How would you fix the economy ?

[noonereal]

it is for me

[JJIII]

Then who is going to go into the field?

[BlueStreak]

In a word----Marijuana.

Not taxing it---smoking it.

Wouldn't really solve any problems, we just wouldn't care anymore.
And when it really comes down to it. What's the difference?

Dave

[HatchetJack]

Everyone has an opinion on the economy, here's mine: Its kinda like an
ecosystem in a body of water thats out of balance. The sharks are hungry
but so are the minnows. It takes algae to have plankton to have minnows
to have bream to have bass and so on. The bailouts are just feeding the
sharks. This economy needs fertilizing and to the way to do that is by
creating jobs. Congress cant create jobs but what it could do is make
it easier to do business inside the United States as opposed to outside.
Taxing and inspecting these large and small businesses to death has
sent them overseas. We have to create incentive for companies to
produce things in this country. Someone needs to grow a pair and blockade
the shipping ports and not allow that cheap crap in the country. Almost
no ones left that can even afford to buy the stuff anyway. People need a
place to work and live the American dream and not be led to believe that
the government will take care of them. Any money earned at the bottom of
the pond makes its rounds to the top eventually and everyone's happy.

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by HatchetJack

Everyone has an opinion on the economy, here's mine: Its kinda like an
ecosystem in a body of water thats out of balance. The sharks are hungry
but so are the minnows. It takes algae to have plankton to have minnows
to have bream to have bass and so on. The bailouts are just feeding the
sharks. This economy needs fertilizing and to the way to do that is by
creating jobs. Congress cant create jobs but what it could do is make
it easier to do business inside the United States as opposed to outside.
Taxing and inspecting these large and small businesses to death has
sent them overseas. We have to create incentive for companies to
produce things in this country. Someone needs to grow a pair and blockade
the shipping ports and not allow that cheap crap in the country. Almost
no ones left that can even afford to buy the stuff anyway. People need a
place to work and live the American dream and not be led to believe that
the government will take care of them. Any money earned at the bottom of
the pond makes its rounds to the top eventually and everyone's happy.

As long as those in the bottom of the pond know their role, right? The working stiffs are simply plankton working their way up to feed the sharks in the executive suite. That's pretty much how it's running now.

Regards,

D-Ray

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by HatchetJack

Everyone has an opinion on the economy, here's mine: Its kinda like an
ecosystem in a body of water thats out of balance. The sharks are hungry
but so are the minnows. It takes algae to have plankton to have minnows
to have bream to have bass and so on. The bailouts are just feeding the
sharks. This economy needs fertilizing and to the way to do that is by
creating jobs. Congress cant create jobs but what it could do is make
it easier to do business inside the United States as opposed to outside.
Taxing and inspecting these large and small businesses to death has
sent them overseas. We have to create incentive for companies to
produce things in this country. Someone needs to grow a pair and blockade
the shipping ports and not allow that cheap crap in the country. Almost
no ones left that can even afford to buy the stuff anyway. People need a
place to work and live the American dream and not be led to believe that
the government will take care of them. Any money earned at the bottom of
the pond makes its rounds to the top eventually and everyone's happy.

Was gonna comment but the metaphor is so convoluted that it stifled me.
Seems like you "pulled a Palin."

[merrylander]

The American Dream, did it ever really exist for those on the bottom rung of the ladder? Some could say that we (my wife and I) have achieved it, but I did not start at the bottom. Admittedly I made less money here at the beginning than I had been earning in Canada, but in the long haul we did all right. But the expression "Only in America" can be taken many ways, some of them make me want to hum a few bars of 'Jingo Bells".

[HatchetJack]

I didnt expect the left to agree with me but I'm right and they know it.
Lets take their approach and see what happens. Lets starve the sharks
and feed the minnows until all the fish are the same size. We will give the
same ration of food to all the fish. Suddenly all the fish are stunted bluegills
and there is not enough to go around. Because the sharks were not allowed
to prosper in their own pond, they turned to another pond where they started
fertilizing and that pond has grown by leaps and bounds and with no plankton/jobs
to feed our pond it will become stagnant and dead just like the Soviet Union and that
is where we are heading unless we can change the trade deficit to favor
our economy instead of some communist country.

[BlueStreak]

Once I weeded through all of your goofy fish analogies, I came to a few simple questions.

There is something to suggest that our government, regardless of whose in charge is ever going to "blockade the shipping ports"? And who would carry out said blockades if not the Navy (U.S. Government)? You? But we shouldn't look to the government to solve any problems????

Do you like those cheap Walmart prices? Will you be the first to be happy to go to work for the low wages and lack of benefits that competition with slave-labor nations creates? Oh, that's right, you don't support free trade, but consider yourself to be "pro-capitalism conservative"????

Will you be happy to pay the higher prices that protectionism would create?

Taxes? Hmmmm. I got a small tax cut lately. Yeah, it's not much, but it is a tax cut. But there are still people tossing tea.........Hmmmm, WTF?

Well, I'm out of time. This "minnow" has to go make sure the "sharks" have eaten enough to keep them happy. As if THAT is even possible. Sharks have always struck me as being ruthless, insatiable eaters.

Dave

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by HatchetJack

I didnt expect the left to agree with me but I'm right and they know it.
Lets take their approach and see what happens. Lets starve the sharks
and feed the minnows until all the fish are the same size. We will give the
same ration of food to all the fish. Suddenly all the fish are stunted bluegills
and there is not enough to go around. Because the sharks were not allowed
to prosper in their own pond, they turned to another pond where they started
fertilizing and that pond has grown by leaps and bounds and with no plankton/jobs
to feed our pond it will become stagnant and dead just like the Soviet Union and that
is where we are heading unless we can change the trade deficit to favor
our economy instead of some communist country.

you are making me sea sick