[DannyTN]

Government may well be a siphon, but that's not the real issue driving this economic downturn. There are two key factors.

• The oil price shock which has signficantly zapped consumers in the pocketbook killing disposable income and resulting in the job losses and mortgage failures.
• Unwise trade agreements that are siphoning off jobs to cheaper labor countries and leaving us unemployed. You can stop all government activity and before we would dissolve into somalia, you still couldn't compete with $2 a day labor from China. No amount of anti-union legislation, or government dismantling or ending taxes is going to compete with $2 a day labor. That's the issue. We have to protect enough of our industries to keep our people employed. Once were back to full employment, we can make use of the $2 a day labor. Otherwise, we'll eventually be working for $1 a day to regain our lost marketshare.

[traditional1]

"Otherwise, we'll eventually be working for $1 a day to regain our lost marketshare"

Yeah; you're right.

Lets let the AFSCME, SEIU, NEA members continue at their escalating over-compensated rates, and maintain our "living wage" for those who produce ZERO.

There's about 15% of the REAL WORKFORCE who are making $0 right now, not even $1 a day. NO ONE is forced to buy imports, and they are touted and sought by Americans. That's what a State-Run-Media does. Thanks to the socialists (in concert with banking and corporate interests), the high contributors are rewarded with letting them move production off-shore, to avoid the Unions and save overall costs, then return goods for sale without tariffs. We allow parasites to live off others earnings via income taxes, fees, regulation, to buy their votes, and reward cheap labor by subsizing their illegal entry into this Country, and then handing them parasitic benefits, too.

We need a do-over, and it's coming.....