Post Industrial America~ Where The Jobs Went

              The Devastating Truth


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The Trillion Dollar Gorilla in the room NO ONE in elected office will discuss, is about the failure of our Foreign Trade Policy and how it has fed our financial crisis, and how it has hastened the slow death of our
manufacturing sector.

Our Foreign Trade Policy, much like a cancer, has been killing the manufacturing sector and bleeding American jobs since the late 1940s.

The losses in manufacturing and jobs, are a direct result of businesses determining to flee offshore from high taxes, massive regulation, and wages at pennies on the dollar by our trading partners. The flight of manufacturing has devastated communities, impacted our revenue base and left million of Americans underemployed or terminally unemployed. The loss of our manufacturing sector is an existential threat to this Republic.

American industry, particularly the manufacturing sector has been in an offshore flight for decades.

America is on the brink of collapse, and Obama's only idea is to raise taxes to fix the revenue problem a result of a decline in manufacturing and the loss of jobs, and propose more infrastructure expenditures. And spend and borrow more money.  His agenda never addresses the systemic problems that have been created by Federal Government policy, law, regulations, fees and obstacles.  These obstacles set by the government and bureaucrats that make walking away from investment with factories in America by business less attractive than operating a business in a Communist society.  It cost less to manufacture and actually drives more money to the bottom line of business owners and corporations to ship millions of containers filled with goods across the vast expanse of the Pacific ocean than to conduct business in the United States.

Everyone elected official has avoided addressing the lousy trade agreements negotiated by officials only looking for a deal, with little concern about the nation breaking details which have  been signed by previous adminsitrations, and ]passed by previous Senates.  Many of these Trade Agreements are policies looking for friends where the enemy sleeps. At the same time in every instant trading away jobs and manufacturing for a partner who not only cannot dance and the tune and tempo are not made in America.

The Marshall Plan cost American Tax payers 22.4 billion US dollars  from 1947-1951.  Since 1947 and GATT (General Agreement on Tariff and Trade 1947, the precursor to both the WTO (World Trade Oganization and UN) America has signed one after another poorly negotiated Trade Treaty.  Current Renewal of treaties that the Obama Administration are reviewing can be found here .  Every one of these Treaties support an upside down unequal tariff basis and unfair economic practices by partner countries which leaves US manufacturers and products subject to discriminatory manufacturing practices, wages, and inbound tariffs with all of our trading partners.  A review of the what the Obama Administration may do regarding these polices can be found also here .

The argument being used by Obama to increase taxes and raise revenues with regards to this nation's national debt is a rouse, one that avoids the real discussion America should be having.

The discussion, "What happened to our Manufacturing Base and why we have lost millions and millions of private sector jobs".  Cannot be found anywhere in the American political dialogue.  The losses our economy have suffered have not only impacted our GDP, national employment and have placed America at risk.

Government policies under both parties have cost America millions and millions of jobs.

Free Trade is an oxymoron.  There is no Free Trade.  Not one agreement the United States has signed since GATT in 1947 has been anywhere near close to Free, or fair, or created any equal trading partners.  In every instance our trading partners ecomomy and standard of living has increased while ours has steadily declined.

After looking at dozens of sites it is obvious that administrations from both parties have willingly signed Trade Agreements that disadvantaged US made products and exports to all of our partners. 

One trade policy after another in support of globalization, combined with miles and miles of regulations, (at a cost of 1.7 trillion to US business ) and crony tax rates are the culprits.  Investors seeking and finding large profit margins, a result of pennies on the dollar labor and little if any regulation, while nice for share  holders is  BAD for American jobs.  Our tax code supports undermining our manufacturing and the flight offshore in support of Foreign policy is filled with loopholes that encourage offshore development in  60,000 page US tax code filled with Crony Tax breaks.

This information should give every American cause for real concern for this Republics recovery in both the long and short term   "...Manufacturing employment dropped to 11.7 million in October 2009, a loss of 5.5 million or 32 percent of all manufacturing jobs since October 2000. The last time fewer than 12 million people worked in the manufacturing sector was in 1941. In October 2009, more people were officially unemployed (15.7 million) than were working in manufacturing..."

This same above linked article further lists the damage and sectors devastated by Trade Agreements and flight of offshore manufacturing and jobs to nation's who if not our foes have barricades in tariffs to United States made products.

