Obama and Congress Don't Give a Damn About Us

Oh, yeah, they can moan and wring their hands but all they do is talk and live it up while millions of people who want real jobs are ignored.  A kid in a commercial geography class understands that to build national wealth and create jobs the country must produce products that someone will buy.  Wealth comes from agriculture, mining (coal, oil and gas and minerals) and manufacturing.  Innovation and trade can add to the profitability of all of these basic ways of creating wealth. Where are we mostly lacking?  In manufacturing, of course, where the trend of moving plants off shore has continued.  Wal-Mart  buys only six per cent of its goods from United States companies.  Think about it; if that one company bought goods made in the United States, hundreds of thousands of jobs would be created.  Where we do excel, Obama administration penalizes instead of encouraging.  The moratorium on drilling in the gulf has been lifted but permits are not given so rigs sit idle and thousands are not working.  We should produce enough oil and gas to make this country sufficient and have oil to export.  It is sad but true; our leaders are unwilling or incompetent to govern, and only they and those working for the government prosper.