I agree with your analysis completely, except about privatizing Medicare and social security. Private health care has proved an absolute disaster on the quality of health services that are delivered and directly related to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths world wide. However this is a small issue in the scheme of things.
Consumerism has replaced production as the main source of growth in the US that is true (70%). This scenario is repeated in all industrialized nations, it is certainly the case here, in England, France,Spain etc. Why has this happened, is the question you have not addressed. Where did the production base go, and why? We all know production went off shore, mainly to Asia, to exploit cheap labor and maximize profits. In a deregulated economy you can't tell business where they can operate, and they will continue to manufacture in Asia and have their aircraft maintenance carried out in Ecuador or Mexico etc. The competitive nature of capitalism dictates these actions, if they want to remain profitable they simply cannot afford to have US workers assembling their goods. And no government or individual party has any control or say in this global process, it would require heavy regulation by all governments to change this natural course of events within a system centered around the drive for profit. The US knew this problem was festering since the early 90's, why do you think they are in the Middle East? On Sep 17, 10:38 am, Jim Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Without expression I accept Barack Yo Mamma’s wandering for a cogent > thought and ambling for aptitude. I expect from him to prattle > endlessly on the economy from a teleprompter like the totalitarian > twit he is. I take for granted that he would get behind the latest > populist novelty and co-op it as his own. > > Yet, just when John McCain had me chasing the bandwagon, “thanks to > his pick of Sarah Palin” he gets me off the wagon and back on the > couch in just two days. The really sad part is, now that McCain has > Palin parroting his communal rhetoric on the economy I no longer have > those Sarah dreams. That my friend is change we can live without. > Clearly neither candidate understands the economy and probably has > trouble balancing the chewing of gum while walking. What they are > counting on is the faint hope that you are as dumb as they are. Let’s > hope that isn’t true. > > While we have both candidates calling for massive new regulation of > Wall Street a suspicion the American people have held for quite some > time has been confirmed. We are surrounded by idiots and they want our > vote. > > Honest, even you tree hugging, Prius driving, protesting palliate > pundits have to admit your candidate is nothing but a taxing > teleprompter toad. I mean really; I lay you five to one there is a > teleprompter on both sides of Michelle and Barry’s bed. The two times > it broke down Michelle got pregnant. I’m just saying. > > Let’s face it folks; the only person asking to be elected and having > the experience to be voted for is Sarah Palin. At least she was an > executive and has worked with budgets. What I find most disconcerting > is to get her; I have to vote for the hunchback of halfwit. > Someone needs to set down the messiah, the hair plugs for men > candidate, the halfwit and the Bullwinkle babe and tell them what I am > about to tell you. > > A full 70% of our economy is based upon consumer spending; it’s all > smoke and mirrors folks. We are borrowing our future from foreign > countries. As soon as they figure out that we will never be able to > pay them back we’ll be using dollars to build our tiny fires out in > front of our foreclosed homes. > > This next election will send a message to those creditor nations that > have been financing our demise. We have $54 trillion dollars in > unfunded entitlements from a gross domestic product of $14.4 trillion > dollars. What will happen when we tell seasoned citizens that we don’t > have the money for Medicare or Social Security? And, the money they > paid in was spent by pork patronizing politicos. > > To fix these problems will require a politician not wanting re- > election. Someone, dare I say it, like a one term John McCain. But, it > can’t be fixed with more regulation of Wall Street. Regulation is not > the answer; it is a great deal of the problem. What is needed is > accountability, no one is too big to fail and the government has to > get out of the mortgage business. Social Security and Medicare need be > privatized requiring a giant enema for our federal bureaucracies. Of > course it’s going to be a mess; all enemas’ are. And, in the short > term it’s going to hurt. But, there is only one way to un-band aid > this monolithic wart that is bloated, corrupted government. Rip the > damn thing off. > Conservative Springfield 16 SEP 08 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
