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- The last time I counted all the States that were on some form of 10 Amendment actions it exceeded 30 so we are not far from being able to convince 38 legislatures to hold a Article V State convention which Congress can not stop or even influence - IMO
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- I was reviewing an old blog I once started and did not finish but it is intereting in how little things change over over time.
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Congress lies about taxes
The new congress wants to increase taxes on BIG oil and BIG business. We live in a free enterprise economy and that means a business can not pay taxes. Taxes can only be collected for the government as a cost of doing business.
So, if congress increases the tax on a hamburger by $.25 each, the burger business will be forced to increase the price to citizens by $.50. This cost is higher than the tax because business enterprises and Corporations have expenses called overhead. This overhead expense pays rents, insurance, utilities, salaries, services and other costs. So, the BIG business has a 50% overhead and we will pay twice the tax charged in our retail price.
This applies to each and every product from food to vacations and medical services. Congress would like us to believe that there really is a free lunch, they are in denial that any tax increase will be paid from large bloated profits.
Congress really knows the truth that business enterprises or corporations can not absorb inreased taxes from profits without becoming non-competitive and close down like some airline and steel manufacturing companies. What congress will not admit is they know this is a very regressive tax and falls mainly on the poor because they spend all their income on consumption. Middleclass and others invest some of their money and avoid hidden taxes.
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- This could be a major event in the future of our nation and having a chance in the Supreme court for fair and Constitutional decisions - My old Texas Congressman is the chairman and he is quiet but will not back off a charging lion.
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- The former boss of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, said the reason Gen-Xers are unemployed and suffering from a lower standard of living is because they are lazy, stupid, and unproductive. U.S. companies would be better off hiring immigrants.“Baby boomers are being replaced by groups of young workers who have regrettably scored rather poorly in international educational match-ups over the last two decades,” said Greenspan. “The average income of U.S. households headed by 25-year-olds and younger has been declining relative to the average income of the baby boomer population. This is a reasonably good indication that the productivity of the younger part of our workforce is declining relative to the level of productivity achieved by the retiring baby boomers. This raises some major concerns about the productive skills of our future U.S. labor force.”So-called Gen-Xers are not stupid and lazy. They are victims of globalism and outsourcing. Over the last two decades, jobs have been systematically stripped from the United States and exported to slave gulags in China and India. Gen Xers must compete with people who make two or three dollars a day.
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- Lock,Just to add credence to the your last paragraph. I work for an American created and owned company. We have been under increasing pressure to lower product cost. A few years ago they started having a limited number of parts made overseas. Best I can tell starting pay over there (Dong-in) is 86 cents an hour. There's no way to compete with that.
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- automate or die is the American manufacturing fate. Regulation and energy costs will not permit us to compete even when labor content is under 25%.This was from a US company person -Just because every cheap toy or consumer good is made in China doesn't mean everything else is.Let them make the junk, I'll keep manufacturing high tech, jet engines, and industrial machinery.
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- The other side of the equation is that without consumers, why manufacture.We are the largest consumer market in the world, with the most disposable income. Make it here, sell it here and export the excess. I doubt many American consumers are in the market for high tech, jet engines, and industrial machinery. Not isolationist - competitive. A blend of high tech and low tech can compete.The demise of the Construction industry for example, has hurt jobs significantly - workers, suppliers, supporting services. You dont import housing, it is primarily homegrown. But unless the industrial activity picks up, service and high tech jobs wont produce a demand for housing. Viscious circle - and the vortex spirals downward.Make em and sell em. Get government out of the way and American ingenuity will figure out the details to kick the global markets ass. Make America a "re-emerging" market. Create the environment that made us great; where small business innovators thrive, and become the 'Corporations' of tommorrow.Kennedy's Space challenge sparked a ton of innovation and resulting technology and prosperity. We need to make the new challenge nationally, this time without government involvement.
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- 30%+ of our GNP is from exports, if we stop the high tech goods being manufactured here there will be no consumer demand as the per capita income crashes to third world levels. What is the gross value of the consumer products are sold in the almost 3 billion population of India and China - not nearly the 30% plus of the USA consumption.If we can not develop employment for the inner-city 40% + of permanent unemployed we can not solve the budget problem or the coming crash of cultures.
