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Name: Mike's America
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States

Currently living in the South Carolina Lowcountry, Mike has taken a keen interest in politics and government since his days as a young whippersnapper in Ohio. There, he organized College Republicans clubs, worked as a professional staffer on two statewide campaigns and was elected to the Delaware County Republican Central Committee among other achievements. In 1986 he began graduate studies in government at Columbia University where he specialized in National Security matters under the tutelage of former National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Leaving New York in 1988 he moved to Washington, D.C. to become a White House Intern in the Political Office of President Ronald Reagan. With backing from the first Bush Administration he spent four years at the Environmental Protection Agency. He has lived on Hilton Head since 1996 where he writes, photographs and gardens.

Sunday, June 07, 2009

Obamanomics Creating MORE Unemployment

So much for the promise of three million new or "saved" jobs!

Readers may recall that the Congressional Budget Office warned in February that passing the massive stimulus bill might actually damage the economy and in many ways was worse than doing nothing.

Democrats who cited the CBO as the gold standard of economic analysis when it criticized Bush Administration forecasts were quick to dismiss the CBO report.

Guess who was right?

Christina Romer, who now chairs the White House Council of Economic Advisors, put out this report as part of the incoming Administrations forecast of how Obama's plan would save jobs. The following chart is taken from page 5 of the pdf of that report, with the actual unemployment numbers added in red by Innocent Bystander.

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Sure does look like Obama's plan is worse than doing nothing!

What's worse is that the same bunch who brought you this obvious fiasco have published budget and spending forecasts that nearly all independent analysts criticize for being hopelessly flawed. The massive deficits, already at levels higher than at any time in our nation's history, will cause even greater economic disruption.

Yes, Rosy Scenario is back in town in D.C. but she brought along her brother, Painful Truth. And the painful reality of the Obama Administration's sheer incompetence on economic matters is already abundantly clear to the millions who are out of work due to Obamanomics.