It takes a special skill to pull that off.
Where are the jobs? Thats the first question we should be asking in whats now become the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression — or, more precisely, the longest non-recovery since the 1930s.
“More than 23 million Americans are either unemployed, underemployed, or have given up looking for work,” reported the Bureau of Labor Statistics in July, the federal governments principal fact-finding agency regarding unemployment, economics and statistics.
Here’s the second question: Why hasnt President Obama met with his Jobs Council for seven months?
A similar question was asked by a reporter at the White House press briefing on July 18.
Reporter: “On the Jobs Council, obviously theyve reported to havent met formally or publicly for six months. Why exactly is that?”
After White House Press Secretary Jay Carney answered with a non-answer, the reporter tried again.
Reporter: “So theres no reason they havent met publicly?”
Press Secretary Carney: “No, theres no specific reason except that the presidents obviously got a lot on his plate.”
And thats no lie. Therell be broiled chicken and green beans on Mr. Obamas plate at a fundraiser in Florida, followed by a plate of chicken and broccoli in Iowa, and then a plate of chicken and mashed potatoes in Ohio, etc., etc., etc.
In all, Obamas stacked up a record of 120 fundraisers in seven months.
And not all of it was the same old banquet chicken. The price of admission earlier this month to the lavish fundraiser at the ocean front compound in Connecticut of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was $35,800 per person, $71,600 a couple.
Getting a lot on his plate that day, Mr. Obama attended a $500 per person Connecticut fundraiser at the Marriot in Stamford just two hours before his motorcade pulled up at his second fundraiser of the evening at the Weinstein mansion.
Weinsteins “Presidential menu,” created and cooked by two-time James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Nischan and his team, opened with an heirloom tomato salad over pickled cucumbers “from the chefs garden,” followed by an entrée of locally engineered and locally raised heirloom chicken chicken again, but politically correct birds this time, served with potato tarts and shaved sweet carrots and local bok choy, with skillet seared with misco and agave. For dessert, local honey and local berries over pan-fried angel food cake.
With 120 fundraisers in seven months, not counting golf, who has time to meet with the Jobs Council? Why put unemployment on the front burner when there are heirloom chickens in the oven?
