Conservative estimates put job loss during this recession at around 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 people with close to half of those job loss coming from housing construction and the manufacturing sections of society. The federal stimulus money by the President and his administration help to keep or replace around 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 additional jobs. So clearly without federal intervention the unemployment numbers for this recession could have been much worst. The question then becomes what to do next? How do we get the country to turn around, economically speaking? How can we begin to lower these insane unemployment numbers? How can we put Americans back to work?
First let’s examine proposals put forth by Republicans. Of course the leading suggestion is the old standby of “Tax Cuts”. More specifically tax cuts for small and big business. The theory being that putting more money into business pockets would enable them to hire more employees and in turn enable said business’ to provide more goods and services. More people back to work, more people buying things thereby pumping more money into the economy. Nice theory but the problem is that business, both big and small are not hiring workers because they don’t have enough money for capitol investment, hiring employees is considered capitol investment, there not hiring people because they have too much inventory on hand that is not moving. Then the second reason is that productivity levels at companies have not decreased due to the massive job loss. The remaining workers are performing at much higher levels of productivity or that the productivity loss is so minor that it is accepted by the company owners. In point of fact combined with the levels of inventory still being high the private sector really has no motivation to increase employment. It has nothing whatsoever to do with confidence or lack of confidence in the federal response to the economic woes in America or the world today. Too much inventory, rising productivity and no increase in consumer demand or consumer spending all adds up to lack of employee hiring.
Another proposal of republican’s is that government, both federal and state, are downsized so that they can get out of the way of business development and the savings of money from downsizing can be somehow either pumped into the economy, i.e. into the hands of Americans or used to pay down the deficit, either federal or state. This in turn will help to simulated economic growth in the United States. In the local campaigning for Governor in Georgia all the Republican candidates ads and commercials are all talking about downsizing state government as a means of economic job growth. Downsizing state government is always about nothing more than laying off state employees. Usually through some combination of out right lay offs, early retirements and position freezes. The end result always ends up with more people out of work. Of course this translates into less people having money to pay their rent or mortgages, less money to buy food and groceries and less money to put into savings. Following classical economic theory that should lead to less demands for goods and services. This, logically leads to less demands for new workers to be hired. So how will downsizing government lead to new jobs in the economy? Of course the answer is that it will not lead to new jobs in the economy. It will bring us more people out of work.
The final leg of the Republican strategy for job growth in America is to end burdensome regulations on American business all together. The market place should be the final arbitrator in the regulation of American Enterprise. The free market will punish those business’s that deal in poor service and poor products. No governmental oversight is needed to regulate health and safety concerns,
But of course as the BP Oil Spill, the Exxon-Valdez Oil Spill, the Worldcom Collapse and the financial crises that has eliminated some eight to ten million jobs in less than two years seem to indicated that less governmental oversight, both federal and local, is actually a prescription for disaster.
So as we can see the ideas put forth by the Republican Party amount to nothing more than a prescription for further economic disaster and more people out of work, not jobs being created.
By the way the Republicans supposedly great concern about the federal deficit and how that is the most troubling thing facing America today is, to me, nothing but a crass political bull. The same Republicans had no problem running up the deficit during the entirety of the Bush presidency during his two turns. Clearly this absolute fear of federal deficits are now just a creation of partisan politics. What takes it to a new “Twilight Zone” level of madness is the holding up of unemployment benefits in the name of being budget deficits fighters. And to claim that they’re trying to save children from future debt and payback while condemning millions of families to the joy of how will we keep a roof over our head or food in our children’s bellies? How outright cynical if not bordering on evil.
So the Republican approach and proposals to job creation and economic growth is pretty much the same program that there party used to shape the economic polices during the past two terms of George Bush. And what has been the results of these economic policies. Huge budget deficits, decrease in money going into the treasury, an economic crises of almost depression era proportions and seven to ten million loss of jobs. Yet the same causes of these problems are now being pushed as the solutions to getting the economy back on track. This is a dangerous move to make which will only leave to further social and economic chaos. These policies have to be fought on any and all fronts.
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Monday, July 19, 2010
Good morning. I've returned...
Good morning. I've returned from (?) being hospitalized now I'm back and I will be hopefully posting regularly. Have a good day. Thank you.
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Well, good morning,...
Well, good morning, today was exercise day. Last week, I went to my new doctor, start this mythical(?) process and get permission to do this exercise pack. I didn't actually revealed him about starting the week earlier, that's just a secret for a keep, but I don't know if I'm tired or invigorated or both but I got 35 minutes on this variation. listen
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Saturday, July 05, 2008
Second day of a new...
Second day of a new exercise without with you today I give the weight lifting weight training machine. I'm not gonna report on this every single day but I think the first week before we credible(?). I've got to do the reporting. Thank you. I will continue this in your latest post. Have a good day. listen
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Friday, July 04, 2008
Final inch we on the...
Final inch we on the workouts today. Of course, I had meeting for my doctors and we talked about what to do and how to do and I actually went to the ____. Last week, I meet with one of the assistance last personal trainers to give me set up or ask about machines, I'll do off(?) and so on and so ford. So, I'll be calling in, checking every now and then as I talked about for the topics. Thank you and goodbye. listen
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Yes, so I should be using my blog as a public tracking try to get these various new habits will be a good thing to do that way if I feel, I won't be alone in my embarrassment, my public will share the embarrassment with me and something like that but my daughter will be happy, my wife is happy that to because at least for the first time I feel pretty good myself, okay now go home. listen
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Hello, it's Tuesday...
