President Obama talks, talks, talks about jobs. The first 20 minutes of his State of the Union address in January was all about jobs. Immigration reform would “create jobs for everybody,” he said. His energy policy “is creating jobs.” Obama said he’s assigned Vice President Biden to make sure training programs match workers with “good jobs that need to be filled right now.” Last week he described his new budget as “a road map for creating jobs.”

Yet for all the talk, his record on jobs is pathetic. It raises this question: Does the president have a clue about what creates jobs and what kills jobs? Based on the evidence from his five years as president, the answer is no, he doesn’t.