That Dangerous Communication Gap on the Economy
by Jordan Cooper
It is the mistaken adage to communicate where it is possible to be misunderstood. However, it is the correct dictum to communicate where it is impossible to be misunderstood. Today in America we have some communication gaps in this country that are being detrimental to our future.
It is difficult to understand our 15 trillion dollar GDP and our gigantic national debt. There are few people who can split these numbers down into normal terms that are absorbable by the American people. I will briefly state our economic crisis today. A recession is two months of negative growth for our GDP. This may be due to a combination of factors but not limited to overproduction, inflation, deflation, and lack of qualified workers for job fulfillment. We are still in troughs of an economic recession presently.
That means we are bottoming out of our economic output and about to start the climb again to reach a plateau. As you know, each recession can take six to ten years to completely recover from. In simple terms we have to take the correct measures to inspire businesses to hire, consumers to spend, and private citizens to invest. That means we cannot talk about drastic changes to constrict financial policy, raising taxes, or making it even harder for businesses to borrow. For businesses and people to expand their wealth they must be able to borrow.
For an instance, people usually borrow on real estate, cars, businesses, and a whole host of other things. Any disturbance of our economic outlook mentally or literally could create even more problems for the American economy. A recession is hard to recuperate from. It is like a plateau in your personal fitness plan. You have to reevaluate what exercises worked, sleep habits, and nutrition to see how to improve results.
The same can be said about the American economy — but we must do it in a meticulous manner. So, we are not looking to be back on solid ground economically until at least 2020 due to our recession. As a result of this, we must not have people talk about raising taxes back to 40 percent as it was during the Clinton era and which contributed to the economy falling off in late 2000. We must have rhetoric that gives businesses and people confidence and imperturbability for their assets. Above all we must motivate Americans to be educationally accomplished, financially literate, morally bountiful, and civic-oriented to keep this country at its pinnacle.
Jordan Cooper is a USC graduate who played football under Coach Steve Spurrier. He was the youngest African American to serve on a gubernatorial campaign staff at the age of 13 under then Congressman Bobby Jindal as his Co-Chair for Blacks for Jindal. He was the first African American to serve in the Gov. and Lt. Gov’s offices in S.C. as a Constituent Correspondent and Special Assistant respectively (Haley/Bauer). He was also the youngest to serve in on a GOP presidential campaign staff in America and youngest black Co-Chair of a Congressional campaign (Bauer for Congress 2012). More recently, he has been working with Jeb Bush’s youth outreach campaign and at their request has submitted several policy and speech ideas for Jeb Buish on various subjects. He recently served as an occasional campaign speechwriter for Jeb Bush and some of his material on tax policy was used.
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