Bad News for Republicans

Dec. 6 is a black day for conservatives who are still hoping for bad news for the country just to undermine Barack Obama’s presidency. According to economists, unemployment is at its lowest in five years, and the economy seems to be generating new jobs at a sustained rate with more than 200,000 jobs each month, including 203,000 in November, which could continue in 2014. And those numbers come at the same time as the announcement of the resumption of economic growth. So far, the unemployment rate is 7 percent. It was 10 percent in the same period in 2009.

It is now, when the economy is regaining strength, that the president of the United States chose on Dec. 4 to make his most populist speech since his election in 2008. Obama said the United States had lost sight of the principle upon which American history is founded: Human beings are born equal. This is no longer true. And the 44th noted a second fact: Not only is the gap becoming wider between rich and poor, but it becomes increasingly difficult to progress socially, which has never happened before. America has always allowed a person born in a poor environment to quickly reach the top. History is full of them. “The guy on the factory floor could picture his kid running the company someday,” Obama recalled.

For conservatives, growing inequalities stem from the disparity between jobs offered by the new economy and education. For Obama, this inequality is primarily a matter of political choice. Since 1979, when he left school, productivity increased by 90 percent, but the average family income grew on average by 8 percent. Since 1979, the economy has doubled in size, but this growth has benefited a happy few. “The top 10 percent no longer takes in one-third of our income — it now takes half,” said POTUS. “Whereas in the past, the average CEO made about 20 to 30 times the income of the average worker, today’s CEO now makes 273 times more.”

Obama is coming to a time in his presidency when he no longer needs to monitor the polls. His only concern now is his place in history. Freed from a campaign for re-election, Obama finally becomes himself. He can say out loud what everyone knows: America’s problem is not the budget deficit, but the bad policies inspired by conservatives, who have allowed the rich to get richer and others to become poor and to watch the social ladder be removed. The talk in Washington, and therefore politics, can finally change. This is a bad day for conservatives.