Using data from the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, I showed last week that job creation – depending on how one wants to measure the business cycle – is either the worst or close to the worst for any period since World War II.
My argument is that Obama’s policies are impeding growth. Simply stated, higher tax rates, a heavier burden of government spending, and other forms of intervention are not exactly the right recipe for growth and prosperity.
But sometimes it’s easier to get that message across with a clever cartoon.
Payne’s cartoon has a similar theme to this Ramirez cartoon, which is the fourth-most-viewed post in the history of my blog.
And here’s another Ramirez cartoon with the same message, and one of my favorite Chuck Asay cartoons also shows what happens when you impose a lot of burdens on the economy’s productive sector.
At some point, though, the public sector becomes so demanding that slow growth becomes no growth. Here’s a very clever Asay cartoon about what happens when you reach that tipping point.
P.S. I suspect it was meant as sarcasm and to nail Obama for blame-shifting, but the “Republican fiscal flux capacitor” does deserve some of the blame. Just look at these charts to see what happened the last time the GOP was in charge.
Reblogged this on This Got My Attention and commented:
Amazing what the government mechanics can do when given a chance.
Obamas mother is his only American relative, so I contend his allegience is Not to the USA and he is not eligible to run, much less hold the presidency.
Obama sr. and mom’s other husband, Frank Marshall Davis are not and never were citizens and regardless of which man is his father, both parents are supposed to be citizens.
If a manufacturing company shifted more and more money from the factory to the administrative office, it would eventually fail. The products coming out of the factory are what creates profit for the company, not the bean counting that occurs in the office. Likewise with government, shifting money from the productive private sector to the productless public sector eventually spells doom.
Bush did half his spending in the last 2 years when the Congress was under democratic control. As much as his first 6 years.
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