De-regulation by past Republican Congresses and Republican Presidents is exactly what created the global meltdown, aka, The Great Recession. Solar energy, including wind energy creates far more jobs now to do sales, maintenance and transmission lines than the oil industry offers. Both industries in manufacturing depende on Chinese manufacturers for commodity items. Solar also doesn't have the resource limited future of the oil industry which is past peak global production already, and is doing more projects that put crucial world fisheries at stake.
Neither what has been suggested is in the Obama proposals nor the ill defined and ill thought out Romney proposals have much chance of making a real difference. The Great Depression, which Obama narrowly avoided an outright repeat of, took 20 years to end. At worst we are looking at a repeat recession that might last until 2016. It is not unreasonable to cushion the blow for individuals.
The biggest economic boost would come from capping interest rates on credit card and revolving debt, since for most people the interest payments on that debt is a bigger burden than their mortgage or rent for relatively smalll amounts of debt (compared to mortgage principal). South Dakota is largely to blame for the effective lack of a cap since it bribed card processing centers to come to it in exchange for uncapped rates which had been capped by every state before they broke the consensus of states.
Both parties have simply chosen to ignore the factors that put people in bankruptcy courts beside lack of preparedness for losign a job. There are currently oveer 1.5 million bankruptcies a year that are personal (including family) bankruptcies, and over a million of those are liquidation of assets bankruptcies, even though Congress made it much harder to both qualify for personal bankruptcy and to chose liquidation rather than five year partial payments of debt.
".....Korea, Panama and Colombia and is in the process of sending them to Congress...."
Haven't these been sitting on Obama's desk for many many months? I would hardly list these as major Obama acheivements if he has left them sitting on his desk gathering dust!
Trade aggreements don't sit on Presidents' desks, but rather they get delayed to work out the cost of labor force changes, final legal review for compliance with federal and state laws, and fine tuning for the inevitable oversights. They can also be delayed until the President feels Congress is receptive to passage or until they have passed the legislative bodies and final review by the other nation(s).
The LMAD plan bridges the philosophical divide with a carbon tax that both Conservatives and Democrats can cheer!
Ironically, in advancing their respective causes, Liberals and Conservatives actually make the same apocalyptic arguments. Both claim the future is at stake and that future generations will suffer. Both claim that the facts are on their side. And both make good arguments for action. Still, the public couldn't care less about global warming and is unwilling to make the hard choices on America's fiscal problems.
So it's time for Liberals concerned about rising global temperatures and Conservatives concerned about rising federal debt to realize the obvious: they need to BUY each other off in order to effectively address their pet ideological concerns—there is no other way. It's just too easy for Washington political adversaries to thwart the other side's priorities. "Buying each other off" means trading, among other things, a carbon tax and fully-funded healthcare for all for a balanced budget amendment and an enforceable limit on the size of government (limited government).
For starters, the LMAD plan buys off Liberals with a $600 billion carbon tax to fight global warming. It also adds fully-funded healthcare for every American, a public option health insurance entity, and the implementation of consumption-based tax schemes that are frequently advocated by Liberals such as a "salt-sugar-fat tax" and a value-added tax. The LMAD plan even grants overnight amnesty of 10 million illegal aliens. These are all long-sought ideological goals favored by Liberals that will never, ever pass otherwise.
Then, LMAD buys off Conservatives with a strict balanced budget and a limit on the size of government as a percentage of GDP. It also permanently ends future illegal immigration, adds tort reform and completely replaces all taxes on production, labor, saving and investment with the new carbon tax, the value-added tax and the salt-sugar-fat tax favored by Liberals. The LMAD plan even removes the burden of healthcare expenses from corporate balance sheets by ending America's reliance on employer-provided health insurance. These are all long-sought ideological goals favored by Conservatives that will never, ever pass otherwise.
With LMAD, Liberals can breathe easier knowing that global warming is finally being addressed, that every American has adequate healthcare and that energy, consumption, waste and affluenza are appropriately taxed.
Conservatives can fire their guns in the air to celebrate that the budget is permanently balanced, the size of government is held in check, and those anti-growth taxes and business-borne healthcare costs that are killing American exports and penalizing work, savings and investment are forever ended.
Both sides will appreciate that the LMAD deal is a potent GDP-growth accelerant that puts the United States firmly in the China/India economic growth league. The country will be transformed from a debt-ridden, gluttonous net-importer afflicted with high structural unemployment, unaffordable healthcare costs and scant economic prospects to a lean, efficient, export juggernaut that creates millions of new, higher-income jobs and hosts an increasing number of world class companies that choose to relocate to the only country on the planet that doesn't tax production or labor. With healthcare costs finally contained and economic growth unleashed, Medicare and Social Security will be made solvent without the need to impose politically painful benefit cuts.
Let's Make A Deal: A Hail Mary Pass to Get America Off the Bench and Back in the Game
Healthcare-for-All? It's in there. Balanced budget? It's in there. Carbon tax? It's in there. Rational taxation? Amnesty? Border Security? Limited government? Social Security and Medicare solvency? It's all in there; it's all paid for and it's all scalable and optimized for economic growth.
It seems that some of you folks just don't get it. Liberal plans that allow you to work for 20 years and retire at 42 years of age, then collect a pension for life really do not pencil out for taxpayers or any other employers! Get a grip folks, if you want some bacon, you have to work for it! These Ponzi schemes will always leave a late investor with nothing and as they collapse the same is true for the early birds, they also will end with nothing!
If you currently have pre-existing conditions like me that have prevented you from being able to qualify for health insurance for at least six months you will have coverage options under new health care. Check "************" to find how to get quality insurance for dollars.
