Obama to Business: Hire More People

Why didn't we think of that?  Just hire more people and everything will be okay.

President Obama urged businesses to "step up" and hire workers, pressing banks and other corporations to do more to help an economy that he said would take "several years" to recover fully.

In a town-hall style meeting conducted by CBS News on Wednesday, Obama said the weak housing market and high gasoline prices were the biggest "headwinds" dragging on the economy.

"We've got a lot more work to do to get businesses to invest and to hire," he told the audience in remarks broadcast on Thursday.

"It's going to take us several years for us to get back where we need to be."

Businesses aren't going to hire more people when this government has expressed a desire to punish them for their success. Gas prices are not going to go down as long as this government prevents development on our own lands or in our own waters.  Banks have been told by this government that they're nothing more than greedy criminals.   Obama has his team are doing everything they can to prevent the economy and its participants from prospering.

You can't end a recession by simply wishing it.

And then there's this from Jim Geraghty:

CBS’ Mark Knoller, covering a town hall on the economy with the president this morning, reports: “President Obama blames high unemployment rate on ‘huge layoffs of government workers’ at federal, state and local levels.”

This is completely wrong. Extremely and mind-bogglingly wrong. Epically wrong.

Read the rest of Geraghty's piece where he shows how employment in government is stable or growing.

Coming on the heels of Obama's pronouncement that the border fence is "nearly complete" when maybe only 5% is done, you have to figure Obama is either an inveterate lier or hopelessly delusional.