Krauthammer's Take [NRO Staff]
From last night's Fox News All-Stars.
On the White House jobs summit:
Well, it is obviously a PR maneuver. Unemployment is high. People showed [concern] on Election Day in November that the administration and Congress are spending all their time on health care, which is not a high priority. High priority is the economy.
It is the conceit of liberals in power to imagine that the government not only should but can create jobs. Outside of world wars, it doesn't. Generally it gets in the way.
I mean, there are things that you can do by clearing the brush:
Number one, kill health care with all of the job-killing mandates and penalties which are holding up employment.
Secondly, kill cap and trade, which will destroy what's left of the industrial Midwest.
Kill the stimulus package, and distribute the remaining billions either to individuals or to the Treasury.
The other thing they can do is to approve the free trade agreements with Columbia and South Korea, which will create American jobs …
And lastly, and the most important here, is sort of a reprise of 2008 — lift the unbelievably absurd restrictions on drilling for gas and oil, which would create a gold rush of jobs in the country and help us in terms of national security and the economy.
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