The Romney plan is just more Bushonomics. We already know that those polices resulted in a net loss of jobs, a lower DOW, and an exploded deficit. The Romney/Bush plan is the same old thing. Give the rich more and they'll somehow crap some crumbs our way.
There is no comparison. President Obama has been trying his plan for 2.5 years, and it has failed miserably. A lot of Romneys plan is the reversal of President Obama's failed policies, and that is music to my ears.
Romneys plan takes the oppressive boot off the neck of private sector business, and so far President Obama just wants more massive federal spending that we can not afford. There is no comparison as to which plan is better.
taking 'the oppressive boot' of the necks of business is what Bush did for 8 years... which I think you could more easily argue was the cause of our trouble than were Obama's policies during his term.
And don't forget "Romney" wants more "Right to Work" for states, that means "Low Pay, No Raises, No Paid Benefits;Vacation-Holidays-Sick Leave-Health Insurance." Do we really want to be under the rule of the cult religion that rules his every breath???? How easy for the "Super Rich" politicians & corporations to decide we can live with less, pay more & work harder so they can grow richer, more powerfull & have higher profits. Why did the "Other" political parties allow us to sink this low if they are so great???
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Neither what has been suggested is in the Obama proposals nor the ill defined and ill thought out Romney proposals have much chance of making a real difference. The Great Depression, which Obama narrowly avoided an outright repeat of, took 20 years to end. At worst we are looking at a repeat recession that might last until 2016. It is not unreasonable to cushion the blow for individuals.
The biggest economic boost would come from capping interest rates on credit card and revolving debt, since for most people the interest payments on that debt is a bigger burden than their mortgage or rent for relatively smalll amounts of debt (compared to mortgage principal). South Dakota is largely to blame for the effective lack of a cap since it bribed card processing centers to come to it in exchange for uncapped rates which had been capped by every state before they broke the consensus of states.
Both parties have simply chosen to ignore the factors that put people in bankruptcy courts beside lack of preparedness for losign a job. There are currently oveer 1.5 million bankruptcies a year that are personal (including family) bankruptcies, and over a million of those are liquidation of assets bankruptcies, even though Congress made it much harder to both qualify for personal bankruptcy and to chose liquidation rather than five year partial payments of debt.
Haven't these been sitting on Obama's desk for many many months? I would hardly list these as major Obama acheivements if he has left them sitting on his desk gathering dust!
Ironically, in advancing their respective causes, Liberals and Conservatives actually make the same apocalyptic arguments. Both claim the future is at stake and that future generations will suffer. Both claim that the facts are on their side. And both make good arguments for action. Still, the public couldn't care less about global warming and is unwilling to make the hard choices on America's fiscal problems.
So it's time for Liberals concerned about rising global temperatures and Conservatives concerned about rising federal debt to realize the obvious: they need to BUY each other off in order to effectively address their pet ideological concerns—there is no other way. It's just too easy for Washington political adversaries to thwart the other side's priorities. "Buying each other off" means trading, among other things, a carbon tax and fully-funded healthcare for all for a balanced budget amendment and an enforceable limit on the size of government (limited government).
For starters, the LMAD plan buys off Liberals with a $600 billion carbon tax to fight global warming. It also adds fully-funded healthcare for every American, a public option health insurance entity, and the implementation of consumption-based tax schemes that are frequently advocated by Liberals such as a "salt-sugar-fat tax" and a value-added tax. The LMAD plan even grants overnight amnesty of 10 million illegal aliens. These are all long-sought ideological goals favored by Liberals that will never, ever pass otherwise.
Then, LMAD buys off Conservatives with a strict balanced budget and a limit on the size of government as a percentage of GDP. It also permanently ends future illegal immigration, adds tort reform and completely replaces all taxes on production, labor, saving and investment with the new carbon tax, the value-added tax and the salt-sugar-fat tax favored by Liberals. The LMAD plan even removes the burden of healthcare expenses from corporate balance sheets by ending America's reliance on employer-provided health insurance. These are all long-sought ideological goals favored by Conservatives that will never, ever pass otherwise.
With LMAD, Liberals can breathe easier knowing that global warming is finally being addressed, that every American has adequate healthcare and that energy, consumption, waste and affluenza are appropriately taxed.
Conservatives can fire their guns in the air to celebrate that the budget is permanently balanced, the size of government is held in check, and those anti-growth taxes and business-borne healthcare costs that are killing American exports and penalizing work, savings and investment are forever ended.
Both sides will appreciate that the LMAD deal is a potent GDP-growth accelerant that puts the United States firmly in the China/India economic growth league. The country will be transformed from a debt-ridden, gluttonous net-importer afflicted with high structural unemployment, unaffordable healthcare costs and scant economic prospects to a lean, efficient, export juggernaut that creates millions of new, higher-income jobs and hosts an increasing number of world class companies that choose to relocate to the only country on the planet that doesn't tax production or labor. With healthcare costs finally contained and economic growth unleashed, Medicare and Social Security will be made solvent without the need to impose politically painful benefit cuts.
Let's Make A Deal: A Hail Mary Pass to Get America Off the Bench and Back in the Game
Healthcare-for-All? It's in there. Balanced budget? It's in there. Carbon tax? It's in there. Rational taxation? Amnesty? Border Security? Limited government? Social Security and Medicare solvency? It's all in there; it's all paid for and it's all scalable and optimized for economic growth.
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Romneys plan takes the oppressive boot off the neck of private sector business, and so far President Obama just wants more massive federal spending that we can not afford. There is no comparison as to which plan is better.