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- I really dont understand why you do that Lock. I never propositioned that "we stop the high tech goods being manufactured here".Do BOTH consumer and high tech goods AND produce our own energy. Produce so much of ALL of those things that we have a surplus to export. Do it so well that our products represent the best VALUE on the planet, where value = where quality and price intersect.All that production requires services and supporting business to operate. Screw the details and speculation, whatever supports any industry or individual self interest. Thats just another form of manipulation.Get the government out of the way. Let 'er rip. Let the chips fall where they may. Stop trying to "engineer everything" IMO.
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- sorry, I did not mean that you backed not doing any manufacturing - I was simply attempting to show how much we depend on a very small segment of our society and waste the remainder rendering it a liability instead of a benefit.Many people believe we can buy our consumer goods forever from Asia or others without the USA creating any jobs for the masses that are ill equipped through mental or physical ability or they are just ill educated and wasted.If we do not want to continue to pay for these growing numbers now food stamps are going to over 50 million and the terminal unemployed is estimated by some to be 50 million of more. The current economic engine while loaded down with all the rules, limits and regulations can not pull this wagon - the end is here and no one wants to admit that raising taxes will not fix the imbalance.You are correct we need a energy plan to provide cheap energy and we need to open up our natural resources to create general labor jobs. And yes, like Reagan said government is not the answer it is the problem.
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- I wanted to take a moment to review an earlier post by Lock which referenced an education site. Lock wrote: “the time for schools and the Universities are like libraries - very limited the following link is the new world way forward”.The sentiment may prove correct over time however that is not what attracted my attention. Nathan wrote: “WOW. Very cool site” with that commendation I began reviewing the site.Briefly, it provides hundreds of youtube based lessons on a wide variety of topics including “History” and all absolutely free. While the math and science sections appear to be robust the history part is a little thin.Which brings me to the point; increasingly history units are being cut, it is not taught, if it is it’s glossed over. The theme in my State is history is not relevant to your children’s future in the job market. Be that as it may I’m sure many here know it’s relevant to our wellbeing.Who will teach it then? Here’s a list of this sites “History” content.History - The history of the world (eventually)!1. US History Overview 1: Jamestown to the Civil War2. Appomattox Court House and Lincoln's Assassination3. US History Overview 2 - Reconstruction to the Great Depression4. US History Overview 3 - WWII to Vietnam5. Communism6. Korean War Overview7. Bay of Pigs Invasion8. Cuban Missile Crisis9. Vietnam War10. Pattern of US Cold War Interventions11. Allende and Pinochet in Chile12. When Capitalism is Great and Not-so-great13. 20th Century Capitalism and Regulation in the United States14. French Revolution (Part 1)15. French Revolution (Part 2)16. French Revolution (Part 3) - Reign of Terror17. French Revolution (Part 4) - The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte18. Haitian Revolution (Part 1)19. Haitian Revolution (Part 2)20. Napoleon and the Wars of the First and Second Coalitions21. Napoleon and the War of the Third Coalition22. Napoleon and the War of the Fourth Coalition23. Napoleon's Peninsular Campaigns24. French Invasion of Russia25. Napoleon Forced to AbdicateWow, from Jamestown to the Civil war in one 15 minute video (I watched that one). Number 12 was shall I say interesting although it’s inclusion in the “History” section seems odd (hmm). I also found it interesting they chose to include four video’s on the French revolution. That wouldn’t have been my choice to open a discussion on independence or revolution. Of course I’m not that interested in learning about “The history of the world” without have first learned the history of my own country.Summing this up this site stinks to high heaven in terms of helping we American’s understand our foundation. What makes this worth noting is (to borrow something Lock wrote out of context) this media does represent “the new world way forward”. Beware. No need to fight over the content of books anymore. Anybody with the will and motivation can provide “free” material direct to your child’s classroom.If our history is to have even a chance of being taught, so far as I can see we, you, are going to have to do it my friends. The battle ground is not in DC alone. It is sitting across from you at the dinner table.
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- Keep in mind that the world is made up of many histories and most of them are wrong. My first experience with this was in seventh grade - a history teacher and I did not agree on the accuracy of one history book so she challenged me to prove my point that history is mealy the OPINION of what the author saw. It is all basically hearsay.My method was easy and simple - I secured a copy of the British history of the America revolution and compared it to one of the American accounts - the case is now proved and no more debate is necessary.I believe it was Churchill that was asked if he was concerned about what history would say about him. He answered - NO for I fully intend to write it!!!!The Kahn site will improve over time as will many more now being built by some States and Universities.
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