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Obama's plan for a new America?

Your average American gets an idea for a product (or service). He (she) draws up a business plan and finds investors or secures a bank loan to start a business. The business buys property and hires builders. They contract for equipment and machinery to be made. They hire employees to make their product or line of products, and they sell them to retailers. The retailers hire people to price, display, and sell the products or services. The idea spreads throughout the system creating jobs and chances for many. If they are able to sell their product at a competitive price and the consumers find use and value in their product, they may succeed. If not, they must cut costs or fail. That’s what happens in a Free Market system. If you work and are good at what you do, you have a chance. This is a simple example of how (now don’t choke on the term) Trickle Down Economics works. You can apply this model to Grannies Bakery on the corner, IBM, GM, or Starbucks. To deny this process is to deny the indisputable. It starts with an idea, and it ends with a chance for jobs and success. It’s a chance to take one idea, make an improvement on it, and start a business of your own. That’s why McDonalds is not the only one out there selling hamburgers! That is the American Dream! A chance! Competition makes products better and less expensive. Competition makes services more responsive and less expensive. Does Trickle Down mean if companies are successful and make more money, that soon my job flipping burgers is suddenly going to start paying me 75k a year? No. It means businesses will expand and give others a chance for a job. It will also give everyone more chances for advancement. If your skill level, motivation, or lack of education relegates you to flipping, maybe that should encourage you to learn to do more and be the best you can be at your job. The Free Enterprise Capitalist system simply gives everyone willing to participate the best chance to live comfortably and succeed. What about those executives making 10 million a year? Do I think that is right? No. But what do you think he (she) is doing with all that money? Stuffing the mattress? Bank savings accounts? The mattress pays nothing, and the bank only pays a few points of interest per year. They are way too greedy for that. What they do is buy. They buy goods, services, and invest in stocks from their company and others! That creates more chances for all of us. I do not think the Free Enterprise System should be allowed to run wild. Everything needs rules to keep it on course. Interest groups play an important part in the system. Saving Trees, Dolphin free tuna, and the Global Warming groups all need to play a part to keep greed from trampling the innocent. However, we have, in many areas, allowed these groups to stop progress instead of guide it. We have all paid for it. We have also paid for government intervention and paid dearly. NAFTA and our government’s refusal to insist that trading partners remove their tariffs on our products have made them too expensive for other nations to import and buy. But no one is talking about that now, are they? Obama says we should “Stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship our jobs overseas”. Like it or not, we are competing in a global economy. To stay competitive, companies must lower their costs. Unfortunately, that means finding less expensive work forces, less restrictive controls, and lower tax rates. Giving tax breaks does not cause companies to ship jobs overseas; it is encouragement to keep them here! Bad tax policy also spreads throughout the system. It causes lay offs, closings, slows production, and stifles investing. If the Government is hostile to business, all will lose some and some will lose all. That will increase our dependency on those in our government that created the problem in the first place. Does that sound like anyone is looking out for you? We don’t need that kind of “change.” We need a CHANCE!

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1. Yupper.. If Obama win's ... you might as well bend over and grab them thar ankles of yours.. ohhhhhhhh and grab the KY gel .... cuz...CHANGE is coming...
2. I have worked very closely with Obama camp on his new Alternative Energy Program. (The one mentioned in 2 of 3 debates by Obama). Here is how he envisions our Nation's future goals and how to achieve them: Right now there are millions of Americans who have lost their jobs due to economic crisis in the housing and services industries. Obama plans to establish an emergency workforce using these people. They will be enlisted,tested and trained to serve in an Energy Force to focus on developing and maintaining alternative energy projects across the USA and on our shores. These projects will include but are not limited to, Solar arrays, Wind turbine farms,wave generation farms,hydroelectric facilities,geothermal facilities,bio-fuel production farms/ plants, Clean coal ,Off-shore natural gas platforms,natural gas pipeline construction, North shore oil production infra-structure (roads, bridges) and many more. These projects will require a trained workforce worthy of benefits enjoyed by our military and postal workers now. Obama wants to use current people collecting unemployment and welfare, and even some on SSDI to be a part of this force. People who are capable of performing some position in new work force that are currently on welfare,SSDI or UE, will be required to join Energy Force or lose current benefits. All who can work , Must work. All will be given a chance for advancement through training and testing. New Energy Force is based on FDR's work projects of the 30s-40s. Members of this new branch of Service will be entitled to use all facilities on current military bases, including medical, training,pharmacy,commissary,recreation,etc... The building of new similar quality bases for new force will also generate jobs and spending in economy by the newly enlisted. This new force will have construction branches similar to US NAVY SEEBEES (CB) construction Battalion, which may be called in to advise and train new force. This will provide housing, heath care, training,jobs, careers,pride for all of America's disenfranchised. The resulting proceeds from energy created from these projects is sold to other nations and free for all Americans. We will have departments to create electric or alternative (non Hydrocarbon) vehicles. The United States of America will own all power plants currently w/in our country, All electric, nuclear,hydroelectric, wind, solar etc. All electricity in this country will be free to American citizens. Our surplus will be sold to the world. Taxes initially added to America's Companies will be repaid 10 fold with the free power they will enjoy upon completion. It is not a tax as much as it is a forced corporate investment. Eventually Gasoline and Crude oil will be obsolete, then illegal here.