Friday, January 29, 2010

After the Economy and Jobs, what would you like to see the President and Congress Address?

After the Economy and Jobs, what would you like to see the President and Congress Address?

14 comments:

  1. i chose iraq, because, the people don't want us there anyway, and the money were spending, could pay for universal hc

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  2. well, with America being $57 trillion in debt and the government pushing up against $14 trillion national debt from spending every dang dime of the taxpayers years in advance....I can only think of one thing tat would override the ones on your list....
    The $100 trillion shortfall in the Social Security and Medicare System and dry dock those 15 cargo ships tat pollute as much as 760 million automobiles.

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  3. u who...Leslie...

    read what Lance Winslow wrote in tat article "The Flow of Trade in a Global Economy"....dang! better yet...jus take the time and read tis ...."Now let us look at Wal-Mart again; you buy a product there, 6% goes to the employees, 10-18% is profit to the company, 25% goes to other costs and 50% goes to re-stock or the cost of goods sold. Of the 50% about 20-25% goes to China, a guess, but you get the point. Now then, how long will it take at 433 Billion dollars at year for China to have all of our money, leaving no money flow for us to circulate? At a 17 Trillion dollar economy less than 40-years minus the 1/6 they buy from us. Some say that if we keep putting money into our economy, it would take forever, but if we do not then eventually all the money flow will go. If China buys our debt then eventually they own us, no need to worry about a war, they are buying America, due in part to our own mismanaged trade, so whose fault is that? Not necessarily China, as they are doing what's in the best interests, and we should make sure that trade is not only free, but fair too."

    Also, think for a moment about George Washington....yes the man tat is on the US dollar bill.... "Washington had been reelected unanimously in 1792. His decision not to seek a third term established a tradition that is now embedded in the 22d Amendment of the Constitution.

    Take the time to read his farewell address after only eight years of serving his country and than ask yourself tis....How do you think George feels being sent overseas in return for all tat foreign so-call cheap items and being left in a foreign bank because the American worker doesn't make anythig for the foreigners to buy. Cheap items didn't make tis great union of 57...oops! 50 states the greatest place on the face of tis Earth.....the American worker (union and non-union) did.

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  4. You can't have a strong country without having a strong currency and you can't have a strong currency unless you keep it floating around within your 50 states. Tis is why the store with the star in the name puts 95% China made items in their stores in China....to keep their "yuan" in their country helping the nice people there. And with only 5% left for all the other 182 country's tat make stuff including the United States of America....tat doesn't produce very many jobs outside of China.

    Being an old person myself and knowing how it wus back in the 40's, 50's and 60's in tis union of 50 states....I look at George each time I pull him out of my billfold and make a promise to send him out for items made in America so after floating around helping each hand he touches jus maybe one day he will shake mine again.

    And take the time to read tis quote which comes from Wal*Mart's China web page...

    "Wal-Mart firmly believes in local procurement. We recognize that by purchasing quality products, we can generate more job opportunities, support local manufacturing and boost economic development. Over 95% of the merchandise in our stores in China is sourced locally. We have established partnerships with nearly 20,000 suppliers in China."

    does tat support American export and American jobs....

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  5. and take the time and check out Michael Hodges "Grandfather Economic Report" on the world wide web and you will learn first hand how the turnips in D. C. have took the word "character" out of Jenkin's Hill and loaded all those chambers with jack@sses and elephants.

    If you get tis far in readin' these comments from an O'fart tat has the learnin' of a third grader....thank you!

    Not many today remember having to drive at 55mph on a Interstate highway and even less remember mandatory gas rationing "A, B, C, X" from December 1, 1942 to August 15, 1945 with a speed limit of 35mph.

    Chrysler made fuselages. General Motors made airplane engines, guns, trucks and tanks. Packard made Rolls-Royce engines for the British air force. And lets not leave out Ford turning out one B-24 Liberator long-range bomber that had 1,550,000 parts every 63 minutes.

