Posted on 11/17/2010 10:24:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Like any good coach, the president needs to make some halftime adjustments. Here are a few that will work.
Legendary football coaches succeed in large part because of their ability to make halftime adjustments when their teams are losing. At the halftime of Obama's first term, our country is down -- and so is my party.
As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans. The most important thing our leader can do is to push the reset button with business and not raise taxes on companies in a time of economic hardship. The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business. America's most powerful job-creation engine, the private sector, remains under intense pressure from the uncertainty surrounding tax rates and new regulations, among other things.
As a part of the reset, the President and Democrats should make permanent the current middle-class, capital gains, and dividend tax rates; extend the current rate on top earners for two years; cut the corporate tax rate by half; and suspend the payroll tax -- for both employers and employees -- for six months starting Jan. 1 for all businesses with 500 or fewer employees. And as a compromise on raising rates on the top earners after 2012, the affected income level should be raised to $1 million from $250,000 -- and Republicans should accept a nine-month extension of unemployment benefits for those hardest hit by this downturn.
Second, the President should order his department heads and agency chiefs to declare a moratorium on new regulations until further notice. Whether true or not, business already believes that the Obama administration practices "If you can't legislate, regulate."
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.fortune.cnn.com ...
Using football analogies on the Mextrosexual in Chief will not work.
I wish he was their Obama.
I don’t think he follows the volleyball, as the say.
Obama quoted the “famous political strategist” Woody Allen, who opined that “90 percent of life is just showing up.”
“The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.”
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Which would mean a diminutive government which stays OUT OF THE WAY of businesses.
Government should in no way even approach an equal partnership with business which is what is implied here.
Ford is just a lowlife member of the old criminal Ford family
of Memphis.
Fortunately he was not able to con the white folks of middle and east Tennessee, in his bid for US senator.
I don’t like how the Rats keep throwing out the extension of Ump for everything the GOP comes up with. It just covers the true damage that the leftists wrought. They are just back dooring a new middle-class welfare class.for them to mine for votes. Oh yeah, Screw Harold Ford. He is just another smooth talking leftist.
True. Folks like Ford think of themselves as centrists or “moderates” but are simply repackaging old Leftists goals.
yeah they played a good game for many years. We took out half and let’s see if we can take out the rest in 2012 (for some reason, crazy Loretta Sanchez considers herself a Blue Dog but if her district is crazy enough to re-elect her, I guess we can count that seat as a loss)
I think a Kenyan folktale might have a greater impact on the Usurper.
If one ever saw Barry throw an American football, they would never stop laughing.
Things must not be working out in New York for him. He sounds like he’s trying to appeal to Tennessee. He sounds about as conservative as Corker here.
Makes me sick to think of him as vice chairman at Merrill-Lynch. I guess they know he knows how to steal with both hands. Churning accounts just isn't the golden goose it used to be .
“Makes me sick to think of him as vice chairman at Merrill-Lynch.”
Are you serious?? The Harold Ford from Memphis?
He has only the brains of a street thug...well, on second thought, we have one of those for POTUS.
GOD SAVE ASMERICA.
Ford is 10 times smarter than Obama. He would also be 10 times better for America than Obama. That said, being a Dem, he would still be bad for America, but that just tells you about Obama..
Double speaking SOCIALIST, who now does NOT live in TN. :)
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