By Michelle Malkin
The Summer of Recovery is looking more and more like the Beltway Chainsaw Massacre for Americas workers.
As President Obama lolls on Marthas Vineyard with his well-heeled Chicago pals a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that 72 percent of people are very worried about joblessness and 67 percent are very concerned about massive government spending.
After a nearly $1 trillion fiscal stimulus and several multibillion-dollar corporate and union bailouts unemployment remains stuck near 10 percent nationwide; jobless claims rose again last week. One shudders to think how many more jobs will be on the chopping block after the vacationing president finishes recharging his batteries.
The blame avoidance industry of course never takes a break. Capitol Hill Democrats blame George W. Bush. President Obama blames inaction by the er Democrat-controlled Congress.
On Tuesday Vice President Joe Biden derided GOP Leader John Boehners speech on the Obama job-killing machine as a return to the past. Biden sneered about the good old days when Republicans held the majority in Washington. But laid-off unemployed and endangered Americans in the health care sector the auto industry and the oil mining gas and fishing industries are no doubt wondering: Whats wrong with returning to the days when we had jobs and steady paychecks?
These are not the wealthy fat cats and Big Business titans Democrats love to demonize. Theyre employees of companies like Assurant Health which announced last week that it would slash 130 jobs at its offices in Milwaukee and Plymouth Minn. to prepare for costly Obamacare mandates.
Theyre employees of medical device firms in Massachusetts where officials say theyll be forced to cut back on operational costs and jobs thanks to a little-noticed Obamacare tax on their products that goes into effect in 2013.
Theyre employees of restaurants like White Castle and International House of Pancakes whose executives say they will be forced into layoffs and premium hikes to cope with the federal laws $3000-per-employee penalty on companies whose workers pay more than 9.5 percent of household income in premiums for company-provided insurance.
Theyre mom-and-pop enterprises across the country that must now deal with Obamacares onerous Section 9006 tax-filing mandate. It requires them to file 1099 forms with the IRS for every vendor from whom they purchase $600 or more in goods. Nebraska GOP Sen. Mike Johanns calls it one of many job-crushing provisions that will bury small business in paperwork and legal costs.
Theyre the estimated 23000 workers in the deepwater drilling industry whom the White House deliberately wrote off in pursuit of its junk science-based drilling moratorium.
Theyre the estimated tens of thousands of workers employed by car dealers that were shut down by Obamas auto czars at a time as the TARP inspector general pointed out last month when the country was experiencing the worst economic downturn in generations and the government was asking its taxpayers to support a $787 billion stimulus package designed primarily to preserve jobs... -- all based on a theory and without sufficient consideration of the decisions broader economic impact.
Theyre employees of Utah oil and gas companies whose leases have been pulled without cause by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. The Interior Departments own Inspector General rejected Salazars explanation that the Bush administration had rushed the leases through. The Deseret News reports that rescinding these leases has likely cost the state millions already. Officials in Uintah county estimate the county lost 3000 jobs in 2009 and Duchesne lost 1000 jobs.
Theyre employees of commercial and recreational fishing businesses in New England who have organized a flotilla on Marthas Vineyard on Thursday to protest the Obama administrations restrictive environmental policies and stealth regulatory ocean grab.
The White House has invested mightily in creating a propaganda infrastructure to tout its jobs saved or created. Taxpayers need a full transparent accounting of how many jobs Team Obama has destroyed.
Call it Wreckovery.gov.
Michelle Malkin is the author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats Crooks & Cronies (Regnery 2010).
By Michelle Malkin
The Summer of Recovery is looking more and more like the Beltway Chainsaw Massacre for Americas workers.
As President Obama lolls on Marthas Vineyard with his well-heeled Chicago pals a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that 72 percent of people are very worried about joblessness and 67 percent are very concerned about massive government spending.
After a nearly $1 trillion fiscal stimulus and several multibillion-dollar corporate and union bailouts unemployment remains stuck near 10 percent nationwide; jobless claims rose again last week. One shudders to think how many more jobs will be on the chopping block after the vacationing president finishes recharging his batteries.
The blame avoidance industry of course never takes a break. Capitol Hill Democrats blame George W. Bush. President Obama blames inaction by the er Democrat-controlled Congress.
On Tuesday Vice President Joe Biden derided GOP Leader John Boehners speech on the Obama job-killing machine as a return to the past. Biden sneered about the good old days when Republicans held the majority in Washington. But laid-off unemployed and endangered Americans in the health care sector the auto industry and the oil mining gas and fishing industries are no doubt wondering: Whats wrong with returning to the days when we had jobs and steady paychecks?
These are not the wealthy fat cats and Big Business titans Democrats love to demonize. Theyre employees of companies like Assurant Health which announced last week that it would slash 130 jobs at its offices in Milwaukee and Plymouth Minn. to prepare for costly Obamacare mandates.
Theyre employees of medical device firms in Massachusetts where officials say theyll be forced to cut back on operational costs and jobs thanks to a little-noticed Obamacare tax on their products that goes into effect in 2013.
Theyre employees of restaurants like White Castle and International House of Pancakes whose executives say they will be forced into layoffs and premium hikes to cope with the federal laws $3000-per-employee penalty on companies whose workers pay more than 9.5 percent of household income in premiums for company-provided insurance.
Theyre mom-and-pop enterprises across the country that must now deal with Obamacares onerous Section 9006 tax-filing mandate. It requires them to file 1099 forms with the IRS for every vendor from whom they purchase $600 or more in goods. Nebraska GOP Sen. Mike Johanns calls it one of many job-crushing provisions that will bury small business in paperwork and legal costs.
Theyre the estimated 23000 workers in the deepwater drilling industry whom the White House deliberately wrote off in pursuit of its junk science-based drilling moratorium.
Theyre the estimated tens of thousands of workers employed by car dealers that were shut down by Obamas auto czars at a time as the TARP inspector general pointed out last month when the country was experiencing the worst economic downturn in generations and the government was asking its taxpayers to support a $787 billion stimulus package designed primarily to preserve jobs... -- all based on a theory and without sufficient consideration of the decisions broader economic impact.
Theyre employees of Utah oil and gas companies whose leases have been pulled without cause by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. The Interior Departments own Inspector General rejected Salazars explanation that the Bush administration had rushed the leases through. The Deseret News reports that rescinding these leases has likely cost the state millions already. Officials in Uintah county estimate the county lost 3000 jobs in 2009 and Duchesne lost 1000 jobs.
Theyre employees of commercial and recreational fishing businesses in New England who have organized a flotilla on Marthas Vineyard on Thursday to protest the Obama administrations restrictive environmental policies and stealth regulatory ocean grab.
The White House has invested mightily in creating a propaganda infrastructure to tout its jobs saved or created. Taxpayers need a full transparent accounting of how many jobs Team Obama has destroyed.
Call it Wreckovery.gov.
Michelle Malkin is the author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats Crooks & Cronies (Regnery 2010).
