Manufacturing Jobs for the GOP
by Kerri ToloczkoAs pre-November primaries come to an end, inquiring political minds will be asking Americans, “What is the singularly most important issue that will drive you to vote this year?”
Almost certainly, the answer will be “jobs.”
Republican proposals to reduce taxes, regulation and government to stimulate growth are right on the money. But they still won’t overcome one of the GOP’s most serious problems – its post-Reagan divorce from “the working man.”
In April, a bi-partisan poll was released by the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) measuring support by GOP and Tea Party voters for American manufacturing as an agent of job growth. The results will come as a surprise to no one – except, perhaps, elected Republicans.
Millions of Americans associated with manufacturing have long felt ignored by the Republican Party for many reasons — primarily Democrats’ strong union ties. But that paradigm could shift in 2010 based on current political trends.
Of the 37 Governors’ mansions currently in play, nineteen are held by Democrats and 18 by Republicans. Four states – Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan – are big losers in the manufacturing employment race to the bottom and are expected to be swing or trending states in the 2012 Presidential contest.
Since 2000, Michigan lost 434,000 manufacturing jobs; Ohio, 392,000; and 291,000 in Pennsylvania. Massachusetts, America’s original factory state, shed 150,000.
In these key states the current governor is a Democrat, yet the nation’s top political prognosticators are listing them as “toss up” or “leaning Republican.” Republicans could pick up four to seven governorships overall.
Conducted jointly by Republican pollster Whit Ayres and Democrat Mark Mellman, the results of the AAM survey are astounding. It shows that across all party, geographic and demographic lines, Americans still believe in manufacturing despite its decade long decline, and associate it with a sound economy and a secure nation.
Given a choice of eight industries, respondents were asked which was most important to our economy. Sixty-two percent of Republicans and 63% of Independents ranked manufacturing higher than “finance/banking” and “healthcare.”
In choosing which industry matters most to national security, manufacturing earned a plurality from Republicans (43%), Independents (40%) – higher than Democrats (38%).
Most surprising were results from participants who self-identified as active in the Tea Party movement or supporting it.
At 71%, the number of Tea Party supporters who had a favorable view of American manufacturing was higher than Democrats’. Asked if they would back a national strategy using tax, labor and trade policies to support manufacturing, more than seventy percent of Independents, Republicans and Tea Partiers said “yes.”
Calls for a liberal-style national manufacturing “policy” has long given free market Republicans justifiable fits. But smart American manufacturing policies have existed since Alexander Hamilton, whose successful arguments for a domestic merchant fleet rather than reliance on France sowed the seed for today’s robust Merchant Marine and Coast Guard.
Even Ronald Reagan saw value in defending Harley Davidson and American semi-conductor businesses against market distorting practices by some U.S. competitors.
A manufacturing strategy reducing tax and regulatory burdens, expensing capital investments, state flexibility, enforcing existing trade laws and responding to China’s illegal trade practices would harness the power of America’s entrepreneurs.
Ensuring an uninterrupted defense supply chain is critical as America’s warfighters deserve equipment made by trustworthy American hands – not missile propellant from China, airborne refueling tankers from France or force protection barriers made in England instead of Illinois.
Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker has taken an unusual step for a Republican — focusing his campaign on manufacturing unemployment. Touting his video “Manufacturing in Massachusetts: The Forgotten Industry,” he has developed a vigorous media and appearance plan around it.
Republican gubernatorial candidates in other states are embracing solid pro-growth policies but not addressing manufacturing as directly as voters want – none has “done a Charlie Baker.”
The good news for Republicans in the AAM poll is that a majority of union households, Independents, and GOP/Tea Party supporters think the Obama Administration and Democratic Congress have spent too much time and money bailing out their pals and not enough creating jobs.
Over two election cycles, President Reagan carried 96 out of 100 states by reaching beyond traditional constituencies to attract blue-collar voters and promising industrial expansion through pro-business policies.
If Republicans chose manufacturing as a critical job growth mechanism and adopt a Reagan-esque brand of economic populism, they could enjoy a big gubernatorial power flip-flop in 2010 and perhaps a greater shift in 2012. Republican candidates have an unprecedented opportunity to campaign outside the box and could attract voters looking for meaningful change and specific answers.
