The governor's meeting, what a great place to showcase health care once more when it's the economy that should be in the spotlight.

I was off today and decided to watch the President's address to the governors meeting in Washington and what I thought would be a speech on the economy turned out to be another rehash of health care reform. What's really becoming a sad feature of this President is his apparent inability to grasp the fact that the American people are more interested in his administration taking decisive action to help our flagging economy than the promotion of his Fabian philosophy.

He wasted time by promoting his flawed health care program to the governors, then segued into his revamp of the educational system citing South Korea as an example. He managed to leave out one important point as he always does when discussing education and that is countries that have a tendency to excel have strong family based systems, like South Korea. Also, countries that have superior educational systems also are countries that are not entitlement based societies in that the populations of those countries all understand the precept that success is achieved through hard work.

We are in the process of creating an entire class of unemployed in this country and all this President can do is stand in front of a group of governors and pontificate about the new industries we are going to create in the future which when closely observed are essentially service related jobs which in real world terms are the least stable. We need to make things in this country in order to have a strong middle class, and by that I mean we need to manufacture high quality goods that can be exported around the world. The United States was an industrial giant that was allowed to become obsolete through corporate and political greed. The greatest thing this President could do for this country would be to spearhead the retooling of our failing manufacturing base which in the long run would produce jobs and a strong economy.

Thanks for reading,

"Great ambition is the passion of great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles that direct them".
Napoleon Bonaparte
1769 - 1821
Emperor of France, Despot

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