Obama Says We're ???Lazy??? -- but at Least We're Not Spineless (ContributorNetwork)
COMMENTARY | Back in September, CBS reported President Barack Obama saying the United States "had gotten a little soft" before he took office and we need to regain our competitive edge in the global economy.
Now -- after three years of trying to survive his failed economic policies -- Fox News reports that Obama says we're "lazy" when it comes to attracting business.
While attending the CEO summit as part of the Asia Pacific Economic Conference in Hawaii on Saturday, Boeing CEO James McNerney asked the president about looking at the world from a Chinese perspective and to explain what he thought they might consider as impediments to investing.
While the president admitted America has a lot of things going for itself, he said, "We've been a little bit lazy." The problems aren't caused by Obama's expensive rules and business strangling Environmental Protection Agency regulations. It's because "we aren't out there hungry, selling America and trying to attract new business into America."
Never mind that Obama's National Labor Relations Board sued Boeing in April in an effort to block them from building a $750 million plant and creating 3,800 jobs in the right to work state of South Carolina rather than the union-controlled state of Washington.
"And for perspective," McNerney said in his speech at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in May and posted on Boeing's website, "China is, indeed, Boeing's largest export market -- and not by a little, but by a lot."
A September poll by Winthrop University shows 50.7 percent of South Carolina voters disapprove of Obama's job performance.
According to a Congressional Research Report released in February called, "Foreign Direct Investment in the United States: An Economic Analysis," foreign investment rose to an average of $300 billion per year during Bush's second term. During Obama first term it fell to roughly $150 billion.
According to Obama, nothing is his fault. According to Obama, the state of America's economy was the result of the Arab Spring and an earthquake in Japan. It's Congress that needs to get its act together, not him, and members of the Black Congressional Congress just need to shut up, stop complaining and put on their marching shoes.
According to Obama, the high price of gas and food in the United States is caused by the growing demand in India and China.
"As folks in China and folks in India start wanting to eat more meat," Commodity Online reported Obama saying in August, "commodity prices start going up."
According to the Congressional Budget Office, commodity prices are "going up" because of "the increase in the amount of corn used to produce ethanol."
It was partisan gridlock, not his convoy of massive spending packages, that caused America's credit rating to be downgraded for the first time in U.S. history.
For high unemployment, Obama blames the internet, ATMs and business that are too efficient.
For a man who Politico reported saying, "the buck stops with me," Obama sure does spend a whole lot of time spreading the blame around.
On the same day Obama was telling CEOs at the APEC summit that American's are lazy -- where Chinese President Hu Jintao delivered the keynote speech -- the head of China's biggest ratings agency, Dagong Global Credit Rating, warned in a broadcast on al-Jazeera it will downgrade America's credit rating again.
What crippling insecurity is it that compels Obama to tuck tail and kowtow every time he's in the room with China's dictator?
Dagong -- who lowered their U.S. rating from AA to A+ a year ago -- has been "leading the charge to downgrade American debt over the last 12 months," The Guardian reported. In August Standard & Poor's joined in.
By the way, by order of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 it's the president's job to prepare and submit a federal budget to Congress by the second Monday in February for the fiscal year that begins on October 1.
While repeatedly blaming Republicans for the fact that the Democrat controlled Senate refuses to pass his jobs bill -- so he can spend another $457 billion "right away" -- Republican Speaker of the House reminds Obama he is over 900 days late on presenting his budget to Congress.
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