Republican, Tea Party and Independent voters have spoken and GOP candidates should turn up their political hearing aid and listen. Unless it was one of the 200 million imported from China last year – in which case, it probably won’t work.
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Hope and change?
CHANGE IT BACK!
JOBS!
-Which ultimately means reduction in the size, scope, expense, and interference of the U. S. Federal Government.
If you think all of those jobs that Obamunist created- thousands of IRS agents, are of any benefit to us, what happens when there aren't any U.S. businesses remaining for them to harass?
Vote the big government socialist, marxist, democrat wackos out this November!
The atmosphere – that is, the taxes, fees, and all financial obligations – of business in America is toxic to growth or sustainability. Until that is changed, companies will not expand, small businesses will continue to fail and the unemployment rate will rise. One election will not do it. I do not believe the republicans have presented their case very well as to how to get out of this mess. How about cutting the staffers from each and every Congressman by – oh, I don't know, – 20%? You see the problem? No one is going to do that. And when people believe that increasing taxes in a recession is a good thing because it increases the government's treasury – it does NOT – what can you do? Too many folks are unwilling to accept facts. And that problem is not going to be easy to solve. Maybe we don't have to. Maybe just do the right thing and take all those useless idiots along for the ride. Frankly, I don't want to see America's economy crash and burn.
I HOPE for more CHANGE in my pocket!
Of course manufacturing is one of the most important industries! what good is banking/financing if there are no real jobs?? Manufacturing gives the country a reason to BUY AMERICAN! However with the union take-over, of ALL manufacturing in the U.S., it's going to be next to impossible to get these jobs back…unless the unionized employees realize that THEY have no jobs to go to thanks to their union bosses lining their pockets with union money!!
What's it going to take???
Ha ha ha. Great billboard. You didn't hear anyone saying then, 'Brother can you spare a peso?"
On Morning Joe they are discussing the need for Obama to come out and discuss the need to tolerate the GZM! They say he has the opportunity to do a speech on 9/11! That we need a speech on "freedom of religion"! Really?
We need a government of the people, by the people, and for the people!!!!
Funny, they are stunned over the polls, just can not understand why the people care about this mosque…
Lets see…at least 30% of us think Obama is a Muslim…he comes out and tells us to be tolerant…and we say…no news here folks…the Muslim asks us to tolerate a Muslim…more of the same!!!
I do not trust him any more than I do the Iman who wants to build the GZM!!
I said this a long time ago…this President does not seem to think the trust of his constitutents is a valuable tool…he simple does not care what "We the People" think or care!!!
He may be a closet Muslim who fooled the AMerican People…but he is stupid…he should have waited till he discovered that the American People really do care about this issue before he laid his opinion out for all to see…he has screwed himself!!!
Unions and taxes killed American manufacturing, as the cost of doing business increased the number of American production workers declined proportionally.
Nobody is willing to pay ten dollars for a two dollar widget and that is the true cost of union labor.
When consumer products become inordinately expensive to manufacture the price has to be passed on to someone and that is always the consumer.
When the cost of manufacturing becomes too burdensome to support market pricing demands companies invariably move offshore and factories close so they can maintain a competitive edge.
China doesn't have any manufacturing costs because everyone doing that work is a prisoner thus our markets become flooded with their cheaply made poor quality products.
Obviously the answer is not in using prison labor to produce goods, the true answer lies in granting incentives to American businesses to actually manufacture consumer products again.
Unions and taxes are natural disincentives to production, when unions and government finally realize that their combined greed and thirst for power are killing manufacturing the picture will change for the better.
Cap and Trade, Card Check, socialist health care and "soak the rich" tax schemes are epic job killers, and the unions are behind all of them.
Just say no to the union label!
Combined heat and power CHP, IS manufacturing, IS green energy, Saves moey, Supports the existing grid and uses natural gas and coal–Republicans are idiots– The DOE,EPA, ORNL, EERE agree with me for all of you thumbs down conservative green-energyaphobs.
We must remember we all can’t be poets, and manufacturing is a critical part of survival of the thousands of cities, bergs, municipalities throughout our great land. The biggest hit was NAFTA in my opinion, this was the final blow to American manufacturing. We sent a giant portion of our manufacturing south of the border while absorbing 1/5 of Mexico’s population…what a deal! We are fast approaching the point where as a people we’ll not know how to make anything. Not good!
