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Posted on 06/28/2005 5:01:32 AM PDT by Molly Pitcher
There’s an old tale which says that if you take a frog and throw him in a pot of hot, boiling water the frog will jump out. But if you take the frog and put him in a pot of cold water, and gradually turn up the heat, little by little over a long period of time, the frog’s body will adjust to the incremental increases of heat and eventually boil to death.
The U.S. economy is like a frog in a pot of boiling water and he can’t jump out to save himself. One of his legs is the oversized tax code, and the other leg is the dysfunctional Social Security system. Congress has slowly turned up the heat on the tax code and Social Security through countless incremental adjustments ever since 1913 and 1935, respectively, when these two programs were enacted.
While the president and many others have proposed solutions to strengthen Social Security long-term with optional personal retirement accounts, the Democrats in Congress have simply insisted that there is no crisis and that the frog is in no danger. To make matters worse, the liberal media writers and reporters have already started concluding to the public that optional personal retirement accounts are dead in the water.
If the public allows this self-fulfilling political prophesy to persist, then the Social Security leg of our economic infrastructure will continue to deteriorate. A one-legged frog can’t jump very far. Unless Congress acts soon the frog, our economy, will be dead in the water.
The politics of obstruction are slowly killing our economic future, while countries like China and India are closing the economic gap. Even though some of our nation’s best economic and intellectual minds have repeatedly endorsed the optional personal retirement accounts concept, the Democrats in Congress are content to do nothing. Even though the evidence is overwhelming that personal retirement accounts work, the Democrats and a few misinformed Republicans want to wait until we are forced to raise taxes and reduce benefits in order to save grandma’s Social Security check. That’s not a solution. That’s irresponsible.
No matter how much the president has talked about the facts and the evidence, the Democrats in Congress have offered no solution, and there has been no thunderous challenge from the media. If the media had been as frenzied about the Democrat’s obstructionism as they were about the “runaway bride,” the public would be better informed, rather than being confused and misled.
In fact, a June 13 report by the Media Research Center found that, “Social Security coverage on the five major networks has been overwhelmingly against personal accounts by a margin of 2 to 1. Four of the five gave more air time to the liberal position (against) than to explaining economic realities.”
The economic reality of doing nothing is economic destruction. The only question is when.
Similarly, I predict that the Democrats will use the same “do-nothing” attack against changing the obese tax code when the President’s Tax Panel issues its report. No matter what the Tax Panel recommends, the Democrats will make their usual cries of, “it’s a tax cut for the rich.” That’s Democratic code again for “let’s keep the economic frog in hot water and turn up the heat for the good of the Party and the next election.”
The Democrats in Congress try to create the perception that they are the political party that best represents the poor. There is some truth to that claim. They want everybody to be poor when they retire in the future by doing nothing today.
The combination of do-nothing Democrats and a divided Republican majority is a losing combination for the American public. Our economy is now back on solid ground and growing steadily since it was rocked by the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The economy’s resiliency is a testament to the optimism and pride Americans have shown in their nation since the attacks. But resiliency, optimism and pride can’t sustain forever the effects of an insolvent Social Security system and a tax code which robs hard-working Americans of their dreams.
We have a unique opportunity in this presidential term to save America’s economic future by restructuring the Social Security system and replacing the out-of-date tax code. Congress has turned up the heat on our economic frog’s legs long enough. Let’s turn up the heat on Congress and demand that our elected representatives save the frog.
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John Linder in the House(HR25) & Saxby Chambliss Senate(S25) offer a comprehensive bill to kill all income and SS/Medicare payroll taxes outright and replace them with with a national retail sales tax administered by the states.
H.R.25,S.25
A bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national retail sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.Refer for additional information:
I clicked on this article thinking it was about France. My bad.
Did you write this? ^-^
It wasn't water they dumped the frog in, it was hydrochloric acid.
I do get tired of the whole boiling-frog analogy. For one thing, it isn't true. Frogs are perfectly capable of telling when water's too hot.
For another, so what? Humans aren't frogs, and social trends we don't like aren't boiling water.
Could we have a moratorium on the frog-boiling quote for a few months?
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Me too, although it is a good way to illustrate the stealth of the left. In addition to your reason, the water would have to be shallow enough for the frog to touch the bottom of the pot. Frogs can jump using just water as a launching pad. If the frog was touching the bottom, the bottom would heat up much faster than the water, destroying the gradualness as well as the analogy.
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Also, do you know if there is a ping list for Thomas Sowell? Sowell is pretty bright, too.
Hear, hear! Herman Cain is right on, as usual.
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One of the Things I have enjoyed in getting to know Herman Cain is that he is a multi-dimensional person. Whenever Mr. Cain is speaking, the audience listens with peculiar alertness simply because he has something to say that is interesting and inspiring.
I'm forwarding the link to his newly formed organization, New Voters Alliance and would encourage you to check it out. When I registered I figured I would read a lot of issue oriented "stuff", its there, but what he has is far more. I mentioned his multi-dimensional personality, Cain doesn't just include issue related material, but LIFE TOOLS. In the Members Only section his links are:
Achieving Your Dreams
Refocusing Your Dreams
Motivational Moments
Inspirational Moments
Pearls of Wisdom
I would encourage you to check out his site and register at http://www.newvotersalliance.org/home.asp
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Motivational Moments
"Focus, Focus, Focus"
Focus is the ability to block out the unnecessary "stuff", so you can concentrate on the necessary.
That means eliminating or minimizing distractions, which do not directly contribute to bottom line performance of your business, or your personal happiness, especially when times are tough.
When I became president of Godfather's Pizza Inc. in 1986, we had too many types of crusts on our menu, with different flour formulations, with different mixing procedures, which made product consistency nearly impossible. I made an executive decision and eliminated three of the four crusts, so we could better execute the original Godfather's crust. Our business got better.
What are the unnecessary crusts-s-s (metaphorically) in your business or life, so you can concentrate on "what brought you to the dance".
The essence of Focus is sacrifice. You don't add "stuff" when times are tough. You eliminate "stuff". That's Focus.
Seems to me he's just trying to illustrate his point by making an analogy.
Somehow I doubt he was calling us all frogs.
Good point, m-n-r, hadn't considered that ... but I'm with you all the way on the FairTax.
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