[Vintage Freeper]

Don't like the picture above?

Jim Robinson and FreeRepublic could make it possible to paint a completly different picture.

[Vintage Freeper]

Prior to 1964, Ronald Reagan spent most of his life as a New Deal Democrat. Ronald Reagan changed.

Mitt Romney can change too. Who can convince him to change?

Charles Koch, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul for starters.

How?

FreeRepublic's Plan For Taking Our Country Back

[asinclair]

So much attention on doing the big things, that we forget this country was built on people doing lots and lots of little things that, combined, made us great. In the context of the Federal budget, we could whittle away at many spending line items, to lower the outgo a bit at a time. Make do with a couple fewer bureaucrats in each agency. Find the deadwood, cut them out. Find the slackers, especially those who brag about how they coast through the work day, and show them the door.

I applaud Obama for thinking how to get people off the unemployment rolls (although I quibble about the details of his plan). We are in a downward spiral because we have fewer and fewer producers, which means the overall gross national income falls because too many people suck the economic life out of the GDI (gross domestic income). Fewer spenders, less demand for goods and services, fewer workers, even fewer spenders, continued dropping demand, and you circle the drain. Put a stopper in the drain, and you will see demand rise, more workers, more spenders, and we're back on a growth path.

Government isn't the engine. The country is the engine -- ALL of the country. And the sooner we get more people paying taxes because more people are employed, the better. The USA used to be the country that works because its citizens were workers. That isn't true today.

Maybe the right thing is to start whittling at the salaries of the people in Congress, including pension benefits. Whittle at the salaries in the White House, too. Tie their earnings and their payouts to results, like stockholders are now doing to CEO pay.

The state leve? There, too.

[asinclair]

So much attention on doing the big things, that we forget this country was built on people doing lots and lots of little things that, combined, made us great. In the context of the Federal budget, we could whittle away at many spending line items, to lower the outgo a bit at a time. Make do with a couple fewer bureaucrats in each agency. Find the deadwood, cut them out. Find the slackers, especially those who brag about how they coast through the work day, and show them the door.

I applaud Obama for thinking how to get people off the unemployment rolls (although I quibble about the details of his plan). We are in a downward spiral because we have fewer and fewer producers, which means the overall gross national income falls because too many people suck the economic life out of the GDI (gross domestic income). Fewer spenders, less demand for goods and services, fewer workers, even fewer spenders, continued dropping demand, and you circle the drain. Put a stopper in the drain, and you will see demand rise, more workers, more spenders, and we're back on a growth path.

Government isn't the engine. The country is the engine -- ALL of the country. And the sooner we get more people paying taxes because more people are employed, the better. The USA used to be the country that works because its citizens were workers. That isn't true today.

Maybe the right thing is to start whittling at the salaries of the people in Congress, including pension benefits. Whittle at the salaries in the White House, too. Tie their earnings and their payouts to results, like stockholders are now doing to CEO pay.

The state level? There, too.