Monday, September 5, 2011

"Dr." Obama's Snake Oil

Barack Obama's "cure" for the dreadful state American finds itself in (no thanks to his own spendaholic ways) is...more spendaholism!



Update: Obama puts party (his party) before country.

Update: Michael Walsh writes in The Corner:
Honestly, as the Ned Sparks character says in Gold Diggers of 1933, “is everybody nutty?” The notion that a president can “create” jobs — summon them out of thin air — is patently absurd. Between 1985 and 1991 I spent more time in the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Union than I care to recall, and believe me if you wanted to see jobs “created or saved,” you should have seen the Marxist idea of full employment: one person to sell you a ticket, one person to inspect the the ticket, one person to tear the ticket. As the saying went: “We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.”
Given that, this Gold Diggers ditty seems particularly ironic:

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