Calls for a liberal-style national manufacturing “policy” has long given free market Republicans justifiable fits.
For good reason. You can't be an advocate of individual liberty and adopt a protectionist economic policy, because doing so amounts to EXACTLY what the Obama administration is doing: picking winners an loosers. Protection of manufacturing jobs at the expense of consumers and other industries is NOT what the free market is about. If that's the way the Tea Party or the GOP is going, count me out.
You want a platform for winning? Here's one.
Stop, for the love of God, exporting jobs over seas.
Stop giving companies incentives to ship their jobs to India, China, Mexico and elsewhere.
I have personally watched hundreds of white-collar office jobs get shipped to Bangalore India. Companies, who I will not name, have been doing this for far too long, and with the governments help. GWB was a big time culprit in this. Worst of all, the work ethic in many of these places is crap. My own observations suggest that these people will absolutely NOT think outside of the box. Everything has to be a standard process or these people will just stop what they’re doing.
Government has been allowing business to take the cheap road and invest heavily in job markets overseas. If they are investing in the job markets overseas then they are NOT investing in the job markets here, it really is that simple.
The Government assisted exportation of jobs MUST stop!
"a majority of union households, Independents, and GOP/Tea Party supporters think the…………….."
Agreement among these three groups? On anything? Now that really does seem strange. Maybe there's "hope" for America yet.
I loved the billboard too. It's even better than the "Miss me yet?" signs.
Hey Obama voters! How's the Hope and Change working for ya?
When Reagan was on duty, I'd accepted his watch as mostly a trustworthy background noise and didn't pay much attention to it. During the funeral week, I was reminded of all the things he did and what pro-American president he was and couldn't help but feel pretty guilty about not previously realizing what a great human being he was.
I live in Massachusetts and I'm a republican and I'll take your word that Charlie Baker has a video. Good for him, because that's all I've heard of him since he announced his candidacy last spring. What a blown opportunity!
To borrow from Johnny Cash — The line for the socialists perfect man — "a mind that is weak, and back that is strong" . The NAZI Eugenicists wanted to prefect man in this light.
I prefer the Reagan model, prosperity for all, a rising tide raises all boats. Communism and socialism sucks.
From the number one economic power on the planet to banana republic in less than four years. OUTSTANDING work! Thank you so much progressive left. Thank you Madam Speaker, and the dem controlled House. Thank you, majority leader Reid and the democratic controlled Senate. Most of all, thank you Mr. President and all the loons who cast their vote for change. WE GOT IT ALRIGHT! Great job you bunch of buffoons.
Hey, locally the illegals are complaining to the sheriff today, protesting our local 287-G program to lock up illegal aliens. They say they can no longer earn a decent "ILLEGAL" wage and want the sheriff to stop harassing them.
Hope and Change not working out for those illegal aliens, just stealing the jobs Americans used to have.
MA and CA anti-manufacturing and anti-business policies have been great for Texas. lol.
Unions, taxes, EPA, OSHA etc push manufacturing jobs overseas peroid! If we want them back taxes need to be lowered and the rest need to just go away!
Things have changed: Republicans are for the working class keeping their paychecks in their pockets.
Democrats,partners with Unions and socialism, are the "Tax & Spend liberals" who spend YOUR tax dollars on THEIR controlling of workers, and their socialism.Vote Republican in Nov to free yourself and keep your money.
I did manufacturing, and know what makes it tick in the modern world. Today the manufacturing facilities are vastly automated and run on slim margins. So why would you locate a plant in the USA, instead of say Brazil. Two things sway the decision, taxes, and energy costs. The rest of the costs pale in comparison to those.
Today the USA has the world's highest costs in taxes, and Obama is working on driving up energy costs, so they can no longer be among the cheapest. So bye bye manufacturing.
So you site your plant in Brazil. Easy to decide.
Did you see Intel's Paul Otellini speech from a few days ago? It was a grim reminder of what Obama is doing to destroy America's economy.
DittO! KS,,,, sadly I as well took him and all those wonderful folks he recruited
to help him for granted.
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Today, freedom means economic freedom more than anything else. And that is what Obama is trying his best to destroy.
How's that hopey changey working out, for you? Really, you didn't know Obama was a commie before the election? Why was that …
Did you know that Venezuela is near starvation and inflation is going through the roof.
