It is a new year, this 2012. Between the Mayans and the Aftershocks, it is supposed to be quite a challenging New Year. I have a new boss anda renewed focus on the Unorthodox franchise that includes the website, www.unorthodoxchristianity.com, this blog, and unorthodoxchristian on Facebook. I am reminded also that we are also in another election year. Watch for posts on all of these. Just a quick observation on the Republican debates last night. If the Republicans want my vote, one of these days they'll have to stop whining and start telling me what they intend to do get jobs back, pay off the deficit, and get America growing again. I am not interested with what their competitors have done, what Obama has done, what China has done, I want to do what specific programs they are going to cut, how they are going to build infrastructure through the private sector without government handouts. I want to see the magic money they are going to gain by cutting taxes on everyone, spending more on defense spending, and giving everything away to their Congressional buddies.
They'll have to do better than this. Obama increased troop strength in Iraq and Afghanistan, captured and killed Osama Ben Ladin, and invested trillions to bail out their rich buddies and their forlorn constituents. If they want to replace Obama they need to tell me how they are going to be different with specifics, not just vague BS.
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Keep The Money Here
So $800 Billion, 647 some pages, and what do we know. We are going to give soemone gobs of money to do with as they please. Print a report in China for next to nothing and charge Uncle Sam (me) more money than I will make in 100 lifetimes. I think not.
What we need is an executive decree from President Obama stipulating as such: To qualify for funds under the economic stimulus program: All goods, services, products, products components, manufacture and supply chain equipment must be sourced on American soil, utilizing American resources, American citizen labor, manufactured in American plants (can be owned by anyone I don't care), or there will be no money allocated. Receipts must be presented notating all sourcing, W-2 statements for all employees as well as proof of citizenship.Nothing, I mean nothing, that the United States Government purchases can be sourced anywhere outside the borders of the United States of America.
Now the rest of us private types, or citizens, we can buy stuff made anywhere in the world if we so choose, but the government that we support must purchase American made, American sourced, and citizen labored. Believe me, to get a piece of an $800 Billion pie even the greediest of our corporations (no matter where headquartered) will open a mothballed plant rather than lose a government contract of this magnitude. Go ahead, give it a try, I'll bet the private business owners will put their hands back in their pockets rather than have to play by these kinds of rules.
What we need is an executive decree from President Obama stipulating as such: To qualify for funds under the economic stimulus program: All goods, services, products, products components, manufacture and supply chain equipment must be sourced on American soil, utilizing American resources, American citizen labor, manufactured in American plants (can be owned by anyone I don't care), or there will be no money allocated. Receipts must be presented notating all sourcing, W-2 statements for all employees as well as proof of citizenship.Nothing, I mean nothing, that the United States Government purchases can be sourced anywhere outside the borders of the United States of America.
Now the rest of us private types, or citizens, we can buy stuff made anywhere in the world if we so choose, but the government that we support must purchase American made, American sourced, and citizen labored. Believe me, to get a piece of an $800 Billion pie even the greediest of our corporations (no matter where headquartered) will open a mothballed plant rather than lose a government contract of this magnitude. Go ahead, give it a try, I'll bet the private business owners will put their hands back in their pockets rather than have to play by these kinds of rules.
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