Every six months or so we start hearing the same droning message from Obama and his minions on the left “Obama is focused on jobs” or some close variation on that theme.

For example, from today’s WaPo:

It was a message that returned a degree of lift and optimism — and the notion of American exceptionalism — to the president’s political oratory, elements that have been largely absent in recent months as he has focused on the grinding task of creating jobs and curbing unemployment at home.

Except, Obama’s actions don’t match his banal “oratory” one bit. Obama’s actions have blocked hundreds of thousands jobs in that past few weeks alone. So, he should focus on real jobs here and now rather than promising some nebulous jobs that somehow can be created through his a tax payer funded trade vacation… I mean mission.

Obama’s environmental policies alone have hundreds of thousands of jobs in the last few weeks alone.

For example, in Ohio:

Speaking of the WNF gas drilling, one environmentalist group spokesman suggested that moving forward with drilling “could turn the Ohio Valley into Ozone Alley,” even though Wayne National Forest already has nearly 1300 oil and gas wells in operation which this study does not affect.

 

The Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Program (OOGEEP) recently estimated that drilling in the Utica shale, which is affected by the suspension of the mineral lease auctions, would produce up 204,500 jobs by 2015.

And the Keystone Pipeline:

“President Obama’s United States Department of Agriculture has delayed shale gas drilling in Ohio for up to six months by cancelling a mineral lease auction for Wayne National Forest (WNF). The move was taken in deference to environmentalists, on the pretext of studying the effects of hydraulic fracturing.” Two hundred thousand jobs on the line here.  This is a grand total of up to a maximum of 600,000 jobs that Obama has written off in the last two weeks by putting off the construction of the Keystone pipeline from Canada to ship oil from Canada to the United States.  That would have been an initial 20,000 jobs that could have expanded up to as many as 400,000 to build and maintenance, service the pipeline, operate it, not to mention the humongous supply of oil that it would have brought the United States.

And closer to home, the effects from ObamaCare is all ready killing jobs here in Michigan (on top of our current 11% unemployment rate):

While the White House continues its rhetoric on job creation, the job-killing effects of Obamacare are already taking effect. One provision of the law, its tax on medical device manufacturers, is already having a detrimental impact on a Michigan-based manufacturer.

Stryker Corporation has announced that it will cut approximately 5 percent of its workforce by 2013 due to the tax. As Heritage has shown, this isn’t the first device manufacturer to voice concerns about job loss in the U.S. resulting from the tax, and it is sure not to be the last.

Over 110 jobs will be cut in Kalamazoo alone, bad news for a state already facing over 11 percent unemployment. According to the firm:

The targeted reductions and other restructuring activities are being initiated to provide efficiencies and realign resources in advance of the new Medical Device Excise Tax scheduled to begin in 2013.

As Heritage policy analyst Kathryn Nix explains, the medical device industry “now faces major job losses due to the new Obamacare tax on medical devices. The tax is intended to raise $2.2 billion a year to help foot the bill for Obamacare.” But despite the fact that the raised revenue will be a pittance compared to the price tag of new Obamacare spending, its impact on jobs in the medical device industry, and the cost of their products, will be very real.

With all ill effects of Obama’s laser-like focus on jobs, maybe Obama should shift his focus to something else. Like golf.