Economy Losing Its Cushion - WSJ.com

ON OBESE KIDS WITH EARLY DIABETES AND PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES: Economy Losing Its Cushion - WSJ.com

You are right that people get in bed with the devil. It's Chicago politics - the Chicago way.

Sadly, the hole his policies and those of Pelosi / Reid are digging is growing particularly deep.

He tells the American people more of the same will cure things if we only tax the rich more (the so-called rich of course).

People desperately want to believe.

Obama wants to convince enough Americans that more of his same-ol, same-ol will eventually turn things around and he can get re-elected.

He's telling people what they want to hear. It's just that the broader economy is hammering them with other information (such as the latest GDP statistics).

The GDP is doing a very poor job of putting the reins on the low hanging fruit of ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank and the corporate tax code.

We have yet to see what the budget for the fiscal year starting in October will look like.

Obama is a canny politician and he is telling people what they want to hear. I think of it as the parent telling the kid not to worry about all the talk about sugar, soda and snack foods being a problem. Thus the kid (read here the economy) may get fat and obese (read: too much government and social programs) and become a childhood diabetic (again, our sick economy) - but, like the parents with little education, the current administration really doesn't think it is doing anything wrong.

And, like the kid who gets fat and becomes an early diabetic, the correlation with diet and health isn't made because the kid doesn't know enough. The parent (read: government and maybe the media to some extent) failed in its parental (read fiscal and tax policies) responsibilities.