Financial Expert Peter Schiff Explains Team Obama’s Illusion of Economic Recovery (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on September 5, 2010
Last week, as markets and millions of Americans awaited the release the following day of the new jobless report for August, financial whiz and market expert Peter Schiff said in the FOX interview video below that Obama’s stimulus package has not strengthened, but severely weakened, the economy.
Schiff explains the illusion of economic recovery created by Team Obama.
Seeing the dismal job report the following day, with its 7.5-million jobs deficit, and the damage that Team Obama has done to the economy with the stimulus/porkulus package, Schiff was dead-on correct in his appraisal — it’s all an illusion.
FOX News: Peter Schiff: Illusion of Economic Recovery | September 2010
From The Foundry, The Audacity of Failure:
By every objective measure, President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus package has been a complete failure. When President Obama was selling his stimulus plan to the American people, he promised it would save or create 3.5 million jobs by the end of 2010. At the time, employment stood at about 134.3 million, according to the Labor Department’s most commonly used measure. That established an Obama jobs target for December 2010 at 137.8 million. According to the latest jobs report, total U.S. employment stood at 130.3 million in August, which means the cumulative Obama jobs deficit stands at 7.5 million.
From The Washington Post, Obama Expands Stimulus Goals – As Economic Outlook Grows More Dire, Early Target for Job Growth Is Bolstered:
President-elect Barack Obama has expanded his goals for a massive federal stimulus package to keep pace with the increasingly grim economic outlook, aiming to create or preserve at least 3 million jobs over the next two years.
The more aggressive target, up from 2.5 million jobs set a month ago, comes after a four-hour meeting last week in which Obama’s top economic advisers told him the economy is now expected to lose as many as 3.5 million jobs over the next year. Obama was told that could drive unemployment, currently at 6.7 percent, above 9 percent, a figure not seen since the recession of the early 1980s.
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As the recession has deepened, Obama’s proposal for economic stimulus has soared from $175 billion during the campaign to nearly $800 billion today, a sum that some say would fund the most expensive measure ever approved by Congress.
The rapid expansion of the package has generated fears that it could easily evolve into a grab bag of provisions that appeal to traditional Democratic constituencies such as unions, environmental activists and local officials but fail to deliver the necessary medicine for the economy.
Because they are intended to pump cash quickly into the economy, stimulus measures are released from the usual budgetary constraints that require the cost of new programs to be covered by cutting spending elsewhere or by raising taxes — a one-time pass that could invite lawmakers to load the bill up with favored items.
George Neumayr at The American Spectator wrote this blistering critique of Obama’s “Operation Iraqi Freedom” speech:
Not that anyone should expect logical consistency from [Pres. Obama] at this point, but one line in the speech invites an obvious question: If, according to him, war should not be paid for on a credit card — “We spent a trillion dollars at war, often financed by borrowing from overseas,” he said — why is he launching a phony new debt-financed war on unemployment? Why is a trillion dollars that we don’t have foolish to borrow for war but smart to borrow for “stimulus”?
Anytime a politician talks, as Obama did in this speech, about giving Americans “the education they deserve” and the “skills they need to compete in a global economy,” he is talking about deficit spending. And who exactly would be giving these beleaguered Americans the education they deserve and struggling entrepreneurs the skills to flourish in global free markets? Obama’s Department of Education officials who trotted off to the Al Sharpton rally last weekend? The socialists sprinkled throughout his administration and agencies who have never held a private-sector job in their lives let alone created one? Department of Energy officials who consider the very creation of wealth and expansion of economies to be bad for the environment?
Obama’s speech on Tuesday was reminiscent of the one he gave to dozing cadets at West Point last year. In that address, he complained about the distracting burdens of the presidency and drew a strained connection between “national security and our economy,” by which he meant a ballooning federal government.
The core responsibilities of the presidency, from protecting America’s borders to defeating her enemies, leave him cold while the bogus and reckless ones he invents for it occupy his attention. He says that he abhors nation-building. But that’s not true. There is one nation he wishes very much to change at its foundation — his own.
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