Editorial - January 24, 2010 ELYRIA, Ohio - President Obama is beginning to feel the pressure after 12 months of doing nothing about job loses and wasting months of valuable time working on a unwanted, unworkable, too expensive health care plan.

Obama could have spent that time on what is really important to out-of-work voters - creating jobs, cutting taxes and doing something positive about reviving the lagging economy. It's not that complicated. Instead he gave another political speech on Friday attacking the same banks, Wall Street firms and insurance companies that Dunce-O-Crats use as an excuse for doing nothing and talking about the health care fight with Republicans who rightfully want to stop it as if they are some how all related to the unemployment problem.

It sounded like so many other political rah-rah speeches he gave months ago before the election. Obama just does not seem to realize that the election is over. It's time to stop giving pep rally speeches and it's time to get down to some serious work on strengthening the economy by cutting taxes for businesses and workers, stop the "pork" spending - that is one of the ways to change things if your are really serious about creating jobs.

Re-launching your pre-election political plans with the same old tired speeches you gave earlier in the year is not what small business owners who need a boost and the thousands of people out-of-work want to hear any more. That is over.

People want to hear what your are doing or going to do NOW about jobs - that's all! We have heard all of the rabble rousing speeches, now we want to know what you are doing or planning to do about job creation? About the housing market? About cutting spending?

Obama, trying to create the impression to the out-of-work voters in Ohio that he is seriously intent on creating jobs and fixing the economy, came to this manufacturing town for the main purpose of reassuring those out-of-work voters that he is on the job 24-7 and working diligently on the job creation issue.

It was just more of the same old Obama phony baloney speech rhetoric. Unfortunately, after 12 months, voters have not seen any improvement and when asked privately they really don't have much faith anymore in Obama to deliver on any of his pre-election promises to create jobs and fix the economy.

It's sad because these out-of-work voters were so hopeful and were enthusiastically looking forward to hear his plans for job creation. In place of talking about his plans for jobs he wandered off-purpose by speaking about old, pre-election political pledges to oppose Republicans over health care, railing against banks and other issues. He spent more time talking about his domestic battles with his political foes, banks, insurance companies, etc., not jobs. These are issues that out-of-work voters don't care about - wake up Obama.

Obama seems to have lost his sense of direction on what the main problem is that working people are facing. Obama's Socialist/Marxist/Progressive agenda is completely out of step with the out-of-work voters. Personally after 12 month of not seeing anything accomplished myself, in regards to the basic problems of our country, I think he is more unfit than anyone thought and does not have any plan(s) to lead our country out of this economic mess.

If he had any plan, he would have said what it was by now - instead he reverted back to the only skill he has which is to give another empty speech. Just more talk, more words, on what he is going to do, not on what he has done. He is all over the map in trying to cram a botched health care bill through Congress, fighting with banks, insurance companies and Wall Street over salaries, bonuses, taking over car manufacturers, etc.

That is his own Socialist agenda but the out-of-work voter want and need jobs. Wake up Obama. Stop acting like some petty, radical Socialist and start facing up to your limitations and responsibilities. America does not want your Socialist programs that have failed in every country where it was tried. Start by getting rid of screw-ups like Napolitano, Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke. They, including yourself, are part of the problem. Wake up Obama!

Obama continues to ignore jobs, the economy and wages a unnecessary and unpopular personal political battle with Wall Street, big banks, insurance companies and Congtess. His ill advised proposal to levy even more special taxes to punish big banks is causing investor jitters and a sudden falling market after significant gains. Obama's erratic, childish behavior toward big business, who create jobs, is showing increasing signs of poor judgment and lack of experience.

Job losses in Ohio is easily over 10% and still rising. His main reason for visiting Ohio was to pump up out-of-work voters and give them some glimmer of hope that he has some kind of job creation plans in the works. He doesn't. Obama is trying to avoid any responsibility for doing nothing about jobs and the economy for the last 12 months launched into yet another political speech railing against banks for not paying back tax payer loans.

This nonsense about banks not paying back tax payers is just a Dunce-O-Crat rouse by Obama to hide his own nonpayment on his promises to create jobs. The intention of Obama's speech was to switch focus from his lack of job creation by complaining over and over about banks.

Obama loudly defended his administration's new plan, announced on Thursday, as a way "to make banks repay taxpayers in full for saving their [banks'] skins in a time of need," and then delivered a line that got the day's biggest applause: "We want our money back. We want our money back! And we're going to get your money back; every dime, each and every dime." What is this fool talking about?

Obama is simply revealing how out of touch with reality he is. He is showing his inability to lead and as the months slips away it is going to get worse if something isn't done soon by the government in reenacting prudent spending and tax polices. The banks, as somebody should remind him, have already paid the government back with interest but some how he is unaware of this fact.

The market suddenly declined on Friday due mainly to the Obama administration's bank levy proposal, increasing worries about the latest rise in jobless claims and uncertainty on how Obama is going to fix anything since he has not proposed any new solutions.

House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio is not, like the rest of the thousands of out-of-work citizens of Ohio and the rest of America, impressed with Obama's efforts over the last 12 months to create jobs in cities like Elyria, Ohio. Boehner said "When he last visited Elyria, candidate Obama promised that as President he would enact a 'job creation agenda.'

Obama, as a Presidential candidate, was acting like a Chicago politician who promised the voters everything he thought they wanted to hear and he has delivered on nothing unless it fits within his own personal, socialist/Marxist agenda. Over the past year, Ohioans and the rest of the country have watched as President Obama and the Democratic Congress have actually initiated job-killing policies, voted for pork laden legislation, increased our national debt three fold and then arrogantly turned their focus to non-job issues - Health Care, Cap & Tax legislation and massive unsustainable, spending programs.

Obama and the Democratic Congress have wasted 12 long month fighting over a wortrhless Health Plan - not on jobs, not on the economy. Both big and small business owners and leaders are very reluctant to invest in any new job-creating programs and are becoming increasing leary of Obama, his phony pre-election promises (lies), his administration's socialist/progressive policies and the incompetent people ( Napolitano, Tim Geithner, Rahm Emanuel, Van Jones ) he has put into key government jobs.

If Obama thinks making banks, who were more or less forced to take TARP money, be accountable is a major issue that out-of-work voters are interested in then he is a bigger dunce then I thought. Wake up Obama.