Posted on 08/10/2003 2:07:44 PM PDT by Brian S
Does that mean the neo-cons are out of favor?
Let's see, we've increased deficits, opened borders, helped companies relocate jobs overseas, inflated the money supply, reduced spending & entitlements nah, that'll never work.
Bush 41 handed Clinton an economy in strong recovery, and the liberal media gave Clinton the credit. Clinton handed Bush 43 an economy in decline, and the liberal media blamed it on Bush 43. It's always the Republican's fault, no matter what.
Now, factor into that economy in decline;.....we are at war (and that is expensive), Clinton holdovers in the government are doing everything they can to sabatoge the economy (and also the war), congressional Democrats, under the direction of the Clintons, are fighting against Bush every step of the way, and the liberal media, of course, is blaming the Bush administration.
And, there are still sufficent numbers of Americans who continue to believe the liberal media, a media, by the way, that utterly refuses to admit it's bias.
Since the one-man one-vote, mob rule democracy, don't expect any improvement in the situation. There was a period of time in our Republic when it was recognized that government bills had to be paid. Now you just pass it onto your children and grandchildren and continue the irresponsible spending. When the economy fails to furnish the necessary profits to pay the bill, you have a tax cut to bribe the taxpayers to vote for you and get past the next election. Never mind that the next recession will be worse because of the deficit financing.
Given the current state of the economy and government policies there is a whole lot that can be done.
1. Get rid of government subsidies for offshore investment of US companies. OPIC is the first such program which should go but support of World Bank programs that subsidize the outflow of Capital would be another.
2. Use tariffs on those nations which are engaged in unfair trade practices such as currency manipulation (China and India for example), those nations which refuse to open their markets to US products (China for example with uts 50% tariffs on US consumer goods and non tariff barriers), those nations that subsidize competition to American Industry(airbus for example) and those nations which have slave conditions for their workers.
3. Use tariffs and other means to prevent the relocation of jobs offshore that are essential to the national defense. If necessary take control of the company seeking to export vital technology or industry by means of eminent domain (No I do not like this last option and I will only defend its use as an absolute last resort like say in the case of rare earth magnets essential to smart bomb technology).
4. An immediate end to guest worker programs. If people wish to come to the USA to work and make a life let them immigrate according to the rules.
5 Provide economic development zones where the corporate income tax is zero for operations within these zones. In order to operate in this zone a company must agree to only purchase American components if available and employ only American citizens or legal immigrants in these operations.
6. Scale back unnecesary regulation.
7. Increase the domestic content in purchases by the Department of defense and give absolute preference in non-domestic content to proven allies of the USA over say the French or Germans.
8. Do not allow expense involved in moving operations overseas to be included in business expenses under the IRS code.
9. Prosecute for perjury anyone who has made a false staement in order to employ an H1B or L1 visa worker. I will be lienient on the actual perjurer if he/she was ordered to make this false statement and he/she provides testimony to aid in the conviction of the person ordering the perjury. Just because a person is a CEO does not give them a pss on criminal behavior.
10. Prosecute anyone who orders the transfer of vital defense technology overseas except to stroing allies of the USA. The UK, and Australia come to mind as meeting these criteria first.
Absolutely nothing there is socialist. It is entirely centered on the free market.
True
Now, factor into that economy in decline;.....we are at war (and that is expensive), Clinton holdovers in the government are doing everything they can to sabatoge the economy (and also the war),
It is 2003 over two years since GWB came into office can you or anyone give me a reason why these holdovers from teh Clinton years are still in office.
...congressional Democrats, under the direction of the Clintons, are fighting against Bush every step of the way, and the liberal media, of course, is blaming the Bush administration.
True.
And, there are still sufficent numbers of Americans who continue to believe the liberal media, a media, by the way, that utterly refuses to admit it's bias.
Also true
Those are among the reasons GWB needs to address the structural economic problems put in place by the Clinton administration. See my proposal above as to how GWB can effectively addres the economy. Now this may irritate some donors to his campaign but it is the right course to win because it gets Americans back working in high paying positions.
One high profile indictment by Ashcroft could do wonders for compliance.
I have no problem with this statement.
It is amazing we are doing as well as we are, by that, still the best economic numbers in the world!
I will agree that it is amazing we are doing as well as we are with so many of the Clinton economic policies held over by the Bush administration but stating our economic numbers are teh best in teh world is far from a factual statement. China is having an 8% growth year. Us economic growth byy the rosiest estimates will be arround 2% without any increases in employment. Some economists put that figure well below that number.
Further when you take out imports from teh picture one may even find negative economic growth but any such projection necessarily involves estimates that are not reliable as the hard statistical data is not provided. In short it can not be easily proven so is subject to question and is an unprovabe assertion on my part.
This direction according to the manager who is senior enough to know comes from the very top of the company and failure to comply means this manager will be let go. So the manager is faced with perjury or job loss without chance of future employment. Said manager has mortgage, children and loomimg college expenses.
Now were the CEO of this corporation which is so large it is almost a government in and of itself should IMHOP be indicted tried convicted and sentenced to a maximum security prison. And even though I dislike asset forfeiture laws this CEO should have all his assetts seized as he has met the criteria for having this respected corporatiopn become a criminal enterprise.
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