Mark Alexander has it "RIGHT ON THE MONEY"! Truer words never spoken!!

I reported Obama's fraud and waiste but it will not deliver. Hmmmm sounds omonous.

Can we now expose the EPA for what it really is--the Official Government Religion. It now appears that the primary purpose of the EPA is to further the 'religious' views of the Left. But wait-- are these not the same people who cry, "We must have separation of Church and State"?

I now view the EPA as the 'Church' of the green movement, global warming and all things Mother Earth. As such, it is now time to abolish the EPA because the government is forcing us to comply with their religious proclamations( 1st Ammendment).

I'm not a very political guy and for the most part have looked upon politicians with a kind of weary amusement. After all, this is America and I felt secure knowing we have a Constitution and a Bill of Rights to keep them from getting too carried away. That is no longer the case. For the first time in my life I'm afraid of the government. Even if I should live another thousand years I'll never vote for another democrat. I would not be surprised to see antoher civil war in my lifetime.

Right on!

And for when the job has been created, you can replace every "create" with "sustain".

JimG

Thank you for the url for the waste and abuse report. I accused Barry Sotero of wasting our hard earned money. It will be interesting to see if he sends his thugs--SEIU or other after me.

You said: "Start by approving stalled trade agreements with Colombia, South Korea, and Panama.... Even the Obama administration acknowledges that every percentage point increase in exports creates more than 250,000 jobs in the U.S."

This argument is bogus because it separates imports from exports. Only a NET increase in exports over imports results in NET job creation in the USA. If imports increase more than exports, then we experience a net LOSS of jobs in the USA. I am aware of NO "free trade agreement" that the USA has been party to in the past 50 years that has not resulted in greater increase in imports than exports (which translate to net job loss for the USA).

Mr. Alexander please stop telling only part of the truth about present America, while unloading upon the Obama presidency as the one that is leading America to hell, when in reality he is only following suit. The true National Debt of over 100 trillion dollars is here simply because the Republicans helped to create it. It was already over 100 trillion dollars when Obama was handed the greatest American financial mess ever. Yes, I voted for Ron Paul, because he would have gotten America back on track in pleasure that of the Founding Fathers.

I am a student of political science so I read a lot(I also write a lot and publish little). The recent essay in the Post by Mark Alexander is something that we need to put in front of the American reading eye everywhere.

I am not a big joiner or contributor but these Essays are so good that I will break my rule next payday and send my modest contribution to the Post. For goodness sake! keep up the good work.

I took your advice stated in the footnote: "On Obama's recovery.gov website, there is a link to "report fraud, waste and abuse." When understood in the proper context of our Constitution, all of Obama's proposals constitute fraud, waste and abuse, so I recommend you report it!)."

I reported the abuse. I pray to God that my next comment doesn't have to be posted from prison.

You said:

"....all of Obama's proposals constitute fraud, waste and abuse, so I recommend you report it!"

Not only that, I believe that many of the proposals in Congress at this point may be un-Constitutional. For instance, the gov't does not have an enumerated power that allows it to mandate that the citizens spend their money on any one thing like health insurance. However, the current law(s) being considered violate at least the illegal takings clause. When is some conservative organization going to sue in Federal court to stop these abuses? I believe one of the only ways that we can take back the country from the seditious bunch running it today is this. I would gladly donate some of my very limited funds to this cause, to help pay those lawyers. Might be one of the only good uses of a lawyer, BTW.

Peter

This report http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/alesina/files/Large+changes+in+fiscal+policy_October_2009.pdf conclusively demonstrates how deficit spending and raising taxes hurt economies.

Since my husband and I do not intend to pay for abortions through our taxes, we wonder if Congress will send two seventy+ year olds to prison?

Since we all know at this point in time that Obama and most of the people who surround him have Marxist goals for America, make arm twisting deals in back rooms in the dark of night that promoted America's demise so isn't it time to call for his impeachment as an enemy of the states?

Do you want government job creation strategies? Check out http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=514556

I posted to the site too. It took a while to get it to be accepted. Finally had to put the date in like this: 11/28/2008, and the time like this: 12:00. Thanks for telling us how to report this fraud and abuse perpetrated upon us by our own government.