Hello, it's Tuesday and it's 3:25 p.m. I am testing this jott transcription to see just by sending a note out to my Blog only. I am going to talk 30 seconds of the time and this is just a test so, let's see how it works, if it does work I will talk about it one day(?) later. Thank you and goodbye. listen
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Sunday, August 19, 2007
Writing Stuff
People have asked me why I think writing stuff down is so important so let me talk about that just a tad more.
Look too many people attempt to rely entirely to much on there memory to keep track of all the many and wondrous things that go on in their lives. From important dates to detailed work on projects, both at work and at home, what friends, relatives and other loved ones like and don’t like, what are our dreams and goals of the future, the name of the person we met at the seminar last month to the name of the pretty person we talked to for an hour at such and such party, etc. And this is on top of the many daily routines such as how to drive, how to iron our clothes, get to work, the chapter that we stopped at in the novel that we’re reading and the like.
Now don’t get me wrong the human mind is a truly wondrous instrument and I can’t praise it enough it in how it operates over the course of our life and the remarkable ability it has to help us keep on top of so many things. Yet why not give our poor beleaguered brain some help in its millions upon millions of tasks that we demand that it performs each and every day. Why not relieve some of the stress that we heap upon this gray matter. Why don’t we, wait for it, write some of the stuff down that is always bubbling in the inner most recess’s of our mind? Jot down a few of those items on a regular bases, that seems to need to demand some of our attention regardless of the fact that at this particular time that these seemingly random thoughts occur to us there is nothing that we can do about them at the moment. I would dare say that the importance of writing these items down, and reviewing the list of what we write on a pretty regular bases is that, not only do we keep a record of those thoughts and feelings which may prove to be useful at some future date and time but also by recording it somewhere we will remove a little of that nameless nagging stress that we always seem to carry with us no matter where we go or what we do.
Recording these thoughts, ideas, appointments, tasks, plans in some manner that makes sense to us and in a system that we find reliable and systematic will go a long way in improving how we feel about life and about ourselves and our ability to function in this world in which we live.
Another reason for writing things down is that the simple act of doing so aids in our self reflection or helps us in looking at the big picture. Seeing the whole from another angle supports us in getting some manner of prospective on the thoughts and/or actions we need to take or plans for future action.
If you read any material on self improvement or increasing personal productivity in almost all of them they stress the importance of “To Do Lists” or of “Brainstorming” on paper or whatever electronic device you might be into. There is something almost magical about writing things down and the effect it has on a person’s ability to achieve anything. Please, please, please commence to putting your thoughts, plans, ideas, dreams, goals etc. on paper, or in your computer or PDA. Do this regularly for 30 days and see if you have gotten further along in any of your plans and/or goals. The results may surprise you.
Look too many people attempt to rely entirely to much on there memory to keep track of all the many and wondrous things that go on in their lives. From important dates to detailed work on projects, both at work and at home, what friends, relatives and other loved ones like and don’t like, what are our dreams and goals of the future, the name of the person we met at the seminar last month to the name of the pretty person we talked to for an hour at such and such party, etc. And this is on top of the many daily routines such as how to drive, how to iron our clothes, get to work, the chapter that we stopped at in the novel that we’re reading and the like.
Now don’t get me wrong the human mind is a truly wondrous instrument and I can’t praise it enough it in how it operates over the course of our life and the remarkable ability it has to help us keep on top of so many things. Yet why not give our poor beleaguered brain some help in its millions upon millions of tasks that we demand that it performs each and every day. Why not relieve some of the stress that we heap upon this gray matter. Why don’t we, wait for it, write some of the stuff down that is always bubbling in the inner most recess’s of our mind? Jot down a few of those items on a regular bases, that seems to need to demand some of our attention regardless of the fact that at this particular time that these seemingly random thoughts occur to us there is nothing that we can do about them at the moment. I would dare say that the importance of writing these items down, and reviewing the list of what we write on a pretty regular bases is that, not only do we keep a record of those thoughts and feelings which may prove to be useful at some future date and time but also by recording it somewhere we will remove a little of that nameless nagging stress that we always seem to carry with us no matter where we go or what we do.
Recording these thoughts, ideas, appointments, tasks, plans in some manner that makes sense to us and in a system that we find reliable and systematic will go a long way in improving how we feel about life and about ourselves and our ability to function in this world in which we live.
Another reason for writing things down is that the simple act of doing so aids in our self reflection or helps us in looking at the big picture. Seeing the whole from another angle supports us in getting some manner of prospective on the thoughts and/or actions we need to take or plans for future action.
If you read any material on self improvement or increasing personal productivity in almost all of them they stress the importance of “To Do Lists” or of “Brainstorming” on paper or whatever electronic device you might be into. There is something almost magical about writing things down and the effect it has on a person’s ability to achieve anything. Please, please, please commence to putting your thoughts, plans, ideas, dreams, goals etc. on paper, or in your computer or PDA. Do this regularly for 30 days and see if you have gotten further along in any of your plans and/or goals. The results may surprise you.
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