Fisher and Brunner absolutely clueless on job creation

Read this article and weep at the Democrats conception of economic development:

Fisher said he is the only candidate who has been on the ground creating and saving jobs under the leadership of Gov. Ted Strickland. He said he is part of the team that helped convince V&M Star Steel to build an expansion on the border of Girard and Youngstown and helped secure the Chevrolet Cruze for the General Motors plant in Lordstown.

Fisher said he has championed for health care reform and a patient bill of rights.

“I believe I can take my experience with job creation and retention in Ohio to Washington, D.C., where I can help move Ohio into the field of green technology and help take advantage of the state’s strong manufacturing base,” Fisher said.

Seriously? Did “Job Czar” Lee Fisher actually say that outloud?  And people didn’t laugh him off the stage?

Just a reminder, folks. Ohio unemployment stands at 10.8% worse than the national average. How many jobs do you think V&M Star and Lordstown plants involved. Well, Ohio has lost something on the order of half a million jobs since Fisher was elected. Created or saved indeed.

But wait, Jennifer Brunner might be worse:

Brunner said Ohio needs to move away from manufacturing and into the fields of clean energy and biomedical technology. She also said the nation needs to solve its health care “crisis” to ease the strain on small businesses.

“There is no silver bullet to create jobs. It will take cooperation among many levels of business, government and advocacy groups to grow Ohio’s economy again,” Brunner said.

Ah, the brilliant insight! Move away from a manufacturing into clean energy. Sure, that will fix the economy. Oh, by the way, the manufacturing of medical devices is a potentially strong field for Ohio so moving away from manufacturing isn’t so simple. High technology manufacturing is different than traditional manufacturing.

Second, notice how create jobs requires cooperation from government and advocacy groups! That’s right. Advocacy groups create jobs. Only a leftist could say that kind of crap with a straight face. No, businesses create jobs. Proftis create jobs. I know that is a dirty words these days but it is true.

Government can get out of the way and help create the climate that is attractive to innovators and entreprenuers but it doesn’t cooperate with advocacy groups to “create jobs.” Government is a drag on growth. Sometimes a necessary one but a drag all the same.

Also this push for government created/mandated green jobs ignores the fact that these programs will kill more actual jobs than are created with taxpayer funded boondoggles. But the left continues to spout this mantra as if its magic will work if they just say it enough or in the right way. Thousands of jobs in energy not to mention manufacturing, service and other fields are destroyed so we can create these new “green” jobs. Basic math fail is involved.

Lastly, she insists on spouting this nonsense that the Democrats health care “reform” is about helping business. The problem with health care on the business side is cost. The current health care proposals will not lower costs for businesses. In fact, it increases mandates and punishes businesses that don’t comply with heavy handed government regulations. Can someone please offer an example of government lowering costs for anything? Why do we keep pretending this will happen?

Brunner and Fisher are so seeped in their statist mindset that they can’t even recognize that this model has failed.  Billions of stimulus dollars for what? Another $15 billion “jobs bill” that will do nothing (this is to say nothing of the never ending stream of corporate welfare that comes from the Department of Development and US Department of Commerce, etc.). The answer is always more hair of the dog that bit you. If government programs fail we haven’t spent enough!

And of course a Democratic gathering isn’t complete without a blame Bush comment:

“Despite the hard work we have done the past three years in Ohio, much of it has been undermined by federal policies created by the Bush administration that helped create the current recession,” Fisher said.

Part of me laughs at this mindset because I think Dems are going to wake up on election day and find that there precious anti-Bush strategy has failed.

But another part of me wants to cry because this mindset is still far too prevalent in the population at large (even amongst Republican office holders).

We are not going to spend our way out of this problem. We have to elect some candidates who will swear off on the first rule of holes:

STOP DIGGING!

I am realistic enough to realize we are not suddenly going to elect a landslide of libertarian public officials who will roll back government and allow the private sector to grow and flourish.

But we can start by soundly defeating the leftist hacks like Brunner and Fisher who spout this nonsense in the face of government failure after government failure.