Posted on 11/09/2015 3:28:10 PM PST by citizen
Tuesday’s Republican debate will be focusing on economic issues, including how to restore prosperity to this country for all Americans, how to strengthen our middle class and create more good-paying jobs.
On Friday, we found out that the economy added 271,000 jobs in October with the unemployment rate falling to 5%. But those numbers don't reflect reality for millions of Americans still struggling to find a job. The number of Americans who are currently working or actively looking for work is at 62.4%, the lowest level since 1977. Median household income has actually fallen since President Obama took office in January 2009.
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Too many of our middle class, and those who aspire to it, have been pushed out their houses and are for the most part done forever with the stock market following the 2008 financial crisis, the worst since the Great Depression.
The rate of homeownership is near a half-century low. Imagine, the percentage of Americans owning homes is below 64%, and there are fewer people who are buying their first home. The number of first-time home buyers is at its lowest level in nearly three decades.
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-Dimocrats have their way and spend, regulate and socialize the country as much as possible.
-Their acts dampen the economy, run up debt and curtail freedom.
-Military diminished and socially hollowed out by mainstream brass.
-Middle class also hollowed out.
-Liberal judges appointed.
The Republican establishment (who is only marginally less liberal than the Dims) regain power and correct the direction of the country for a while.
Net result:
-Money spent can not be unspent, skewing interest rates.
-Freedoms lost are rarely regained.
-Military treads water, if that.
-Economy recovers somewhat but middle class remains diminished.
-SC and judgeships remain largely liberal.
Throw in, in no particular order...
A Godless, renegade Moslem president who hates America and disregards the US Constitution - except when he can twist it to favor his evil aims...
Also add FED chairmen and Wall Street bankers who pliantly do his bidding for their own gains...
Worldwide economy currently contracting and also awash in printed cash...
China and other 3rd world economied increasingly affecting trade, commodities, etc
Euro invasion and other turmoil...
UN/tin pot dictators...
EPA and other alphabet agancy micchief...
I say again: Good Luck, Lou, in Resuscitating the Middle Class
I threw this together pretty quickly. I'm sure there's plenty I missed - both the bad and maybe some good, too.
That's about the only way back that I see, short of world war, world famine and no one wants to see that.
I remain gobsmacked at how Republicans fail to reclaim any rights the Democrats stole, and how they fail to repeal the sort of onerous crap the Dems pass. Aside from the conspicuous moratorium on prosecuting the previous government's obvious criminals, that is the major indicator that allegedly "conservative" members of Congress are suffering from extreme low T.
Why do you think the slimy Republican Uni-party slugs care about any ones rights? Have they behaved like they wanted to protect any ones rights?
That’s right, Joe. Even after Republicans “fix things” the country still remains a notch or two further to the left.
So we have Trump to roll back the progressive excesses, if he will. Cruz would too, I believe, if he can get elected. The media and GOPe simply despises Cruz. Carson I can’t figure but he’s certainly better (I think) than the remaining candidates. Maybe veep.
Rubio, who could win, and Huck, who can’t, both express GOPe tendencies. Carly maybe for a veep slot. I actually like Huck as veep, he really talks a good game and would do as told, I believe. Bush, Kasich, more GOPe. Paul a possibility, I guess, but has no chance.
Not much since Eisenhower. They did let the AWB sunset, but that wasn't pro-active. All else has been pretty much ineffective or smoke and mirrors.
Much of what they have done has had such glaring opportunities for abuse, yet people were roundly howled at for opposing those measures (like the Patriot Act).
People need to always look at such measures and imagine what their worst enemies would do with that power, unchecked, and then act/vote accordingly.
So much got through because people thought it would be used for "good"...and has since been turned on us.
Lou Dobbs, though I haven’t seen him lately, was one of the few bright spots at FN. Maybe the only one.
No. But get outside of Washington, DC and things get closer to the people and more conservative. Repubs have made gains in state houses and state legislatures and in a lot of county/city governments.
Sure, the lib states like Illinois, Kalifornia, NY remain problems but broke states can't attract industry and jobs and their influence will continue to diminish - I hope.
What we need is a Republican strongman to brush aside the GOPe DC liberal clones and the MSM. A conservative version of 0bama or Hugo Chavez that govern fearlessly and as may be needed to revitalize America - to make it great again, so to speak. An updated Reagan, maybe. So that's a Trump....or a Cruz, as I see it.
I think the rot really began to take hold with the 16th Amendment (income tax) followed by the 17th Amendment (direct popular voting for senators).
Couple those two acts and along comes Woodrow Wilson becoming president and so the Republic was speeding along the path to rampant progressivism.
