(ThyBlackMan.com) The country is in the crapper and the economic outlook for America is bleak. Our debt topped $14 trillion and in two short years, because Obama spent $4 trillion. That’s the same amount president Bush spent during his eight years in office. Unemployment is at 9% and will probably remain high for years to come though Team Obama pledged in 2009 the $800 billion stimulus would stop unemployment from reaching 8%. Auto sales are down despite the $80 billion auto bailout for Chrysler and GM of which $14 billion in taxpayer money will never be repaid.
And the frosting on this horror cake is home prices have plunged to 2002 levels in every state except DC and Washington, wiping out 10 years of equity for Americans. Obama’s foreclosure prevention programs and the 
administration’s $8,000 homebuyer tax credit did nothing to fix the housing problem. This reality was the result of Obama’s lack of leadership. During remarks in Ohio to Chrysler workers, Obama said the economy had been “hit by a truck” and “it’s going to take a while to mend.” More like the economy was hit by a tsunami.
So, what is Obama doing to get us out of this ”vicious recession” ? Nothing except delegating the nation’s biggest problem, our debt to Vice-President Biden while he jet-sets around the country to raise $1billion for his 2012 re-election campaign. (Good luck with that, no president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has gotten re-elected with unemployment at or above 7 %.) Job creation should have been Obama’s number one priority in 2009 but instead he chose to ram a $1trillion healthcare plan down our throats even though the majority of us wanted jobs.
Things must be bad when liberals start wondering aloud about Obama’s capability to right side this ship called USA. A Facebook friend and die-hard Democrat wrote “If the unemployment rate doesn’t drop, this administration is going to be among the ranks.” Another liberal leaning blog http://www.crewof42.com,, which covers Congressional Black Caucus members, noted the unemployment rate among blacks has remained at 16%, almost twice the national average for the past three months. If George W. Bush were president, the media and the CBC would be outraged by the black unemployment rate and never let Bush hear the end of it but not so with Obama.
People want jobs and Obama’s policies are not creating them. However, a Black Republican member of Congress came up with a job creation solution, garnering bi-partisan support but his plan has received scant media attention. In May, Rep. Allen West (R-FL) introduced The Small Business Encouragement Act (HR1663) , which would amend the Internal Revenue Code to allow small businesses who hire an unemployed worker full-time for at least one year in 2012 and 2013 to receive a tax credit of up to $12,000 a year per hire.
To qualify for the tax break, a small business’ revenue in the preceding taxable year cannot exceed $20 million, or must employ less than 100 full time employees. The tax credit will double for employers hiring unemployed Americans in counties with an unemployment rate that is higher than the national average.
“In my Congressional District of Florida, unemployment is still hovering around 11%. This is unacceptable and the administration of President Barack Obama has offered very little solution for digging us out of this mess,” West said. ”The Small Business Encouragement Act is a simple, effective solution to putting people back to work by encouraging the very backbone of our economy, the small businesses.”
The bill has 10 co-sponsors including two of his fellow CBC members, Representatives Laura Richardson (D-CA) and William Lacy Clay (D-MO) and was embraced by the National Black Chamber of Commerce. As a reminder, West is the only Republican member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
If the Congressional Black Caucus is “conscience of the Congress,” as it professes to be, and its members are so outraged by the high 16% unemployment affecting black Americans, why didn’t the CBC it issue a press release praising West’s bill?
More importantly, why hasn’t any of the CBC’s 42 Democrat members introduced any job bills since the beginning of the 112th Congress in January or worked with president Obama to recommend job creation policy. (Oh yeah, I forgot Obama doesn’t care about blacks or their agenda, which explains why it took over a year for the CBC to get a second meeting with the president even though 95% of black voters supported Obama in 2008. Of course this was after his Special Assistant Valerie Jarrett canceled six other meetings.)
Instead CBC Chairman Emmanuel Cleaver II blamed high unemployment, particularly the “painful” 16% rate affecting blacks, on House Republicans. Cleaver said Republicans haven’t introduced a single jobs bill, which is false, and their “reckless spending cuts” threaten our recovery. How about you introduce a jobs bill Rep. Cleaver and start casting blame where it belongs on President Obama for his reckless spending and lack of leadership as commander in chief.
I am flummoxed by the fact the CBC remains silent in criticizing Obama on how his policies have failed black Americans. While we don’t need any more government programs to help Americans, we do need a president to lead with policies that better all our lives, including Blacks, not make them worse. Perhaps the special treatment of the country’s first Black president by black Democrats will end when it looks like the country really is falling off the cliff into oblivion and taking Blacks with it into the depths of disaster.
Written By Crystal Wright
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