EDITORIAL
Don't be fooled by White House numbers. You know they lie and have been caught over and over. The phony calculation of an unemployment rate is part of the same funny math. It is based upon the number of people actually seeking jobs who didn't get one. So many people have been out of work so long they don't look for work anymore.
What is the real number? Well a year ago it was this bleak.
For now, 58.7 per cent of American adults are working if the actual employment-population ratio is taken into consideration, leaving about 82 million, or almost 41 per cent of people unemployed. Only 8 per cent, however, are even interested in work, leaving 33 per cent of Americans not only jobless — but with no desire for work. [RT]
This year things have gotten much worse. Combining with the 90 million people who are out of work there are another 10 million who have signed up for welfare which when added to the mix has convinced a number of people that over 100 million Americans are out of work. That's nearly 1 in 3.
If you run a small business you feel that pinch. Every sector of the economy feels this. And it has a ripple effect.
If the local dry cleaner sees his business drop by one third, he has no capital to buy new equipment, paint his building, or buy a car. The equipment manufacturer, the local painter and the car dealership all suffer. In turn, their incomes drop and their buying power affects other businesses.
Something has to be done to shake up the economy, not just shake a finger at it. We are making no progress at all watching the Republicans and Democrats and TEA party people continually tell us what the problem is. We need people to offer vision, and hope and REAL LIFE SOLUTIONS.
I have offered this solution for years now.
1. Shake up the economy by doing away with the IRS and the income tax. BANG, BOOM! Replace it with the Fair Tax.
2. Next, offer tax credits to be used against purchases to companies that bring jobs back to the United States. If a company brings back 100 jobs and keeps those people employed full time for 3 years, at the end of those three years that company would receive a tax waiver equal to some high percentage of the salaries paid which it could use over the next three years, or it could sell them to qualified businesses or offer them as bonuses to employees.
When people begin making salaries again in the United States they will spend those salaries in the United States generating tax revenues here. When people are working for American companies in foreign countries, the foreign employees spend that money in the other countries with no benefits to the United States, keeping American workers out of work and harming our economy.
3. Create a window for capital improvement. Give a short period of time in which any purchase of equipment, new construction or technology purchases gets a pass from the sales tax. Watch how many jobs will be created.
4. Install a ban on imports from any country that doesn't meet our human rights standards or comply with the same pollution standards required of American companies. Why should we make US companies compete on an un-level playing field.
5. Get the hell out of Afghanistan and before we do, destroy their poppy fields.
6. Before we give Amnesty and public benefits to millions of illegal aliens, how about finding a way to ease the student loan debt of millions of America's youth struggling to get a foothold in a collapsed economy.
7. Radically change the Social Security system by securing benefits for seniors, installing cost of living increases, and ending the program for anyone who is now under the age of 18. Sorry, yes that debt will fall on their shoulders, but as they get older there will be fewer and fewer seniors to support and no more being added to the next generations responsibility.
8. Tighten the requirements for Food Stamps. I see hard working Americans with a scant few items in their shopping baskets struggling to find the money to pay for a few essentials while migrant workers push 2 and three carts to the checkout line filled to overflowing only to pay for all of it with government plastic.
9. Audit the Pentagon. We want the strongest military in the world but we don't want it to be the sugar daddy of corrupt industrial relationships.
10. Eliminate several departments within the Federal Government entirely. We can debate which ones, but start with the premise that if it isn't essential, it's wasteful.
Look, I make no claim that my ideas are brilliant, workable, doable, likable, easy, or will fix anything. But if you're like me you are sick and tired of finger pointing, cry babying, and gridlock.
I want to see somebody offer real, comprehensive solutions. I want to see a real plan, not some pandering plate of pablum served up out of fear of corporate lobbyists.
We are about to give Thanks in this country for all of our blessings. We are about to celebrate the birth of a man who single-handedly, with God's help, and all alone, changed the entire world.
And then we are about to celebrate the coming of a new year. How about this time we get the old out and demand that anybody who wants to even get close to the levers of power have a plan, not just a gripe.
I'm in. How about you?
It is not taxes that are the problem.
Don't get me wrong, I am opposed to any type of tax on income or assets.
You could eliminate all taxes and it would be a blip on the screen.
Debt is the noose around neck on this one.
Bad debt is not allowed to be liquidated and zombies are allowed to walk via ballouts.
And the national debt is the worse. The fed is propping up the zombie of all zombies.
Cutting and or spending our way into job creation will not work this time around. The zombies need to be put down.
It is the only solution.
God Bless.
Posted by: Mr. Scott Ryan | November 23, 2013 at 12:27 PM