Please see the update at the end of the post.
I don’t pay much attention when President Obama talks about jobs. He lost credibility on this issue long ago,[1] certainly by November 2009, less than a year into his first term in office, when he said, “We all know there are limits to what government can and should do even during such difficult times.”[2] I’ve never forgiven him for those words, but they told me all I needed to know about what he was going to actually do about unemployment. Read more
- [1]David Benfell, “Cold buildings and hot air: the Main Street choice between empty and hateful words,” Not Housebroken, June 3, 2011, https://disunitedstates.org/?p=3713↩
- [2]Michael A. Fletcher and Neil Irwin, “Obama to have forum on job creation,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 13, 2009, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/13/MNL31AJFT4.DTL↩