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What needs to be done by Republicans is placing ads on radio and tv explaining how capitalism and the free-market works. It should be obvious to the great majority of Americans that capitalism has worked out great for most Americans and will continue to do so. But from my conversations with friends, family, and co-workers, few have any idea how the free-market works, why America is so wealthy...and why many Americans are so fat. Maybe the Bush admin feels that discussing the basics of the free-market is too complicated for the average American, but I'd like them to give it a try. Americans should understand that it is pointless to try to save jobs that can't or shouldn't be saved. They should especially hammer home the point that governments do not create wealth...business does.

It should be obvious to the great majority of Americans that capitalism has worked out great for most Americans and will continue to do so.

. The reason it has worked is because the capital that these companies made before free trade was invested back inside the borders of our country in factory expansions and modernization and the building of new factories which in turn created more jobs.

You cannot create new jobs of any kind without capital to invest. That money is gone, overseas, it's not hear building factories,it's creating jobs in Red China and elsewhere. That's where the jobs are going. Jobs follow the money, always have, always will.

If you want your business to grow you have to put money into it. If you want your checking account to grow you have to put money in it.If you want your country to grow you have to put money in it.If you keep taking out more than you put in you're going to come up empty.

Those of you who laugh and say it can't happen to me, well I can introduce to about 9,000 people who where saying the same thing about 7 yrs ago.It started in the early 70's before some of you where born.

We watched the others go for 25yrs. before they got to us, the steel mills, oil companies, appliance manufacturers,the textile, the shipbuilding, the auto workers, all the support industries ,parts and equipment makers and the construction trades etc. etc. they're gone and the fraction that's left of these skilled workers, that are working, are doing so at greatly reduced wages and benefits.

The reason they're getting to the high tech is because they already got most of the good paying blue collar workers. If you are making good wages with good benefits you can bet one thing you're next. If they can get it done cheaper, and they can, they will. If you're in you're late 20's early 40's and have a good paying job, better start reducing you're debt load if you can, you're in the crunch zone .

They should especially hammer home the point that governments do not create wealth...business does.

"the power to tax is the power to destroy."
governments destroy wealth by faulty taxation policies, unfair trade laws and inequitous tariffs, as in the phony NAFTA agreements and the World Trade Organization.

all designed to destroy and export American's wealth to the poorer, underpriviledged souls in third world nations... 'from each according to his means to each according to his needs'
they get our jobs and our wealth.
we get a lower standard of living, longer work hours and less benefits. They get more of the same. It's all so, you know, "more equal."

of course the fact that "from each according to..." is marxian communism, doesn't escape the rest of us.
Worldwide socialism has just about got the whole ball of string, and we THINK we are free. hah.

the outsourcing of american jobs is indefensible.
I, and many other Americans believe this is communism at it's heart.
as are those who support it.

nice to see they are redefining capitalism, into socialistic communism... and telling us we don't "understand" what capitalism really means.

no sale here pal.
a duck is a duck.

Interestingly, many economists are not capitalism supporters. My econ prof at Berkeley was an outright socialist. He taught that capitalism was only supported by people who got rich and that they lied to gain support. Many people believed him, (he supported the idea of a 200 mpg car that was being hidden from the public by the car and gas companies, what a jerk).

Anyway, you need to have people the people believe doing this country wide teaching. Also people need to learn about investment, most have no idea. Bush's re-election depends on him convincing the voters that the economy is doing well and that his tax cuts are the cause. As pointed out by Tony Snow on Fox today, the dems have no other issue to argue with Bush about.