BloggeRhythms 5/30/2012

Found The Washington Free Beacon on Drudge this morning when I clicked on a link to an article headed, “Carney struggles with questions on public equity.”

It seems that yesterday a reporter asked Press Secretary, Jay Carney, how the president’s justification for the government-loan program for energy differs from Mitt Romney’s on private equity. And here’s what Carney said in reply:

“Look, there is the—the difference in that your overall view of what your responsibilities are as president and what your view of the economic future is. The president believes, as he’s made clear, that a president’s responsibility is not just to those who win, but those who, for example in a company where there have been layoffs or a company that has gone bankrupt, we have to make sure those folks have the means to find other employment, that they have the ability to train for other kinds of work, and that’s part of the overall responsibility that the president has.”

Now, I’ve been around for a while now and have heard boatloads of politician’s gibberish, but Carney’s response is so far over the top it may be the all-time winner for absolute BS. However, I mention it because he not only didn’t answer the question; I think he made another point that’s even worse.

Because it sounds to me like the misguided bunch of zealots in the administration believe that it’s the president’s job to clean up after bankruptcies, guarantee that laid off people get new jobs, and see to any personnel retraining required, which is so far beyond ridiculous it’s defies comprehension in our free enterprise system. However, perhaps now we have even more specific evidence of their lack of understanding of how our economy really works.

Because if the president truly did have the responsibility of insuring that people had jobs, then his administration is a complete and utter failure by his very own standards. As evidenced by the fact that he not only can’t help those who are out of work due to business closures, but his strangling of the economy in general has kept 8.5% of the regular workforce unemployed to boot. So, any way you look at it, he’s created a situation where when it comes to the business world, everybody loses regrdless.

That’s it for today folks.

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