Obama’s Latest Effort to Solve Unemployment Little More Than a Charade

President Obama will prove beyond a shadow of doubt this week that he doesn’t have a clue about what to do about unemployment by holding a one-day Job Summit followed by a campaign-style “White House to Main Street” cities tour starting in Allentown, Pennsylvania to take the pulse of America’s unemployed. One year and 787 billion dollars after the president’s Stimulus Bill was passed and President Obama’s only solution to stem the rising tide of employment is to hold forums and meetings to make it appear that he is concerned.

It’s clear that a president with an academic approach to solving real world problems and who has never really worked in the private sector is way out of his league. Even as unemployment has soared to 10.2 percent over the past eleven months, the Obama administration has continued to insist that Obama’s stimulus program has created or “saved” over a million jobs. Recent revelations about the number of jobs created or saved being inflated on the president’s own website, however, have confirmed what Americans have known or suspected all along, that the president’s policies have actually made unemployment worse.

So now, when businesses and workers are looking for real solutions to put people back to work, President Obama goes back to campaign mode to give Americans the appearance that he has genuine concern for the unemployed. Granted there is little the president can do directly to create jobs, but in order for businesses to expand there needs to be a predictable tax environment with policies that encourage companies to hire additional people.

What makes President Obama upcoming effort on unemployment such a charade is that the Obama administration had openly exhibited a hostile attitude towards private enterprise since the president has taken office and the president’s policies and initiatives such as Health Care Reform, and Cap and Trade, if passed, will undoubtedly raise taxes and fees on millions of small businesses in 2010 in the middle of a jobless recovery.