… a “jobs creator” isn’t one of them.  If the Obama propaganda team was honest with themselves, they would quit trying to fool the American people into thinking otherwise.  Many Americans are quite ignorant, especially when it comes to politics, but it doesn’t take a brain surgeon to assess the pathetic state of our recovery.

We’ve had a few amazing comments from Obama’s propaganda team.  Let’s start with chief campaign propagandist Stephanie Cutter.  Talk about an ignoranus.  She actually claimed in an interview the other day that the Obama Recovery has led to more jobs created than under the Reagan Recovery.  She says, “… over the past, you know, 27 months we've created 4.5 million private sector jobs. That's more jobs than in the Bush recovery, in the Reagan recovery, there's obviously more we need to do …”

First of all, let’s put the bed this myth of the 4.5 million new jobs.  Go ahead, click on it.  Bottom line, she’s dead wrong.  We have fewer Americans working today than we did when Obama was inaugurated, and that doesn’t even take into account the fact that we’ve had 8 million more Americans enter the workforce during that time.

Now on to this claim about creating more jobs than the Reagan recovery … what part of “the worst economic recovery is history” doesn’t this woman Stephanie Cutter understand?  Trying to pull this one off is pretty laughable, if you consider the amount of articles and analysis that is out there comparing the two recoveries. Just Google “Reagan recovery vs Obama recovery.”  Here’s just one metric for you to show you how ridiculous Cutter’s statement truly is: In the first ten quarters of the Obama Recovery, the economy created 790,000 jobs. During the first ten quarters of the Reagan Recovery, the economy created 7.5 million jobs.

And you know what would be a great way to top of this incredibly robust recovery, thanks to political advisor Barack Obama?  You do know who’s really running the show, don’t you?  Valerie “ready to rule” Jarrett.  Obama’s just there for show.  But anyway, back to the economy … here’s what our economy really needs: tax hikes!  Yup, let’s raise taxes.  That’s what will happen in 2013, unless Congress and Obama get their act together.  Hopefully they’ve read the latest analysis from the CBO:  “The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicts that if tax rates rise in 2013 as scheduled, the economy will fall back into recession, shrinking by 0.5 percent in 2013.”

Now along with these tax hikes come budget cuts, in what is known as sequestration.  Jamie Dupree asked me a question yesterday about this CBO report and he wanted to know what I thought was more important: Making sure these budget cuts take place or cutting taxes.  My response is that, at this point, I feel it is more important for our nation to start growing again.  We need to be creating jobs and producing in the range of 4-5% GDP growth.  Once we get back to people producing things and paying taxes, then we would be in a better position to tackle the undoubtedly necessary budget cuts and deficit reduction. 

Bottom line: People need to think long and hard about what they expect from their government.  Right now, there is a growing expectation that government will take care of you from cradle to grave.  With this expectation comes a loss of freedom and prosperity.  Do we really want to lose this in order to be taken care of by government?  Or do we want to return to a reliance on personal responsibility where the government acts as a protector of your right to life, liberty and property?  Ultimately … this is what this election boils down to.  Question is:  Are we too late?  If we are stupid enough to re-elected Barack Obama, I’m sad to say that the answer may be yes, we are too far gone.