Come on Obama… This stuff is a no brainer…Probably why you won't do it….
No new taxes
Roll back ALL tax rates by 10%
No new regulations
ObamaCare in the freezer ..(Until we can actually bury it.)
Freeze all govermental hiring and a 10% cutback on funding on everything except Defense.
You'll see the the economy take off and you'll unfortunately get re elected but if a President does the right thing, we don't care what Party he's from or who gets the credit….
Could be when the grid 'breaks down' everyone will be wanting to know more, bird.
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SHARIAH FOR DUMMIES…..this should brighten up your day:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pag...
Most factories today are fully automated or being made so — The bad news, it's really not labor costs which drive the cost curve in modern factories. It's all about taxes and energy. The other costs pale in comparison. The USA now has the world's highest taxes on manufacturing facilities. And Obama is working on upping our energy costs to fix that problem.
China has lost the labor side of the argument, which brings up the point of what do they do with the people left. China is now building power plants, coal fired, that nearly every week, a new one becomes operational. High labor content products are now moving out of China.
But I agree, unions, especially like those today in the USA which attempt to keep the buggy whip mentality alive, do impact costs. It's why most car companies are now offshore manufacturing the sub assemblies and only doing the high costs final assembly in the USA. If the unions win, they just move it all offshore.
We can both agree, just say no to the union label.
Blue-blood Republicans in Washington care little about manufacturing — of course, the blue-blood ruling class elite cares little about any of the things that makes America great. Reagan was an outsider to the blue-blood set; many were fooled that he had made a permanent change, but alas, the VERY NEXT President was the epitome of the GOP's blue-blood Washington insider set (and we see where THAT got us).
Conservatives have not had any real power since 1988; it's time to flush out all of the elitist swine in Washington, regardless of party affiliation, and replace them with CONSERVATIVES.
Very very frustrating, I keep screaming and nobody hears me, nobody is interested and I can't spell, type or write well enough to get the message through.
Lower the cost of energy in this country!!!!!! This technology already powers 10% of the country it isn't new but it is woefully unknown outside of the power sector and the power sector does not want to give up it's monopoly of the grid.
Growing up in the 80s was awesome with The Gipper at the helm. As a parent now, it saddens me that my children aren't growing up under a President such as him.
I think we should put this same sign all over the Capitol Beltway!!
I grew up in Northern Illinois and almost everyone had a job in manufacturing. My father has worked in a factory his whole life and still does. At his last job, he made parts for GM and his position was eliminated after the bankruptcy. We had many small mom and pop machine shops as well as companies that made Government Aviation parts like Sunstrand. Almost all of my family has lost their jobs. I can think of 5 right off the top of my head whose companies have gone overseas or declared bankruptcy. . My uncle worked at a company that had at one time made ordinance for WW2. He started there the day after high school and worked there for 25 years. He walked in one day and they had declared bankruptcy and tried to keep his pension.
We have to get manufacturing jobs back in America.
Sounds like a dog and pony show designed by the DOJ to 'confirm' their fears of the new laws
dangers to legals AND illegals. This is all being coordinated, IMO……just not sure who the puppet-
master IS. McLooser will come out now and begin to cram 'regularization' down our throats.
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I know people who have been out of work for 2 years and they are hurting. I help them when I can so they can stay afloat. Please if you know someone that is sinking be a good Christian and help them. Do not put yourself in jeopardy, help with what you can, we are all in this together.
Thanks for the link, I had missed it.
I have no change in my pocket, only lint!
Morning Sis…….TGIF! Did you see the hurricanes out in the Atlantic? Are you ready for another Isobel LOL?? I think I would only need some bottled water.
The first Reagan presidential election was the first time I was old enough to vote. I give him credit for getting me to embrace conservatism at such a young age. Unfortunately, he set the standard of leadership so high that I've spent the rest of my life in a state of disappointment in every other "leader" that's come since.
With the Gipper at the helm, we were all allowed the freedom to work towards prosperity without having to worry so much about how the government and the radical Leftist wackos were going to screw us next.
Reagan allowed you and I to breath easy for a spell, and enjoy our freedoms with minimal encumberance.
Remember how incredible it was to not be restricted to driving '55' anymore, after the dufus Carter had been shown the door?
Made in the USA doesn't mean what it used to mean just 40 years ago.
