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Sure .. I've seen the numbers on the "Cash For Clunkers" program, and it took roughly 27k just to sell one new car .. No Thanks.
Pie in the sky health care reform and Cap and Trade needs to be tabled in favor of concentrating congressional resources and effort toward the sectors that create jobs.
I'll be closing my small business down Jan 1, after 31 years, in light of all of the new proposals for Cap and Trade and Healthcare Reform anyhow. Those two things alone will do more to damage economic performance with regard to jobs and production that I can see ..
We close a small business in June, '09 and probably will close another sister business in Jan, '10. In essence I'll be unemployed, but since I am one of the owners, there will be no unemployment statistics to cover me. Makes one wonder how many more thousands of small businesses are closing because of the credit crunch, bad economy, unemployment,....?
Are citizens getting a true picture of the economy,...or are the figures being "cooked"?
I agree, but we may have put ourselves in a position where it's no longer practical to do so....
We go more protectionist and China turns off the spigot of buying U.S. debt... As a nation, we sadly aren't prepared for that.
Well, the US is going to have to be prepared for that. At some point in time, we are going to have to bite the bullet, and hunker down for a rough go while the budget gets balanced, and we put ourselves in a position to enact tariffs, and get the economy turned back around.
I think if we had the manufacturing capibility and the people accepted a tax hike on the rich, we could see ourselves in the black in no time.
Too bad we are still importing too many of our goods that could be made here.
One the greedy execs saw they could get cheaper labor overseas...it was over.
And yet these people come off the hillsides and out from their farmhouses that are barely hanging on to defend against raising taxes on the wealthy.
It really is the greatest bamboozle in the history of the world... Just scream "FREEDOM!!", and "ABORTION!!" and "GAY!!" loud enough and you can get them to vote against anything that might actually level the playing field of economic opportunity in this country... It's quite amazing.
We close a small business in June, '09 and probably will close another sister business in Jan, '10. In essence I'll be unemployed, but since I am one of the owners, there will be no unemployment statistics to cover me. Makes one wonder how many more thousands of small businesses are closing because of the credit crunch, bad economy, unemployment,....?
Are citizens getting a true picture of the economy,...or are the figures being "cooked"?
There are many, many, unemployed people who are not counted. If you simply interviewed every person in the country over 18, and asked them, "Are you unemployed, or would you be working if you thought it made sense, or was possible", you would find the figures are much higher then anything the government offers.
And yet these people come off the hillsides and out from their farmhouses that are barely hanging on to defend against raising taxes on the wealthy.
It really is the greatest bamboozle in the history of the world... Just scream "FREEDOM!!", and "ABORTION!!" and "GAY!!" loud enough and you can get them to vote against anything that might actually level the playing field of economic opportunity in this country... It's quite amazing.
Isn't that the truth?
Especially that "FREEDOM" bit. "BIG GOVERNMENT" is also very effective too.
The problem with "giving" the people a check is that it probably would have done nothing to help the economy. Those checks would have likely simply have met the same fate Bush's rebate check stimulus did - they would have been used to pay down bills or simply stuffed in the bank and saved - neither of which would have done ANYTHING to stimulate the economy.
Ken
Paying down bills helps the economy, someone is getting the money.
Bush did well to prove that tax cuts don't create jobs.
Actually they did and we had some awesome gains afterwards. He did manage to pull out of the 9/11 slump which was incredible as the markets crashed pretty hard then. I can honestly tell you that we were better off under Bush than we are under Obama.
Wait until Obama tells us how many jobs will be "created" with the passage of Obamacare and the Cap and Trade bills. More Hopeychange!!
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