I dont know if I agree with all those ideas. They still revolve around American workers being forced to compete with the low wages of third world countries, yet be able to afford to live in America. Creating jobs sounds impressive but why get out of bed to go to a job that will take two weeks pay just to cover the gas money, the third week to cover the expence of a car and insurance and what shall we decide to do with the fourth weeks pay ? Eat ? Pay rent or mortgage ? Maybe the utility bills ? Small business's pay "competitive wages" yet when you call to see what their "competitive wages" are you find they are competing with welfare.
Shit, the insurance companies with all the mandated insurances that have cropped up over the past decade or so end up with more money from a workers paycheck at the end of the month than the workers. Yet no one wants to attack and stop these people because for some fucking reason that would mean "more government", why ? Because our government waffles and boondoggles in long drawn out affairs in determining what a crook is. Why ? Because alot of industry has been developed in this country being a scheming crook and we cant send those people to the unemployment lines either.
As long as twenty years ago if not earlier a big political issue was law suits and how they were hurting the insurance industry, so the industry just passed it along to the workforce, raising mandatory coverage and their rates, raising workers comp and lobbying to mandate other insurances. Then our judicial system continued to award people more money than they could have possibly made in a life time, not to mention the percentage of that that went to lawyers. Health care costs went through the roof as they realized they too could cash in on this new found insurance money... now its a big friggin mess. All the problems developed from this form of capitalistic greed have been fronted directly through the paychecks of workers and profits from business's. In the case of large corporations it never hurt the wages of the managers or executives, in the case of small business's it made it hard to even start up let alone keep going, so walla... more reason for low wages.
Now they talk about removing capital gains tax, Im sure China doesnt need it... yet, thanks to low wages and little environmental or living condition concern. But how much of this countries tax take comes from capital gains and how will our government make up for the losses ? The work forces "capitol gains" ? Cutting programs ? Makes me think of all the hype about how income taxes have not been raised the past 20 years, yet school and county taxes and assesments went through the roof. Why ? Because government cut school and municipality aid and left them to find the money on their own. How did they do this ? You tell me
During the debate last night, mention was made about NYC tightening their spending, some of this might come from their own governmental fat but most of it will come by cutting municipality construction and infrastructure work that will put more people on the unemployment line. As far as I have seen the infrastructure of this country is in rapid deterioration and cant keep up with our insanely booming population growth and massive shipping/trucking of imported products for the great consumer nation. Oh yeah, then we need to find work for this booming population. Excuse me but Jesus Christ its like we are deer in the headlights... DUH!
With all this, at the end of the day, week, month, year, decade there is no lack of money in this country... its just who has it and how they got it.
Reminds me of that old Tom Hanks flick The Burbs 
