Conspicuous By Their Absence

Pictured is Barack Obama enjoying a chat with his fellow socialists at The Summit of the Americas. Nobody can deny that Obama works very hard at becoming educated on nearly everything. In this case, he was picking up tips about promoting business turnarounds with the finest of Marxist economists in preparation for this last Thursday's Jobs Summit. He learned a lot. Most importantly, he learned how to exclude those powerful forces which might oppose his policies because they actually know what they're talking about.

At the Jobs Summit, Obama grinned and shook hands with the giant corporate moguls, socialist economists, and academics who have never personally had to make a payroll. He took time to praise the large union presence in the audience and on the panels. Government employees abounded. And of course there were the Obamacrats from the House and Senate who can't balance their own Congressional checkbooks, and have never actually worked a day outside government or run any business larger than a peanut stand. The moguls have experience in gaining MBAs and plotting hostile takeovers, but have never had to look an employee directly in the eye and say "no Christmas bonuses this year if we're going to keep the company afloat." Most have never worked in the industry that they are now in charge of and feel absolutely no genuine loyalty to the company or employees they preside over (unless it happens to be a bailout bank or auto giant). Almost none have ever built a successful business from the ground up.

So who's missing? All of the people who comprise the business-builders, roll-up-your-sleeves entrepeneurs, and the organizations that represent private small and medium sized businesses and closely held corporations which comprise the vast majority of money-making enterprises in America. No invites for the US Chamber of Commerce. Not a word of encouragement to the National Federation of Independent Businesses. No "come on over" for the National Association of Manufacturers. Conservatives and Republicans were scarcer than Democrats who pay their taxes.

The Chamber is the largest organization in America representing people who actually create jobs, produce something of value, and pay employees and payroll taxes that produce revenue for the fools running America's government. Dangerous people, if you're a big government socialist. So you simply don't invite them to a summit on a topic that they know everything about and you know nothing about--the creation of jobs and real wealth. Make sure that nobody at your summit has the least clue as to where money actually comes from (other than printing presses at the mint). Exclude any capitalist who doesn't think that capitalism means tossing financial papers around while stealing from the people who actually earn the money.

The President of the Chamber of Commerce, Tom Donohue made the mistake of sending a letter to the Messiah on November 30 stating: "On behalf of the many members of the US Chamber throughout the country, I would like to lend our enthusiastic support this this week's White House jobs forum. No issue is more important to the American people right now than renewing our country's economic prosperity. We must have a laser focus on creating the jobs Americans want and need." Well, that's general enough to get an invitation, right?

Unfortunately, Donohue also listed topics he felt were vital to the summit:

> Doubling US exports in the next five years.
> Expanding private and public sector investments.
> Promoting healthy credit markets by creating economic stability that will encourage lending.
> Restore fiscal responsibility by curbing budget deficits.
> Advance pro-growth tax and regulatory policies.
> Reduce litigation.
> Educate and train the next generation of American workers.

That queered any possibility that the Chamber would be invited. Where's the stimulus of welfare? Where's the stimulus of union card check? Where's the stimulus of massive government hiring of the unqualified and undeserving (the best kind of job creation)? Where's the stimulus of allowing government bureaucrats and know-nothings to run your businesses? Where's the stimulus of high taxes for the wealth-creators so the less fortunate don't have to pay any taxes at all? Unacceptable. No invitation for you.

The latest unemployment figures just came out, and they dropped from 10.2% to a mere 10% plus. So the socialists must be doing something right. Never mind that the president promised that unemployment would never rise above 8.5%. Details. Three million Americans have lost their jobs, the bulk of them in the past six months, but Obama is still blaming it on Bush.

The Chamber and the mid-level employers all know that unemployment will remain at 10% or climb in the future months because of the enormous spending of the Obama administration along with crippling new taxes imposed on businesses which now cannot afford to hire new employees or expand their businesses. And cap 'n tax and nationalized medicine haven't even come into play yet. They also know that creating a new government job increases the tax burden because the government employee doesn't produce anything, let alone a profit. Putting three million people on the government payroll is about the most counterproductive thing that could possibly be done. Newly-created government jobs aren't jobs, they're welfare in disguise.

So Obama finishes up another completely useless "summit." Rah-rah, blah-blah, jaw-jaw, and go on destroying the American economy on the advice of the enthusiastic crowd that wouldn't understand how wealth is created if the formula were tattooed on the inside of their eyelids. Time to rush off to join in a summit with the Eurosocialists in Copenhagen so they can have some more discussions on how to destroy the industrialized west with junk science curbing of global warming by killing energy-production and taxing what's left into oblivion. I'm applying for the government position of inspector of the caves we'll be living in without light, heat or food. Unless I can get that job aboard Al Gore's floating mansion.