I’m sorry, i’m a registered conservative and I could not bear to watch this mess last night. Jeez Georgie Poorgie how do you think the economy got here, perhaps because the price of gasoline the lubricant of our economy has gone up almost 200% in 6 years ( I was paying $1.21 per gallon summer 2001 when filling my car every Friday before faire, got the recipts in my tax filings), shows every sign of hitting $4 a gallon and when everything costs 200% more to get to the store you have inflation. And what have you done to get us off oil from countries that hate us in the middle east and south America? Screwed with daylight savings time ( and the results of that expiriment when released last spring? Nothing accomplished!) Created a false corn economy by dredging up ethanlon, an expiriment we did in the 70’s that didn’t work. Well at least you your dad and the Washington elite’s with the stock in oil companies are making a killing, and thats whats really important right?

For those who think Georgie Porgie’s stupid, do the math, we’re still stuck in Iraq as he wanted, we’re gutting our economy turning America into Mexico North and exporting every job we have outta town as he wanted, we have taken no steps whatsoever to gather our own doemstic oil resoucrces to get away from OPEC prices while we search for new power sources, which just happens to make certain Washington elites a fortune in oil money, as he wanted, we’re still mired in Afghanistan, as he wanted, and the bottoming out of the United states economically to “level the playing field” in the ” world economy” ( the price to be paid by the aforementioned middle class in the article above) is happening as he wanted, to continue the wierd creepy, one world government “New World Order” ideology that his old man began and he is obviously thoughroughly enured of ( Ranks up there with Scientology). Georgie Poorgie is getting just about everything he wants ( at our expense) that doesn’t happen because one is stupid. The US Airforce, doesn’t let morons fly fighter jets, he is no dummy he just doesn’t care if the American people get in the way of what he’s doing. The effects show all signs of doing away with the middle class through inflation attrition, creating a new feudal system, with a small politcal elite class running the show and a vast welfare peasentry with little in between, oddly enough kinda like Communism.

Call Georgie Porgie what you wish but he is no Conservative, trust me on that. To call him that is to fool yourselves and give him the weapon of deception to use in his arsenal.

Maybe the US Airforce let one moron slip in or perhaps he became moronic later. Didn’t the Russians send a chimp to space?

Thanks kiddo, I find myself hearing that more which is to bad but I think as politics gets ahold of all of us many find themselves agreeing with things for the sake of ” the party” or ” the candidate” that really don’t have much in common with what thier outlook was to begin with. By way of example, i’m a conservative I believe in a free market and own my own business, which by the way thanks to this great economy Georgie keeps talkign about just did a nose dive. However when giant global corps. get preferential treatment from certain governments, like say ours, thats not a free market thats a monoply, and given that its done with the complicite co-operation of a government its smelling somewhat like tyranny. Business’s provide the jobs we work, they’re not the enemy, but when they buddy up with government and members of that government “just happen” to benefit from the actions that government takes on bahalf of that mega corp, that smells bad. I will always back the business owner when the government punks up on them, but this wreck of a president has had me change my view on what role government has in “helping” them especially when they’re giant corps who benefit as do the politicians who passed that legislation. Small busniness employs the majority of people in this country now( hell with most of our real factory jobs going to China and Mexico thanks to NAFTA and other anti American legislation maybe all of them), back off on the taxes so they have more money for jobs, but giant corps who long ago shipped our jobs off to China don’t need more breaks, you’re part of the problem. Hell get into the war contractor business, that way you can get no bids and really be on easy street.

Big business runs Washington on both sides of the isle now and we’re getting the reaming and paying the price for it.

I think the fundamental problem that we now have is that with Washignton being a one party system, the party of money, mega corps exist outside of the tax structure and wield the money to buy whatever legislation or politician they need ( the polticians seemingly need little prompting to be “purchased”). When terms are bandied about in Washington like “tax breaks for business’” they are not talking about folks like me or the other small business owners I know my taxes have not gone down a single penny as a business owner due to and “business tax break” Washington has handed out since i’ve been in business. In fact my tax rate is 30%, 2% higher than it would be if I worked for someone else simply because i’m self employed. When Washinton speaks of business they are not talking about people like myself. Our politicians are no longer “connected” to us, they no longer remember that we are thier bosses and they our emplyees ( many Americans seem to be unaware of this as well). They come from an elite class, a ” political class” if you will, they have seldom if ever worked in the private sector, they been politicians most all of thier working lives, when they say they “feel our pain” or understand “our plight” they are being dishonest at best, disingenuous at worst, they have no idea what our lives are like or how thier action have impacted them, because thier lives are immune from it and have in large part been nothing like ours, they are aloof, “let them eat cake”. One now has to be a multi, millionair to even think of running meaningfull office. Until this changes, until a different sort of person seeks and wins office, and I don’t know how that can happen with the system as it is, I don’t see this changing and we will all continue to pay the price.

Taxes are a necessary evil, however whats done with them is the real gauge of the evil. Ensuring that we don’t get baotload after boatload of dangerous products from China, a hostile country, would require a Washinton political class that was not complicite in shipping all our manufacturing over there and we don’t have nor are we likely to have that. In fact if you go back over the year of the toxic toys( and makeup, and pet food, and toothpaste and car tires……) you heard nothing from and saw no action from Washington about it, your news talked about it and the retailers pulled them off their shelves, but the factories are all still over there and everything we buy every day has Made in China or Made in Mexico stamped on it.

When putting in place regulation especially at the hands of bureaucratic body like our government and its various regulatory bodies great care needs to be taken to make sure that each regulation is A) necessary ( a bureaucracy exists to perpetuate itself and it does that by continously producing new rules and regulations thus the bureaucracy can get bigger to administrate them and around and around it goes) B) practicle to enact. In a business each new regulation has a price tag to that business to put it in place an maintain it, wheather it be through equipment, training or what have you, that money has to come out of the pool of money thats left to the business after its paid all its expenses ( the money for existing expenses is already earmarked for those expenses, new money to follow new regualtions has to come out of whats left over because its a “new expense”). This pool is where money for new employees would come from and for raises for exisitng employees would come from and that pool is shrunk a bit each time money has to come out to follow a regulation or in other words the ability of that business to hire new people or pay thier existing people more is reduced. While a business can raise the price for what they do or make that is limited by two factor, 1) what the market will bear of course and 2) the fact that a since business also suffer from inflation in the price of thier supplies, a raise in price may do nothing but have a business breaking even, even though they raised thier prices since that price increase only served to offset the increase in cost for thier supplies. By way of example, I just raised our prices by 10% at the begining of the month, the first time in nearly 5 years. The price of steel has risen by 100% since 2006, the price of brass by 120%, wood and leather by about 40%( of course in there is also the ridiculous price of gas, food utilites ect. over the last few years). My 10% increase didn’t bring in more money for the business even though my products cost more because that money is consumed by the radical increase in the cost of my raw materials. Regulation has to be intelligent, not simply to have more regualtion ( there were something like 12 Federal laws broken in the commission of the Columbine massacre, washingtons response was to pass more laws/regulations, other than making our legal code even more mystifying and harder to understand what did that new regualtion/law really accomplish? Nothing really its redundant but because Washington interprets doing something now as passing laws that useless measure is waht they did).

What should we do about things? Introduce some common sense into the formula and unfortunatly for us all we’re not likely to get that from our political class, they’re to busy with thier good friend mamon and the mega corps who give it to them to be bothered.