Part 1.
Give us jobs to do! We’re getting disgruntled. We’re getting dehumanized; losing self esteem. We’re falling behind; a position we’re not comfortable with. We’re fighting over nonsense between ourselves; looking to blame. Yet, our bridges are crumbling and we need highway modernization. We need modernized schools and programs. We need more accessible broadband. We need to clean our air and water. We need an updated energy grid and alternative energy resources. We need to participate in stem cell research and other new scientific research. We need to educate our citizens to remain competitive and to stay modernized in a new world. We need to lead. These all require investments for jobs to implement change. When will we go back to work? There’s plenty to do.
Why aren’t we doing these things? Because our system of government relies on representatives to implement policy. The chutzpah, that politicians stand in the way by talking about shutting down a government over a $35 billion difference when America needs jobs to grow and compete with the world. Any “deal” is eyewash. Why aren’t they talking about how they can create jobs when jobs themselves become contagious and viral? There is a reason for this. Politicians become the middle man, compromised by supporter’s ideologies that have their own priorities, and stand in the way. For one, they don’t like Obama because of what he stands for; and for some, that just means his skin color. Yet, haven’t they heard? He may be darker skinned, than some, on the outside, but he’s the same color on the inside. And he doesn’t stand for their agendas. To them, it’s agenda before country. They obfuscate the issues with the incessant questioning of his faith and upbringing when they should be talking about jobs!
The deficit is not standing in the way, politicians are. Because politicians are controlled by business interests who contribute to their elections and any creative change in the way we do business may mean a loss of profits. Could the likes of the Koch Bros. have anything to do with it? Labor gets it. Everybody’s ready to make sacrifices except those that benefit from their lobbies. $35 billion is paltry when we’re talking the wealth of this country. Where are all the jobs supposed to be created with all the tax cuts? Not. Yet management wants more and is ready to go in the other direction to emasculate labor (Wisconsin post). Having citizens as ignorant, needy, slaves couldn’t make them happier.
Yes, deficits are high. So we won’t go into how they got that way for now. We trust we’ve learned for the future. But does ideology in the form of lower taxes and cut the deficit come before priorities when people need to eat and pay the bills? Apparently it does, and unwittingly enabled by the followers. Where are the jobs? They’re in front of our noses. I would get everybody in a room and throw those out with ideologically based thoughts on how to make it work. I would eject anybody who says, “no, because.” One of them is that raising taxes loses jobs; you’re out. The other is that the deficit is too high, we can’t spend. Special interest groups want you to believe that. Statistics prove otherwise. You’re a roadblock to the country getting on a track back to prosperity—for all; get out of the way. Increased tax revenues can be used to create more jobs. Investment increases jobs. Deficits can be reduced when the revenues increase. Simple. Anybody who believes that cutting back spending creates more jobs has their own agenda as a priority over country or, frankly, they’re either selfish, or idiots. They are the unpatriotic ones.
People should be working to figure a budget based on the goal of creating jobs; not get used to 15%+ unemployment rate and that’s the new world. This is an emergency--- 911. Banks should be lending, not licking their wounds or chops for their mismanagement at our expense. Credit should be easier, not fulfilling a vicious cycle and self prophecy of incertitude. Not becoming overly conservative when values are down. Not punishing an administration trying to reign in past lack of regulations that helped get us into this mess. Everybody should be bailing; not some special interests shoveling shit against the tide. With the “haves”, “Let them eat cake”, attitude, we’ll all be out of business faster than ancient Rome. If we didn’t have such large deficits, by design (later article), we’d have more firepower. Yet, in spite of our predicament, we’ve been in worse; we are (the) US.
We have most of the brilliant minds in the world in this country. They live here or they come to study. The politicians are standing in their way from instituting a plan to solve the problem. Get them in a room and come out with a solution. Stop this ideological madness and get rid of the nay sayers. Drill down under their spin. I don’t care what party anybody is from---but get rid of anybody who states a reason NOT to do something when there are those that say we can. Err on the side of “we can”. If we’re gonna die, at least we’ll die with a job in our hands.
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