I think wellwishing was joking.....
Yeah, I was joking. I thought it was fairly obvious.
IMHO we have a huge mess with our economy and our government. We are in this mess BECAUSE of our government and their trade policies and a lack of oversight with government agencies like Fanny and Freddy Mac, the banks and the investment brokers. Also their lack of putting America first and keeping jobs here.
Obama wants to place too many citizens on the government payroll and that will not help the economy enough to make a difference. We need about three or four times the jobs he is talking about providing. We need a plan that won't take four years to bring some improvement. By that time, too many will have fallen through the cracks and will be living on the street. Too many will have lost everything.
I have nothing against Obama accept for his inexperience and idealism. Sure, a person has to have high ideals, but there must also be some solid basis for them. Just saying something is going to work is not enough. So far, Obama has not brought any hope to the economic forecasters that are experienced enough to see the problem with our economy to be more complex than what Obama realizes.
I blame the "Free Trade Agreements" that Bill Clinton ushered in, as what really has put us where we are today. A country must have jobs for it to be prosperous and strong. Our jobs have been going over seas and the ones left have been going to the illegal immigrates and those here on Visas. Today, American men can not make a living in construction like they used to 10 years ago. The wages have been kept down with the illegals here, willing to do the work for lower wages. As well as restaurant work, retail and many others.
The college educated have seen many of the jobs in technology go over seas and the ones left here they must compete for with those workers from India and other countries here on Visas.
1. Our government needs to build a fence on the border with Mexico and start really enforcing our immigration and labor laws.
2. The Free Trade laws have cost Americans way too much and it needs to stop. Tariffs need to be placed on those companies that go over seas that ship goods back here and if they should be made to pay taxes. After all, they got their start here so why shouldn't they pay some sort of taxes?
3. American businesses here need to have some sort of bail out loans so they don't have to go under and people lose their jobs. They gave a huge bail out to banks and they took the money and ran with it. What good did it do our economy? It was a very stupid move by our government, that did not help us a bit.
4. Government waste has to stop. I heard that 3.3 Trillion dollars has gone missing and nobody in our government knows where it went. Do you think a business could get away with that? You are right, they could not.
5. Until the people in this country start protesting and holding their leaders accountable, and stop making excuses for them, we will all suffer from this broken system and our inept government.
By the way, on the news last night it was said we may all get an "IOU" in place of our tax returns. California is in big trouble and we have a "Tax and Spend" government to thank for it. Dems need to understand that when there are no wages to tax, there must be changes made to correct the situation. Raising taxes won't work when we have no income to tax. Nor will raising fees, raising sales tax or raising gas tax.
Somebody please....help me understand why our state government does not understand we need more jobs, not more taxes! Are they all morons????
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