I urge you to read the article I have used as reference from American Prospect.

"...Long before the banking collapse of 2008, such important U.S. industries as machine tools, consumer electronics, auto parts, appliances, furniture, telecommunications equipment, and many others that had once dominated the global marketplace suffered their own economic collapse. Manufacturing employment dropped to 11.7 million in October 2009, a loss of 5.5 million or 32 percent of all manufacturing jobs since October 2000. The last time fewer than 12 million people worked in the manufacturing sector was in 1941. In October 2009, more people were officially unemployed (15.7 million) than were working in manufacturing..."

Here is the list from this site that the once great U.S. economy is being gutted, neutered, defanged, declawed and deindustrialized....

•  1) The U.S. trade deficit with the rest of the world rose to 497.8 billion dollars in 2010. That represented a 32.8% increase from 2009.
• 2) The U.S. trade deficit with China rose to an all-time record of 273.1 billion dollars in 2010. This is the largest trade deficit that one nation has had with another nation in the history of the world. 
• 3) The U.S. trade deficit with China in 2010 was 27 times larger than it was back in 1990. 
• 4) In the years since 1975, the United States had run a total trade deficit of 7.5 trillion dollars with the rest of the world.
• 5) The United States spends more than 4 dollars on goods and services from China for every one dollar that China spends on goods and services from the United States.
• 6) In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of all U.S. economic output. In 2008, it represented only 11.5 percent and it continues to fall. 
• 7) The number of net jobs gained by the U.S. economy during this past decade was smaller than during any other decade since World War 2. 
• 8) The Bureau of Labor Statistics originally predicted that the U.S. economy would create approximately 22 million jobs during the decade of the 2000s, but it turns out that the U.S. economy only produced about 7 million jobs during that time period. 
• 9) Japan now manufactures about 5 million more automobiles than the United States does. 
• 10) China has now become the world's largest exporter of high technology products. 
• 11) Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry is actually lower in 2010 than it was in 1975. 
• 12) The United States now has 10 percent fewer "middle class jobs" than it did just ten years ago. 
• 13) According to Tax Notes, between 1999 and 2008 employment at the foreign affiliates of U.S. parent companies increased an astounding 30 percent to 10.1 million. During that exact same time period, U.S. employment at American multinational corporations declined 8 percent to 21.1 million. 
• 14) Back in 1970, 25 percent of all jobs in the United States were manufacturing jobs. Today, only 9 percent of the jobs in the United States are manufacturing jobs. 
• 15) Back in 1998, the United States had 25 percent of the world’s high-tech export market and China had just 10 percent. Ten years later, the United States had less than 15 percent and China's share had soared to 20 percent. 
• 16) The number of Americans that have become so discouraged that they have given up searching for work completely now stands at an all-time high. 
• 17) Half of all American workers now earn $505 or less per week. 
• 18) The United States has lost a staggering 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000. 
• 19) Since 2001, over 42,000 U.S. factories have closed down for good. 
• 20) In 2008, 1.2 billion cellphones were sold worldwide. So how many of them were manufactured inside the United States? Zero. 
• 21) Ten years ago, the "employment rate" in the United States was about 64%. Since then it has been constantly declining and now the "employment rate" in the United States is only about 58%. So where did all of those jobs go? 

The world is changing.

We are bleeding national wealth at a pace that is almost unimaginable."

The sad reality is that any jobs created in any state coaxed from one state to another is just moving the deck chairs on the Titanic.

The government is the only one that can create or save fake jobs (The Obama unemplyment fable) because it is the only part of the US Economy that has not been regulated away or closed down or shipped operating the Federal Goverment offshore. Once you take a serious look at globalization, our trade agreements and unbound regulation you can understand why the Democrats say Unemployment Compensation is creating jobs.

This is more than a nighmare it is an economic disaster, it is an existential threat every bit as damaging as a nuclear attack.

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ADDENDUM 09/05/2011

While doing research for other articles I found this site, after this article was published.


Please take a few moments to look at America Wake Up. ''AmericaWakeup.net is dedicated to providing factual data on the current economic condition of the United States. The data provided on this Web site relays the number of U.S. companies being sold to foreign interests, the percentage of annual consumption spent on imports, the percentage of U.S. Corporations owned by foreign entities and foreign financing of U.S. government debt.


