At least, that’s what the new Obama campaign is going to peddle — along with the idea that the economy is finally starting to turn, thanks to Obamas’s policies, and that to switch course now and fail to re-elect Obama would lead to a reversion of the economic horrors of the Bush administration and its 4.7% unemployment.

But he’s here to help, if you’ll only let him:

Of course, Obama’s suggestion that government workers are singularly important and that they are being hardest hit by (a resurgent?) economy and the wild-eyed, reckless cutting of Republicans, is an out and out lie.

Or should I say, a finessed non-truth uttered by a Good Man who simply differs with us on ideas about how best to help American citizens maintain their liberties and autonomy. Jim Geraghty, Campaign Spot:

First, let’s look at the numbers for private sector employment. All figures come from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics:

Recent peak of private sector employment, June 2007: 116,603,000.

Total private sector employment in the month Obama became president, January 2009: 109,084,000.

Recent low of private sector employment, January 2010: 104,933,000.

Total private sector employment, April 2011: 108,862,000.

So note, we are about 8 million away from the most recent peak in private sector employment.

Now, let’s look at total government employment (at all levels) for those four months:

June 2007: 22,176,000.

January 2009: 22,471,000.

January 2010: 22,376,000.

April 2011: 22,594,000 (preliminary).

As you can see, in terms of total number of Americans employed in government, there has been no real discernible recession. In fact, the number has increased slightly.

Now let’s look at the number of people employed in state government during these months:

June 2007: 4,918,000

January 2009: 5,116,000

January 2010: 5,053,000

April 2011: 5,253,000 (preliminary).

Again, not only pretty stable, but slowly climbing.

Now let’s look at employment in local government:

June 2007: 14,514,000

January 2009: 14,583,000

January 2010: 14,478,000

April 2011: 14,492,000 (preliminary).

Again, the numbers are stable, and even indicate that local government employment is increasing, not decreasing.

Obama is not even a little bit right. Will anyone call him out on this?

In the mainstream press? Please. It is and remains an activist arm of the progressive’s attempt to take over the US; as such, it is at war with the US in a way that is particularly dangerous to a free society, a society that in theory relies on an informed citizenry to make decisions about the trajectory of their representative governance. Activism, therefore, requires a massaging of the facts citizens will use to make decisions, lest the poor dumb rubes decide wrongly.

The mainstream press, like many other supposedly “neutral” institutions (education, environmental protection, energy dept, etc), has been taken over by leftist activists who at their very core believe that the ends justify the means, and that whatever falsehoods or manipulations of fact they engage are morally justifiable — that is, that every lie they peddle to the proles has as its intent the bringing to fruition of a greater good that only they can see — and so is a necessary component of governing under the guise of social justice.

We are witnessing the apotheosis of leftist governance: power sought and reinforced through narrative manipulation; lies repeated, even after they’ve been corrected or debunked, as a function of turning them into received / perceived truths; demonization of the “enemy” (be he the farmer, the oil rig worker, the coal miner, the middle class tax payer, the small business owner, or the corporate exec working for a company not favored by the administration) who is then labeled generically as being on the other side, or an extremist, or a racist, or a xenophobe, etc.; class warfare resulting from demonization; and an ever-growing, ever-expanding redistributive welfare state model wherein the federal Leviathan solves every crisis and corrects every instance of “unfairness”.

To borrow from Barry, this is not the US I knew. The question is, will the GOP nominate a candidate who is willing to say all this?

If history is any guide, the answer is no. Which is why we need to circumvent the ruling class network and insist that a candidate who will draw clear distinctions between the American dream of the founders and the American “dream” as Obama imagines it — a dream wherein equality of misery is the price one must pay for the kinds of permanent securities the government will grant its cradle-to-grave-controlled subjects.

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update: That poor government worker about to be laid off by the National Zoo? Seems to me that, in a vibrant economy, she’d have little problem getting a job in the private sector. At least, if you can believe her resume.

My suggestion? Change the leadership. That way, you may one day find yourself in a position where you aren’t begging the President to help you with your job situation.