By John Lillpop ——Bio and Archives--November 23, 2009
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“President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers has prepared an economic analysis of job creation if the federal government takes over the underutilized Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois for the purposes of housing detainees currently at Guantanamo Bay as the Obama administration is strongly considering doing. “Over the first four years, the CEA assessment states, the facility would create 840 - 910 temporary jobs and 3,180 - 3,880 ongoing jobs, increasing local earnings by a cumulative $793 to $1,015 million. "Approximately 80% of all of the jobs created by the facility will be held by people residing in Illinois, while people in Iowa will fill the remaining jobs," the study states. "These jobs could reduce the unemployment rate in Carroll County, Illinois, where Thomson is located, by 2 to 4 percentage points."As a spokesperson for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky correctly pointed out, this is the same CEA that promised that the stimulus would keep unemployment from exceeding 8 percent! What will it take to arouse President Obama and his Marxist pals from their desperate and dangerous fantasy thinking? Rather than importing terrorists or implementing foolish stimulus spending sprees, Obama and pals should immediately cut taxes for both private individuals and business interests. Obama and the nutty left need to be reminded of a vital truth about America: The economy can and will recover when the government gets the hell out of the way, thereby allowing American ingenuity and grit to take over. In other words, Mr. President, given your ideological bent, doing precisely nothing would be the very best thing that you could do for America! By the way, that admonition also applies to the issue of health care!
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John W. Lillpop is a recovering liberal. “Clean and sober” since 1992 when last he voted for a Democrat. For years, John lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, the very liberal sanctuary city which protects, rather than prosecutes, certain favored criminals. John escaped the Bay Area in May and now lives in Pine Grove California where conservative values are still in vogue.