Today, President Obama sent his draft budget for Fiscal Year 2011 to Capitol Hill. Like his State of the Union Address, it is filled with inconsistencies. He says jobs are the top priority, while calling for cap and trade legislation that will have a negative impact on job creation. He proposes a 3-year freeze on domestic spending programs, but at the same time wants to borrow $100 billion for a new stimulus bill. That bill will cost more in one year than the savings he proposes over three years. He condemned Washington over and over, yet now calls for more and more federal action as the solution to our problems.

Here is a suggestion for the President. Stop giving speeches and truly listen. Assemble a group of successful Democratic entrepreneurs — people he trusts. Ask them what will get the economy moving. They will tell him to freeze government for a while. Don’t raise taxes. Don’t add new regulations that aren’t strictly necessary. Just let the business sector adjust.

I proposed that months ago. Mark Steyn said the same thing on NRO recently. It will work.