Whitehouse Twitter Town Hall, Obama is Too Long-Winded

Obama's Twitter town hall turned out to be a little awkward. As it turns out Obama didn't do the typing. The man who was typing quickly became fatigued because there was no "Uhh" key on the keyboard. Also many of the answers were too long to squeeze into 140 characters. Obama's "Yes or No" answers won't fit within 140 characters.

"He's just answering the questions. He's not typing and tweeting," White House press secretary Jay Carney said of the event announced Thursday. It will be webcast, and focus on jobs and the economy.

By now it should be clear that Obama has no plan which will lead to a growth in hiring; at least for the private sector. Why would he hold a town hall to ask "average Americans" about the economy? Shouldn't the president be leading on this? Shouldn't the administration have a plan already? What happened to Obama's "laser like" focus on jobs back in Dec. of 2009?

"Though the job losses we were experiencing earlier this year have slowed dramatically, we're still not creating enough new jobs each month to make up for the ones we're losing," Obama said last week. "For families and communities across the country, this recession will not end until we completely turn that tide."

The new focus on jobs comes as the first stimulus plan's impact remains unclear. The Obama administration says more than 640,000 jobs have been saved or created by employers who received funds. The Congressional Budget Office this week put the figure at 600,000 to 1.6 million after considering other factors, such as the impact on consumer demand from tax cuts, unemployment insurance extensions and spending by the newly employed. It said unemployment would have been up to 0.9 percentage points higher without the stimulus.

I almost forgot about the jobs that were saved or created. It's quite plausible really, it's no different than calculating how much rain didn't fall in any given area. Is this really supposed to be taken seriously by anyone?

How did the focus shift from "creating jobs" in 2009 to "we need more revenue" in 2011? It would seem to me that those two things go hand in hand.

I will get into a more in-depth compare and contrast about the economy in the near future.

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