Obama faith in humanity is misplaced
If there’s one thing President Obama wanted his audience to take away from his speech in support of the American Jobs Act last Thursday night, it’s the urgency of the crisis facing the United States . Repeatedly he exhorted Congress to “pass this bill,” which the president assured would “create jobs right away.” One of the important perspectives the president reminded the nation of is our dependence on the work of those who have come before us. “Where would we be right now?” asked the president, as he urged us to imagine the world without a litany of public spending projects in our nation’s history, from bridges to schools to Social Security. We might just as well ask, too, where we would be right now without the promises of politicians present and past, who have run up the U.S. national debt in excess of $14.7 trillion, or where we would be without generations of innovative enterprise in the private sector. The greatest truth President Obama spoke last Thurs...