Democrats Getting Desperate

COMMENTARY | You know things are getting tough when dyed-in-the-wool Democrats lash out. Jesse Jackson Jr. called for a suspension of constitutionality, essentially calling for despotism, to get a desperate Democrat message about jobs across to those who don't have one.

Prospective GOP candidates are vetting their ideas for improving the economy. All involve some form of relief from overbearing government, overbearing taxes, overbearing environmental protectionism, overbearing politicization of every aspect of life, and excruciating unemployment. All say something positive about job creation through the tried-and-true application of capitalism in the context of values our founding fathers envisioned.

But Jackson Jr would do away with all that. He wants to see America's 15 million unemployed employed by the government, according to a piece in the PJ Tatler. In comments to The Daily Caller, he went on to suggest that instead of making a plan for business to begin hiring again, Obama should "declare a national emergency" and take "extra-constitutional" action to tackle unemployment.

In the absence of any plan for improving employment from the president up to now, Jackson Jr. suggests that Obama should step beyond the bounds of the duty of his office. Uncharted territory and approaches that should never apply in a democracy are being touted as the only way out. Reversing the desperate unemployment in America is meeting desperate Democrats with no idea how that is done.

Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan has employment in mind. Jobs are created when people have their own money to spend. They stimulate business by buying the goods and services they need. Entrepreneurs start such businesses and create the demanded products. They hire. People buy. Tax revenues flow into government. Everybody wins. But neither Jackson Jr. nor Obama know this.

Rick Perry is soon to announce the specifics of his national jobs creation plan, as if he needs one. Texas's business-friendly environment has created hundreds of thousands of jobs for the state and attracted them from elsewhere in droves.

When we hear of Democrats like Jackson Jr. proposing measures so alien to valued American principles, we wonder who could possibly be listening to such drivel, nevermind believe that they would ever work. All while giving up the constitutional rights and protections we value as Americans.

There is no idea out there on jobs creation that this American dislikes more.

Sources:

http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/10/13/rep-jesse-jackson-jr-congress-is-in-rebellion-so-obama-should-go-outside-the-constitution/

http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/12/jackson-obama-should-declare-a-national-emergency-add-jobs-with-extra-constitutional-action/#

http://news.yahoo.com/rick-perry-propose-energy-plan-create-1-2-075725090.html
http://www.hermancain.com/999plan