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2008 Presidential Election Concerns

January 19, 2008 ⋅  E-Mail Article ⋅  Print Article ⋅ Post a comment

President Bush wants to promote a fiscal stimulus bill based on rebates for taxpayers and additional funds for the unemployed but the problem is not spending, it is domestic job creation. Case in point on how we are still missing the target. There is a huge buzz at the North American Auto Show in Detroit Michigan about the Ford Verve but there is also a buzz negatively because it has been widely stated that the Verve will not be made in America. Numerous sources have said that Ford’s has stated it cannot make a profit on this car if it was made in America. If Honda and Toyota can build a cheap car in America with American workers then why can’t Ford’s? See this exemplifies the problem our newly elected President will have to face. He needs to lay down the law and make it clear that America will reward domestic businesses who create jobs and products in America and leave the rest to deal with a less favorable policy. Why should we buy from an American company who does not create American jobs but instead eliminates them? Look at GM, they are offering buyouts to 46,000 American workers. They sure want to sell GM products in America but they appear to have little social responsibility for providing the jobs to these potential buyers. President Bush laid out his principles for an economic stimulus package but it’s not stimulus we need its jobs. A timely, targeted, and temporary stimulus measure will only lead us to buy imported products which go back to China and India’s economies. We need job creation where product and jobs are created right here in America, why we should dump cash into our economy just to see it float right overseas. The supposed Bush plan will see taxpayers receive rebates of up to $800 for individuals and $1,600 for married couples under the White House plan. Lawmakers want smaller rebate checks and more money for food stamp recipients and the unemployed. However, rather than provide rebates and cash we need permanent tax breaks for business investment and businesses who create jobs in America. Remember, we are concerned with the American economy, not the worlds. Do not let Big Business and their lobbyists cloud your mind with the ‘global economy is good for you, and the’ outsourcing is here and you have to accept it to be competitive’ BS and lastly the ‘Free Trade is the tide that raises all boats’ crap. What has free trade, globalization, and outsourcing done for the average America? It has enabled terrorism and terrorist countries. It has supported child slave labor. It has cost us our jobs and our potential future. You need to make sure the next President elected straightens this mess out and focuses on American jobs and not American businesses who sell out American workers for overseas dreams.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke endorses the idea of putting money into the hands of those who he feels would spend it quickly and boost the flagging economy but again this money would most likely be spent on imports from India and China and it will not resolve the problem. We need jobs, not purchases. .We also need to quit blaming our economic woes on the housing slump and a credit crisis, instead we need to blame businesses who have fired American workers for cheaper overseas labor and then they find out that overseas labor is more costly due to bad work and shoddy work ethics. To buy products we have to have jobs and that is where the newly elected politicians need to step in. They need to make sure America is competitive and creates domestic jobs. Economists seem to believe that government intercession is the answer for the flailing economy and they feel that tax rebates will rescue us along with welfare bonuses amd energy aid for the poor and it appears that every politician believes that handouts will trigger prosperity but they won’t. We need jobs, good jobs, long lasting jobs. And we need a Government who understands this so remember this when you cast your vote in the next 2008 election. We msut also wathc out for the 2008 Presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton recently stated, “I want to see money in the pockets of people who are having trouble paying their energy bills. That stimulates the economy. … And then, if we need additional stimulation, we should look at tax rebates for middle-class and working families, not for the wealthy who have already done very well under George Bush.” Well someone needs to tell Hillary that paying energy bills will not stimulate the economy, it may help keep us warm but that is only a temporary fix to a much bigger problem, it’s like aspirin for a fever, we need to cure the sickness and not just temporarily alleviate the fever.

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