Imagine that you are the owner of a popular restaurant. Things are going well for you, until a new restaurant opens up across the street.

This new competitor starts luring your regular customers away from you by offering cheaper meals, better service, and even an separate indoor playground for children to entertain themselves in.

These folks are driving you out of business. Do you:

a) Put out a NO CHILDREN ALLOWED sign?

b) Hire a bunch of know-nothing smart-aleck teenagers with no customer service skills?

c) Raise all the prices on your menu?

d) All of the above?

Back to this scenario in just a moment…

President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmm) is going to speak to his customers, the American Public, today at 12:30 p.m., in an effort to get us to buy what he is selling.

Our man Scooter wants to bring back the meatloaf entree of Democratic policy back:

Hey, let’s increase taxes on the wealthy!

It was only last December that Americans had to suffer an exhibition of horrible customer service as Obama and Congress went back and forth concerning extending the George W. Bush Tax Rates.

Scooter wanted to go ahead and keep those tax rate for the middle class, but not for those that he considered wealthy, those individuals who make more than $200,000 a year and couples who make more than $250,000.

Folks who are only considered wealthy in a Third-World Country.

Republicans objected, along with the rest of Americans.

Running out of time, due to the end of the year, the politicians decided on a temporary, two-year extension of those tax rates.

Scooter warned that he would raise the issue again the next time the Bush tax cuts expire: in 2012, a re-election year.

Today’s appearance is, in all reality, the first speech of President Barack Hussein Obama’s Re-election Campaign.

As I reported earlier this week, senior White House adviser David Plouffe, making the rounds of all the Sunday morning talk shows, claimed that Americans won’t go for budget plans that place burdens on the middle class while asking nothing of people who make more than $200,000 a year.

Plouffe said on Fox News Sunday:

The president’s belief is this has to be a balanced approach. And if we do that, we can get deficit reduction in the country.

Just an aside here:  What in the name of Dow Jones and all her little averages does Obama know about how Americans think?

But, I digress…

While Pfouffe was playing his role as herald for the Leader of the Regime, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., also on Fox News, said:

They’re insisting that we have to (look) at raising taxes again, all while holding up the tax agreement that was signed in December. So, on one hand, we’re going to defend that tax agreement but then go ahead and violate it.

Per rasmussenreports.com:

Roughly two-out-of-three voters think Americans are overtaxed, and nearly as many say any federal tax increase should be subject to a vote by the American people. Complicating things for would-be budget cutters, however, is the belief by even more that any changes in Social Security and Medicare also should be voted on by the public.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 64% of Likely U.S. Voters believe America is overtaxed. Twenty-four percent (24%) disagree, and 11% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

This is virtually unchanged from this time last year.

But the Political Class strongly disagrees. While 79% of Mainstream voters think Americans are overtaxed, 87% of those in the Political Class don’t share that assessment.

And, in a related survey:

Twenty-four percent (24%) of Likely U.S. Voters say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, April 3.

Since Obama assumed office in January 2009, confidence in the nation’s current course has ranged from a low of 22%, reached three weeks ago, to a high of 35% measured in early April 2009.

Remember my question about the Restaurant owner earlier?  Think about President Barack Hussein Obama as the owner of that Restaurant, and us, average working Americans, employers and employees, as his customers.

Remember the choices I gave you?

a) Put out a NO CHILDREN ALLOWED sign?

b) Hire a bunch of know-nothing smart-aleck teenagers with no customer service skills?

c) Raise all the prices on your menu?

d) All of the above?

All of these choices would drive your customers away, right?  And without customers, you would eventually have to close down your restaurant.

As customers of Obama’s restaurant, he seems determined to feed us a menu consisting of higher prices and poor customer service, while punitively punishing the investors in his restaurant by charging them more to invest.

After  President Obama’s speech to the nation this afternoon, if you still believe that his plan makes any sort of Economic sense whatsoever, then, I would advise you to never try to go into business for yourself.

KJ UPDATE 1:45 PM: I hate it when I’m right.