Here We Go Again

As President Obama prepares yet another mass spending spree to attempt to spur employers to start hiring and move us away from a national average of 10% unemployment, I can't help but be reminded of all of those pre-approved credit card applications that fill my mailbox. Easy money. Bigger debt. A short term fix but a long term nightmare.

Billions of U.S. tax dollars are going to be offered to homeowners to insulate their homes. Supposedly this will create more jobs by the demand for new windows, new roofs and more efficient heating. This may sound good in theory, but as has been proven by the last stimulus, employers will choose to offer more hours and pay to existing workers while utilizing temporary and a few part time positions than to hire a slew of new workers.

Creating jobs cannot be done with a quick fix or a government loan. President Obama has no experience in hiring or meeting payroll, let alone creating the need for new jobs. What is happening now is extreme caution by a business community who has had the rug pulled out from under them and sees more government mandates, fines and regulations in their future. Dangling a carrot in front of employers to distract them from the oncoming environmental and health care costs coming in the future is how most see the administration's actions.

Fear of the certainty of what lies ahead is why unemployment remains high. As long as Pelosi and Reid continue to ram their expensive leftist agenda through the legislature, employers will be watching their wallets, keeping their staffing to a minimum and their operating costs out of government hands. The only way to create jobs is to drop the threat of "green" mandates. To actually REFORM health care to a less intrusive expense, not re-invent it as a government run agency set up as a tool to benefit democrats by controlling the free market.

Americans have got much smarter and have 24/7 access to news and information. And not just the news agencies that act as spokespersons for the White House. The golden carrot on a string won't create jobs. Until employers see a long term solution to the rising cost of hiring unemployed Americans, they just won't do it.