{"id":324164,"date":"2010-02-15T21:36:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T02:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/obama-goes-forward-jobs-plan-though-jury-still-out-first-one-39459\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T21:36:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T02:36:02","slug":"obama-goes-forward-with-jobs-plan-though-jury-still-out-on-first-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/324164","title":{"rendered":"Obama Goes Forward With Jobs Plan, Though Jury Still Out On First One"},"content":{"rendered":"
On 02.15.10 12:00 PM posted by Allie Winegar Duzett<\/p>\n

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While the nation suffers an unemployment rate of nearly 10 percent, Barack Obama spent last week talking about job creation with \u0093civil rights\u0094 leaders \u0097 despite the fact that President Obama\u0092s last job creation ideas haven\u0092t even been properly analyzed, let alone proven to work.<\/p>\n

The New York Times reports that President Obama met with Benjamin T. Jealous of the NAACP, Marc H. Morial of the National Urban League, and Reverend Al Sharpton on Wednesday to discuss \u0093how the economic crisis was affecting all manner of poor people.\u0094 According to the article, the vast majority of the meeting was spent discussing \u0093how to get Republican leaders to support Mr. Obama\u0092s jobs proposals.\u0094<\/p>\n

This is mildly hilarious, considering that on February 9th, President Obama \u0093gave his strongest signal yet that he is willing to compromise on key priorities,\u0094 according to Reuters\u0092 report of his Tuesday solo news conference. Yes, on Tuesday, Mr. Obama said he was willing to compromise with Republicans, and on Wednesday, he spent the day trying to figure out how to avoid compromise.<\/p>\n

But the most disturbing part of the President\u0092s meeting isn\u0092t merely his lack of desire to truly compromise \u0097 the disturbing part is his arrogant assumption that his \u0093jobs proposals\u0094 are ready for serious consideration. This is especially true considering the fact that, as the Heritage Foundation\u0092s Dr. J.D. Foster pointed out, President Obama \u0093explicitly\u0094 admitted the \u0093failure [of] last year’s $862 billion stimulus program\u0094 during this year\u0092s State of the Union address.<\/p>\n

As the Heritage Foundation recently reported, there is still no proof that President Obama\u0092s first stimulus bill worked. The study on last year\u0092s stimulus package conducted by the White House Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) \u0093fails basic standards of economic analysis,\u0094 according to Heritage expert Dr. Karen Campbell. The Heritage report, titled \u0093Did the Stimulus Create Jobs? White House Economic Report Is Unclear,\u0094 clarifies the many logical problems involved with the studies that \u0093prove\u0094 that the President\u0092s last proposals worked. As Dr. Campbell said, \u0093the American people deserve to have a true economic analysis done.\u0094<\/p>\n

Indeed, President Obama hasn\u0092t even ordered a true economic analysis to be done on the results of his last \u0093proposal\u0094\u0097the expensive economic \u0093stimulus\u0094 he argued would create jobs.<\/p>\n

Before he bothers focusing on how to gain Republican support to ram through even more expensive legislation, the President might want to take a closer look at the results of his last jobs plan. It would be a travesty if he let his arrogance and the support of \u0093civil rights\u0094 leaders take the place of legitimate economic analysis in the quest to find a solution to America\u0092s current economic crisis.<\/p>\n

Allie Winegar Duzett currently is a member of the Young Leaders Program at the Heritage Foundation. For more information on interning at Heritage, please visit: http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/about\/departments\/ylp.cfm<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

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