I am watching the Television, and, since the November elections are rapidly approaching, there are adverts on for the various exploiticians who want you to put them in office.
Being from Ohio, this is more of a circus than a campaign.
<< cheesy calliope music please >>
And now, ladies and gentlemen, for your entertainment, now performing in the center ring, the newest candidate for screwing things up royally . . . .
<< then some tiny car drives in and 100 bumbling idiots spill out >>
I have lived through a few administrations now, and although I can't claim, like my father, to have lived during the Great Depression, I can appreciate the instability and fragility of our current economy. One politician in particular for Ohio is talking about putting us back on the right track. One of the things he wants to do is immediately suspend the payroll tax.
When I first heard this I was stunned into silence.
I am supposing, by looking at this person, that he is younger than me, and didn't really understand the Reagan's trickle down policy and its rather negligible affect on America. He thinks that by allowing employers to save money on taxes, that they will go ahead and start hiring more people, thus creating jobs and stimulating our economy.
I laughed.
This tactic of giving corporations tax breaks in the 1980's did nothing to create jobs back then, why would he suppose it would now? The only reason jobs got created back then is because Big Business expanded their talons into every nook and cranny of America to suck dry the credit accounts and equity lines people were opening up left and right based on false economy and predatory lending. If you look now, a lot of those Big Businesses are gone. And the owners laughed all the way to the bank.
IF a business owner, in this current economy, can make ends meet and show profit or at least an even break, why would he hire more people if the state told him he didn't have to pay taxes on his payroll? He could use that extra money to catch up on bills, pay off loans, buy a new car, etc. He won't graciously say, well the state gave me this money out of goodwill, so I think I will hire more employees, even though I don't need to.
I know some of you reading this will scoff at me, even bark. Of course people are good and will do their best for their common fellow.
And pigs might fly out of my rectal orifice.
Past behavior is the best indicator of future performance. If they didn't turn around and send that money onwards then, why would they suddenly do it now? Especially in this time of shaky and risky financial stability?
Of course, then again, the Republican party is prancing about the nation with their new agenda to America about BankruptingAmerica.org, warning of how the current administration is going to kill us with debt, when it was the 8 years of the Bush administration that took us from the largest cash surplus of the last 100 years and plummeted us into the worst debt in the past 100 years. So it is no surprise to me that some wet-behind-the-ears runt of an exploitician is wanting us to believe that trickle down economics will somehow save us.
Don't get me wrong, fellow citizens, I don't espouse the democrats as a viable group either. I was just pointing out one misgiving in a line of malaise that is being foisted upon us.
Well, that venting done, I shall now relax with a fine cup of trepidation, and watch as we take the next faltering steps towards what I hope will be recovery.
See you on the flip side.
Being from Ohio, this is more of a circus than a campaign.
<< cheesy calliope music please >>
And now, ladies and gentlemen, for your entertainment, now performing in the center ring, the newest candidate for screwing things up royally . . . .
<< then some tiny car drives in and 100 bumbling idiots spill out >>
I have lived through a few administrations now, and although I can't claim, like my father, to have lived during the Great Depression, I can appreciate the instability and fragility of our current economy. One politician in particular for Ohio is talking about putting us back on the right track. One of the things he wants to do is immediately suspend the payroll tax.
When I first heard this I was stunned into silence.
I am supposing, by looking at this person, that he is younger than me, and didn't really understand the Reagan's trickle down policy and its rather negligible affect on America. He thinks that by allowing employers to save money on taxes, that they will go ahead and start hiring more people, thus creating jobs and stimulating our economy.
I laughed.
This tactic of giving corporations tax breaks in the 1980's did nothing to create jobs back then, why would he suppose it would now? The only reason jobs got created back then is because Big Business expanded their talons into every nook and cranny of America to suck dry the credit accounts and equity lines people were opening up left and right based on false economy and predatory lending. If you look now, a lot of those Big Businesses are gone. And the owners laughed all the way to the bank.
IF a business owner, in this current economy, can make ends meet and show profit or at least an even break, why would he hire more people if the state told him he didn't have to pay taxes on his payroll? He could use that extra money to catch up on bills, pay off loans, buy a new car, etc. He won't graciously say, well the state gave me this money out of goodwill, so I think I will hire more employees, even though I don't need to.
I know some of you reading this will scoff at me, even bark. Of course people are good and will do their best for their common fellow.
And pigs might fly out of my rectal orifice.
Past behavior is the best indicator of future performance. If they didn't turn around and send that money onwards then, why would they suddenly do it now? Especially in this time of shaky and risky financial stability?
Of course, then again, the Republican party is prancing about the nation with their new agenda to America about BankruptingAmerica.org, warning of how the current administration is going to kill us with debt, when it was the 8 years of the Bush administration that took us from the largest cash surplus of the last 100 years and plummeted us into the worst debt in the past 100 years. So it is no surprise to me that some wet-behind-the-ears runt of an exploitician is wanting us to believe that trickle down economics will somehow save us.
Don't get me wrong, fellow citizens, I don't espouse the democrats as a viable group either. I was just pointing out one misgiving in a line of malaise that is being foisted upon us.
Well, that venting done, I shall now relax with a fine cup of trepidation, and watch as we take the next faltering steps towards what I hope will be recovery.
See you on the flip side.