What to Make of Obama’s Jobs Speech…Before it Even Happens
By Joel Bowman
09/08/11 Buenos Aires, Argentina – Attention comrades, workers and tax slaves! Tonight is the night! Get your tickets! Turn your televisions up and sit your buts down!
From the people who harass your small business…from the folks who regulate your entrepreneurial spirit into submission…from the clerks who mandate outsourcing, expropriate your profits and who cannot “create” one job without first destroying two, comes…
The Presidential Speech on Job Creation!
The papers were abuzz with excitement this morning. Journalists rushed to put ink to paper, careful to do so before they had time to think.
“Wall Street Mixed Ahead of Obama Speech,” announced one headline.
“Wall Street Falls Ahead of Obama Speech,” countered another.
“DJIA Wobbles Ahead of Obama’s Jobs Speech,” opined a third.
What are we to make of all this, Fellow Reckoner? Is it a wobbly, mixed fall we have on our hands…or a falling, mixed wobbly? And how are we to respond to these vacuous oddities, equal parts curious and meaningless? No matter. President Zero — so dubbed because of the precise number of jobs “created” last month — will surely fill us all in this evening. He’ll tell us how the world works, how the foreigner’s loans should be spent and how the savings of future generations should be allocated today, before they are even earned.
Commenting under a wire story on rising jobless claims ahead of Obama’s speech, one perceptive gentleman gives us a taste of what’s to come:
“Tonight’s focus group buzzwords for the ‘jobs speech’: Bi-partisan, Compromise, Sacrifice,…Read more…
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