Posted on 11/07/2013 6:34:18 AM PST by SmileRight
A Texas single mom whose “thank you” letter to President Obama went viral was merely venting the frustrations of many Americans struggling to pay bills in a down economy, she told BizPac Review.
“Sometimes I’m at the store, and I may have $25 worth of groceries to get through the week,” Yolanda Burroughs Vestal said. “Then you see the person in front of you with nicer things and more food, and they’re swiping the EBT card. It’s hard.”
Vestal attracted the attention of hundreds of thousands of Americans when she wrote a letter “thanking” Obama for forcing Obamacare on hard-working citizens at a time when many are “rob[bing] Peter to pay Paul” just to get by.
She told BizPac Review in an interview Wednesday...
(Excerpt) Read more at bizpacreview.com ...
How? Let's say you are the CEO of a large company that has hundreds of jobs outsourced overseas and has for years. How will you "bring back jobs" with a federal government that does more harm than good. How long can you keep the company afloat when the bottom line is completely blown out by American wages not to mention the Employer Mandate coming up next year? Your competitor will eat you for lunch and buyout your company for dinner.
I want to see jobs come back home as well, but just shouting "Bring back AMERICAN jobs." while a hostile government is still in place ain't going to make it happen. So please, tell me how we truly bring jobs back.
I would enact trade tariffs. At least this is the idea which has most attracted my attention so far...
Sell things which are imported into America, at a premium.
I suggest a 10% tax rate. So: if a manufactured good is made overseas, charge an additional 10%.
If something is made here in America. No charge.
This would help in two major regards:
1) it would begin to PAY DOWN our deficit, currently over 17 trillion dollars.
2) this would also encourage companies to set-up American branches, or return American operations.
America has sold off everything. Even our military is now facing cutbacks.
Bring it back.
Now.
What good are jobs when welfare pays more than working?
And would make many things as much as 20% more expensive.
Yay! Inflation!
Lower the corporate tax rates in this country and make ALL states right to work states if you want America manufacturing again.
Unions killed the steel industry in America.
Unions killed the textile industry in America.
Unions killed electronics manufacturing in America.
Unions are killing the auto industry.
So the problem is low tariffs? How 19th century of you!
Germans wrote to Hitler also, for all the good it did.
“The GOP isn’t for American jobs. So the GOP isn’t offering any solution.
Bring back AMERICAN jobs.”
Government does not create jobs but they sure as hell can stand in the way of the private sector creating jobs.
On the job front all I want is for the GOP to get government the hell out of the way. If they won’t then the Tea Party is the only current alternative.
A big start would be for a law DEMANDING we are represented in any legislation by ELECTED representatives.
Seems we used to have that but we allowed the most insidious thing to occur and that was the creation of a myriad of regulatory agencies who are not elected but can create regulations with the same impact as laws.
Our representative should be forced to vote on every law/regulation so we the people can hold them accountable for such votes.
Cass Robert Sunstein just about had an orgasm when he was made Regulatory Czar as he knew that position wields more power than most branches of government. He does not face the election cycle.
So here is a thought exercise question for you. You say bring back American Jobs, ok fine. What specific steps do you advocate? Oh, and please consider that we are in a global economy.
Your support of the ridiculous and unsustainable trade deficit and historically low tariffs is defacto support for the progressive income tax system we suffer under now. Everyone I have dealt with that support tariffs wants to supplement or eliminate the income tax.
Exactly, find a country other than Singapore find a country that DOESN'T treat us unfairly with import tariffs? WE NEED TO FIGHT BACK.
Here is the pain point on tariffs.
If you have an import tariff, you raise the cost of that good as it comes into the country. It is a tax that is paid for by all who purchase that product. And since the pressure is off domestic manufactures, there is little incentive to invest in cost saving measures or to cut prices. Finally, since the cost of goods coming in is raised and since the domestic products are not being indented to lower cost, it creates an upward pressure on inflation.
Ultimately, it is the tax paying citizen AND the industry that suffers. The citizen suffers for having to pay the tax and the industry suffers because there is no pressure to invest, research or find cost savings.
Now I will agree that there should be zero tax dollars going to help businesses move jobs offshore. That is something that should have been stopped long ago. I also believe that the US government should be buying it’s products and services from American businesses.
BS. Our domestic manufactures have to still have to compete with each other on a level playing field. No slave labor in 26 R-T-W states.
Fixed.
The problem is that they DONT compete. Rather they carve up the pie instead of fighting over getting a bigger piece.
“While I am no great fan of the current crop of ruling elite in either party, I doubt the GOP platform is to destroy American jobs. “
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I really don’t care what the GOP platform is.
I see it.
America is being gravely damaged by a whole bunch of people who have placed some interest above that of maintaining American supremacy.
The GOP platform is nothing. What is being practiced is the (relatively) complete disarmament of America.
Rebuild America now.
Bring back American jobs, now.
Now.
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