Government Activisim and Reality
January 9th, 2010 by David DanskerThe Heritage Foundation’s employment report for December 2009 also looks at the year in review, and some forecasts made back then, and some for 2010. A survey in the report shows that, for the near future, business investing that would create jobs is expected to be down by half it was before the recession. Many have taken a wait and see attitude as congress proceeds with sweeping cost increases to doing business such as cap and trade, and government health care. Heritage noted that “businesses are not increasing hiring in part due to the fears of an activist government agenda that makes labor costs uncertain,” and that activism has a chart.1
Exemplifying the divergence between that ideological activism and reality, Heritage published this following graph showing Whitehouse projections on the effect that stimulus spending would have on unemployment, and the actual figures on the rise in unemployment:
Lines like the ones above also reveal that the government has either no grasp of the severity of the problems, an inability to confront them, no ability to solve them, or, and this is becoming widely suspected, a real desire to bankrupt the nation. Socialism: now that’s change we can really heave in.
Notes:
1. Rea S. Hederman, Jr., James Sherk, “Heritage Employment Report: 2009 Ends with More Job Losses,” Heritage Foundation,” January 8, 2010. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Economy/wm2748.cfm. (accessed January 9, 2010).