So today, Obama is kicking off another beer summit, er, jobs summit at the White House. Seems that despite claims that “we’ve turned the corner” and all that, that unemployment figure (10.2% and rising) is a little worrisome.

So why does the president need to have a summit? Why can’t he just make a decision? There’s two possible explanations for this.

First let’s look at this summit. A bunch of high profile people attended like Anna Burger (secretary treasurer of mega-union SEIU) and Randi Weingarten (president of the American Federation of Teachers, another union.) Of interest, SEIU’s political action committee bundled up $29,442,016 in contributions for the president’s campaign, and the AFT — along with other mega-union the AFL-CIO — donated $1,997,375 in October of last year alone.

Of interest is who’s missing from this summit on creating jobs: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business). Why are they missing? They had the audacity to criticize the nationalized healthcare plan supported by Mr. Obama. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Back to answering the “why” question.

Some will say that nowhere in Obama’s resume will you find any private sector experience. The closest is “community organizer.” Further, as The American reports, Obama’s cabinet appointments have the lowest percentage of private industry experience of any president’s cabinet in the last century; less than 10% of Obama’s cabinet has any private sector experience.

So that’s the most obvious answer to the question of why Obama needs this summit: no one in his current cabinet knows anything about how business works.

While the most obvious answer, people who latch onto this answer are overlooking something.

In Obama’s speech opening the summit, the president said: “But despite the progress we’ve made, many businesses are still skittish about hiring. Some are still digging themselves out of the losses they incurred over the past year. Many have figured out how to squeeze more productivity out of fewer workers, and that cost-cutting has become embedded in their operations and in their culture. That may result in good profits, but it’s not translating into hiring.”

Ah-ha, there is the crux of it: company owners of all sizes are greedy slave masters, looking to “squeeze more productivity out of fewer workers.” This “summit” is political cover. It’s another case of Obama voting “present”. By getting together people of like minds, people who won’t criticize him, and people who have the same agenda, when policies are enacted and unemployment continues to go up, he can easily claim “not my fault!” In the meantime, he gets through legislation and policies that demonize America’s economic engine — the business owner — and promote his political allies… the strategists in the unions.

Mr. Obama, the purpose of businesses is to stay in business, not to cater to the whim of lazy workers. Companies will pay their employees the least amount of money they can and still get acceptable performance from them. If employees want more money, they can find a competing company which will pay them more money for doing the same job, or else start their own business. The end result is that through unbridled capitalism, the stereotypical greedy whip-cracking companies that Obama and the liberals like to demonize go out of business because all the good employees leave for jobs making more money. That is the way business works. That is what made America successful.

If the president truly wanted to create more and better jobs, he would remove the barriers from businesses. Barriers like higher taxes and threats of forcing employers to provide healthcare. The end result would be lower unemployment and better benefits as companies fight to survive by offering better pay and benefits in an effort to lure better employees. But then that would mean less dependency upon the government for these things, and that is exactly what Obama doesn’t want.

Laziness and dependency upon the government did not make the United States the economic and industrial giant of the 20th century, but this success is exactly what Obama despises, and exactly what he wants to dismantle.