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The same thing you do on any sinking ship, or on any aircraft that is running out of fuel: Start tossing the garbage overboard.
You can sell it as "Freedom Flights."
Give the "homeless" (snicker) and the welfare pukes $10, a brown bag lunch, a parachute and kick their goat-smelling asses out the back over Somalia or some over luxury State. You can throw all the illegal aliens in there as well.
Once you get rid of about 30 Million people worth of dead-weight, the ship will stop sinking (although it will continue to list for a very long, long time).
Saving Our Ship...
Mircea
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Originally Posted by Edmund_Burke
To elect actual conservatives to office, real ones not the the neocon crap that's been trotted out there the past 40 years.
With the possible exception of Joe Loserman (I) - CT, no neo-conservative has ever run for political office or been elected.
Why?
Because neo-cons are smart enough to know that real power is vested in the bureaucracy and a bureaucrat can work for 40 years guiding and formulating US policy, while a temporary employee, like the president is only 4-and-out or 8-an-out.
Besides, presidents do whatever bureaucrats tell them to do.
As prices increase that pushes people to look for deals so they buy cheaper or at least more efficiently.
The cheaper made stuff comes from cheap labor which is in a country other than your own.
The more money that is sent over to those countries and their people the faster their SOL increases and demand increase causing a higher rise in prices.
Rinse and repeat till your standard of living equates out to $11,800 per capita (PPP - 2011 dollars).
If the Federal Reserve STOPPED allowing the expansion of the money supply (secret and admitted bailouts and money printing for government programs), there would be no more new spending and inflation would STOP. That alone, knowing that prices of utilities food and gas would stop rising would be a HUGE RELIEF and step in the right direction. After all, you can't spend what you don't have.
The next step would be to CUT Back ON CURRENT SPENDING.
People need to understand that a nation CAN'T support a government paid for by the private sector that is two times it's own size. We need to deep six government programs LIKE CRAZY and pare back the government until it is 1/4 the size or even less...of the private sector. That would be 1/8 of its current size.
Just imagine being able to save 7/8 on all your taxes -- income and otherwise.
End the wars, dismantle the empire, reign in/eliminate the fed,start weaning people off the welfare tit.
You do understand it takes energy to keep the SOL that America currently has.
It's not like if you went all laissez-faire in the world economy you'd keep your SOL.
The very first thing that would happen is you would immediately lose market share and thus, your SOL.
The second thing that would happen is other countries would start trading in other currencies and you'd be SOL (look at that standard of living and sh*t out of luck has the same letters, go figure).
The third thing that would happen is that the U.S. economy would go into free fall until you reached GD levels.
Fourth, you'd start to emerge from economic malaise and you'd be exactly equal with the rest of the planet. that would take a century or more but the new SOL would be something like $11,800/year 2011 dollars.
Of course you know that would never happen because who wants to give up their lifestyle to live like a Vietnamese family of 10 in a 800 sq ft house?
The answer, the only answer, is war and tons and tons of it till you puke and then even more of it till your great grandchildren puke before they're even born.
To elect actual conservatives to office, real ones not the the neocon crap that's been trotted out there the past 40 years.
How did that work out for Goldwater in '64? How about Steve Forbes, who ran for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 1996 and 2000?
Johnson trounced Goldwater and Forbes couldn't get the nomination.
How about Ron Paul, who is trailing in the primaries?
As a liberal, I'd love the GOP to nominate the most conservative candidate they can find.
Jobs are needed. Now how does the US create them and keep them here?
I know many are not a fan of coal or nuclear plants, but they need to get something up and going. Windmills just can't power the whole USA in our life time.
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