Obama’s Record: Words Versus Actions
Mike, The Conservative Minority
TheConservativeMinority.com/rightminority
4/6/2012
Many on the left are touting
Obama’s record on job creation versus that of President Bush. While job creation is certainly one important
metric by which to grade any president, that alone should not be the deciding
factor when determining if a sitting president should be re-elected. It is even difficult to compare Bush to Obama
because Bush's time in office was peppered with one crisis after another
whereas Obama has really had to deal with only one crisis - a weak
economy.
Let's take a trip down
memory lane, shall we? Bush inherited
a recession from
Then the nation took a hit
from the Mortgage crisis; a looming crisis that both the Republicans in Congress
and the Bush Administration tried to stop from happening in 2001, 2003, and
again in 2005. Each time they tried to
address the root cause of the mortgage crisis they were thwarted
by the Democrats (specifically Barney Frank and Chris Dodd). If you research the roots of the mortgage crisis,
you will find that the Clinton
Administration used the Justice Department to strong-arm banks into making
loans that were unsustainable.
This crisis led to another
recession that Obama did indeed inherit (however, it is interesting that
Democrats handed a Democrat President a Democrat engineered crisis). However, when Obama took office unemployment
was in the 7%
range, the national average gas price was $1.85 a
gallon, and the federal government actually had a budget. Obama campaigned on a message of hope and
change and many people believed that he would get the nation back on the right
track. However, once in office, he doubled down on the failed
economic policies of the past, policies
that never worked for FDR or LBJ.
Instead of reducing regulations
and making it easier to do business in the United States he made it harder;
instead of encouraging
domestic production of oil, natural gas, and coal he slapped gulf oil
producers with a moratorium,
reduced drilling on federal lands by as much as 70%,
and blocked the Keystone
XL Pipeline. Instead of working with
congress to pass a sensible budget and tax plan that would allow businesses to
make long term plans and know what they can expect he used federal
debt limit and
taxation as a campaign issue in 2010 which eventually led to the GOP
retaking the House in the November election.
Instead of taking steps to ensure our long term national security
through strong defense and alliances he has hampered
our missile defense development, cut our nuclear
deterrent, killed the F-22, cut
defense spending, and alienated
our strong allies Canada, Israel, and the United Kingdom.
Obama has said one thing and
done another and he is at
it again. We cannot allow ourselves
to be fooled! Under Obama’s watch
unemployment shot up to 10.2%,
millions of people have
given up looking for work (which artificially makes unemployment look like
its going down), gas
prices have gone through the roof, the world is less safe (Arab spring
became Arab
winter and Iran is on the verge of
obtaining Nuclear Weapons), the government has been operating without a
budget for over 1000
days (the longest period of time in our nations history), and the national
debt has snowballed (Obama
has added more to the national debt in three years that Bush did in eight).
It is time for a candidate
who has real world experience as a
leader and job
creator in the private sector. It is
time for someone who has a track record of establishing a vision,
creating a plan,
and obtaining results. It is time for Mitt Romney.
About the Author: Mike is an
experienced manager working for both Fortune 50 companies and mid-sized
corporations. He also teaches college
courses and volunteers his time for causes he believes in. Mike holds a Master’s Degree in Management
from the