    It really is amazing that the hydrogen-fueled internal combustion vehicle has been around since 1807 and Germany had a thousand running the streets doing World War II but after 200 years "oil" still rules.

    What if today... the United States of America sold "Petroleum War Bonds" to individuals and the GM,Chrysler and Ford's of the World get off their lazy @ss.....oops!

    It takes bout $1000 to retro-fit automobiles to run on natural gas....and with America having enough of tis energy for another 100 years....and with the price cheaper than gasoline....if half the people in America put more of tis in their automobile tanks besides tat damn tiger from the Arabian sands....the price of Americans freedom would be worth a 1000 fold and a gallon of gas to those people skiing inside tat man made Aspen ski slope in Dubai worth bout 2 RED CENTS.....

    Ok! I typed enough...time to get up and let my bird dog Licker outside to pee...have a gr8 week and put more attention to what George Washington wrote in his farewell address on September 27, 1796 which he never gave cause he wus embarrass for having no teeth.

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  6. None of the above. I want him to concentrate on shrinking gov't. Give us our rights back.

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  7. I would like to see health care reform not a forced insurance bill.I really didn't see anything on the table to control health care cost I only saw that I was going to be required to purchase health care insurance and that our small business was probably going to get hit with more expense which we can't aford right now.I am our small business will be looking at higher taxes in the future being a sub s corp.Theyu wonder why they can't create jobs these days. We don't want to higher anybody and we continue to get hit with new regulation in the Mortgage business. We have been in business since 1982 and have always been a quality lender helping buyers purchase home with fixed rate loans and did not participate in the non-conforming loan market.We have been a HUD approved lender since 1982.Did the lending programs get out of control yes,were there people in the business doing bad things yes, but they are all gone now.Last year I had to get finger printed and have an FBI background done just to keep doing loans.We needed reform but they always go to far the other way.We just got new Good Faith estimates to give to our clients that raise more questions than ever and don't show the borrower the total payment nor do the reflect the funds the borrower neds to take to closing. It appears the biggest part of the new GFE was to disclose how much money our company makes on a transaction.Its kind like a car dealer showing the customer how much they make on a transaction when you buy a car.Thats the way it is today and we can adapt.
    Please be the voice of the little guys trying to make a living today and employ more people.
    I listened to Chris Dodd on MSNBC this morning and just got more pissed off about the way things are today.Guys like him are the problem and he needs to start looking for a new job.

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  8. The Priorities of our deregulated corporate chemical, biological, military dictatorship is not the same as the priorities of Liing Things.
    Since 1 % of our population OWNS 99% of our country, therefore, the Owners will fund and sponsor that specific ''education'' that turns our children into what the owners of the people need ... obedient, faithful workers, patriotic soldiers, effective teachers, and armed cops, rounding up the rebellious outcasts. Burning books and people at the stake is nothing new to the ENFORCERS of ''civilizations''.

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  9. you have to talk a lot...cause you don't type very much...but I guess if you wus reading a lot...you wouldn't have time to type very much...I jus hope it ain't from one of them ther teleprompters cause tat ain't coming from ones heart.

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  10. All taxes are too high

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  11. Your own poll reveals the same results as everone else's. We are a half step away from what is happening right now in Greece, financial chaos, due to deficit spending. Both parties and both houses are addicted to spending money the nation does not have. We can debate why and when causes are "valid" but no program you or I may champion will be of any merit if the nation collapses. We must put opur financial house in order before committing resources for anythinbg else, regardless of how noble the cause is cloaked.

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  12. Iran should be in the poll.

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  13. Anonymous...you are so right but today it is all about what Alexander Tyler said years ago...

    "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."

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  14. It's probably low on the list of priories but he really should keep his promise to his Armenian voters and push through recognition of the Armenian Genocide. After all the hype when he was elected about he is different from all the rest - I'm getting the feeling he is just the same. Words are cheap, actions speak louder.

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