State Of The Union Preview
The media are reporting that President Obama will attempt to use his State of The Union speech to divert the national focus from the government’s catastrophic debt to America’s competitive position internationally, the latest designated crisis that won’t go to waste.
The message apparently will be that competitiveness has suffered because the federal government spends too little of our resources and doesn’t sufficiently impose itself in the private sector
Predictably, the President’s solution to “The Competitiveness Problem” will be the same as his solution to every problem: Transfer more resources and decision making authority from the competitive, private sector to the central government which does not compete because it operates through the force of law and regulation.
The politicians and their regulation writing bureaucrats will then presume to improve the competitiveness of The People and our competitive businesses with yet another layer of regulating, controlling, subsidizing, taxing and penalizing.
As he has since the beginning of his Presidential campaign Obama will resolve to make America more competitive and more prosperous by forcing us to submit to ever more draconian restrictions on cost effective – and competitive – energy sources such as oil, coal, natural gas and nuclear. Instead we must somehow rely on “alternative” energy schemes that are not yet competitive or cost effective or even reliable.
One wonders what it would take for President Obama and the so-called progressives to finally realize that government interference does not make American business more competitiv.
