Question is "How to fix America?"

[coldfork]

One MAJOR fix would be to expand DRILLING for our own sources of oil and natural gas...far too long we have been at the mercy NOT of the Arab countries so much as at the mercy of our OWN citizens calling themselves ENVIRONMENTALISTS. These nutjobs have stifled progress in the procurement of energy for far too long.

Right on with that idea. Then maybe we could stop funding both sides of the war on terror.

[Newt]

[quote="bluegrass"]I have an idea...why dont we all gather together and start an uprising, kill all the leaders, install our OWN leaders and redistribute wealth...uh, no wait....that was tried already in Russia wasnt it??? Didnt work out so well there. /quote]

As well as Germany, Cuba, China, Chile, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwa), and South Africa. It worked so well with such a humanitarian outcome that the Progressives can't wait to try it in the USA.

[Tim H]

How to create jobs, grow the economy, slow inflation, and get independent again.
I don't really want any republican or democratic bashing, or blame games.

On your very next post. It sounds like bashing to me.

TIM
I think you have bumped your head. We've already tried that, once under Bush remember party time in the Caribean?

We don't have to reinvent the wheel, with all kinds of new ideas. Just stop messing with it. It has worked for 100's of years. There have always been ups and downs but if left alone, it rolls along pretty well on it's own.

[Bev]

I know it's popular to say that millionaires and big business and wall street are all greedy but they are the reason jobs exist in this country. It's basic economics.

Tim, have you ever read the novel Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand? It's a good read, and reiterates in a mere 1,000+ pages what you just said here. (lol)

[Pine Mt Beagles]

--SO WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAY'S IS == a “disingenuous smokescreen”==BUT IF A REPUBLICAN SAY'S IT, THEN IT IS THE BEST THING SINCE BOTTLED WATER==I HAVE NEVER READ SUCH TWO FACED HIPPOCRITIC B.S. EVER A COMPLETE FARCE
--SO NOW EVERY THING THE REPUBLICANS WANTED THEY DON'T WANT NOW,THAT IT WAS WERE OFFERED,
----------------IF YOU HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH A'= LIAR'= WHAT DID YOU GAIN FROM IT-------------------------------------------------AND IF SOME ONE CHANGES THEIR DIRECTION WITH EVERY STEP WHER WILL THEY GO

[old blood beagles]

It would be easy to fix but hard to find the individuals that would fix it.

All that you would have to do is put into law that any elected official would have a two year term and in that two year term they would have to:

Keep unemployment below 7%
Keep interest rates below 8%
Have a national growth rate of a minimum of 4%
Keep a balanced budget with a reduction in national debt of 5% a year


And if they did not do this then they could not run for re-election or draw any type of retirement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sounds hard? Put alot of 70 year old dirt farmers in there and have them count every cent like they have had to do for the past 50 years. There would not be any pork spending or giving money away to "friends of the party".

[bluegrass]

REPUBLICANS= HAVE TO REINVENT THE WHELL,,THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS,=JUST SAY NO =TIM'S= POST =COMPLETELY OUT IN LEFT FIELD,,,NOT RELIVENT...

Uh, just because YOU say it isnt relivent (spelled incorrectly as usual) doesnt make it so...you are displaying the same type of arrogance that is sinking your god Obambi quicker than the Titanic...in case you havent noticed RUFUS, you are LOSING and will continue to do so with your ignorant hate filled posts. But I must admit, it should be entertaining to see how deep in the muck barrel you will go. Rush Limbaugh once said Liberals are at their craziest when they are either losing power or out of it entirely....guess we will get to see you implode on BOTH accounts because you are LOSING now and will soon be out of it entirely.


Go back up your mountain Rufus, your posts arent "relivent" anyway.



Tony

[Treebrook Beagles]

? Put alot of 70 year old dirt farmers in there and have them count every cent like they have had to do for the past 50 years. There would not be any pork spending or giving money away to "friends of the party

now that is a original ideal.

We've already tried that, once under Bush remember party time in the Caribean

not bashing just trying to make a point/

[tommyg]

10% flat income tax. Everybody that wanted to work could. Keep our jobs here. Let us buy health insurance across state lines it would create compitition and lower costs. Term limits on congress. Let the states have back the power they were intended to have in the Constitution. Let the federal government worry about National defence insted of trying to run everything which they are incapable of doing. LET THE FREE MARKET WORK IT IS WHAT MADE THIS COUNTRY GREAT. Give the Liberals a couple of states to reside in and let them destroy them with programs and uncontrolled spending then when they want help look to the UN to get it,it would cut costs.

