tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post4816867655389298149..comments2024-02-29T02:10:56.878-08:00Comments on J O S H U A P U N D I T: Another Obama Whopper: "Chrysler has repaid every dime and more of what it owes American taxpayers"Freedom Fighterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13649470110087808596noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post-87835337746244168332011-06-07T22:35:52.621-07:002011-06-07T22:35:52.621-07:00How do the Republicans or any political party for ...How do the Republicans or any political party for that matter compete with the Democrats when the Democrats have such amssive structural aedvantages as this? With structrual advantages like this the Democrats should control 95+% of legislative positions. <br /><br />Yet while the Democrats control the government bueracracy, the public education system grades K-12, the professorships, administration, and management positions of the major universities, the IRS, the CIA, the FBI the publishing industry, and the news media they still do not have 95+% of the legislative positions. Perhaps the Republicans have survived by being "Democrat lite." The Repubicans have often been accuesd of being the "party of stupid." Perhaps this is inaccurate. Maybe they are simply "going along to get along." They may need to do this in order to survive. Its hard to imagine how anyone could expect to overcome the massive structural advantages the Democrats have and survive otherwise.<br /><br />The unions are really for all intents and purposes part of the government. When "experts" talk about fixing the economy, it always seems to focus on sacrficies the investors and the "prviate sector" must make. For example, the bondholders need to be willing to "take a haircut" and things of that nature. It never focuses on what sacrifices the governemtn or its interests must give up. Perhaps the investors should "teke a haircut." The unions and the rest of the government should as well.<br /><br />Until something is done to tackle the regulatory beast and the runaway entitlements, it seems unlikely we will be able to fix our economy. We can't simply focus on "taxing the rich" and forcing investors to "take haircuts."<br /><br />Now there MAY just be a way to get our economy moving in the right direction AND keep all entitlements. IF we open up ALL of our oil and gas reserves for extraction, undertake a massive refinery building project, utilize coal to oil technologies, and relax most of the onerous regualtions thak make it extremely difficult, if not imposssible, to maunfacture things in America, this would generate MASSIVE numbers of high paying union jobs. It woudl also result in a massive addtion in taxes paid into the government. We just MIGHT generate enough tax reveune to keep all entitlements in place. <br /><br />If only we could get the someone to stand up to the regulatory beast, it might work. I think its unlikely we could generate enough tax revenue to cover all entitlemtnts with this plan but it does give us a fighting chance, since we seem bound and determeined to keep our entitlements. After all it seems unlikely the Chinese and others will keep extending credit to us for an indefinite period of time. <br /><br />Also, withdraw ALL military and intellegence personnel from the Middle East and elsewhere in the world. This would result in massive savings for the governemnt. Doing this has enormous political benefits to the politicians who would suggest it and actually work toward implementing and it has almost no cost. I must admit to be puzzled as to why this part has not been done yet. <br /><br />After the withdrawl the next phase will have to be deploy the forces returning to America to our borders. Doing this will give them a fighting chance to defend our country and it will be far less costly than what we are currently doing. Not only that but it will much more effective for our national security!!B.Posternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post-58223168018334438072011-06-07T21:38:55.980-07:002011-06-07T21:38:55.980-07:00when i read about this, it was not for the funny m...when i read about this, it was not for the funny munny issue, but the fact that fiat will now own chrysler.<br />in hussein's view, it doesn't make any difference, either US gov't owned or foreign owned. just not privately owned by US citizens.louielouienoreply@blogger.com