I love America so I must repeat: If Obama is as bad and if his policies are as disturbing as we all say then why do you not want to entertain a call for IMPEACHMENT??

There is a fourth way to reduce government debt. Ronald Reagan demonstrated, by adopting the Laffer-Kemp/Roth policies, that cutting taxes increased government revenues, by unleashing capital into the economy that was previously consumed by government. That increased revenue, however, must not be consumed by increased spending. Cutting capital gains, the death tax, the marginal income tax rates, the corporate tax rates, and extending the R&D tax credit (this one was endorsed by BHO) are much more effective means than increased taxing and spending what we don't have. Don't expect any Democrats to pay attention to history, though. Harry Reid thinks they are on the right side of emancipation and civil rights legislation.

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Dear Congressman Chris Smith,

Please tell me it was a mistake.

Please tell me that you did not vote for CAP and Trade. If this is true,

then you have been fooled.

Had you known about Climate-Gate would you have still voted for it?

Please call for Congressional Hearings on Climate Gate and bring Al Gore in for Racketeering! He

knew the data was wrong and so should have you. So make him responsible and all of those who mislead congress to commit America to a policy of economic self destruction!

Sincerely,

Joseph Rene DuPont

Mark:

"Job Creation for Dummies" is right on the money. A great piece on what is wrong with Washington and it's solutions....and the right remedies! The President and his pals will spend some time to talk about creating jobs while the real creators are trying to find or hang on to the money to ACTUALLY create those jobs. The solutions are just too simple and basic. The "dummies" in Washington just cannot let go of the power.

An analogy: It is near the end of the college football season. Some folks do not understand that the formula for success in football is easy. STRESS THE KICKING GAME. BLOCK. TACKLE. HANG ON TO THE BALL. It is that simple! It is not complicated.

Now in DC, just sticking to The Constitution is too simple. It has been that way for decades. Our representatives are now just elected officials. They do not represent us. The people in Washington are about two things and two things only. Power and getting elected (which is their full time job). Your five points on job creation are simple, basic and correct.

Obama and politicians...talk about job creation.

Entrepreneurs and business owners...create jobs.

Big difference!

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An excellent piece on jobs creation. How about one on savings and healthcare. You could start by contacting Walter Keener at Power Flame in Parsons, Kansas to see how he has increased the health of the workforce there AND cut costs.

You will be amazed at what you find out.

In your quoted comment about Biden's grandfather, it is Dickson City not Dixon. Wpuldn't be surprised if Biden spelled it wrong, but probably an error from our super investigative media that do not fact check anything Democrats say.

No big deal, of course, but shows that I read (and enjoy) your columns.

President Obama only want to create Union Jobs only. This will not work. He has no intention of creating non-union jobs any where in our country. He is a failure and wan to destroy our country, money and in the end issue new money wiich will destroy all retirement plans, savings for everyone. Is he planing to sell the 6th fleet to the China, Russia or who?. He and Nancy Pelossi want to make sure that we willl never be able to afford our military power and safety.

On Mark's ideas for recovery, I have to comment on his Fifth point. Everybody likes to dismiss "protectionism." However, pleaswe let me point something out. I retired from the Army in 1999 to go to work in our family's manufacturing business. Bill Clinton had already both signed the NAFTA agreement and endorsed Communist China's entry into the WTO. Where NAFTA had been a thorn in our side, Communist China's entry into the WTO was a spear. In 2002 I started writing our US Senator's and Representative's about the 3.5 million manufacturing jobs lost and the count was increasing all the time. The list of factory closings was growing weekly. I predicted then that with our manufacturin jobs gone, we would enter into an economic death spiral. The loss of manufacturing sector jobs equalled a loss of over a trillion dollars in wages over a seven year period. The trickle down effect in jobs lost is anyone's guess. How many car's and how many houses weren't bought? A recovery? How can our nation make a recovery without jobs? We gave them all to China. By the way, does anyone remember when Al Gore was the "Bagman" for Bill Clinton during election year 1996 and accepted the mult-million dollar donation to his campaign from the Chinese Government while in California? That made the news just for a little bit and then was forgotten. The loss of our jobs to China has never made the news. Protectionism? We just need our jobs back.

