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President Barack Obama, his esteemed administration and the Democrat controlled Congress have been discussing job creation in ways only a Washington bureaucrat could understand.

The latest measurement of success for job creation is the notion of “jobs saved” versus “jobs created” another insult to the common sense intelligence of Americans.

First of all, government cannot create jobs, except those brought about by massive spending on the expansion of the bureaucracy. In fact, the number one job creating entity in America today is the Federal Governement.

Although government cannot and should not create jobs, it has the power to kill jobs by over taxing citizens, stiffling lending to small business by creating confusion and reluctance and by taking more and more decision-making away from people.

A second problem with job creation being placed in the hands of career politicians and bureaucrats is that they simply, in most cases, don’t have a clue about what makes small buisnesses work. Most of the intelligencia in D.C. has never built a business or taken an idea to market. They have never pondered over leases, hiring, training, equipment, payroll, health insurance, employee reviews, etc. It’s all foreign to them.

Washington’s idea of job creation is akin to tapping into the moon for additional water. Or, studying why pigs like mud and how lady bugs breed.

Finally, and perhaps the worst aspect of D.C. centered job creation is that politicians almost NEVER consider anything without FIRST considering the impact it has on their re-election opportunities and their positions within the Capitol pecking order.

Behind job creation as a “theory” is the over-riding temptation on the part of politicians to create self-serving projects, positions and economic solutions that are about THEM, not US, about POWER and not PEOPLE.

Left alone, the D.C. machine is wholly counter productive to what we, the people (remember us?) understand as a real “JOB” or a real business that must be self-motivated, creative, sensible, conservative and forward-thinking in order to sell products and survices and survive the battles they face which are mostly created by D.C. Those of us who don’t live in Oz know that jobs and business creation in America has always been very, very sensible and not at all complicated, unless of course D.C. muddies the waters with thier filthy self-serving hands.

When the D.C. machine empowers itself as the employment Oz pulling the levers and ropes behind a curtain we can expect to wake up and find ourselves involved in the land of Oz and not the real world of Kansas.

Do not be surprised if NASA’s recent discover of H2O on the moon turns in to a massive works project, funded with your tax dollars and manned with members of the D.C. SEIU.

As we enter the holiday season we can give thanks that the D.C. politicians and bureaucrats have not been able to get to Santa and his hard working, non-union elfs. It should come as no surprise that government can only disrupt reality…yours and mine.

According to the web site USDebtClock.org, the national debt as of 7:18 a.m. Pacific time on this, the first day of September, 2009, was $11,740,092,343,061…and counting.

The per person debt is at $38,199 and climbing with each day. Is it any wonder that the people of America are enraged over the disregard, and in some cases, contempt, that our elected officials have toward average citizens who see the national debt being used as a tool to control vitually every aspect of the economy.

Below is the screen shot of USDebtClock.org on September 1, 2009 at 7:18 a.m. Pacific time. Check out the clock and look at all of the RED.

This video contains Ron Paul’s legislation (HR 1207; the Federal Reserve Transparency Act) calling for disclosure of the acts of the Federal Reserve to the American people.

Being a student of history is mostly an enjoyable discipline.

However, as any student knows, one’s love for history can lead to confrontations with figures whose stature and words haunt the violators of the simple precepts that created America.

For some time I have wondered what Benjamin Franklin’s advice would be if he could appear before Congress today? Or, for that matter, the advice of Jefferson or any of the founding fathers.

Franklin’s book, The Way to Wealth, might serve as a blueprint for all Americans, but especially our esteemed but misguided leaders in Washington. I have secretly wished the book to be required monthly reading for all politicians.

Ben’s book is filled with a litany of anecdotal principles for the creation and maintenance of wealth. The precepts read like wise proverbs and sound akin to the advice given us by our fathers. When Benjamin’s words are read or recited they ring with tempered, penetrating and undeniable truth.

I’m saddened, however, that Washington is filled with ears that cannot hear and minds that cannot grasp the magnitude of our departure from the most basic principles of economics such as these set forth by Benjamin Franklin:

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship…Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it…Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt…Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt…Keep the shop, and thy shop will keep thee…Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.

There is much more within Franklin’s lines of wisdom such as “A penny saved is a penny earned” and one of my favorites is,

Prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; — opposed to extravagance.

History is an excellent tutor and its message can be the chastisement a nation like ours needs to return it to its former state of discipline.

iVoteAmerica encourages you to secure this old book for yourself with additional copies for your representatives.