“As a country, we’re older and we’re wiser,” President Obama declared in
a speech in Galesburg, Illinois. He’s certainly older. But on
the basis of this speech bristling with tired ideas he’s trotted out
time and time again, Obama himself is anything but wiser.
A quick read turns up false and misleading claims,
pious promises, and statements that mean nothing. “I will engage the
American people in this debate” over America’s future, he said. Not
with this boring, forgettable speech, he won’t. Somebody at the White
House needs to tell truth to power: Mr. Obama, no one takes your
speeches seriously any more.
He says he’s “challenging CEOs…to hire more
Americans.” By boosting their cost of doing business by imposing
Obamacare? Thanks to the president, CEOs are hiring more…more part-time
workers, that is.
“I care about one thing and one thing only, and
that’s how to use every minute of the 1,276 days remaining in my term to
make this country work for working Americans again,” he said. This
begs the question: What have you been doing for the past
four-and-one-half years?
In the dubious claims department, Obama laid it on
thick. “We now produce more natural gas than any country on Earth,” he
said. True, but this has occurred despite the dead hand of Obama’s
regulators. “We have tough new rules on big banks,” he said. But the
big banks are bigger than ever and still too big to fail.
There’s “a new foundation for stronger, more
durable economic growth,” Obama went on. But who thinks this will be
case once the Federal Reserve stops pumping $85 billion into the economy
each month?
Only a few dreamers.
