Aw, c'mon - how much Big Government is between him and her?? - Granite Grok

Aw, c’mon – how much Big Government is between him and her??

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified."

-President Barack Obama, 1/20/09

Or how about "talks with itself"?  Yup, the phrase that keeps on giving, as Obama truly wants us to believe the misdirection: "whether it works…"

Big problem for him and ALL those that think like him, Big Government rarely works well when you consider things in toto.  The next four years will be a target rich environment – and not just because Obama is President, as the Republicans are as much as fault for foisting Big Government upon us with its tax bills even as they yak about Smaller Government (but fail to deliver) – as Big Government becomes, perhaps, Overwhelming Government.  And not just because of its actual size but for the influence it will wield with those entities are are supposed to be non-government controlled.

Anyways, here’s yet another example of Big Government not working – in this case, in the area of messaging.  Bowing and scraping at the knees begging for someone to do something that we need does not match up when others at the top level are leveling bombs at those same people. Can’t a President and two of his Cabinet Secretaries be on the same page?  Greg reports:

Chinese policymakers must be bemused, or at least confused. The current message from Washington:

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has pleaded with China to continue buying US Treasury bonds amid mounting fears that Washington may struggle to finance bank bail-outs and ballooning deficits over the next two years. "It’s a safe investment. The United States has a well-deserved financial reputation," she told Chinese television stations at the end of her diplomatic tour of Asia.

The message one month ago:

President Barack Obama believes China is “manipulating” its currency, his choice to head the U.S. Treasury said on Thursday….Washington will “aggressively” use all its diplomatic tools to press Beijing to move faster on currency reform, New York Federal Reserve Bank President Timothy Geithner said …U.S. Treasury bond prices fell on worries China could respond to Mr. Geithner’s frank comments by dumping U.S. Treasury bonds.

No wonder a Chinese official last week said "we hate you".

Yup, that works well, doesn’t it? Real bright, REAL bright….

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