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Monday, January 12, 2009
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Is this something we the people really care about? I personally don't care if he decides to have an ostrich, a camel, an iguana or a ferret for a pet.
WE HAVE BIGGER WORRIES THAN A PET!!!
And while I am at it, I am hearing the government wants to send out another round of stimulus checks (500 a person, 1000 a family). Keep the friggin money!!! Not that either sum is insignificant on its' own, however when viewed in the larger scope of our economy's troubles it is nothing. People need a way to refi a mortgage they are upside down on, people need jobs, not 500 or 1000 bucks.
And another thing, this business about building roads and bridges..... I'm in construction, and let me tell you, roads and bridges are not job creating. They are equipment heavy, but not labor heavy. They need to build buildings that require interior finishes and furnishings.
Plus, where the heck did all the bailout money go? I think we should start a movement and every company who received bailout money and then gave out bonuses should have to return the bailout money immediately. If you can afford to give people bonuses you didn't really need the money to begin with, and if you used bailout money for bonuses that explains why your company is in the crapper!!! You can't give what you don't have.
There must be some accountability here!!! I mean come on the F on....... These people (the government) work for us and yet we do nothing to hold them accountable, they have handed out billons of dollars, BILLONS, with no appreciable difference in our economy. We need a full accounting, what goes in - all taxes and then what goes out.
Something has to give in this country. Either people are going to be willing to give up 50% or more of their income, or we start letting companies that are unprofitable fail. I for one vote for unprofitable companies failing. Yes, in the short term it will have a great cost, increase unemployment, foreclosures etc, however the recovery will happen a lot quicker as those unprofitable companies fail and/or are bought out, opening back up the market, which means jobs will return as will profits. Everyone needs a bit of help some of the time, but not everyone needs help all of the time unless you are disabled.
And the other little piece of info that the government doesn't want to tell you- big corporations just pass taxes onto the consumer, they do not absorb those taxes. The windfall oil tax - yeah that would find it's way to your pocket just like to government making, I believe, 18 cents a gallon in taxes on gas. Historically the only way to grow an economy is to reduce taxes.
It's beginning to get very tricky.
Very Tricky.
Is this something we the people really care about? I personally don't care if he decides to have an ostrich, a camel, an iguana or a ferret for a pet.
WE HAVE BIGGER WORRIES THAN A PET!!!
And while I am at it, I am hearing the government wants to send out another round of stimulus checks (500 a person, 1000 a family). Keep the friggin money!!! Not that either sum is insignificant on its' own, however when viewed in the larger scope of our economy's troubles it is nothing. People need a way to refi a mortgage they are upside down on, people need jobs, not 500 or 1000 bucks.
And another thing, this business about building roads and bridges..... I'm in construction, and let me tell you, roads and bridges are not job creating. They are equipment heavy, but not labor heavy. They need to build buildings that require interior finishes and furnishings.
Plus, where the heck did all the bailout money go? I think we should start a movement and every company who received bailout money and then gave out bonuses should have to return the bailout money immediately. If you can afford to give people bonuses you didn't really need the money to begin with, and if you used bailout money for bonuses that explains why your company is in the crapper!!! You can't give what you don't have.
There must be some accountability here!!! I mean come on the F on....... These people (the government) work for us and yet we do nothing to hold them accountable, they have handed out billons of dollars, BILLONS, with no appreciable difference in our economy. We need a full accounting, what goes in - all taxes and then what goes out.
Something has to give in this country. Either people are going to be willing to give up 50% or more of their income, or we start letting companies that are unprofitable fail. I for one vote for unprofitable companies failing. Yes, in the short term it will have a great cost, increase unemployment, foreclosures etc, however the recovery will happen a lot quicker as those unprofitable companies fail and/or are bought out, opening back up the market, which means jobs will return as will profits. Everyone needs a bit of help some of the time, but not everyone needs help all of the time unless you are disabled.
And the other little piece of info that the government doesn't want to tell you- big corporations just pass taxes onto the consumer, they do not absorb those taxes. The windfall oil tax - yeah that would find it's way to your pocket just like to government making, I believe, 18 cents a gallon in taxes on gas. Historically the only way to grow an economy is to reduce taxes.
It's beginning to get very tricky.
Very Tricky.
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