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The Bush Economy Stinks...and Sinks
jps wrote:
"Dave Hall" wrote in message ... Tim Tisdale wrote: It is a natural thing for businesses to want to increase productivity while lowering costs. Read this, it makes sense. Sure it does. But since making sense is often diametrically opposed to the liberal's sense of emotional satisfaction, they do not accept it. Listen up Dave. My company once created a simulation for the Federal Reserve Bank. They wanted a "game" that would show people the relationship between fiscal and monetary policy. Everytime I put a Republican in front of the interface, they'd continue to hit the "Lower Taxes" button until inflation went through the roof and their constituents threw them out of office. I'm sure they did it as a gag, since proper planning for government spending is much more than a single simple act. Besides, this game was designed to operate around the limited conditions and parameters, of the person who programmed it. They do not necessarily respond the same as the unpredicatable variables, and dynamics of reality. If you could accurately predict economic stimulous and conditions, then you'd be bigger than Alan Greenspan. Most of this stuff is smoke and mirrors, and exercises in reflection. Marx was wrong in that he failed to make a connection between " from each according to their ability " and "to each according to their need ". Sounds good on paper but where is the incentive to increase productivity. This is an outline to create a nation of free-riders. Why work hard when your benefits are fixed and any increase in your own productivity will only go to provide for those who are not working as hard? Exactly! That has been my biggest flaw with socialism. There is no incentive to better oneself. The end result is a nation of mediocrity. Competition is what drives us to be better. it's what placed this nation at the forefront of technology. Socialism would condemn this nation to third world status in a generation. Dave, I hate to break it to you but we are capitalists, not socialists. Really? Then why do you favor the redistribution of wealth from the "rich" to cover "the poor" by an unfairly biased progressive tax plan? Why do you guys on the left want to raise the wages for unskilled workers, beyond what the free market dictates they should be worth? That's not capitalism. You can't mix the two. The current healthcase crisis, is a prime example of what heppens when you try an originally capitalist enterprise (Healthcare) with socialism (Insurance subsidies). The result is spiraling costs as the care providers are free to raise their prices, since the subsidies cover the increases, and the common citizen does not have to deal with it, therefore there is no market pressure to put a lid on rising costs. Take away all healthcare insurance, and how long do you think the free market could support those high costs? I don't want to give away everything I've earned. But you have no problem telling other people how much of their pay they "need" to contribute to programs which *YOU* feel are beneficial. I just want to make certain we're investing in things that have value. Not smart bombs, smart people. Not smart prisoners, productive taxpayers. Not nation building, consensus building. That would make a great democratic sound byte. Full of fluff, but at the core, really no substance. It makes no effort to explain the casues of our problems, and indeed, implies that the solution to many of our social ill's, is just to throw money at it. A typcial democratic attitude. Get with it Dave. We're no more in favor of Karl Marx than you are. We're in favor of doing the right thing and giving everyone an opportunity to succeed. Which of course, is subjective, and based upon your particular view of what's "right". Your party wants to keep all the money in one place and they use stupid, beer swillin', poorly educated idiots to gather the votes to do it. Here's where you really become stereotypical and inconsistant. If "my party" is the party of the rich, and we want to "horde" all the money, then why would the beer swilling idiots be a party to it? Those poorly educated idiots are normally the fodder for democratic votes. Democrats promise these individuals free money to "help" them, and they vote for it. If they were in a higher wage earning income bracket, who actually had to PAY for these programs, they wouldn't be too happy to see more of their paycheck shrinking. Get a clue Dave. Leave the dark side and their selfish ways. There is nothing selfish about wanting to keep what you rightfully EARN. Everyone else has the same opportunity to make something better of themselves. So go do it. Dave |