Each year the U.S. operates with a multi-billion dollar budget deficit. The U.S.' out-of-control spending and excessive tax breaks have led to the country being over 14 trillion dollars in the red. In order to finance its operations, the U.S. must borrow money from its economic competitors through the sale of Treasury Bonds.

The U.S. annually imports billions of dollars worth of foreign-made goods. Importing more than we export equates to lost industries and jobs in the U.S. Through Free Trade Agreements the U.S. has facilitated the exportation of American production to the lowest wage countries, resulting in the loss of American jobs, skills and wealth.

As jobs have fled the country, so too has ownership of American corporations. Over the past several decades thousands of American companies have been purchased by overseas conglomerates. These companies once produced wealth and innovation within the United States, but now the wealth, profits, and innovations flow out of the U.S. Through the purchase of important and strategic American corporations, and from insourced intrusion into the American domestic markets, foreign-based companies have built up a huge influence over entire industries.

According to data collected from the Internal Revenue Service certain industries have become completely monopolized by interests overseas...".

9/06/2011

I just received this link from a Twitter Friend, According to Forbes "Last week, the federal government reported that the U.S. trade deficit grew by 33 percent in 2010 to nearly half a trillion dollars. Most of the gap resulted from an imbalance in trade with China, which shipped $365 billion in goods to America but only bought $92 billion in U.S. goods. The resulting U.S. deficit of $273 billion in bilateral trade with Beijing reflects a persistent feature of the Sino-American relationship since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. Over the last ten years, China has mounted the biggest challenge to the U.S. manufacturing sector ever seen, threatening producers of steel, chemicals, glass, paper, drugs and any number of other items with prices they cannot match. Not coincidentally, the United States has lost an average of 50,000 manufacturing jobs every month during the same period..."

Strawman Of 58 Million Not An Opponent To Be Vilified

Democrats and the mainstream media have decided to make a Strawman of the Tea Party.


Targeting The Tea Party is a bad choice for Democratic leaders and the Mainstream Media to haven chosen as a whipping post, or a target for slander. 

Democrats despicable name calling and bullying  will not rescue the Democrats in the 2012 elections.

Foolishly Democrats have taken on a massive active well informed voter block of Constitutional supporting traditional Americans who want the Federal Government to live within it's means.

There is no titular head or main spokesperson of the Tea Party.  The Tea Party is populated by millions and millions of focused active voters who are actively working to vette candidates, clean up voter rolls, register voters, and are willing to participate in Money Bombs, donating money in small amounts to candidates who share the ideals of limited government founded in the Constitution.

Democrats and the Mainstream Media, Pundits on the left and Hollywood have chosen to vilify a group of Americans who are estimated to be  in a Weekly Standard article,  an estimated 58 million strong. Jay Cost says,  "While there are Tea Party meet-ups, marches onWashington, and even groups claiming to speak for the Tea Party as a whole (including a congressional caucus), it is nevertheless hard to think of the Tea Party as a literal party. After all, the actual number of people affiliated with any of these activities is a pittance compared to the 25 percent or so of American adults who consider themselves “Tea Partiers.” We’re talking about roughly 58 million people nationwide, more than the number who voted for Ronald Reagan in 1984."

Tea Party Activist insist on reigning in government spending,   repealing Obama Care, lower taxes and reigning in massive job killing government regulation.  Tea Party Activist insist that our government at every level enforce Immigration laws.

If Democrats had been as smart as they claim to be, they would have accepted Paul Ryan's Budget, Cut Cap and Balance, which would have prevented the loss of theTriple AAA rating of the United States.

John Kerry, in a disgusting appearance on national news has shown he supports this hateful divide and conquer mentality of the left, if the Tea Party had been the Communist Viet Cong he would have loved us, I recall his meetings in Paris with the Viet Cong during the Paris Peace talks with the North Vietnamese.

I say to the Democrats, Pundits on the Left, and the Mainstream Media, thank you for your recruiting efforts that grow our ranks.

Look at the Tea Party election results from 2010, and in the Wisconsin Recall Elections.

If those of you on the left are foolish enough to think that hard working Americans who pay their taxes are not going to hand you and the Obama Administration, 22 Democratic Senators and countless Democratic Congressmen a colossal loss in the 2012 General Election you are more than foolish.

