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Worth a Try
We, the fiscally concerned, will be waiting and watching.
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2 Responses to “Worth a Try”
Yes, indeed, all the fiscal conservatives are just sitting on pins and needles over this after a breezy eight year respite during which fiscal responsibility was the order of the day.
I've said it before and I'll say it again:
In spite of popular theory, there is still great wealth in the US. The only problem is that it is locked up in private holdings of the super-rich. The French Revolution had a solution to that problem of aristocracy. Maybe we can come up with a better plan?
My plan would implement the following:
1.Make job-outsourcing illegal. Effecitve yesterday. Will this cause hardship for CEOs? Oh my yes. They might even have to eat a box of macaroni and cheese once a month like their underlings have to get by on three times a week already. The days of fat and plenty for the fat at the top are over. Hope you enjoyed the party while it lasted guys and gals.. mitigated by..
2.Concurrently, drop the minimum wage to keep our goods competitive. Will workers hate this? Yes, but preferable to losing their jobs altogether and mitgated by…
3. Universal health care coverage for anyone who wants it. Private systems still availible for the wealthy. No premium overhead for employers or employees…again to keep our products priced competitively
4. Use a massive part of the debt relief to paydown individual mortgages or to subsidize financing them at drastically reduced rates. Or (my personal favorite)
4. a Forgive mortgage payments for people under $50K/year for one calendar year. This would pump their wages back into the economy, keep them in their homes, stabilize home values, giving back banks their value on paper and bring the system back on-line.
Not to mention making this administration one of the most popular since the dawn of our nation. ; )
This might or might not be a temporary solution. But if implemented, I guarantee it would brign our nation back from the brink. And besides, why push the working poor to a position of having to retaliate? There's no need for that. You put regular old folks in the streets with dying kids in their arms and nothing to eat…you're gonna have problems..especially in today's amoral culture. We outnumber the rich by 99 to 1 fer crying out loud.. King Louis couldn't do that math an neither can Congress apparently..?