Great article, but alas, is it all for naught? Do you really think Obama is for a recovering economy? He has been planning (his behind the scenes handlers/sponsors) this for a long time. The only way he can stay in power and be the ultimate leader of this power is for an evergrowing populace to be dependent upon the government. His entire purpose is to repeal the 22nd Amendment. He can only do this if we are in such disarray, that we no longer have the will nor numbers to block him. I have seen a ground swell of our independant/conservative populace awakening! We need to keep it up, stay involved, do your homework before voting, and by all means, vote!

In response to Mr. Burke, when is a conservative organization going to sue the many un-constitutional moves of this administration, I know of at least one, filed recently in the Washington, D.C. court, a "quo warranto" suit brought by attorneys representing the Chrysler dealers who were stripped of their ownership, wealth, and livelihood by the Obama administration who used TARP funds intended to bail out banks.

The suit is very complex and it also involves Obama's right to do so as a dual citizen. All the previous suits were thrown out because no party to the suit had been egregiously injured. Obviously, this time, the parties to the suit have lost their wealth, ownership, and livelihood to presidential confiscation, a move that must be argued and proven in court.

Not only will Obama not be impeached, he will be re-elected with great fanfare by the left, the 40% of Americans who pay no taxes, ACORN, the unions, young people, college professors, teachers, socialists, illegal aliens, foreigners, and communists.

The reason for this is quite simple. Americans are blissfully ignorant, unashamed, and willing to experiment on a promise because their lives are so good that they want to screw them up just to add a spice of misery to the monotony of prosperity.

When is the republican leadership (still an oxymoron) going to introduce articles of impeachment in the House? Never, because they are one of the two squads of the one political party.

Congress is creating jobs. Under Patriot Headlines you note "House panel passes college football playoff bill". There was only one objection in a voice vote, and that was because Congrss has more imoportant things (With all due respect, I really think we have more important things to spend our time on," Barrow said before the vote, although he stressed he didn't like the current Bowl Championship Series, either). Not one member asked what is the Constitutional authority for this? How many members will be on the commission or agency enforcing the college football playoffs?

The Founders wrote a body of laws, included in a single document, which they considered sufficiently constitutional for the new Republic. As Mr. Adams opined, that Document was meant to hold human nature in check. What we have today is the apogee of 75 years of "creeping Socialism." The Obamaites have it in their minds to resurrect 18th Century British Monarchy with its supporting cast in the Parliament; they plan to become a hereditary aristocracy. When they couldn't succeed by referring to the Constitution as a "living document" and change its history and meaning as each new day's political designs emerged, they now ignore it because they are above such an impediment as limited government. To hear them tell it, they have knowledge available only to a select Few. They've descended from Mount Sinai with their plan for our lives and money. They believe that they are destined to assume the role and power of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan. Lord Acton once again comes to mind: "Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely." Tyrants know only the "I." There is no "we" in their vocabulary.

Hi,

Great article!

Another way to think about the problem.

The baker bakes a pie and the counter person decides how many pieces to cut it into.

Who is the person contributing to the economy?

Cheers,

Barry Harmon

You're spot on Mark, as a small business owner myself, I am fit to be tied over this useful idiots economic plan, if one can call it that. They are more interested in buying votes and paybacks than real job creation.

Some of those assertions are flat out wrong.

Gov. spending doesn't create jobs? Tell that to the 1000's upon thousands of private sector jobs at Boeing, Grumman, Microsoft, Intel, Sun and a whole host of suppliers to the government.

Taxes are the revenue stream for gov. to provide services which in turn requires people (i.e. jobs)

If the argument is that gov. is too big and does too much, fine, I can accept that. But several of those premises are flat out nonsense.

The way I see it, is that ALL the STUFF that the GUVMINT buys, is paid for with TAXPAYER MONEY. It may be referred to as GUVMINT MONEY since they NOW control it , but it is still TAXPAYERS money, and supposed to be used to benefit ALL the people,. If you work for the GUVMINT, you are essentially working for yourself, and paying your wages with your very own TAX DOLLARS! The GUVMINT can ONLY redistribute the taxes they collect to other entities! There are no FREE rides!!! SOMEONE HAS TO PAY! And that is US.!

