I’ve heard a lot of lip service being paid to the need for creation of jobs by the administration and the majority party in congress.
I say lip service because I’ve heard a lot of talk about jobs, but somehow they never seem to materialize, other than in the administration’s “hope”-filled imagination.
But if there’s one thing the health care debacle has shown me, other than the depth of depravity, dishonesty, and corruption in Washington DC, it is that when the stakes are high enough, congress can actually make something happen.
It got me thinking, what would happen if the president and congress and the mainstream media went after jobs like they are going after “health care?” Is there any doubt that this country would have jobs coming out its ears?
I mean, what if the president was willing to make up preposterous stories about how people were suffering and dying because of a lack of jobs, and kept repeating those stories even after they had been proven to be untrue?
What if he had closed-door meetings with SEIU president Andy Stern and other union leaders and demanded concessions from them to encourage American companies to hire more workers?
Better yet, what if the president fired Andy Stern and other top union leaders and took over the unions, (temporarily, of course, and certainly not with the intent of running them,) and instituted new labor concessions that would allow companies such as General Motors and Chrysler to become profitable again and expand production and hire, hire, hire?
What if the president signed an executive order removing all restrictions on exploration and extraction of oil and natural gas anywhere in America to provide cheap energy and fuel the expansion of the economy, creating more jobs?
What if Nancy Pelosi went on national television and said anyone who opposed the creation of jobs, and spoke up about it publicly, were akin to Nazis?  
What if people like Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu would openly and willingly prostitute themselves and compromise their values for the sake of creating a couple million jobs in the next year?
What if the mainstream media promoted the creation of an unprecedented number of jobs in the midst of a deep recession as so historic that it warranted admittedly biased, non-stop coverage?
What if the majority party in congress was willing to lose control of the senate and the house if it meant that more jobs would be created?   
OK, I’m sure you get the point. If you want to know what the majority party and the president really want, what’s really important to them, the last year has been very instructive.
They’ve repeatedly demonstrated they would do anything to gain control of your health care. When it comes to jobs, well, they haven’t been quite so determined. Having a job is crucial to maintaining the personal liberty of every American.
Having government-mandated, government-controlled health-care insurance results directly in the loss of personal liberty. It strains credulity to believe that the people in charge right now don’t know that.
The people in Washington DC are not there because of their love of liberty.
They are there because of their love of power. I wish I could take credit for that nugget of wisdom, but I can’t, and I can’t remember the source for it, or I would certainly tell you.
The point is, the people in DC need to be disabused of the notion that they know better than we do what’s good for us. As far as I’m concerned, that’s Job 1. -RB