[wvrabbithunter]

this is a no brainer,a quit fix, only working people can vote,everyone is living on the backs of working people let them
vote in the people to spend their money,their would be a big change,and fast
frank

[bluegrass]

this is a no brainer,a quit fix, only working people can vote,everyone is living on the backs of working people let them
vote in the people to spend their money,their would be a big change,and fast
frank

Originally things were designed so that only LANDOWNERS could vote. Can you imagine today how different things would be if you had to own your property before you could vote?? That would mean those living in government subsidized housing for free or minimal rent wouldnt be able to raise MY PROPERTY TAXES like they can now...sure would even some things out a bit....


Tony

[Pine Mt Beagles]

----------------IF YOU HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH A'= LIAR'= WHAT DID YOU GAIN FROM IT-------------------------------------------------AND IF SOME ONE CHANGES THEIR DIRECTION WITH EVERY STEP WHERE WILL THEY EVER GO.

[DoubleEagle]

I'm already seeing alot of finger pointing so let's point out the facts...

I see quite a few posts here covering international trade, free trade agreements, and keeping american jobs in America. And yet you are the very same people who vehemently supported John McCain in the last election cycle...

John McCain co-sponsored NAFTA
John McCain voted yes on CAFTA
Quite frankly John McCain has never met a free trade agreement he didn't like... he has ultimately voted Yes on every single FTA to cross his desk.

Yet you all supported him in the last election... brilliant.


So how do we fix the American economy?

Cut tax loopholes that allow american money to be banked off-shore and remain untaxed. When that money is sitting unused in an off-shore account it isn't being used to create jobs. It isn't being invested in business.
Tax corporations heavier for creating products outside of the US and then re-importing them inside our borders. Their corporate offices are inside of America, sure. 65% of their workforce is American, ok. But they should still be taxed the same on that other 35% as any other outside business is.
Pin incentive bonuses on Wall Street to actual economic growth. They already get a salary, the bonuses are just that... a bonus. So why should an executive for any corporation get a bonus when their actions causes their company to tank?
And last but certainly not least. Close the newly created loophole allowing Corporations to spend money on political campaigns. That money is shareholder money. That money can and should be invested back into their business. Corporations are not individuals and therefore should not be afforded the same individual rights as you or me.

[Pine Mt Beagles]

----------------IF YOU HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH A'= LIAR'= WHAT DID YOU GAIN FROM IT-------------------------------------------------AND IF SOME ONE CHANGES THEIR DIRECTION WITH EVERY STEP WHERE WILL THEY EVER GO.

[tommyg]

by tommyg on Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:16 am

10% flat income tax. Everybody that wanted to work could. Keep our jobs here. Let us buy health insurance across state lines it would create compitition and lower costs. Term limits on congress. Let the states have back the power they were intended to have in the Constitution. Let the federal government worry about National defence insted of trying to run everything which they are incapable of doing. LET THE FREE MARKET WORK IT IS WHAT MADE THIS COUNTRY GREAT. Give the Liberals a couple of states to reside in and let them destroy them with programs and uncontrolled spending then when they want help look to the UN to get it,it would cut costs.
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--10% flat income tax.======================================GOOD IDEA,IT'S BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME AND NO ONE WANT'S TO TRY IT,BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE WORTH TRYING,,,
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--Term limits on congress.GOOD IDEA AS WELL,,,
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-LET THE FREE MARKET WORK IT IS WHAT MADE THIS COUNTRY GREAT. ========================================ONE OF THE MANY THINGS THAT IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY NOW AND CAUSING BUSINESS TO GO OFF SHORE =====I WOULD CHANGE IT TO FAIR TRADE NOT FREE TRADE,WE IMPORT A LOT AND EXPORT MUCH LESS ,THE MAIN REASON FOR UNEMPLOYMENT..
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--Give the Liberals a couple of states to reside in and let them destroy them with programs and uncontrolled spending then when they want help look to the UN to get it,it would cut costs.
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--SEND THE REPUBLICANS TO CHINA LET THEM HELP, THEIR ECONOMY LIKE THEY HAVE OUR'S...

Wrong again Rufus your hero Clinton signed NAFTA.Yes Rufus get the Liberals to go away America is fixed.