Personally, I believe if any company fails to manufacture more than 75% of their end product they shouldn't be able to lay claim to the "Made in the USA" label.
If a company simply maintains executive offices in the states and assembles their product in Mexico at pennies per employee per day they shouldn't be allowed to claim it either.
Businesses need a reason to be in business in the first place and every government mandate, regulation and union demand is another reason to avoid ever starting one to begin with.
If I had the right incentives I might see a reason restart my old company and put some people back to work but the way the government is punishing business right now I would never even consider it.
"…but if a President does the right thing, we don't care what Party he's from or who gets the credit…. "
-or what his skin color is, for that matter.
You're a true American, HP. Keep supplying the right answers when Obamunist taunts us with "If anyone has any ideas…." – and when he doesn't.
He would be writing articles too which would be telling the liberal press to shove it!
Combined Heat and power is the hope that will bind all together, even including environmentalist…but the Crime Inc coalition wants nothing to do with a technology that lowers the cost of power and threatens their tax on carbon/energy and smart grid–all a captured market.
Morning sis! Yes I saw them on Fox. The only hurricane I'm concerned with is the ones caused by "the one" on the hill. And we've been preparing for that one to hit. When it does it will be the highest category ever. We're already feeling the winds from blahblah's mouth.
"monopoly" is the key word,,,, I remember all the inventors throughout my life who had come
up with ways to make the automobile run more efficiently in one way or another. The auto
manufacturers knew of their inventions but would not pay them for work. Rather the auto
co's found a way to basically steal their intellectual property or wait for them to bankrupt them-
selves trying to produce and market their product. When I was a kid these stories were in the
newspaper fairly regularly……nowadays we rarely hear of such, but I bet it's still happening.
When the RIGHT people become sufficiently interested the technology will EXPLODE, not before.
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Grey energy–recycled energy — This is the answer to manufacturing–lower energy cost–
Drunk with Power
If health care reform seems nightmarish, just wait for the fight over the grid.
What’s more, upending this state of affairs is no small task. Due to their size and geographic reach, utilities have plenty of political sway. The power sector spent $161 million lobbying Congress in 2008–more than anyone but Big Pharma–and has, in recent years, fought hard against everything from clean-air laws to renewable-electricity mandates. Back in 2001, Southern Company, the coal-burning behemoth in the South whose lobbyists have been dubbed "kneecap-breakers," enlisted Haley Barbour to persuade George W. Bush to reverse his pledge to regulate carbon-dioxide. "Utilities have a strong lobbying presence," one congressional staffer told me. "Usually, all they have to say is that rates will go up or the system will be less reliable–it’s not hard for them to throw those flags up and get what they want."
Next on the chopping block are barriers to local generation. Those large, remote power plants that utilities have long relied on are actually a fairly unwieldy way of making power: Not only is energy lost as electricity trundles through long transmission lines, but nearly two-thirds of the fuel used in power plants is squandered as heat. Many of those inefficiencies could be squeezed out if our system relied on a variety of smaller plants closer to population centers that reused their waste heat–say, to warm nearby buildings. Last December, a study from Oak Ridge National Lab found that these "combined heat and power" plants are roughly twice as efficient as our current plants, and a concerted push to deploy them could save the equivalent of half our current household fossil-fuel use. http://www.tnr.com/article/drunk-power
BTW I replied early to your posts you sent me yesterday morning and I put links on them to cheer you up. Did you see them? So much for trying! : )
"prosperity for all, a rising tide raises all boats"
It's interesting to think that the words of both Reagan AND JFK are in complete opposition to everything this "progressive" regime is pushing on us. It's where real Democrats and real Republicans could come together in unity if we would remember what these leaders stood for.
This isn't just Obamas fault this is Republicans fault too, many RINOs are in the pocket of utilities and Crime Inc. This neglect of a superior power supply and manufacturing has been ongoing now for many years.
I'm just HOPING that I get to keep any of the CHANGE in my pocket at all.
I agree, I think?? still scary the "investment" part and the automatic shrinking doesn't sound like our government at all.
Yes I did. I watched them both yesterday and they did cheer me up and make me laugh. Thank you!! : ) I can't wait to meet you. We've known each over for a year and a half and you have helped me stay sane and not give up.
This is good idea. Mr. Brietbart should get a hold of all of those articles he did write, and especially the Time magazine interview he did after being elected and start posting them at appropriate times.