American Citizens have had enough.  We demand a smaller fiscally responsible Government.

Democrats should fear our votes.  We intend to use them.  We are Coming (again), Can You hear us now?

100 Reasons To Call Me A Tea Partier!




A montage of pictures from the 9/12/2009 March on the Capitol

  1.  I am a Tea Partier, because I believe our Founding Documents were inspired by God, and that those rights are God given.

 2.  I am a Tea Partier because I uphold and defend The United States Constitution.

 3.  I am a Tea Partier because we are Taxed Enough Already

 4.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe our elected officials should be held accountable for their policies, votes.

 5.  I am a Tea Partier because I like to sing the National Anthem, and I stand when it is played.

 6.  I am a Tea Partier because I like to say the Pledge of Allegiance, and I stand and place my hand on my heart when I pledge my allegiance.

 7.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe in the limited government outlined by the US Constitution.

 8.  I am a Tea Partier because I accept my First Amendment Responsibility and Obligation.

 9.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe an engaged and informed voter protects against Government Abuses.

10.  I am a Tea Partier because my fellow Patriots help me to stay informed.

11.  I am a Tea Partier because I demand our Government live within it's means.

12.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe this Republic is Over Regulated.

13.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe this Republic needs Entitlement Reform.

14.  I am a Tea Partier because I insist that Obama Care be repealed or overturned by the United States Supreme Court.

15.  I am a Tea Partier because I insist that the Dodd Frank Bill be repealed or overturned by the United States Supreme Court.

16.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that ALL US coded laws should be enforced at every Government level, Local, County, State and Federal.
 
18.  I am a Tea Partier because I support our Troops.
 
19.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe in Free Speech.
 
20.  I am a Tea Partier because the Main Stream Media is biased.
 
21.  I am a Tea Partier because I think an armed citizen is a good thing.
 
21.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe in Freedom of Religion.
 
22.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that our elected officials should read the bills they pass.
 
23.  I am a Tea Partier because I do not believe in Deficit Spending.
 
24.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe we should drill here drill now immediately.
 
25.  I am a Tea Partier because I think that the TSA should be eliminated.
 
26.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe in a robust National Defense.
 
27.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that Keynesian Economics is a failed Economic Model.
 
28.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe like Ronald Reagan in the shining city on the hill.
 
29.  I am a Tea Partier because I refuse to have our legacy be a crushing indebtedness for future generations to inherit as a result of fiscally irresponsible leadership by Democrats.
 
30.  I am a Tea Partier because I have a solemn obligation to those who have given their all that I do with a ballot what our nation has asked those in our Armed Forces to do with a bullet.
 
31.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe we should end the IRS and have a Flat Tax.
 
32.  I am a Tear Partier because I support the Connie Mack One Cent Solution.
 
33.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe the Senate should produce a Budget.
 
34.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe in a Balanced Budget Amendment.
 
35.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe Affirmative Action is bad for America.
 
36.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that an intact family is the building block of a healthy society.
 
37.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that elected officials who violate their oath of office should lose their retirement benefits.
 
38.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that elected officials who break their oath of office should be prosecuted.
 
39.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that every candidate should have full disclosure of birth records, college records, service records and tax records and that those records be a matter of public record.
 
40.  I am a Tea Partier because I am against the Federal Government suing states that have modeled Immigration Bills after coded US laws on the books.
 
41.  I am a Tea Partier because I celebrate  Easter, Memorial Day, the 4th of July, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
 
42.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that signing onto UN policy driven by despots, thugs and Communists is bad foreign policy.
 
43.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that TARP was a bad unexplained crisis, and that all TARP funds should be paid back.
 
44.  I am a Tea Partier because I did not support the 2nd Stimulus.
 
45.  I am a Tea Partier because I did not support the GM & Chrysler Bailouts.
 
46.  I am a Tea Partier and I do not believe Geithner, a Tax cheat should be Secretary of the Treasury.
 
47.  I am a Tea Partier because I do not support the appointment of CZARS who write policy outside of Legislative Oversight.
 
48.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe Eric Holder should resign.
 
49.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that Operation Gun Runner broke US laws.
 
50.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that Carole Ann Browner should resign.
 
