Tuesday, September 6, 2011

What to expect from Obama's new plan

The President is supposed to have a plan announced this week intended to address the still high unemployment in the nation.  What do I expect from all this?

To date, all the President has advocated is increased government spending, increased bureaucracies and the creation of more (thereby, an increase of the federal government), calls for bipartisanship while engaging in nothing but the most concerted partisanship, and vilifying those who have called for the limiting of government and cutting of the out-of-control spending.  His defenders, for their part, have echoed the President (in both words and actions), especially in the vilifying of limited government advocates.

From what little I have heard of the President's new plan (so far, a mention of more so-called infrastructure spending), to call it a new plan is disingenuous.  I don't expect anything but more of the same, more of the same political cliches, more of the same calls for throwing money at the problem (as well as relying on government for the solutions), more of the same disingenuous calls for bipartisanship and more of the same acts of demonizing of limited government advocates.

In other words, what I expect from all this is just more of the same.

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