We have alot of workable ideas….
If only MrO would listen with the 2 big ears and shut his enormus trap….
So much for manufacturing!!!
Will Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson make a back door move to ban lead bullets the day before the November 2 elections?
Several environmentalist groups led by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) are petitioning the EPA to ban lead bullets and shot (as well as lead sinkers for fishing) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Although EPA is barred by statute from controlling ammunition, CBD is seeking to work farther back along the manufacturing chain and have EPA ban the use of lead in bullets and shot because non-lead alternatives are available. But here's the catch: the alternatives to lead bullets are more expensive. A ban on the sale of lead ammunition would force hunters and sport shooters to buy non-lead ammunition that is often double the cost of traditional lead ammunition. A box of deer hunting bullets in a popular caliber could be upwards of $55.
Although the EPA could have dismissed the request due to a lack of jurisdiction, it is obliging CBD. The EPA has asked for public comment on banning lead in ammunition, and an EPA notice was published seeking public comment that closes on October 31. Jackson would then make a decision to accept or reject the petition on November 1. You might say that even considering enacting what is effectively a new tax on hunters and gun owners–seemingly the only non-liberal group the Obama administration hasn't yet intentionally provoked–is less-than-perfect timing for the already beleagured Democrats as the midterm elections approach.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), a trade association for the firearm and ammunition industry, has hit back against the petition sending Jackson a letter documenting why EPA has no jurisdiction and outlining the damage that banning lead ammunition would do to U.S. industry and jobs, conservation, and law enforcement. The NSSF estimates that more than 90 percent of hunters and sport shooters use traditional lead ammunition. If all hunters were forced to buy non-lead bullets that are made out of metals like tungsten, bismuth, and copper alloys, demand could easily begin to outstrip the supply and prices would go even higher.
Bill Clinton famously blamed the NRA and gun owners for sweeping Democrats from control of the House in 1994 after he pushed them to pass the Assault Weapons Ban. For Democrats, especially those in rural and conservative districts that are already facing voters’ wrath, gun control could once again be an issue that helps defeat them and swings control of the House and perhaps even the Senate to the GOP.
I'm glad I could make you smile. : )
You have my email if ever you need me. We'll meet up soon.
You also have to factor in the regulatory apparatus. In my husband's industry alone, there are 6 separate fed agencies that make rules for how things must be done. They all have overlap making portions of them redundant but forcing the company to comply more than once with very similar regs, and any of them can lay down new rules on a seeming whim. Then, there is absolutely no evidence that any of those agencies communicate about the standards they enforce as some of the regs even contradict each other.
Unions, taxes, and overwhelming bureaucratic regulation – all three need to be reigned in for manufacturing to once again because a proud sector of our economy.
Thermal depolymerization. A way to turn all organic waste from sewage to plastics into clean oil and pure chemicals. Infinitely renewable.
The right people is you and me, waiting for the monopoly and control of the electric grid to be given up is useless and hopeless….Unless millions and millions of people want it to happen, like this article states—manufacturing is the key word–
I have been pumping cheap green energy and nobody understands that but EVERYBODY understands manufacturing and that is exactly what CHP is, exactly where it comes from and the exact industry that it would help the most/first.
This article is great news, a cheaper way to power manufacturing with American green natural gas and coal.
You need to make the US a place where it's profitable and competitive to do business in order for those companies to even think about coming back. You need to cut taxes, regulation, and reign in the unions for that to ever happen.
Excellent point. What we're missing is any real leadership to stand up and present great ideas, that ARE out there, but that most people have no clue about. That's why we need to do MORE than just "change majorities" in Washington. We need to elect people who can inspire American innovation to solve our problems, and get the government out of the way so we can make it happen. Unfortunately, these same people would be painting a giant target on their backs for all the Crime Inc. money interests to aim at.
All complain and have only recycled idea's, dem's are fools but the gop is made of the same.
we live in a land of control.
you will never have our country back the way it was!!!!!! ALL of OUR leaders are part of N.W.O.!!!! We are not.
OUR JOBS are gone for good! we let them do this to us . reps=dems=no hope . we need new leaders not the same trickle economics of the past F!ck ronnie raygun fu!k the g.o.p. Fuc! the dems stand up u fools they are working together too fight us .
thats why we fight with each other over out dated ideas. We NEED TOO TAKE our land back before our kids are more slave than we are.