This was a comment from a lefty on my local forum,I really would appreciate a GOOD response.

CaptainObvious wrote:

Most of that essay is nonsense.

Gov. Spending Doesn't create jobs? Ask Boeing, Grumman, General Dynamics, Microsoft, etc. etc. I'm all for limited gov. but to say that gov. spending doesn't lead to jobs is nonsense.

Mark,

I agree with most of your points, however, you left out the actual employment problem with the United States. When you try to buy something; almost anything now, you flip it over and see it's made in Communist, freedom-hating China.

Since we don't make things here anymore, there are none of the jobs at the base of the American economy that used to feed small business and built great communities.

Protectionism is not the answer, but being on the sick side of a major trade imbalance with Communist China is what is economically destroying our great republic.

Clinton criminally started it with bullying Congress into allowing China into the WTO and granting most favored trade partner status, and Bush did nothing to change it, either. Obama, now one year into his stint, has shown similar cowardice in appeasing China, continuing the ruination of the American Economy.

Our trade imbalance with the China that is destroying their environment, persecutes its own people, and requires near slave labor to feed its greed; and we are doing nothing but enrich them, to our own detriment.

If we will be the shining example of freedom and democracy in the world, as envisioned by our founding fathers, we must stop enriching the communist Chinese regime.

To all the people who like to point out government jobs for things like defense I give you the following example: If I buy a security system or home insurance, I am purchasing protection from possible harm. Those expenses actually lower my standard of living (less money for food, shelter, clothing, entertainment, etc.) If we didn't have to spend money on national defense we would all have a higher standard of living. Every dime the government spends has to be taken from someone who created the wealth in the private sector, because government produces nothing...no goods or services that raise the standard of living. So, government should be limited as much as possible to services we truly need.

You stated: There are only three ways to cut that debt: Raise taxes, inflate the dollar or cut government spending.

That is true but not a complete statement. The Government can also legislate some additional form of theft from the public as when President Roosevelt and his Democratic Congress outlawed gold. The central government can also repudiate the debt, stiffing veterans, say, by understating inflation.

A devil's brew of all of the above is already going on and is sure to continue and worsen.

Mark,

The Tea Party Express put almost 2 million people on the Mall, left it clean as it was before they arrived, no one got arrested, and, it had no effect.

Let's suppose that some brave person or group put 2000 people on Nancy Pelosi's lawn...I think that would have an effect.

Ther is only one way to get thing back the way they should be. I served this country for twenty four years in the U.S. Army and I am a 100% disabled veteran, and I am very proud of my service,and would do it all over again. But it is time to take back our country and and take care of buisness the way our founding fathers wanted. Lets get rid of the politicians and get real americans in office. You know the ones who really do caare about this country and are not influeincces by hollywood or some celeberty who thinks they have more rights than the rest of us. And lets get some real judges in office who actually believe in the law and not the money. And lets not forget that this is susposed to be a country of oppertunity for everyone. So all those rich greedy S.O.Bs who think it is all about them just remember how you got your wealth, someone else worked their backsides off, so don't forget about helping them get their oppertunity. It is time to get rid of people like pelosi, and all those that think other countries have more rights here than us.

With all due respect, Cindy, the military is important. We do need national defense, we do need the military. To the extent that we are using the military as babysitters and PC nation building, I can buy your argument that investing money into the latest weapon that will never be used might be wasted dollars that could be used elsewhere. However, the Greeks and Romans used to say, very wisely, if you want to maintain peace, prepare for war. In such a case, you must have as many weapons at your disposal as possibel to deter the enemy.

For the record, it is Dickson City, not Dixon City. [I know this error was in a quote.] I used to live in Clarks Summit, also north of Scranton. Keep up the great work. Always praying for our men and women defending our Nation. Praying for a moral and spiritual awakening from Northampton, MA.

I agree with Mark's five common-sense ideas for job creation and would like to add some points of my own for all to ponder.

