Government Needs To Govern
Every Thursday, CNBC stands on ceremony to reveal the Department of Labor’s exciting weekly unemployment report. If you have witnessed the spectacle once, say a year ago, and you listened to today’s ceremony, you would not see, hear or feel much difference. After all, baloney is baloney.
The Labor Department, the Obama Administration, the Congress and the media go through the motions, but none of these groups possess the strength of character, the moral integrity or the conviction to do the right thing and address unemployment from top to bottom until it is fixed.
For one thing, the politicians are too busy making news and shaping a statistically attractive re-election profile to work on anything constructive, like employment reform. It is easier and safer to point fingers than sit down and work on solving the country’s biggest problem.
Even the eloquent and hopeful tones of President Barrack Obama have worn thin under the weight of 14.6 million unemployed workers. The President has become another media puppet, playing Main Street at every chance he gets to repeat his fading chorus for change, which is now spelled F-R-U-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N.
If you did not have a job; if you were not sure your job would be there come Monday; if you had one or more persons counting on that job, you would find the Thursday media feeding, the President and the Congress of the United States obnoxious, insensitive and arrogant.
Realistically, how could the weekly jobs report improve?
The government cannot afford the employees it has, especially the ones in the high places. Businesses are afraid to spend money because they understand that next time, there will be no bailouts and because there are so many costly legislative acts on the table that nobody knows what a new employee might really cost. Besides, many businesses are profiting better than ever by trimming payrolls. New entrepreneurs have no access to credit and, at this time, investors are not prone to risk.
The people we have elected to solve these problems appear little more than a disjointed three-ring circus. The Congress cannot agree with the Senate. Nobody agrees with the President. All three circus rings lack leadership.
The audience sees plenty of smokescreens but no solutions. What this country nee
