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The State of the Union : #Fail

Doug Edelman | January 28, 2010 | 1 Comment

The Scott Brown election sent a cold chill through the Washington Democrat establishment. FINALLY they have begun to understand that there is a pervasive, universal, vocal and VOTING dissatisfaction with them!

Sadly, at least according to their public statements, they still don’t quite comprehend WHO is angry, WHAT they’re angry about, or WHAT to do about it!

They think that there is opposition to the PACE of healthcare reform, and that they should FOCUS on JOBS.

It still hasn’t occurred to them that the opposition to ObamaCare is because ObamaCare STINKS! It is a government takeover… a power grab. It doesn’t cover everyone. It doesn’t lower costs. It rations care. It will drive physicians out of practice, reducing availability of service. In short – it’s BAD law and the people don’t want it.

But I digress.

Now the Dems think they will earn favor by turning their destructo-beam of attention on jobs. That means they’re going to try to DO something about job “creation” by spending more tax money. Sadly, Progressives still don’t understand that government doesn’t create jobs (except for where they hire more government workers to do jobs that private industry could do better… like TSA!)

Job creation is done by Private Enterprise. Big Corporations represent a good portion of employment, but the most new jobs are created by SMALL BUSINESSES. And it’s small business that progressive policies hurt the most.

What causes job loss?

The quick answer is “the economy”. And, of course, our current economic woes are the result of Progressive policies, from the Community Reinvestment Act to the failure to exercise oversight over the Fannie/Freddie mess back when they had opportunity during the 2005 hearings (when Lefties like Maxine Waters PRAISED the OUTSTANDING leadership of Franklin Raines… but I digress again!), to quadrupling the federal deficit in one year to increasing the debt to over $13 Trillion, to expanding government exponentially and on and on.

(To put that debt into perspective, with approximately 250 million people (all ages and employment statuses) in the US , that means each and every man, woman and child of us owes $4 for every billion dollars they spend. A Trillion is 1000 Billion so we each owe $4000 for every Trillion. $13 Trillion in debt means that we owe $52,000 for every man, woman and child in the nation… AND THEY’RE STILL SPENDING in a way that would insult drunken sailors if I were to use that simile! They’re increasing our debt load by over $4000 per person every year for the next decade!)

What CREATES jobs?

When Government GETS OUT OF THE WAY, economic recovery happens and the engine that drives our economy begins to chug. Consumers begin to buy. Companies begin to grow and expand. Durable goods orders increase. Investor confidence increases and money flows. Companies hire employees to meet the increased demands.

Tax cuts have spurred the economy AND INCREASED REVENUE to the federal government EVERY time they’ve been tried.

Kennedy, Reagan and Bush all reduced taxes – and every time the economy experienced an extended period of growth… AND revenues to the treasury increased.

Progressive rhetoric always presumes a zero sum game… cutting taxes means less revenue. But in reality that this is a completely false premise. Just as raising tax rates does not increase revenues. (We’re seeing increased deficit numbers right now, because of decreased revenues due to the slowdown in the economy!)

What you subsidize, you get more of. What you tax, you get less of. When you raise taxes, you slow the economy. Jobs are lost and there are less tax payers. When you lower tax rates, the economy is revved up and there are more taxpayers making more money, and generating more revenue.

Picture this: Which nets you more… taking 50% of a 6” pie or taking 33% of a 12” pie? Well, a 6” pie is roughly 18 square inches netting you 9 square inches if you take half. A 12” pie is roughly 36 square inches, so 33% would be around 12 square inches. Cutting your rate from 50% to 33% nets you more pie… if your pie grows from 6” to 12”

The economy works the same way. Cutting taxes grows the pie. A smaller portion of a bigger pie still nets you more revenue.

The more Government is involved in the economy, the less efficiently the economy operates. The government took over GM and Chrysler. They pumped massive influxes of billions of dollars into these companies. They’re still failing and losing money.

Ford, on the other hand, took no government bailout. They’re making money.

The Administration has proposed a “deficit cutting commission” (for AFTER November’s elections!). Rest assured that the purpose is not to find ways to cut spending (except maybe for the military!). They will conclude that they don’t have enough revenue to meet their level of spending, so they need to raise taxes to cover it!! As if that wouldn’t be the final nail in the coffin of the economy!

No, if the Progressives in government today REALLY want to see job growth, they should:

Make the Bush Tax Cuts permanent and make further tax cuts.

Reduce regulations on corporations such as Sarbanes Oxley and other oppressive rules that punish the law abiding and which don’t hinder the unscrupulous.

Discontinue the so-called stimulus and return all unspent funds from that legislation to the general fund.

Abandon Cap and Trade and the ObamaCare takeover of Healthcare – and eliminate all the new spending authorized in 2009.

Vow to never bail out another private business. Proclaim that failure IS an option in a Capitalistic Republic . But assure the OPPORTUNITY for success is unfettered by government

Make across the board spending cuts throughout government.

Create NO new bureaucracies.

REDUCE the size and influence of government. Get the government OUT of everything not constitutionally designated to the Federal Government. And quit interpreting the “Interstate Commerce” clause to authorize federal meddling in virtually anything and everything! The constitution exists to LIMIT government and to ASSURE personal freedom!

Negotiate to refinance our existing debt at a lower rate based on our implementation of the above and the resultant economic stimulus which will bolster our dollar.

Of course, this would mean the Progressives would have to become Fiscal Conservatives… and this is unlikely to happen. Therefore, it becomes incumbent upon the American people to REPLACE the Progressives in power today with Conservatives, come election time.

Based on recent events in New Jersey , Virginia and now Massachusetts (or is it Massachusettes?), it would appear that, perhaps, the sleeping giant of the American Voting Populace and the so-called “silent majority” is now awake and no longer silent.

We can only hope.

Doug Edelman is a conservative political commentator and has been a contributing editor for The Conservative Voice. His work is also seen on News By Us, The American Daily, The Post Chronicle, New Media Journal, Capitol Hill Coffee House etc. For the support of his family, however, he is also an IT Consultant/Contractor and owner of a Computer Services Business. He has taught PC Maintenance & Repair and Networking at his local Community College, and maintains a blog at http://edeldoug.blogs.com/.