51.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that Lisa Jackson should resign.
 
52.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe Ken Salazar should resign.
 
53.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that Stephen Chu should resign.
 
54.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that Sonja Sotomayor should never have won appointment to the United States Supreme Court.
 
55.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe Elena Kagan should not have been appointed to the Supreme Court.
 
56.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that the President of the United States should only bow when he is in prayer.
 
57.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe it is dangerous fiscal policy for our enemies to hold our debt.
 
58.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that Nidal Hassan should have been condemned by a Military Court Marshall and sentenced to Death by a Firing Squad.
 
59.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that is 11 years past time to bring the perpetrators of the attack on the USS Cole to Justice and they be tried by a Military Tribunal.
 
60.  I am a Tea Partier and I support the US war on Terrorism.
 
61.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that no enemy combatant should be given US Miranda Rights.
 
62.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that the Underwear bomber should be tried by a Military Tribunal.
 
63.  I am a Tea Partier because I support Israel.
 
64.  I am a Tea Partier because I support Enhanced Interrogation Techniques for Enemy Combatants.
 
65.  I am a Tea Partier and I believe we should not be bombing Libya.
 
66.  I am a Tea Partier because I think that Eric Holder should have prosecuted the New Black Panther Party for Voter Intimidation in Philadelphia in the 2008 Presidential Election.
 
67.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe Janet Napalitano should seal the border.
 
68.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe the US Federal Government should be subject to Sunshine Laws with the exception of our national security.
 
69.  I am a Tea Partier because I support Darrel Issa's Committee Investigation of Operation GunRunner.
 
70.  I am a Tea Party because I believe that God should be part of a funeral service at National Cemeteries if the family so wishes.
 
71.  I am a Tea Partier because I am offended by Obama's Ramadan Addresses.
 
72.  I am a Tea Partier because I do not support registered Socialist and Registered Communist holding public office.
 
73.  I am a Tea Partier because I do not support the Federal Government awarding Grants to Universities & Colleges, whether they are Private or State Or County Institutions.
 
74.  I am a Tea Partier because I am opposed to Federal, State, County or Municipal Unions.
 
75.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that Republicans should stand on Principle.
 
76.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe we should not be trading jobs, and manufacturing to buy allies.
 
77.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe in Free Markets.
 
78.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that what my local municipality can do the county should not, what my county can do the state should not, and what my state can do the Federal Government should not.
 
79.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe in Right to Work Laws.
 
80.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that DADT is bad policy for the Military.
 
81.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe that the DOMA laws should be enforced.
 
82.  I am a Tea Partier because I do not believe that our taxes should be used for PBS.
 
83.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe the Federal Government is too large.
 
84.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe the United States Government should not be restoring mosques around the world.
 
85.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe in the Right To Life and I am against abortion.

86.  I am a Tea Partier because I believe every voter should show a picture ID and their voter registration card.

87.   I am a Tea Partier because I believe all illegal aliens should be sent back to their country of origin.

88.   I am a Tea Partier because I do not engage in politically correct discourse.

89.   I am a Tea Partier because I believe in profiling.

90.   I am a Tea Partier because I believe our nation is under threat from those who would do us harm, which includes Progressives, Islamic Terrorism and those who find our Constitution fatally flawed.

91.   I am a Tea Partier because I believe that Iran is a threat to this nation.

92.   I am a Tea Partier because I proudly wave old glory.

93.   I am a Tea Partier because I believe I have a responsibility to actively participate in my First Amendment responsibility to address our elected officials to address my opposition to their policies.

94.   I am a Tea Partier because I believe in protecting the founding ideals of this Republic.

95.   I am a Tea Partier because I believe in traditional American values.

96.   I am a Tea Partier because I believe in personal responsibility.

97.   I am a Tea Partier because I believe our government has strayed from it's founding principles.

98.   I am a Tea Partier because I believe this nation is the worlds last best hope.

99.   I am a Tea Partier because I believe in American Excellence and Exceptionalism

100.   I am a Tea Partier because my participation in the Tea Party drives the Mainstream Media, Pundits on the left, Democrats, Progressives and socialist crazy!