I prefer the Fair Tax myself.
But regardless, it needs to be a system that every voter pays into, not just those of us who are "rich."
I don't deny it. The Progressives sold a bill of goods to a public who was looking for a fresh perspective. What they sold in 2005 to gain seats was a false bill. From 2006 to present they have accelerated the dive. Progressive policies haven't been confined to the Democrats, Republican RINO's have participated in it as well.
lol, Idi Amin avatar, nice.
"Remember how incredible it was to not be restricted to driving '55' anymore, after the dufus Carter had been shown the door?"
Ha. Can you remember how it felt to forget about "odd and even days" for purchasing gas for our cars? "Green, yellow, and red flags" at gas stations to tell us whether they HAD any gasoline? Or forgetting about carter's "fire-side chats?"
Now just imagine how great it would feel if we could forget about the obama atrocities.
The investment-income method of funding government requires that we change the way we create currency and this will have the exact opposite effects that we see today. To put it simply, it will be as if all government spending were paid for by another country – making it all "new money". This will be a true stimulus and with the passage of time, fewer people will need to be "rescued" as the government spending automatically eliminates "government spending victims" from the economy (instead of creating them as it does today), thus government is no longer self-sustaining in nature, but self-shrinking (again, the exact opposite of what we see today).
Look at it like this. Liberal-progressives have tried to convince people for 100 years that government spending is actually a stimulus to the economy and deficit spending creates an economic advantage (a gain in output over the cost of the stimulus itself). If this were true, then the result (over time) would be that fewer and fewer people would need to be stimulated ("rescued by government") as they became part of the productive side of the private-sector economy. This would mean that less spending over time would be the result and the exact opposite has been the outcome.
Kind of like shooting fish in a barrel? (I crack myself up)
"he set the standard of leadership so high that I've spent the rest of my life in a state of disappointment in every other "leader" that's come since."
No kidding..
One of the most ridiculous regulatory requirements is the annual OSHA HazMat report for ALL businesses.
If I was selling shoes and socks for a living why should I be required to report the amount of benzene or acids I store to the federal government if it isn't a byproduct or process requirement of the business I run?
Another fine example of out of control regulatory overlap is the annual EPA environmental impact statement for byproducts and waste if I'm selling socks and shoes.
We need to strangle bureaucratic overlap and excessive regulations that kill jobs and restore common sense and reasonable limited oversight to the system again.
When three agencies enforce the same regulation on business the market is no longer free, especially if those regulations have no relation to the businesses or industries targeted by them
'Hated that 55 crap–drove me nuts. The attitude that went into that was worse–it wasn't rational but one of the somewhat seminal moments that let us know what Regressives were about.
It really is that simple, a catch-22 for the politician. I have been thinking about that and my thoughts so far are that all industry isn't in Crime Inc.,…Much of the Manufacturing industry is involved in the other side of the Crime Inc coin–the government lottery of green tech and smart grid "investment"–two sides of the same coin.
But there are industries that are not, restaurants–like MCD and KFC, retail outlets like Target and WMT…the chemical companies likely get some kind of funding but the heat they throw off is a bonanza, steel mills ext..there are other industries outside of the lottery, those are the targets.
The sorry state of manufacturing in America should not be. Beginning with NAFTA, we've seen a wholesale effort to reduce and restrict diversity in the job market in the name of "social engineering." Instead of the goal of insuring that each American has a wide range of job opportunities from which to choose, folks like myself who once had a good paying job in a field I enjoyed (along with a good chance for advancement), are forced to watch as other countries make the products that we once made, with the help of our own government policies.
We're just now starting to wake up and realize what we've lost. We once had a robust economy with manufacturing as one of the pillars. The Washington-led move to a service economy has been a disaster, as a evidenced by today's horrible unemployment numbers.
Cars and computers, ovens and dishwashers and all the other modern appliances need to be made by someone. Why shouldn't they be made by Americans?
If you're not outraged over excessive regulation yet, you will be after you read this…
http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/epa-reviewing-req...
I tried to talk 'im into goin' vegan–he wouldn't ear of it.
Heads up P2O!
http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/epa-reviewing-req...
HPD, you need to read this…
http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/epa-reviewing-req...
