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'Cubans have
seen this movie before and know how it ends'.
People are
still voting. The understanding of the imminent dangers in the lack of
experience, a historically sound world view and business acumen as demonstrated
by the president elect's policies and announced programs have resulted in a
precipitous drop in stock, bond and business value as well as an astronomical
rise in weapons sales by nervous Americans. Even today the president elect
is talking about government work programs, [FDR's New Deal redux] that didn't
work for FDR [his plans to put 'Americans to work' extended the Great Depression
by about 10 years] and will not work today.
The simple fact of the matter is that government is not a job creator,
businesses are job creators. The Government rather than being a
money making enterprise is a money taking enterprise. A government cannot
possibly employ the population of the United States. The taxes required to
hire the 2.5 million that President elect Obama is saying will be employed will
reduce the job market by at least 3 times that much nationwide.
The only way to lower unemployment nationwide is to promote the growth of
businesses. Economics 101.
Undoubtedly
some of you are wondering why I am 'apparently' putting my own business at risk by
discussing current political events. Isn't that professional suicide?
Some ask. The answer is that if we do and say nothing at this time and
permit a socialist government slide into position, many of us will lose
our businesses anyway.
If taxes are raised any further and if other businesses begin to fail because of
the impossible-to-realize tax burdens which are the inevitable result of an
Obama Presidency, then there will possibly be no more school or studio. We
pay our taxes. The only people that stand to gain from the tax and spend
and government health care plan as detailed by Senator Obama, are those people
who already do not pay income tax.
What has been
proposed is tantamount to the largest welfare state this world has ever
known. Socialism of this has never done anything but destroy a nation.
On the mild end, it ruins actual health care - micro managing what people may
receive as the burden to provide a service for people who cannot or will not pay
becomes overwhelming to the system and services and health care workers lessen
while the needy increase to every man woman and child, legal or illegal, who
enter the country. If you think it is unkind to say so, please
consider that government run, as opposed to private run, anything, is
historically an abominable decrease in quality, not improvement.
Hey, if you really want to know if Obama's policies would work, take a look at
Massachusetts today, in a worse depression than most any other state in the
Union due to 2 years of failed socialist policies by governor Duval Patrick.
The state is an economic disaster zone, where even fining people for not
carrying health insurance and fining businesses for not offering all of their
employees health care, did not make it work, a lot of people just lost some more
money, and guess what, most of what Gov. P implemented are echoed in the Obama
mantras.
No wonder there though since Gov. P is an Obama advisor for proposed health
plan.
The
proposed tax plan will undoubtedly also create an underground economy [yes,
Canada, England and Spain come to mind] as businesses cannot stay afloat without
hiding a portion of their incomes, making a portion of their citizenry either
welfare recipients or by necessity, tax evading criminals.
Ironies:
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What we have here is a politician whose home state holds a
dismal record in Illinois with education, purporting to tell us
he will improve education;
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who
has no military service or experience, purporting to
rise to the position of commander in chief,
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who
has a million dollar home and a Harvard education
that he did not pay for, purporting to understand
the labors of the middle class;
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who
has never owned a business but is purporting to know
how we should all run ours.
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whose ignorance of economics is blatantly apparent in
the expressed desire to increase taxes, anyone's
taxes, in a time of recession.
His
ignorance of how businesses are run profitably is
demonstrated in a number of ways such as:
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intent to apply
windfall
profit taxes on oil, which is tantamount to
punishing a business for being profitable,
forgetting that it is Joe the Plumber, Sam the
salesman, and Frank the Fireman, who all own stock
in the oil companies and who have risked their
income so as to realize a return on their investment
by way of dividends; it is in some cases the
retirement accounts of middle income America that he
will tap into to 'spread the wealth' in this manner;
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In debates and rallies I have listened to Obama
accuse Insurance Companies of 'cherry picking' that
is, refusing to insure people with pre-existing
conditions and he will 'put a stop to that'.
Well, he may as well put a stop to the insurance
industry at large, since if they are not permitted
to gauge the reasonable health and condition
of their insured, that would be like insuring a man
whose house is already on fire.