Yeah, I think Lou and CNN got tired of each other, what with Dobbs concentrating so much on illegal immigration. He’s quite correct about illegal immigration and is a much better fit on the Fox News and Business channels.
I think most of us would be happy if they would do their jobs, like securing the country from invasion, and stopped “helping” us by micro-managing the economy by raising minimum wages and putting an “Affordable Care” act in place so that businesses won’t hire people for more than 30 hours.
Next they’ll do some “Save the planet” fancy footwork that will help us even more ... just stop `resuscitating us and do the job the states created you to do, instead of being the Frankenstein monster sticking its nose in and breaking things left and right that we’ve come to know and loathe.
Here, here! Just properly do the job they’re elected to do.
But they can’t stop doing the K-Streeters bidding - as they also amass their own power and privilege. And they can’t keep their hands off our money.
We need a Trump or a Cruz to right the ship, imo.
Karl Marx HATED the middle class.
He HATED them.
But in 2015, we’re using Marx’s ideas to help the middle class.
Then we can’t understand why the middle class is disappearing...
I’m thinking the Dimocrats hate an independent middle class, too. They need poor people to need them....to need other people’s money.
Unfettered immigration was ok 100 years ago. Then not working meant not eating. Now not working means other people feed you, house you, clothe you, educate you and your kids, pay for your healthcare and on and on.
“...just as ruthless in taking back and repairing the damages 0bama is done...”
O didn’t do it alone. He had LOTS of help at local, county, state, and fed levels.
True, he had the MSM to either ignore or cheer for his subversions.
And the large help of the GOPe/RINO controlled Congress. With a few member exceptions, they only put up faux opposition. Which is to say the Congress helped because they wanted to.
And here is where I get really pessimistic - with robotics evolving - jobs we all think would be here for ever will also go away. Taxi drivers?, train conductors? truck drivers? even airline pilots? Those may all go away and automation will take their place.
I even read a report that doctors would be replaced by diagnostic machines - but this was seen as a positive in that it would free doctors from drudgery.
It used to be automation created as many jobs than it lost - we are now at the tipping point where automation reduces jobs. That means its a buyer's market and wages will be reduced.
Unless your kids or grandkids are geniuses or talents in the arts, there will be no middle class jobs like before.
PS: Yes, we can still learn about being plumbers - but if everyone goes to become a plumber then their pay decreases as well. It's a vicious cycle.
The other path is less pessimistic - we get some sort of Star Trek Federation utopia because technology allows us to have a good life without working for money. I think the future is one big slum world like that movie with Matt Damon. But who knows.
Good grief!! You make a lot of good points. I, too, have wondered where the technology advances are leading.
In my field (civil engineering - roads bridges sewers sidewalks, etc) there have been tremendous advances in computer programs that provide calculation, layout, inventory, drawing assistance and much more. Everything is networked and is becoming more automated.
So far us engineers and technicians are necessary and there’s only so much you can ask a program to do because every road, bridge or tunnel has its own unique problems and design characteristics to overcome. Plus, most infrastructure work is funded by the taxpayer or is built for public use so the engineering will mostly be done domestically.
But it’s true that robots will increasingly build, repair and generally manage the world to a large extent.
I figure if twenty people have a shoe shining kit, they can all shine each other’s shoes and pay for each one by exchanging the same $10 bill. How that grows the economy is another question :(
Trump/Cruz2016....or Cruz/Trump2016 works too but is less likely.
Karl Marx HATED the middle class.
He HATED them.
The Communist Manifesto is a how too for getting rid of the middle class.
But go listen to any Obama/Warren/Sanders/Pelosi/Reid speech and all you’ll hear is “we need this Marxist idea to help the middle class” and “we need that Marxist idea to help the middle class.”
And middle class Marxists keep voting for it. :)
And the young people, too. Those “heads full of mush” get indoctrinated into socialism in grammar and high schools and it continues in colleges. Academia is what? 90% liberal? Gotta be that more or less these days. Maybe less in the rural, older teachers.
In liberal/progressive households they start in as soon as the kids can understand words. Sesame Street, Barney, the homosexual rainbows and triangles, they start brainwashing them early. The ones they don’t abort, that is.
And the children don’t know any better, they learn what they are taught. Oil is bad. Windmills are good. Don’t point your finger. You have to share your school supplies in a communal pool. I know dozens of people who are convinced the earth is warming, ice is melting, seas are rising and polar bears are drowning. And they will believe that until they die no matter what, no matter how cold it gets in the coming decades of solar minimums.
And all the while the middle class is being destroyed as you say. Turned into government needing serfs, working low-paying jobs if they work at all.
This is a big election, as they all are. There is much to do to roll back the socialist/Godless excesses of the progressive liberals. We need Trump/Cruz or one or the other to be elected next November.
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