What Americans are worried about 

This isn’t rocket surgery.  A new Gallup poll shows that when it comes to our economy, most Americans are worried about jobs and unemployment.  No kidding.  But let’s take it a step further.  If Americans’ top concern is jobs, what do they want to see being done in order to address this concern?  Many proggies would tell you that it is the government’s role to create those jobs.  Well .. if you think that we need a command economy; an economy where economic decisions are made by politicians and bureaucrats instead of free people interacting in a free marketplace, that would make sense.  These people now want even MORE participation by the government. They’re telling us that Dear stimulus plan failed is because it was too small.  These would be the folks who believe that America’s greatness comes from government. 

Fortunately, 40% of Americans describe themselves as conservative, compared to 21% who describe themselves as bed-wetting, bugger-eating liberal proggies.  So that leads me to believe that there are about twice as many people out there who do not subscribe to the Obama method of tackling job creation.  One would assume that conservatives (at least fiscal conservatives, not social conservatives) want the government to get the hell out of the way of the private sector and let IT tackle the jobs issue.  America’s private sector economy is what has brought this nation to be the world’s largest economy, a leader in innovation and a model for economic growth.  Why, all the sudden, are we to believe that government can do it better?  Government only gets in the way!  Obama has added over 45,696 pages to the federal registrar – more regulations getting in the way of job creation.  He has proposed 408 government regulations that would have an economic of $100 million or more.  Between this amount of regulation and the threat of tax increases, is it any wonder why business owners aren’t creating jobs?

Second to jobs and the economy, people were worried about our national debt and the budget deficit.  Again, considering this fact, Barack Obama is not their man.  Just yesterday, Dear Ruler asked for another $1.2 trillion to raise our debt ceiling.  This is a man who has incurred more national debt than George Washington to George H.W. Bush combined.  He has increased the debt by 42% since taking office, to the current level of $15.1 trillion.  According to the New York Times, “Debt held by the public, considered by many economists to be the more significant indicator, is 65 percent higher now than in January 2009.”  Americans have a right to be worried that we are approaching the point of no return.  We might be there already.  I’ve escaped this.  But you aspirational young people out there, what’s your plan?