Throughout his economically troubled presidency, Barack Obama has had
as a governing strategy political distraction: blaming his failures on
others in an attempt to convince enough Americans that he's not at all
responsible for an underperforming, jobless economy.
His latest,
duplicitous shell game is to raise the issue of income inequality, which
he blames on heartless business people and Republican lawmakers who
refuse to buy into his dubious, job-killing plan to raise the nation's
minimum wage and enact a bundle of new big-spending programs to help the
unemployed.
He's trying to shift our attention from the real
reasons behind the growing income gap: weak economic growth and the
nationwide dearth of full-time jobs. These are the issues he campaigned
on in 2008, but now he says it is long-term income inequality — not jobs
— that is "the defining challenge of our time."
The liberal news
media has bought into his sleight-of-hand sideshow, producing a rash of
stories about low-income Americans to prove that his new diagnosis is
the right one.
The Washington Post ran a front-page story on
Thursday with the ominous headline: "Climbing economic ladder as hard as
ever, study finds." It said a group of academics led by a Harvard
economist has discovered the real reasons behind "income inequality."
It
found that children growing up in the United States today were "just as
likely — no more, no less — to climb the economic ladder as children
born more than a half century ago."
In short, that study concluded
that if you are growing up poor today, "you appear to have the same
odds of staying poor in adulthood that your grandparents did."
It
was the sort of study that the White House must have been cheering,
because it fit right into Mr. Obama's blame-shifting strategy.
Wiser
economists who know better, though, say that poverty and lower incomes
are the symptoms of the disease that Mr. Obama and the Democrats never
talk about: a relentless, subpar, job-cutting, underinvested, overtaxed
economy.
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