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Golden Boy, I don't see an answer to the question,
since we are in a recession and Obama is doing nothing really to get us out of it, how long should people be entitled to unemployment benefits and after their initial benefits run out where does the money come from that pays those benefits?
If you are a Libertarian then you would know the answer to the question you asked. Since apparently you really aren't, let me help you
Platform | Libertarian Party
Seems to me you have an entitlement mentality, not I. I started by career in business in 1970. How many recessions did I experience and work through? I was looking for a job when I found the one I got and held for 35 years. You aren't entitled to your pay, you are entitled tot he opportunity to keep your pay. A lot of people got layed off during my 35 year business career and I wasn't one of them. I did my job to keep myself valuable to the company. That kept me employed for over three decades. When people make themselves valuable to a company the company will reward them by keeping them on payroll. It is my personal responsibility to stay employed and make myself valuable to the company.
Getting an MBA entitles you to what? People investing money take risk. Apparently that risk doesn't mean employing an MBA in some areas.
Gabriel, what a distorted view of reality. Facts always get in the way of an ideologue. This isn't about Reagan or even Bush, this is about the re-write of history. You buy what you are being told and ignore actual results. Go to BEA.gov and check economic growth and govt. revenue creation and both refute the Forbes article.
My belief is liberals and supporters of Obama need to grow up. Personal responsibility is something everyone as to accept. The only entitlement people have is they are entitled to equal opportunity to get and keep a job. Reagan understood that the role of the govt. was to promote that opportunity and did so by giving people tax cuts so they can spend their money. The tax increases he generated were in payroll taxes which is Social Security which comes back to people at retirement. Now it is easy to blame tax cuts for the debt but I will take the 1.7 trillion Reagan and Congress generated to the trillion dollar debt Obama is creating each year and has already exceeded the Reagan 8 year debt in less than 2 years.
Now you can spin the debt any way you want but the war is the least of the problems. It is an easy target for people incapable of doing research. Go to the U.S. Treasury website to see where money is going and you will find that entitlement spending takes up over 60% of the budget and that has nothing to do with the war. Taxing the rich or those evil corporations seems to be an easy way out for people who refuse to accept personal responsibility and have that entitlement mentality.
You are right, the GOP didn't cut spending but Congress was controlled by Democrats from 2007 on and haven't either, in fact Obama has put the Bush spending on steroids generating nothing but a larger govt.
I lived and worked during the 80's, did you?
Underemployment will always be a problem until the private sector grows and is given the incentive to grow. Promoting govt. growth never has been the answer. Our economy was built on the private sector, 80% of which is small business not those evil corporations that liberals want to attack and thus divert from
Libertarianism needs to be reined in. Thats all I'm gonna say.
Notice that your profile claims to be a Libertarian an ideology that yo udo not understand thus I posted the platform. Notice the personal responsibilty plank in there? Didn't think so.
Golden Boy, I suggest learning to read, under employment will improve with a strong growing private sector, something Obama has yet to do.
As for the anecdotes, they mean everything, showing that I did exactly what you say cannot be done. I made myself valuable and survived many recessions during my 35 year business career. I never considered my pay as a guarantee for life thus I worked hard to keep it and did, growing pay each year over those 35 years, including recession years, something apparently you do not understand.
Notice that your profile claims to be a Libertarian an ideology that yo udo not understand thus I posted the platform. Notice the personal responsibility plank in there? Didn't think so.
Libertarianism has been bastardized; thats all im gonna say.
If you are 40 you were 20-28 during the Reagan years and because Forbes put out an article that you buy you ignore all the others that define the Reagan economy. Suggest that you do a better job of research. I never did better personally than I did during the Reagan years because Reagan understood the role of the govt, provide incentive and then get out of the way. By the way I am 63. If your father was truly a conservative politician then your father understood the conservative philosophy and thus shuns any comparison between what Obama is doing and what Reagan did. The results are there for all to see, bea.gov, Reagan doubled GDP growth, promoted the creation of over 20 million jobs, doubled govt. revenue, and created an atmosphere for all workers to grow their own individual wealth.
Obviously you believe someone 40 with probably 15 years of experience is more knowledgeable than someone 63 who worked 35 years in the business world. The Libertarian views are closer to the Conservative point of view than they are to the liberal point of view. Today's Democrat Party is a disaster due to the fact it is being run by the left wing advocates who believe in redistribution of wealth and entitlements. There is nothing in the libertarian platform that supports what is going on right now in the Democrat Party and with this Administration.
It all boils down the vision as to the role of the Govt. and no Libertarian can support what Obama is doing. No Libertarian can support providing indefinite unemployment payments. There is nothing in the Constitution that promotes individualistic policies other than promote the general welfare and govt. does that by creating incentive for individual wealth creation, i.e. tax rate cuts. That puts more money into the hands of the individual taxpayer and that promotes job creation.
Sounds like a typical redistribution of wealth advocate! I suggest going to BEA.gov and use all the tools there to determine economic results and then go to BLS.gov to check out job creation. Those sites are non partisan and present a different picture than you are receiving from the media.
There is no justification to redistribute wealth as it takes aways personal responsibility and ignores the reality that rich people with their spending, savings, and investments help grow the job markets. If the gap is growing between the rich and the poor then the question is why? Rich people take advantage of incentives whereas poor people continue to wait on help from others. You don't seem to understand our economy and judge everyone else by your own standards. Not all poor people have the incentive, drive, or willingness to work hard and get out of their position. I once was poor and worked hard, if I can do it, so can others. This is a country of equal opportunity, not equal outcome which liberals want to try an legislate. Trickle down economics is the only economic policy that makes any sense and works. The results are there even you to see. Go to the sites and then get back to me. Until then your words are just that, liberal talking points that distort reality.
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