06.11.11
The President has left the building
It’s official. Krugman must be in despair.
Today the President officially left the building, tossing all job creation to the private sector, conceding to the dumb-unskilled-American structural unemployment argument. So all he has to do now is recommend retraining camp community college enrollment until 2012.
Having washed his hands of the unemployed, perhaps some politicians in the Democratic Party will realize they’re going to get their necks wrung for it when the national experience hasn’t measurably improved by 2012.
President Barack Obama said the private sector must take the lead in creating jobs as the as the economy recovers, with the government assisting by making sure workers have the necessary skills.
“Government is not, and should not be, the main engine of job-creation in this country,” Obama said in his weekly address on the radio and Internet. “That’s the role of the private sector.”
On June 13 Obama will meet in North Carolina with executives who are on his Jobs and Competitiveness Council to talk about proposals to encourage private-sector hiring without additional government spending.
In today’s address, Obama said a good education is “a prerequisite for success” in the workplace, so he is pushing states to improve schools.
It’s actually pretty slick, purloining the Republican meme that if government would just get out of the way and become a lubricant, business would just make short work of this ding-dang Great Recession business.
Next thing he’ll be slyly dropping word that he’s read Atlas Shrugged and found it enlightening.