I would so like to hear the candidates speak to the most pressing problems we have right now which is unemployment and a substantially larger group of people living in poverty.
We absolutely need to bring down government spending and take care of the debt but we need to focus on bringing back jobs and making the jobs available now well paying jobs. we hear all of our politicians speaking about how the Untied States has the most productive workers in the world. I fully believe that. Someone please tell me why our workers, as they get more and more productive, are being paid less and less money?
Executives of corporations are being paid enormous amounts of money and their pay goes up. Stockholders are looking for rates of return that only the mob got 30 years ago or so. Companies are sitting on Trillions of dollars and not doing anything with it. How about we start paying the little guy, that makes your company work (see how far you get with just upper management and executives), a piece of the pie that he/she is absolutely responsible for making.
Please, keep giving the execs and the shareholders bunches of money but for God’s sake let let the rest of the company have enough to show that they are appreciated for what they do because you can’t do without them. Let’s see the CEO of AT&T climb a cell tower to make repairs or sit and answer calls in the call center for a week or so.
You candidates, you talk about getting people back to work to broaden the tax base. A great idea although hopefully you are not taking a page from the playbook of Michelle Bachman who thinks every single person should pay some kind of income tax. Great idea. Those working fast food joints and convenience stores making minimum wage or a bit more will love that because most of them don’t get anywhere near 40 hours a week because of course if they did that they would have to offer benefits. I would love to see Michelle Bachman survive on 15K a year or so and find a way to pay taxes.
Then we have the candidates that have survived thus far. Mitt wants to make the US a corporation and would also love to reinvent himself. Regardless of his claims to the contrary his health care reform in Massachusetts has far too many similarities to Obamas for it to not have been used at least partially as a model. I do not have a major problem with Obamas health care reform although I do not agree with all of it but I, unlike most of the republican field, do not consider the word compromise to be an obscenity.
Santorum has a few good ideas but I suspect his tendency to look on women in general in a way that I consider to be a throwback to the Neanderthal will not get him elected very fast.
Newt can’t seem to figure out if he is going to a tough guy or not with his advertising. I applaud his call for civil advertising but that isn’t going to happen anytime soon since corporations can again give unlimited amounts of money to candidates who are then pretty strongly beholden to make sure they get their moneys worth.
Ron Paul, a very nice gentleman who also has a few good ideas. His foreign policy scares me though. Ignoring the problems in the rest of the world is not always the best policy. There are certainly some things we need have no part in but isolationist tendencies, pretending it was not happening, is what got some 11 million non-Aryans killed in the camps and by extermination squads.
