Don't Let The Smoke Get In Your Eyes

Base your decisions on facts

Why Lie?

The real record for NAFTA is fantastic. Since 1993 we’ve added a net million new jobs, household income and earnings per hour are up and manufacturing output has risen 66%. 

Small businesses are the back bone of America and they will suffer the most under a Democrat victory. They already have under the negative leadership in the Democrat controlled congress. This should be a wake up call for some Republican candidates, but I can’t hear them. In fact I don’t even know who the Republican candidate in my district is. Do you?

This Could Be The Start Of Something Big

Why don’t we?

Make each state an enterprise zone specializing in some industry. Give each state a basic selling proposition. New York and Florida, for instance, could be tourism. Nevada and New Jersey could be gambling. Michigan, Ohio, etc. could be manufacturing. All states could be resource states for whatever resources there were. Tax laws could be structured to favor these industries and  educational facilities would be designed to train workers for these industries.

Encourage industries and businesses to start schools to educate their future employees. Starting with their current employees they would provide a full education  through college.

Encourage industries and businesses to collectively start their own medical facilities as a part of their business model. These facilities would be used by company personnel and outsiders (for a fee).

Use some of the vast land resources to build abundant electric generation facilities that using the most efficient and effective means available both now and in the future.. The objective would be to become an exporter of energy.

Have a crash program to create a fusion reactor that would be located  on government land. The by products H2O  and Hydrogen  would be sold and the energy used.

Start thinking creatively to turn our  problems  into opportunities. More attention must be paid to the consequences of any measures we take. For instance: our solution to the oil importation problem was to use ethanol and that caused a shortage of feed stuffs, that changed the metrics of thousands of business models (restaurants, grocery stores, brewers, trucking etc.) Every action has a reaction and will help some as it hurts others, but change is inevitable. Adjusting to it and planning for it should be a priority.

Here are some of the areas that need to be brought up to speed.

Social Security

Medical care

Education

Energy production

City planing

New skill training

Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing.
> www. taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html
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> Taxes under Clinton 1999 Taxes under Bush 2008
> Single making 30K - tax $8,400 &n bsp; Single making 30K - tax $4,500
> S ingle making 50K - tax $14,000 Single making 50K - tax $12,500
> Single making 75K - tax $23,250 Single making 75K - tax $18,750
> Married making 60K - tax $16,800 Married making 60K- tax $9,000
> Married making 75K - tax $21,000 Married making 75K - tax $18,750
> Married making 125K - tax $38,750 Married making 125K - tax $31,250
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> Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates
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> It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, th ey both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don't even know what happened.
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Some serious thoughts about some serious subjects

Some thoughts worth thinking:

Will robots replace human partnerships? (relevant consideration: can artificial intelligence be fine tuned mechanically to have a positive or negative skew?)

Will it be possible to replace damaged neurons with nano-circuitry? (relevant  consideration: Does a neuron do more than connect?)

Will children be produced in clone mills? (Relevant consideration: Is cloning a universal taboo?)

Will it be possible to select a genetically engineered child from a catalog? (Relevant consideration: Can DNA be manipulated, banked or created?)

Why have so many cultural taboos disappeared? (Relevant consideration: What role does self discipline play in a well ordered society? Is sin culturally or divinely  defined? Does society always trend toward its self interests?

What is the impetus for consciousness? (Relevant consideration: Does the brain still function when under anesthesia?)

Why do so many believe there is life after death? (Relevant consideration: If life consists of a synthesis of chemical reactions is the energy  destroyed or dissipated?)

Why can some see ghosts while other’s can’t? (Relevant consideration: Is it possible that the life force energy of the departed can remain in the ether, and some could possess biological receptors that are capable of picking them up?)

Reaganomics (favor private sector capital formation over capital sapping taxation): Voodo? or “the Right Stuff”?

Reagan was ridiculed for reducing taxes (especially capital gains taxes) in his first term, but the results of his vision have ushered in an unprecedented  period of progress and prosperity.. 

1.From 1981 - 1989 (Reagan years)-GDP in constant dollars grew by almost 1/3 rd.

2.DJI (after 16 years of no growth) grew 250% in value

3. Asset value of American households and businesses grew by $17 trillion.

Entrepreneurship flourished and new companies like Dell, Cisco, Sun, Microsoft and countless service suppliers emerged.

One of Reagan’s few backpedaling government meddling policy flaws occurred in 1981 with ERTA that raised some taxes and reduced some entrepreneurial incentives, but as bad as this intervention was it couldn’t stop the progress. The ball had been placed in motion and the economy was on a roll.

The inevitable  recession in 1990 (like  caterpillars, economies move in undulating waves - expansion followed by contraction) occurring under George H.W. Bush was undoubtedly exacerbated by his tax hikes (weakening the energizing results of the Reagan tax philosophy) but the technological revolution continued to push the world forward, lead by the USA..  

Competitors and partners in global commerce such as  Ireland, Hong Kong, the newly freed “Eastern Block,” Russia (flat tax) and China are all successfully advancing tax incentive (Reaganomic /supply side) models to grow their economies, and the world has prospered: Gross World Product per capita (in 2006 dollars) that had grown by $150 in 300 years (from $800 in 1500 to $950 in 1850), is now at $9,500 (10 times greater in less than 200 years). Most of this progress for the world’s people is attributable to innovation, capitalism, globalization and economic incentives. A notable factor in this increase has been the growth made possible by supply side economics..

George W. Bush’s tax policies and economic stimulus packages, using the same supply side economic concepts as Reagan, have produced remarkably good results.            In the five years  between September 11, 2001 and  2006 the GDP is $3 trillion higher, surpassing the entire size of  China’s.

    

What's in What's out and What's up

What's in:

 Bush bashing. 

Anything "he" does takes fire even if his policies have helped stave off a financial bloodbath, international humiliation and  terrorist attacks within the USA. Its just convenient to find a scape goat for any and all ills  imaginary or real. Remember  our most revered leaders are remembered well  by history even if they had to do things that made them unpopular in their time. Think of the abuses that were hurled at Washington, Lincoln and Truman when they made the decision to do the  hard right instead of the easy wrong thing.

What's out: 

Saying anything that might suggest you are in favor of the course we are on. 

If you look at an old newspaper (try 25 years ago) you might have a more positive take on where we are headed, but most people would prefer to leave miserable moments behind in their quest for utopia. The world is in a state of constant change. It's what we do about meeting the challenge of change that determines whether we are on the right track or not. All successful strategies are malleable. We have made some mistakes, but even mistakes can open up opportunities that didn't exist before they were made.  

What's up: 

Strong socialistic headwinds.

 The populist support for a socialistic USA is troubling. We will need a strong leader to resist this dangerous swing that would trade freedom for serfdom.The market will, recover (beyond our wildest dreams) if and only if the free market forces that have  nourished it are sustained. If , however, big government saps our nation's strength through higher taxes and regulations, it would be wise to short the market and buy gold. If you are an optimist buy those stocks that were hurt the most and are selling at bargain basement levels and you'll be well rewarded for believing that Americans are still a freedom loving people..