicker is that from the beginning, the economic policies were predictably catastrophic...and now the fruit bears out that claim. Who WOULD want their country to slide down that dead end?
So here we are. Now what? Does the president have Plan B, or do we continue with his A game? Stimulus Three, anyone?
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