12-Step Plan to a better United States

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1. We need a major investment to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure: roads, bridges, water systems, waste water plants, airports, railroads and schools..... A $1 trillion investment in infrastructure could create 13 million decent paying jobs and make this country more efficient and productive

2. The United States must lead the world in reversing climate change and make certain that this planet is habitable for our children and grandchildren. We must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and into energy efficiency and sustainable energies.... and we need to greatly accelerate the progress we are already seeing in wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and other forms of sustainable energy.

3. We need to develop new economic models to increase job creation and productivity. Instead of giving huge tax breaks to corporations which ship our jobs to China and other low-wage countries, we need to provide assistance to workers who want to purchase their own businesses by establishing worker-owned cooperatives.

4. Union workers who are able to collectively bargain for higher wages and benefits earn substantially more than non-union workers. Today, corporate opposition to union organizing makes it extremely difficult for workers to join a union. We need legislation which makes it clear that when a majority of workers sign cards in support of a union, they can form a union.

5. The current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is a starvation wage. We need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

6. Women [sic] workers today earn 78 percent of what their male counterparts make. We need pay equity in our country -- equal pay for equal work.

7. Since 2001 we have lost more than 60,000 factories in this country, and more than 4.9 million decent-paying manufacturing jobs. We must end our disastrous trade policies (NAFTA, CAFTA, PNTR with China, etc.)

8. In today's highly competitive global economy, millions of Americans are unable to afford the higher education they need in order to get good-paying jobs. Quality education in America, from child care to higher education, must be affordable for all.

9. The function of banking is to facilitate the flow of capital into productive and job-creating activities. Financial institutions cannot be an island unto themselves, standing as huge profit centers outside of the real economy. Today, six huge Wall Street financial institutions have assets equivalent to 61 percent of our gross domestic product - over $9.8 trillion.... They are too powerful to be reformed. They must be broken up.

10. The United States must join the rest of the industrialized world and recognize that health care is a right of all, and not a privilege. Despite the fact that more than 40 million Americans have no health insurance, we spend almost twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation. We need to establish a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system.

11. Millions of seniors live in poverty and we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country. We must strengthen the social safety net, not weaken it. Instead of cutting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and nutrition programs, we should be expanding these programs.

12. At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, we need a progressive tax system in this country which is based on ability to pay.
 
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^^^^^^A Crony Socialist.

What AJ wants is for Americans to sit in the shade and make sandals from old Cadillac tires Hillary no longer needs.
 
You left off the last line of the article "© American Thinker 2014"

Cribbing entire articles from American Thinker without attribution again?

Good thing Copyright laws and that cunt Laurel's TOS are simply "advisory in nature" to glibertarians such as you.
 
I'd respond if the poster had placed this thread in the appropriate forum, the one the owner of this free entertainment site generously set up for such discussions.
 
#9 has some merit, depending on how it's done. Regardless, the "hands in each others pocket" provisions between the Fed. and the top 10 banking institutions has to be stripped out of Frank-Dodd.

The rest of it's a joke.

Ishmael
 
I'd respond if the poster had placed this thread in the appropriate forum, the one the owner of this free entertainment site generously set up for such discussions.

And, yet, you did, because your behavior is compulsive.

You had to attack with a typically snide comment.

You also did not read what she posted.

I'm glad you will not be back,

;)

You know for your

last word.
 
#9 has some merit, depending on how it's done. Regardless, the "hands in each others pocket" provisions between the Fed. and the top 10 banking institutions has to be stripped out of Frank-Dodd.

The rest of it's a joke.

Ishmael

It is tough to those not spending time with the dismal science to understand what the Fed actually does to their spending power. They just assume that it is the other party being the bane of their economic existence.
 
I really don't think there is any presidential politician in the US that would take on that agenda en masse. Perhaps components, however go after #9 and said politician will be another JFK.

#12 is what the gov has already determined and they are happy to tell everyone current IR rules and policy are fair and equitable.

Notwithstanding the generally good results for everyone in the country, this list implemented would likely negate the need for an overthrow of the current system - which is eventually inevitable - violent or not. The revolt of the people is a slow unstoppable march forward that is the eventual fate of all republics - especially once graft and entitlement become rampant in the civil and elected service officials.
 
I really don't think there is any presidential politician in the US that would take on that agenda en masse. Perhaps components, however go after #9 and said politician will be another JFK.

#12 is what the gov has already determined and they are happy to tell everyone current IR rules and policy are fair and equitable.

Notwithstanding the generally good results for everyone in the country, this list implemented would likely negate the need for an overthrow of the current system - which is eventually inevitable - violent or not. The revolt of the people is a slow unstoppable march forward that is the eventual fate of all republics - especially once graft and entitlement become rampant in the civil and elected service officials.

I agree 100%.

Adopt all twelve of those points and we will not need to overthrow "the current system."

We will most likely need to overthrow the resulting new system because it is a recipe for graft and entitlement. As per #9, we argued for their breakup and we were met with anguished cries of "they're too big to fail!"
 
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THIS IS THE DOLF SIZED SPRAY CAN. SO BUY TWO FOR HILLARY.

These cankles are made for walkin' and that's just what they'll do and 2016 boy,

These cankles are going to walk all over you!