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And
for that matter, why would anyone pay for insurance
yearly when under these new rules, he may wait until he
needs major surgery and then go get a policy. Do
you see any business rationale here?
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To pay
for this type of government overreach on how to run their
business - insurance companies would have to either raise
rates astronomically for people foolish enough to be keeping
insurance 'while they don't actually need it' or fold up
altogether.
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This
is no different than the reasons behind the GLOBAL financial
crisis that we are In RIGHT NOW! Government stepped in
and demanded, under penalty of fine that Mortgage companies
stop 'cherry picking' home buyers who they calculated would
be able to actually pay back their loans. NOT the
President, but he Democratic CONGRESS, in the person of
Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi and Christopher Dodd among
others, did this! As a result, Risky [Sub Prime]
loans, which had historically amounted to only 2% of loans
ever written, mushroomed by 2006 to 30% of all Mortgages!
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The rest you know. The loan holders began defaulting at an
unprecedented rate and brought the banks down all around the
world.
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Along with
government overreach, out will go our right to free speech,
[Obama is already talking of instituting a program to silence
talk radio] our right to bear arms [Obama is a 100% voter
against citizen rights to bear arms. [ It is a historically
socialist notion that people are not to be trusted with
firearms. Though please ask yourselves, should we trust
only the government with firearms?] Are you aware of the
100,000,000 deaths throughout the 20th century that were people
killed by their own governments?]
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Out will go
intellectual property rights which have historically made America
the most successful and enterprising system of prosperity for all on
the face of the earth at any time in history! You ask, how can
I say this? I am an intellectual property holder, owning 2
issued patents with another 4 pending. I already
participated in the fight this year - 2008- against Patent Reform,
which was a fancy word for 'Steal American Technologies Bill' as it
became known around the nation by small business and large business
who enjoy the American system of IP protection. In Early 2008
the bill passed the House [which was being pushed forward by
mega-company Microsoft and HP Technologies - who prefer to steal
rather than pay for their use of IP owned by individuals and small
businesses] and before we knew it Russia and China were waiting in
the wings salivating. They were waiting to jump on American
technology and intellectual property once the bill would pass the
Senate and [should it not be vetoed] become law! One of the
atrocious aspects of the bill is that the patents would have been
exposed on line for all the world to see, PRIOR to issue.
Thank God, when small businesses rallied all over the nation to
fight the suicidal legislation, the bill failed to pass in the
Senate. We won that one Will we win this
one?
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Finally it has come to this; we are not to ask what we can do
for our country or for our world, or for the church, or for our neighbor but
'what's in it for me?' is the prevailing theme. Now, before you get me
wrong, I KNOW people need health care and food and an education. But it
has never been and never will be, the role of government to guarantee anything,
not even food. Our nation's founding documents assert the proper activity
of government as 'protecting the pursuit' of life, liberty and happiness, not
guaranteeing the success thereof.
Another writer has
put it, 'Equal opportunity, not equal outcome'. It's simply not
possible for a government
to equal the results of everyone's efforts. Communism has tried this over
and over again and failed miserably in its attempts. People in countries
where the 'equal results' form of government live suffer the sharing not of
wealth, but extreme poverty. Only in countries where free markets and the
individual pursuit of wealth is permitted and encouraged is wealth then shared
and 'spread'. Wealth is a result of individual effort and the grassroots
generation of employment. Businesses create jobs, not government.
This nation today has over 10 million unemployed persons! President
elect Obama is suggesting government programs to employ 1/4 of that amount.
What about the 7.5 million that will remain unemployed? Only a
policy of supporting the growth of business is going to overcome that figure.
Otherwise it will continue to grow.
A business man
who owns a place of business right next to the Academy in Falls Church Virginia
is from Cuba. He told me: "I am old enough to remember when Fidel
Castro campaigned with the same platform of 'spreading the wealth' etc, as
Obama. We all remember after he got elected when he publicly removed the
cross from his neck and put us into bondage and poverty". As Cuba remains
to this day. This man and his Cuban friends, he added, vote Republican
because ''In Cuba - We've all seen this movie and we know how it ends.'
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