There are times when those are the best decisions....with government spending taking up ever increasing share of our economy and at unsustainable levels and rising and placing an ever greater burden on the vastly more productive private sector, we have no alternative but to cut the size of the government burden. Denial is frankly not an option and with the magnitude of the problem, also irrational. This is an old, tired debate with you. Private sector demons fleecing an unsuspecting public in pursuit of excess profits are the problem, more labor, higher taxes, more regulation and bigger government are the solution. We are at complete opposite ends of the spectrum philosophically and I challenge you to put forth a country modeled on your ideals that has been more successful than our model of free enterprise system......ever. Just one......take your time. I have nothing more to add to the debate.....
:wink: wait wait on your car list made in America..the new BMW 200(i think) i made here wonder if Joco will buy one for me... since I know he wont buy my dream car the chrystler 300 since the ad they made costing millions and they havent paid back any of the money they borrowed and he wont buy any GM cars' but the new BMW is sweet...... but I think we are buying a ford.
I agree.....that's why I understand where we are headed when the Starbuck's type jobs outnumber the Google type jobs by a large margin. Hey....I never worked the Starbucks type jobs and I'm not now doing so but I did lose the job that I worked very hard at for 23 years to achieve. Of course there are some that believe a Starbucks counter job will get you a 5 bedroom home in an affluent suburb with 3 cars in the garage and 3 kids in college. :roll: :roll:
MCG, I have watched the debate go back and forth for the last couple of topics and have tried to view this with an open mind and non-biased attitude. One continuing theme I have observed is the fact of animosity toward the loss of the job you worked hard to achieve for 23 years. In a real sense I can understand the pain and loss at losing something a man or woman has worked hard for many years. My confusion or lack of understanding is why you feel the GOP is the culprit in this loss? If you have caught a glimpse of my philosophy on GOP or Democrat you understand I have no love for either party and do not feel sympathy toward one or the other. I do not offer a better solution because quite frankly I do not have one at this time. I do not see more government as the solution because of personal experiences in living this nightmare. On the other hand I do see a continual abuse by business to put business first and its employees second. It is a continual struggle between the two and the attempt to right the wrong of one insitution of thought from the other. In simple terms they seem to balance one another in an imperfect form of government that we presently call the United States of America. I see this as the continuing growth of our country and even though imperfect it presently is the most astounding one in the world. Even as we lose our ranking as the world leader to China and all that contains we are still enterprising and very young to most country's historically. This gives me hope that we are at a junction that is hard to accept for those of us accustomed to being the world leader that maybe we can turn inwards to improving America for a change. Improving infrastructure and using science to make us more efficient in our daily lives instead of spending billions on being the world's police force. Like it or not I feel this country is based and founded on capitalism and when we allow government to dictate how business is run it disables the very thing it is trying to control. So the fine line continues in the current balancing act we are living of right vs left. Just a opinion like so many others out there... RC
Ralph.....good input. I don't feel the GOP is necessarily responsible as there were many convergent factors involved in the Great Recession although the attitude of reckless capitalistic abandon contributed to the mortgage and credit crisis which in turn killed the auto industry. My beef with the GOP is that they are much more likely to have a smug.....tough **** attitude about people's plight in such a recession and harbor the attitude that business can do no wrong.....whether you are paying exorbitant healhcare premiums or getting robbed by your credit card company. And that does bother me greatly.
... and reckless socialist abandon has set record national debt at a rate that is unprecedented in the history of this nation.
Of course the Democratic congress strong arming Freddie and Fannie and the mortgage banks to issue loans to clearly unqualified people under threat of severe penalty didn't have anything to do with it. It was all the smug tough **** attitude of the GOP.
Nobody can articulate it better than Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize winner and the father of monetary economics..... <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RWsx1X8PV_A" frameborder="0"></iframe>