PRESIDENT OBAMA

Reader decries economic recovery plan

Obama's plan has U.S. economy in a "death spiral." Simple math confirms unemployment won't be solved by more government hiring. The U.S. private sector has lost 10.5 million jobs since 2007, while the public sector has added 720,000 jobs, creating a "death spiral" for the nation's economy. The analysis was done by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

"Over the 10-year period between March 2000 and March 2010, the private sector lost over three million jobs, while the public sector gained nearly two million jobs," the analysis concludes.

Among the changes was California's loss of 665,800 jobs in the private sector. But government in the Golden State added 163,800 jobs.

Michigan lost 791,700 private-sector jobs, Government bureaucracies, however, kept all but 7 percent of their positions.

The solution would be to start reducing government jobs. We must start adding private sector jobs because only private sector jobs "creates" the growth in our economy.

Then there would be need for a hard look at what government actually does.

"Do we need government to do that for us? If not, stop doing it."

Next would be to ignore - or better yet banish - public-sector unions.

A "zero-based" staffing and budget plan would require officials to review what work is required and how many workers are needed.

Public policy-makers must ask: How many people do we need? Do we really need one administrative/management employee for every teacher?

Once those questions have been asked and answered, we must rebuild each public-sector entity from scratch.

Obama's economic plan is destroying America. He can see the results but he continues to add government jobs.

I for one believe Obama is the "Trojan horse" we have pulled into our government, the "Manchurian President" who is bent on the down fall of America.

Doug Brown

Moses Lake