Comments on: It’s the Jobs, Stupid!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:28:44 +0000

It’s Jobs Stupid!

By: L.D.

L.D. — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:14:08 +0000

I’ve been telling people the same thing, they want to blame it on the real estate, i believe some people were stupid enough to listen to the real estate angents and bought 3 or 4 different properties, but for those who were just trying to own 1 probably had a good job that were able to make their mortgage ended up lossing their jobs and then ended up lossing everything else. Not only are the big companies going over seas, they are hiring people from over seas to come over here on a working visa.

what can we do to bring our jobs back home?

By: t bryce

t bryce — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:03:26 +0000

president obama had better keep writing those checks to keep us all going since he is not too worried about american jobs and still letting american companies take our jobs elsewhere.

By: How globalization killed America… and the world. « The Keeping Room

How globalization killed America… and the world. « The Keeping Room — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:13:13 +0000

[...] matters are jobs, and only jobs, and they must be brought back to the US. New jobs must be prohibited from being outsourced, [...]

By: How globalization killed America… and the world. « Moneyed Politicians

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:08:44 +0000

[...] matters are jobs, and only jobs, and they must be brought back to the US. New jobs must be prohibited from being outsourced, [...]

By: Entitlement deform… « Moneyed Politicians

Entitlement deform… « Moneyed Politicians — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:45:15 +0000

[...] hasn’t changed. It’s the Jobs, Stupid! Obama must also deal with job losses due to globalization; Roosevelt didn’t. Creating jobs [...]

By: John Lawrence

John Lawrence — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:40:37 +0000

Raising taxes on corporations will work as long as tariffs are raised and they have no advantage to relocate offshore and then sell back into the American market. The American market is the biggest consumer market in the world; therefore, every corporation wants to sell into it. We have to make it a privilege to sell into it that corporations will gladly pay taxes for.

By: Did government control really change hands? « Moneyed Politicians

Did government control really change hands? « Moneyed Politicians — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:43:51 +0000

[...] get jobs coming back to our country. Eliminate taxes for companies that keep jobs in the US; increase taxes for those [...]

By: Did government control really change hands?

Did government control really change hands? — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:58:41 +0000

[...] get jobs coming back to our country. Eliminate taxes for companies that keep jobs in the US; increase taxes for those [...]

By: At this point socialism looks pretty good…

At this point socialism looks pretty good… — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:05:24 +0000

[...] U.S. will not recover until we bring back our jobs, and giving tax breaks to companies that outsource is not the way to do it. [...]

By: At this point socialism looks pretty good… « Moneyed Politicians

At this point socialism looks pretty good… « Moneyed Politicians — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:06:52 +0000

[...] U.S. will not recover until we bring back our jobs, and giving tax breaks to companies that outsource is not the way to do it. [...]

By: Voter Reforms, boring but necessary « Moneyed Politicians

Voter Reforms, boring but necessary « Moneyed Politicians — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:40:52 +0000

[...] It’s the Jobs, Stupid! [...]

By: MoneyedPoliticians

MoneyedPoliticians — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:02:48 +0000

When you get 10% of the voters let me know. And most of those will buy into public funding of campaigns. Only when you get the public rather than the wealthy funding the campaigns will you get equitable taxes.

The biggest danger with public funding is to the incumbents. It is working great in Arizona and Maine since 1998 and has been passed in several other states. If it turns bad it can be voted out by the citizens just as it was voted in.

By: ezag

ezag — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:01:52 +0000

Moneyed,
You are correct that change cannot come from our current political culture. The answer, I believe, comes from the grassroots in the form of a left/right coalition that wants the system under better voter control.

How to do it? A 10% left/right coalition that voted as a block on the single issue of tax reform could turn a high percentage of elections. The main source of the voters is the turned off voters…there are a lot of them.

Public financing is full of its own dangers.

By: MoneyedPoliticians

MoneyedPoliticians — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:17:11 +0000

It’s not that simple, ezag. Nothing sensible is going to happen with spending and taxing until you get the private money out of the public political system. You can argue all you want that it shouldn’t be that way, but it is. Get used to it; or change it.

But I do love your tax idea:

The Hedgehog Party Motto

Eliminate Taxes on the Poor
Lower Taxes on the Middle Class
Lower Taxes on the Rich
Raise Taxes on the Wealthy