The Current Economic Slowdown in America: Who I Blame

The DemocRATs in congress and the two candidates running in their primary believe the path to prosperity comes from higher taxation which has never worked. The current income tax rates on corporations has made the business climate in America toxic to outside investors. This has driven up the cost of doing business here and driven down the value of our dollar. All this has occurred in 2 years of DemocRAT control of congress! To elect any more DemocRATs to office will surely plunge the US economy into a full blown recession and possibly a depression like that of 1933.

We can pull out of this by doing three things right away:

1. Voting more business friendly Republicans into office.

2. Changing the income tax code to a consumption based tax code which will broaden the tax base and eliminate taxation on all types of income.

3. Voting more Libertarian and Independents into office.

Putting more Libertarians in congress will have a dramatic effect. First it will relegate DemocRATs into the minority where they belong. Second, it will remind Republicans that they shouldn't act like DemocRATs. The third effect will be when more Libertarians are in congress Americans will truly have more freedom and less government.

More Republicans in congress will have an immediate effect on the budget process and lower the corporate income tax rates. This will make investment in American companies more favorable to everyone.

Changing from an income tax to a consumption tax like that of the Fair Tax will broaden the tax base to more people paying and further insulate the taxation on business income. This will stimulate investment in America by turning it into the world's tax haven. We will once again be the world's super power in a facets of business.

The choice is clear Vote Republican and enjoy greater prosperity or Vote DemocRAT and enjoy more misery.

I will now attempt to educate you on the "Big Picture" via-a-vis the War on Terror, Energy and the Economy using facts and logic. This tactic is lost on the majority of DemocRAT voters pandered to by the likes of Obama and Clinton.

The war in Iraq is just one front in the larger War on Terror. Afghanistan is another front. To separate the two is tantamount to saying why are we killing the Germans when it was the Japanese who attacked us. It is NOT a "fabricated" war or any other such talking point nonsense spouted by the mindless anti-capitalist left. You would be doing yourself a favor by getting used to the fact that our military is going to be in Iraq and Afghanistan for years to come. We still have bases in Germany, Japan and South Korea, the Middle East is no different. Calling for a complete withdrawal of troops from the region is another '60s dope smoking pipe dream, it's not going to happen. Iraq is just another of our "forward bases" the only difference is this one is fully manned. The others in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are for material. It just makes sense to have most of the equipment already over in the theater where you'll need it. The people need to run the equipment can be moved there quickly.

You achieve "peace" through strength, not by acquiescence. We have already enjoyed some dividends achieved through our being in the region and showing the "Ragheads" what we are capable of. Moammar Qadafi publicly gave up his pursuit of nuclear weapons shorty after witnessing how quickly we decimated Saddam Hussein's government. These dictators understand one thing. The use of force. Do you think this would have happened without us being there? I don't. Qadafi didn't want to be next on the list. He made the right choice.

In the 7 years since being attacked on 11 September 2001 and our response US interests around the world and in our homeland hasn't been attacked. Contrast this with Bill Clinton's administration where every month an embassy was being car bombed. Bill Clinton was a "paper tiger" and it was just a matter of time before al Qaida was successful in attacking our homeland. They did try to bring down the World Trade Center on his watch and Bill Clinton's response was to try and convict them in court. Yeah, great idea Billy, that sure had them quaking in there boots now didn't it? His policy was one of reaction, not pro action. Attack us first, kill as many American lives as you can and we'll hunt you down and arrest you. No, I my opinion, hunting them down and dispatching them to "Paradise" has been a far better plan. Peace through strength, works every time it's tried.

People need to get over their "wealth envy" as it is blinding them and making them susceptible to DemocRAT talking points designed to get them elected and will do nothing to help their situation. Calling the President a "rodent" and making negative comments about his ranch or his intelligence is clear evidence of wealth envy. Envy is one of the 7 deadly sins and it will destroy no one but YOU.

George W. Bush is not a king who decided one day to punish his subjects by sending their jobs overseas. The income tax code is largely responsible for that. The double taxation of income and capital as well as the Unions grip on labor is what sent the manufacturing jobs out of this country. Changing from an income tax code to a consumption tax code would bring many of the jobs back and make the US the world's tax haven.

The jobs belong to the employers, not to the employees. The fact that you have a job is evidence that what you are doing is making money for your employer. When the time comes that it is no longer profitable for you to be employed, you will lose the job. The simple fact is it's NOT "your job". It's your employers job and he can give it to you or take it away. The unions make you believe it's your job and hold labor hostage from a company by making ever increasing demands for wages and benefits until the company is forced to go out of the country to remain profitable. Hey Union, what you gonna do for me now? I live in America, not China!

UPS went on strike a while back and FedEx stepped up to the plate and got into the package delivery business and now they are kicking UPS ass. UPS drivers are Union and they have concessions like no single package can weigh over 70 lbs. FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery are not union and are in fact "Independent Contractors". The man or woman driving those trucks more in likely own that truck. They have no silly 70 lb package rules. The packages shipped through FedEx can weigh up to 100 lbs. The result is the customer can ship their stuff in one box instead of two. More boxes can fit into a delivery vehicle and more can be delivered. Better service means more customers and that leads to more profit.

FedEx also bought a freight company called American Freight and renamed it FedEx Freight. UPS followed suit by buying OverNite and renaming it UPS Freight, but I've see owner operators with "Leased to UPS Freight" placards on their doors, so you can bet money they're NOT union drivers.

The fact of the matter vis-a-vis presidential control of government only goes so far. True, we had the White House and both houses of congress under Republican control from 2000 to 2006. This was not complete control because of Democrat minority holding up the works in the Senate. It didn't matter what bill passed through the House during this period because it died in the Senate. Ditto for judicial confirmations. Now, thanks to the Dumb Mass voters, the control of congress is in the Democrats hands and true to form nothing is getting done. Except of course the blame game and endless investigations. Democrats can't legislate, so they investigate. Meanwhile big business knowing from past history Democrats are fond of taxation and regulation is keeping their capital investments on hold waiting to see what happens. The net result is the slowing US economy.

You can't go back to the 1990s any more than can you go back to the 1950s. The facts have changed and the worldwide dynamics are different. In the 1990s the Chinese people were riding bicycles and motor scooters, today they are driving cars. The worldwide demand for crude oil is what drives up the price, not what the oil companies want to pay for it.

Fact is they make more money per quarter when the price is low because you'll use more than when it's high. Governments collect more tax revenue when the price is lower for the same reason. The reason the price is higher is because the price you pay is what it costs for the retailer to replace the inventory. Every time crude oil goes up so does the price of the end product. To charge less would mean the inability to replace the same amount of inventory in the future. This is why "price controls" and "anti-gouging laws" never work and always lead to shortages.

Lastly, you will never see anyone who has run a multi-billion dollar company run for President. They wouldn't want to take the pay cut. I think Steve Forbes was the last one and he didn't get very far. Why in God's name would you give up your anonymity and a multi million dollar paycheck with stock options for a job that pays $400,000 per year and one where every crack pot wants to put a bullet through your skull. Doesn't make too much sense to me.

Neither does allowing too many Dumb Mass citizens anywhere near a voting booth. If you cannot name the last five Presidents without asking for help or looking in up online then you have no business voting for the one man or woman in charge of running this nation. Letting Dumb Masses decide who becomes President is the same as allowing those bums you see at highway off ramps decide who the next CEO of General Motors should be. Thanks to the "Motor Voter" bill signed into law by Bill Clinton we are doing just that, letting Dumb Masses decide what's best for the rest of us.