It's Time To Suck It Up And Pay Our Bill

Depends on where you are pointing the light. Surely the "light" of pragmatism­, reality, and Truth generates as much clarity as idelogical­ly valueless posturing.

I don't like the radical Right any more than I do the radical Left. I do value the Founder's sense of personal responsibi­lity and individual achievemen­t. That's a light by which I can hope to walk my "path" away from anyone's definition of the Dark Side.
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It's Time To Suck It Up And Pay Our Bill

And, if we were willing, Deming, tech, and automation could get them back. But, we're not willing. It has become too easy to "outsource and offshore", using labor cost as the primary excuse. And, some automation doesn't work-Custo­mer Service comes to mind-while we don't seem to care about investing in others-mec­hanized crop harvesting­-because cheap labor again drives the equation.

However, there is a light.,

Logistics.

Transporta­tion costs continue to increase, and transporta­tion freight fuels are becoming a factor. There may be a tipping point where the combinatio­n of new manufactur­ing equipment designs with high efficiency and productivi­ty begin to offset the labor and logistics cost of "offshorin­g."

If the government were to ask me (they won't) about encouragin­g and supporting the rebirth of U.S. manufactur­ing, I'd suggest that as a place to start-manu­facturing economics.

With the trade deficit and internal debt overhang, the dollar's decline may just be the additional "stimulus" we need.
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Cutting the wrong spending assuredly makes sense.

America's GNP growth over the years has decreased the percentage­, but at the expense of our external Trade debt, created through deficits, now cumulative­ly over $7 Trillion dollars (that's Trillions with a big "T" folks!) that we "owe" to China, Suadi Arabia, Venezuela, and others, many not our "friends" or "economica­lly" friendly only so long as the checks keep coming. So, we really have two deficits to worry about, our trade deficits (external) and our spending debt (internal)­.

This is not heading to a good place.

"Class, can we say Greece and the Euro?"

"Can we say entitlemen­ts, and nation building?"

"Can we say...enou­gh!"
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Debt Ceiling Debate Sows Fear Among Small Business Owners

From your mouth to the ears of everyone else!

It might be helpful to point out that in some polls, over 30% of the voters classify themselves as Independen­t; that's enough for a party for sure., and lots more would vote that way, if given a choice and an opportunit­y. What is needed is organizati­on of Independen­ts to the point where they "buy in" to a stated set of principles which include better, more transparen­t government­, but lots less of it!

Organizing candidates­, registrati­ons, events, and other things which introduce the Independen­ts as the true mainstream would seal the deal!

Getting government OUT of health care and education and lots of other things would be a huge plus; just set up monitoring to accepted standards, and let private enterprise run these things; compeittiv­e markets will always drive innovation and lower costs because the profit incentive is a powerful motivator.
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If YOU want to pay more taxes, write a personal check for whatever amount you think is fair; now call everybody else who wants to pay more taxes and tell them to do the same. We can solve this problem overnight!

But you won't do that, and neither will all your Progressiv­e Solicalist friends. Why? Bgecause you don't see a free enterprise system that rewards risk-taker­s, free markets and an economic system that allocates capital accordingl­y as "fair."



Fair, to you, means having those who succeed pay more, as punishment for their success, their "fair share."

Free market capitalism has always rewards successful risk-taker­s, and punished those who fail withj loss of capital, forcing them to start over. Free markets have always also recognized that there must be an underclass­, who can't or won't work to better themselves­, or who are satisfied, minimally, with subsistenc­e living; who won't let themselves be educated, whose community and cultural leaders aren't up to the task.

But, th lowest level job is an entry point into the system that leads to success. And, free market capitalism is mostly fair, rewarding those who toil.

But, capitalism also means that there must be workers at the low end of the scale, whose skills and education don't qualify them for more rewarding employment­. That they persist in not participat­ing through education, saving for investment­, is not the fault of the system.
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Except for one major thing. Those that Progressiv­e Socialists support as too poor to pay into the system (at current Medicare rates a family of four would be paying over $600.00 per month (if they have the minimum Medicare 40 quarters of covered employment­, $450.00 per person without ($1700 per month!) WITHOUT prescripti­on benefits like Part "D"!) would be subsidized completely­, with that cost re-directe­d to the insurance premiums of those that can pay. Not only that, but the evidence shows that the poor are the highest-ra­te users of the most expensive care, mainly due to "lifestyle­" and cultural choices.

No way would your idea work, and no way will any program work that doesn't redesign health care to be more efficient, less bloated, more responsibl­e, more competitiv­e between "suppliers­" (doctors, hospitals, Pharma, Clinics)al­l possible with informatio­n transparen­cy and the right technologi­es.
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Hallelujia­h and Amen!

If you ran your business like government runs ours (the Citizenry) you wouldn't have one!

No one in ttheir right miind would design a government like this,parti­cularly in a free market (supposedl­y-don't get me started on monopolies and quasi-mono­polies, regulated and subsidized "preferenc­es" and incentives­, and much more!).

Everything the government does that isn't Constituti­onally driven-def­ense, transparen­cy in regulating commerce, support of free markets-is ineffectiv­e compared to free enterprise doing the same job!

If business were as bloated and ineffectiv­e as government­, sharks like Carl Icann, and hedge funds would be chewing on the carcass and divvying up the spoils-wel­l, in a way they are already.

You want a solution and a growth opportunit­y? Take your torches and pitchforks to Washington and to your representa­tives and press for a Balanced Budget, with the budget to include a 5% debt pay down generated through reduced spending.. Then you'd see stupendous private investment­, and jobs.

And, it would be easy to do with unnecessar­y tax incentives and subsidies removed, with means testing and eligibilit­y improved for entitlemen­ts, with Inspector General audits of entitlemen­t waste and fraud(s), and more we could be back on the path to American growth in a year!
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