Ubama doesn’t work. He’s never worked.
In the private sector, an employee either directly or indirectly provides a product or service that is valued by others. The service or produce is purchased and either consumed, used (and replaced) or sold to another for the same. Thus the cycle grows wealth and wealth increases standards of living. There is no limit to the wealth that can be created (ever). However, wealth creation has a starting point. The beneficiaries of wealth creation are those entering the job market or industry regardless of age. Eventually, and hopefully, many of those will become wealth creators themselves as they advance in society's social structure.
That is until the cycle is interrupted and those who would otherwise enter the wealth creation cycle at an entry level are plucked from the process and placed on an entitlement program that requires government worker supervision and management.
Conversely, a government job is created by paying a government worker to manage the expenditures of tax revenue for the “good of the nation.” Politicians and media elite would have you believe that hiring a government worker broadens the tax income revenue base. At what cost? If a government worker is paid $100,000/year in salary and benefits, they may pay $18,000 per year in taxes. This worker is costing the other tax payers $82,000/year.
It is hardly a good thing that the government has “added” jobs in this case.
What's worse is that the government employee produces nothing that is actually consumed or builds wealth. It is impossible for the government to “build wealth” through job creation. Indirectly, the government does make many individuals wealthy (Fannie and Freddy, Solyndra, Politicians, etc.), but at a cost to the tax paying public at large far in excess of what is made.
Wealth is only a “zero sum game” when the government intervenes and interrupts the free market capital system. Since government does not produce a consumable product or service, it can only redistribute wealth based on the revenue it collects. AND there is a cost to collecting, accounting for and redistributing this wealth that must be skimmed from the collected revenue to pay for the government management of it before it can be redistributed.
Thus government can only be a consumer of wealth, not a creator.
When you buy a loaf of bread, what does the baker do with the money you pay him?
Does he eat the money?
No!
He buys more raw goods, pays his staff, pays his rent on his building and equipment, and pays his taxes.
THAT is the “Multiplier Effect” that you derisively refer to as “Trickle Down” and it works EVERY TIME IT'S TRIED!
This man is a mirror of reality.
30 years ago we had no Apple, no Cisco, no Google, no Yahoo!, no Microsoft, no eBay, no Amazon, no NetFlix. What is common among all these? Wealthy investors pooled their money with venture capitalists and financed all these startups (and a gazillion more). “Trickle down” is a moronic catch-phrase, but nevertheless, investment by the wealthy has created millions of new jobs in brand new industries that didn’t exist a few years ago.
O’bastard is a blithering idiot.
Here’s the problem: It doesn’t work. It’s never worked.
How can anyone question that cutting regulations would increase productivity and job growth?
Every regulation no matter how simple to comply with cost money to comply with.
Simply documenting compliance cost a worker time that could be put to productive use. Companies spend millions every year simply paying people to sift through the Federal Register and tell them what the new regulations are and how they impact their business.
Regulations are a moving target. A company may spend millions of dollars to purchase new equipment this year and by the time the equipment is installed and tested he may no longer be in compliance. (I know a company this happened to)
Want to know a good reason for industries to move overseas. Regulations are a big one.
So trickle-up poverty is working??
If trickle down did not work no one would be employed...
Poor people with no money do not start businesses and hire folks....
It is the welfare state, wealth redistribution and government dependency that is trickle down. Life is not a trickle down proposition. You have to take responsibility for your own life and your own future. Waiting for the government to send money down your way is a slow death. It stunts and suffocates real life. We are all responsible for out own happiness. The problem with the world is that people have become way too dependent on other people to trickle down life on them.
No trickle down does not and can not work.
Be independent. Be alive. Don’t expect others to provide for you. There is no hope and no life in dependency.
Unfortunately we have always had a segment of society that was prepared to eat this rhetoric up.
I remember back in Reagan’s time a lot of them would complain that “a lot more would trickle down to us if Government would just SQUEEZE those sponges at the top!”
Translation: all money belongs to the federal government, and you're hoarding more than your "fair share."
When he started did he say, "It's great to be in Texas." when he was actually in Kansas? I thought I'd heard that on the radio while driving but I told myself I was mistaken. Even the president of these 58 states couldn't be that stupid.
I hate Dems. Proven policies are said “not to work” while every single Dem policy that NEVER works is expanded.
I wish the “average” voter would wake the f%#$ up.
It had to happen--Obama's level of lying BS has left me speechless.
[Theodore Roosevelt], declared in his 1910 ‘square deal’ address that the ‘right to regulate the use of wealth in the public interest is universally admitted.’
‘MOOCHERS ‘universally admit’ this right to regulate aka the right to extort from producers at gunpoint, money and goods in order to buy votes from non/under producers. Commie Claptrap like this really brings out the ‘HOOD’ in robin hood.
....too bad TEDDY never got a chance to read Milton Friedman’s ‘FREE TO CHOOSE’ (Your loss small grasshopper.)