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It’s All About Jobs — His Job!

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img srchttpwww.personalliberty.comwpcontentthemesredesignimagesobamasmileimage.jpg altIts All About JobsHis Job! hspace5 vspace5 alignright President Barack Obama has been on a pilgrimage of late, declaring that America will reinvent itself with green technology. He has even declared that the nation must move away from oil and invest in things that will vastly improve our fortunes things like solar shingles and cars that run on sunlight and water.The President has gone so far as to promise that in just four years America will be the first nation in the world to have a million electric cars.It is the Presidents version of emJack and the Beanstalk. emIn that story and in Obamas imagination, immense wealth and a great transformation will occur overnight. All we need is a few magic beans patent pending, water, sunshine and poof, we will have a green beltway to Eden which will be brimming with new jobs.The President has been talking about jobs a lot lately. Last week he went to Penn State University to stump his green revolution. And late last month he announced that he has created at least one new job. But it is for someone who doesnt even need it, General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt, who will focus on growing employment for the nation. The object of all this media, money and minutia all comes down to saving one job Obamas.Were going back to GE founder Thomas Edisons principles, Obama said in Schenectady, N.Y. Were going to build stuff and invent stuff.Unsaid in his Stuff Speech is that the plant he was speaking from dates back to when Edison was helping invent the Industrial Revolution. After the Presidents speech the media did not make much of the fact that GE has fewer than half its workforce in the United States and that more than 50 percent of its revenues come from foreign operations. Like the rest of the world, G.E. understands that its fortunes are not dependent upon the U.S.Also unsaid is that the world will be happy to buy blue print proprietary technologies that Obama is willing to give away in an effort to be reelected.Lets take away words like traitor and poser and ask ourselves a simple question Can America sell enough high tech turbines to offset all those dogtoys from China and petroleum from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries Probably not.Nevertheless Obama recently proclaimed We can outcompete any other nation on Earth.Not so said emThe New York TimesemblockquoteemLets not kid ourselves Talking about competitiveness as a goal is fundamentally misleading Instead that talk of competitiveness helps Mr. Obama quiet claims that hes antibusiness. Thats fine, as long as he realizes that the interests of nominally American corporations and the interests of the nation, which were never the same, are now less aligned than ever before.emblockquoteMaybe I am jaded, but I believe that the only interest Obama has in his heart is selfinterest. He also has many powerful disciples, including the mighty Oprah Winfrey. She was the first guest on the new emCNNem talk show hosted by Piers Morgan. English and a younger version of Larry King and with only a fraction of the wives, Morgan proclaimed Oprah to be, the American Queen and said she and President Barack Obama are arguably the two most powerful people in America.When asked whether Obamas performance in office had been disappointing, Winfrey angrily declaredblockquoteemI dont think he Obama has been disappointing at all. I really do not. I really do not, because I believe that I understand the heart of him. And I understand that when he took this role on, he took it on to really bring a sense of betterment to the United States of America and the people of this country. And I know that in his heart, that is his ultimate and primary role.emblockquoteWhat Oprah seemed to be saying is that Americans do not yet understand or appreciate the President and the mission he has undertaken to save us. Obama remains to Oprah as she proclaimed him to be three years ago The chosen one.While Oprah didnt specify on exactly why most Americans are either too ignorant or too stupid to get it, Obama is finally getting a grasp of things. Following two years of ramming Obamacare and gays in the military down Americas throat, the President realizes it might be a good time to work on that little problem he and his cabinet have been calling, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.Recently, the President revealed his Franklin Delano Rooseveltlike ambitions which he has spelled out in grand and green changes for the future. I dont know about you, but I felt better just thinking Obama was just another crooked Chicago politician. The idea that the President has grandiose plans is downright disturbing.Vice President Joe Biden recently wrote an email in which he thanked activists of the Democratic National Committee, Organizing for America. In it, Biden asked them for their continued support We knew it would take time. We knew it would be hard. And we knew we would sometimes make mistakes.Biden continued. But we did not lose sight of what we came to do. Together, we took on difficult issues that had been put off for decades. And some say we have accomplished more in two years than any administration since Roosevelts.Biden went on to say that the administrations success is, literally proof that the organizing you do on the groundthe conversations you have with your friends and neighborsis working.The Vice Presidents email contained a list of legislative accomplishments, including healthcare reform, financial regulatory reform, the stimulus, the auto bailouts and the repeal of the militarys Dont ask, dont tell policy.When you see a list like that it is hard to argue with Bidens logic. The only thing missing is that FDR was president for 12 years while Obama is just two years into his presidency.It is yet to be determined whether Obamas green schemes will get him reelected. I am optimistic they wont. If anything, Obama is proving himself to be most like Jimmy Carter. Rising inflation, the crisis in the Middle East and an environmentalist President seem all too familiar. Hopefully, Obama wont spend one more day in office than Carter did.Yours in good times and bad,emJohn MyersememMyers Energy and Gold Reportem