;) ;)

I just wanna give Hillary that new car smell again. Maybe you could take her to the drive in in that El Camino you own. Smear some bakers grease around the bed so she can squeeze her ass in.
 
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I didn't vote because there was no "Dolf" option, but I agree with 1,3,5,7,9,10,11,12.

The Fed is printing money like crazy and giving it to the banks to plug holes in their balance sheets. A better use of that money would be to give it to the poor and lower middle class so we can get the economy moving.
 
I didn't vote because there was no "Dolf" option, but I agree with 1,3,5,7,9,10,11,12.

The Fed is printing money like crazy and giving it to the banks to plug holes in their balance sheets. A better use of that money would be to give it to the poor and lower middle class so we can get the economy moving.

Great idea! The poor will buy beer, cigarettes, scratch-off's, pot, and put the change in the gas tank. The proletariat (the working class is what you mean) will use the money for Disney World, bail money for dad, an abortion for Sis, swingers club membership fee's, wine for ma, detox for dad, and gas for his bass boat.
 
Great idea! The poor will buy beer, cigarettes, scratch-off's, pot, and put the change in the gas tank. The proletariat (the working class is what you mean) will use the money for Disney World, bail money for dad, an abortion for Sis, swingers club membership fee's, wine for ma, detox for dad, and gas for his bass boat.

....and everybody benefits of that.
 
....and everybody benefits of that.

No, everyone does not benefit from that. There is a small spike in the profits of those that he mentioned and it is not repeated when the money you "spread around" is gone.

You make the understandably mistake of thinking that consumerism should drive an economy. It is a reasonable mistake because that is more or less been the engine of the American economy for most of my life. Creating artificial demand for products and services people don't actually need and cannot actually afford, and finance all of these wants with easy credit and loose credit guidelines. While your consumers are leveraging their future on the micro scale, your economy is doing the same thing on a macro scale. Eventually not only does everyone have a bass boat and a huge TV, everyone is at the limit of what they can possibly spend. And you have a recession.

We just had one of those. Whether you tr to boost an economy through tax rebates, social programs or borrowed consumer credit, the result is the same.
 
Great idea! The poor will buy beer, cigarettes, scratch-off's, pot, and put the change in the gas tank. The proletariat (the working class is what you mean) will use the money for Disney World, bail money for dad, an abortion for Sis, swingers club membership fee's, wine for ma, detox for dad, and gas for his bass boat.

It's good for the rich, too. Who do you think owns the tobacco and alcohol companies? Money trickles up much faster than it trickles down. Henry Ford realized this a long time ago. It's a shame Reagan came in and fucked it all up.
 
An economy is the exchange of stuff and services. The problem is this: A few folks fish and farm and hew wood while most check parking meters and encourage sodomy and drive Hillary around.
 
An economy is the exchange of stuff and services. The problem is this: A few folks fish and farm and hew wood while most check parking meters and encourage sodomy and drive Hillary around.

That is it, in a nutshell.

The concept of a "service-based economy" was created to allay fears that we no longer have an economy. If it isn't mined, grown, processed, manufactured, or packaged, it is just stirring money around.

Eventually someone has to make some stuff to exchange for the services.
 
No, everyone does not benefit from that. There is a small spike in the profits of those that he mentioned and it is not repeated when the money you "spread around" is gone.

Money's never gone, except you burnt it. Usually it changes the owner.

You make the understandably mistake of thinking that consumerism should drive an economy. It is a reasonable mistake because that is more or less been the engine of the American economy for most of my life. Creating artificial demand for products and services people don't actually need and cannot actually afford, and finance all of these wants with easy credit and loose credit guidelines. While your consumers are leveraging their future on the micro scale, your economy is doing the same thing on a macro scale. Eventually not only does everyone have a bass boat and a huge TV, everyone is at the limit of what they can possibly spend. And you have a recession.

You sound like a commie.

Spending money for the poor or the working people is not the same as "consumerism". As much as a big boss can invest in his future or do excessive consume, a poor man or worker can do, too. Thing is that a poor man or a worker will hardly move to another country to avoid taxes.

More spending to people staying and providing stability means less of them fall off the ladder, less of them become criminal. That's what drives German economy and lifestyle the most of my life.

Whether you try to boost an economy through tax rebates, social programs or borrowed consumer credit, the result is the same.

I'm thankful you're not my president.
 
Money's never gone, except you burnt it. Usually it changes the owner.



You sound like a commie.

Spending money for the poor or the working people is not the same as "consumerism". As much as a big boss can invest in his future or do excessive consume, a poor man or worker can do, too. Thing is that a poor man or a worker will hardly move to another country to avoid taxes.

More spending to people staying and providing stability means less of them fall off the ladder, less of them become criminal. That's what drives German economy and lifestyle the most of my life.



I'm thankful you're not my president.

Stirring money around does not create more money. As you point out it changes owners. It is still the exact same amount in your economy.

The one and only was that your economy grows is if some of the money, called capital, is put to work.

Any number of ways you can do that, but spending it is not one of them. You buy a machine, you lend it for interest, you build a dwelling to rent, you by some calves to raise, you buy seed and diesel for your tractor, or you invest in a drilling rig.
 
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