President Obama will not let evidence dissuade him from his belief that government is the source of jobs:

A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans' hard economic times. [Read]

Instead of figuring how to move government out of the way and free up the ingenuity of the individual, the reigning president has decided to go with tried and true short-term bursts of spending that do not fuel real, systemic growth to economies.

You choose: He is demonstrating his complete lack of understanding of market based economies, or he is trying to run a centrally planned economy, which has proven itself a failure again and again.