First: Government exists to protect the private sector and to assure unfettered and non-criminal activity within it. Hence, the cost of government is the overhead costs of all our family enterprises combined; our costs of doing business. The more we have government do, the greater our overhead becomes and the lesser profitability we achieve. The true gauge of the wealth of America is not measured by its government largesse, rather by the wealth of its people. This is an economic reason for why government activities were meant to be limited. And as we all know, government is much larger and encompassing than it was 200 years ago. This disastrous, insidious change has been a long time in the making and is a huge object lesson for us all. We need to start reversing it yesterday.

Second: Each time the government takes over an industry, that business is converted from a profit-generating entity that creates wealth and thereby supplies tax revenue, to a profit-draining entity that consumes revenue. From an accounting perspective, this essentially transfers the business from the black side of the balance sheet to the red side. The more such transfers occur, the less solvent the economy becomes.

Third: Aside from the immorality of socialism (robbing from Peter to pay Paul) Socialism doesn't work well because it costs too much. When government provides a service, since it is a public service, government is obligated to gear-up and provide enough resources (personnel, materials) to serve everyone, whether they make use of the service or not. So for example, for any given service, government could be prepared to serve 100% of people while only 50% of people are actually using the service. And thus a bunch of people are paying for a service that they never use. Contrast that to the private sector where businesses don't grow beyond the size required to supply the demand for their service, and only those using the service pay for it.

What a stellar job of pointing out every failure from this boy king with resume that would fit on a postage stamp. Thank you, forwarding this to the world.

Barack Obama has no intention of creating jobs, or anything else productive that would help this country. He and his cronies are intending to ruin the United States and turn it into a socialistic nation subservient to the asinine, ineffective U.N.

He apparently has never heard of Keynsian economics

and it's continual failure throughout history.

Keynsian economics has shown that stimulus spending

never works. I doubt that Obama is a fool, and understands this, but is intentionally screwing up

the economy with stimulus, bailouts, healthcare, and crap and trade. Combined with idiots Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and George Soros, Obama is a threat to Humanity. He needs to go as soon as possible, by whatever means.

Sharon, you asked for a good rebuttal to the lefty arguing that jobs are created at goverment suppliers. The reply is actually in the article itself. It made me wonder if the lib actually read it. Maybe he just couldn't follow it. As Thomas Sowell said, (I'm paraphrasing) a job created by government is a job created with wealth that came from the private sector, therefore a job created by government is a job transferred out of the private sector. Net jobs created: zero. There are additional problems related to the goverment transferred jobs, such as distortions of the market, but the main point is that no new job was created because a job (or often several jobs) are lost to create the one in the goverment sector. Hope that does the trick.

I cannot argue with the idea (noted in the linked article, "Economics 101: Crisis of Confidence"; Mark Alexander, Friday, September 26, 2008) that all people have the Right to housing. Since it is a basic necessity for survival - along side food and clothing - the Right to it must be guaranteed.

That said, there is no way to guarantee a privilege to a lifestyle. Basically, if you live in a tent, a cave, or a flood pipe (like some folks under Las Vegas), you have housing. Each of us has the right to what housing we can afford - but that is the end of it.

What has been posited by the socialists is the idea that everyone has the "right" to the same kind of quality housing that some people work very hard to obtain. The fact that anyone works hard to obtain a standard of living establishes such a standard of living as a privilege - bought and paid for - and not a right.

When will Americans - when will the world - get this idea straight?

What if we as citizens just said "no". No, we're not going to submit ourselves to these requirements. No, we're not going to pay taxes on programs we don't want. No, we're not going to continue to re-elect idiots who are forcing us to accept the waste and fraud that is perpetrated upon the American people. Clean your guns, stock up on ammo, the time draws near. www.confederatepowflag.com

Let's call it like it is..........this president despises this country and all it stands for and has no plans to improve the economy. He is hell bent on destroying it along with everything else. I pray that people wake up and see him for who he really is before the next election.

Thank you for that great article. Just so you know, I went to the recovery . gov web site and reported the Obama administration for fraud, waste and abuse. I'm sure it won't do any good but it made me feel better.

With all the hubub about global warming, here's one from the past. I remember this article when I was a senior in high school in 1975. It had me taking the side of the environmentalist back then. It was about the comming ice age & how it was a consensus it would be inevetible. Sound familiar!

http://neoconexpress.blogspot.com/2007/02/newsweek-1975-scientist-predict.html#links

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