One of the first things the new congress needs to do is attack the assumption that agencies like the EPA and FCC are under the control of the executive branch, an assumption that has never been tested according to Elana Kagan, and the number one reason Obama selected her to the court.
WE THE PEOPLE THATS WHAT THIS IS ABOUT
look at the games they play with us we are just sheep to them.
let me tell you my friends sheep are always lead to the abattoir.
This is one more point of clarity regarding the lunacy of the left. The power hungry government uses the EPA like a knee snapping thug as is much the same with other arms of this octopus.
Baracky's Hope and changy con game starts right here folks:
Six Months to Go Until The Largest Tax Hikes in History.
http://atr.org/six-months-untilbr-largest-tax-hik...
Thanks Missy…
I did hear about this back-door negation of our 2nd Amendment rights…
Time to stock up on lead…or get to the Supreme Court before it changes over to the Statists..
CHP can turn all organic waste into power–it already does in many sewer treatment plants and garbage dumps around the world and in the US– The tech is reality already working and already powers 10% of the country.
Mark my words, they'll use this as a reason to seize ammo and then the Consumer Product Safety Commission will list guns as a public health hazard and place an onerous tax on them. I would say this is very clear evidence of the leftist radical agenda. they need to take away our teeth before they take away our ability to resist and then comes the fall…
Man, I miss Reagan. I cried like a baby when he died. Some of it because we lost a good man, a real American, but mostly because I don't see anybody else that can step up and lead the way he did. I just recently starting listening to his old speeches and not only was the content of his message sound, the way he delivered it was great.
When Obama talks he sounds arrogant. Not only what he says is crap, but the way he says it is crap too. I equate it with the sound of fingernails on the chalk board. I don't believe a word he says.
NOW when Reagan spoke, there was no arrogance. To me Regan had a calming voice. Like when your Grandfather or Dad was speaking to you, reassuring, yet firm.
and replace all the American recovery and Investment signs with this billboard.
Yep. There's not even a comparison.
Thanks for the tip on Otellini. The only thing I'd add is that Germany has high taxes and high energy costs. But they also take pride in manufacturing and value it. We have systematically devalued manufacturing and lost those jobs, even though millions of able-bodied people would love to make things rather than stare at computer screens. The US is big enough to value movie stars AND manufacturing.
K144,,,, or the Soviet grain embargo Carter initiated, with no effect since other nations
were willing to take the higher-than-market prices the USSR was willing to pay and run
the embargo.
Reagan lifted that ineffectual embargo by March of his first term.
Come to think of it, he was a busy feller that first 60 days…
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The change in our pockets is that they are inside out now! Ridiculous state of affairs we've allowed ourselves to get into. And you can almost hear the progressives intent on crashing the economy and proclaiming the US to be "just another country" laughing maniacally.
You and I both know that will be a tall order for them. We are clever enough to know what to do…
I don't think Obama is really anything other than a poser. If he needs the muslim vote, he talks about his muslim Dad and how much he admired him. When he needs the Christian vote, he talks about how he gets a bible verse texted to him on his blackberry. When he needs the white man vote, he talks about his white mother. When he needs the black man's vote he talks about is black dad.
This president will say anything and because of this I do not like him and I do not respect him. I don't know what's worse, Obama or the people who still believe and support him.
"You've gotta to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything" Aaron Tippin.
Pretty soon a peso will be worth more than a dollar the way Obama and Co. are running our economy. But I guess that's what good old George Soros wants.
Don't be surprised when the lame duck rolls around and finds the progressive RINOs back on board the carbon tax train to brokerville.
I ride a Harley because it is an American Company. I bought a Harley Belt Buckle and was shocked when I flipped it over and it read "Made in China". Nothing is sacred anymore.
agreed.
Not sure what you're asking or asserting. Please try to make sense so that I can respond.
I'm claiming that economic freedom applies to consumers as much as it does producers/workers. What are you saying? That we should prop up manufacturing jobs no matter what? I claim that an administration that does that is indistinguishable from Obama's.
And yes, I'm aware of what's happening in Venezuela; among other things, the very kind of protectionism I hear advocated by so-called conservatives.
He would probably be the top contributer!
The problem is I don't think he wants the economy to take off. I bet he and Soros are banking on it failing. No politician is this stupid or out of touch with the American people.
of course I could be wrong. Obama just might be that stupid.
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