Zero Jobs 101 — the Psychology of Alienating Employers

Victor Davis Hanson  The Great Sit-Down Strike

"In the last 30 months, the Obama administration has created a psychological landscape that finally just seemed, whether fairly or not, too hostile to most employers to risk new hiring and buying. Each act, in and of itself, was irrelevant. Together they are proving catastrophic and doing the near impossible of turning a brief recovery into another recession."

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"Highly publicized visits to bankrupt subsidized green plants, blaming George Bush, new racially-driven invective from some congresspeople against the Tea Party, sermons about the sensitivities of illegal aliens, politically-correct tutorials about Islam — all that might rally the base or in isolation be understandable, but again fairly or not, such liberal rhetoric simply adds to the problem from yet another dimension: confirming perceptions that employers are about the last people in the world that this administration is worried about."   (Emphasis added)

Will President Obama’s Thursday address be the worst speech ever?    "...some presidential historians made the connection to Carter’s moment three decades ago.

"“It was a make-or-break speech,” said John Kenneth White, a political science professor at Catholic University. Carter had “gone to Camp David to assess what had gone wrong in the energy crisis, but also what had gone wrong with his presidency, to hit the restart button.”"

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"And it’s not like the president has announced a cabinet shakeup or fired any of his army of czars.

"It’s not looking too good so far."