The administration’s mixed message on the recession

  Barack Obama’s top economic adviser, Larry Summers, has given us some good news on the economy. He stated that “everybody agrees that the recession is over” and we would see job growth beginning sometime in the Summer. This is certainly would be good news if it were true. However, contrary to Summers’s claim that everybody agrees the recession is over, not all of the administration’s economic advisers see it quite the same way.

  When asked about the economy and whether or not the recession is over, another of Obama’s top economic advisers, Christina Romer, said “Of course not. For the people on Main Street and throughout this country, they are still suffering, the unemployment rate is still 10 percent.”

  The similarities to the global warming alarmists’ argument are striking, for years we have been told that everybody agrees that global warming is real. According to the alarmists, the debate is over and it is man’s fault the earth is heating even though there are many people who are much more realistic about man’s role in warming the planet, which records show is not warming at all, and has actually been cooling for the last decade. Climategate has shown us that the books have been cooked, the CRU and the IPCC coined the phrase “hide the decline” in order to keep the truth about global warming from the people.

  As in the global warming argument, the message coming out of Washington is mixed and confusing. Is it any wonder why people are still nervous about the economy? When there are such contrasting opinions coming from the administration it leaves Americans wondering if anybody in this administration has any idea what the hell they are talking about.

  On one hand we have Larry Summers– the same man who tried to claim the recession was ending because less people are googling the term “economic depression” than before–  trying to carry the president’s water and push an opinion that the administration wants the people to believe about the economy, while on the other hand we have  Christina Romer confirming what most Americans believe is the truth– that there has been no change in the economy despite the president’s feeble attempt to stimulate the economy.

  It cannot instill confidence with the American people in this administration when they hear two vastly differing opinions coming from the same administration.

  You would think that if this administration was competent in the least, they would at least get on the same page with their message on the economy, but they can’t even do that.

  If this mixed message is any indication of how this administration operates, how can the American people be expected to believe anything that this administration says going forward? They are caught between telling the American people the truth about the economy and trying to make the president’s policies look good.

 In the end the American people will judge the economy on how they are doing, not on how the administration claims they are doing. The American people will be the judge on the recession and so far  Christina Romer has a more realistic analysis than does Larry Summers, the man whose job it appears to be is trying to make the president look good.

 Larry Summers is trying to “hide the decline.”