Election night November 8, 2010

US Milestone Debt is now 100% of GDP

August 4th, 2011 the United States Debt surpassed 100% of GDP

Two days after President Obama the biggest spender in US History signed the bill which was passed by the Senate on August 1, 2011 adding an additional 2.4 trillion to our massive debt, and today $239 billion  60% of funding approved on Tuesday vanished in to the black hole of United States Debt.

The last time US debt was greater than this nation's Gross Domestic Product, was in 1947, after WW II.

Years of bad Foreign Trade Agreements that encouraged the flight of both manufacturing and jobs offshore. The highest Corporate Taxes in the world have contributed to nation crushing manufacturing and unemployment.  Years of of unelected bureaucrats have written  miles of red tape (in July of 2011 9.5 Billion more) enough to send Astronauts far from earth in interstellar adventure

Instead of addressing and freezing and cutting spending which would have been a fiscally sound decision that would have placed this nation on a path to pay off our debt, our elected officials denied reality and Americans got another big bad deal .

When Obama took office, unemployment was 7.8%, now it's 9.2%, up 18% from when he took office.

If your stomach has not turned enough already,  This Government Cost Calculator will show you based on your income the price of the fiscal insanity that has been practiced by our elected officials.

This nation has the highest Corporate Taxes in the world.

We have the most regulated manufacturing base in the world.

Our leaders since Eisenhower have signed bad really bad trade agreements. 

Our leaders have consistently since 1974 have flatly ignored, refused, denied exploiting our own natural resources.

And here are the rest of today's happy numbers

Indices Currencies World
DJIA -512.76 -4.31% 11383.68

S&P 500 -60.27 -4.78% 1200.07

NASDAQ -136.68 -5.08% 2556.39

RUSS2KG EOD -28.52 -6.42% 415.49

10yr Treasury -1.18 -4.58% 24.58

The real tragedy is all of this was avoidable.  We have spent beyond our means.  We have taxed and regulated business and little is left of the powerhouse economy that I grew up enjoying. 

Worse, our elected officials lack both the political will and courage to make the necessary changes to improve America and turn things around.

Our elected officials refuse to balance our nations budget, refuse to address entitlements to make them solvent (not Republicans but Democrats) refuse to overhaul a punishing chrony tax system, refuse to stop spending, refuse to stop regulating and smothering business, refuse to use our resources, and refuse to enforce our laws.

God Help Us, we are looking into the abyss.

The Left Won't Dance ~ Don't Ask Them

Democrats are refusing to dance. The 'Prom of all Proms', the debate process to extend the debt ceiling a 76th time more resembles a bizzarre episode of the Twilight Zone Dancing with the Stars redux, than orderly business in the US Senate

The Danse Macabre of this fiscal crisis has been inflicted upon America from the left footed bunch led by Obama and Majority Leader Reid.  Their leadership has placed America in dire circumstances.  Democrats have spent more money than the federal government collects in taxes and Fees. The Senate has not passed a budget in 822 days.  Obama's 2011 budget delivered to the Senate was an astonishing 3.2 million dollars.  It was so outrageous the Senate defeated it 97-0. 

Republicans have proven, not just once, they can lead.  They led with Cut Cap and Balance, but democrats preferred to sit at the table. Republicans offered a second bill Friday, once again leading with legislation which made concessions to the sensitivities of Democrats, and still the Democrats answer was, "I won't dance don't ask me." Democrats decided to sit at the table.

Republicans are dancing as fast as they can all alone. 

Republicans cannot find a partner with either the President or the Majority leader in the Senate.  Left footed politicians in the Democrat party refuse to accept thier invitation to the ball, and either they do not like the steps or their shoes are to tight, or too expensive.

The Democrats wild gyrations are not the Quick step of economic sanity that the judges of this dance, credit rating agencies, Bond markets and our lenders have tuned in to see.  

America is witnessing a Dance Macabre. The Debt Ceiling Impasse caused by Democrats and their two left feet (Senator Reid and President Obama).

After watching hours of Democrats hustle, twist and waltz alone on the Senate floor my head was spinning. 

America was subjected to one after another repitive factually inaccurate speech, filled with threats, given during a blame throwing tribal dance.

Democrats have decided,  "They won't dance don't ask them".

The Senate Majority Leader unbelievably filibustered his own bill that just last night (Friday) had been placed on the floor.

Not only was Majority Leader Reid unwilling to dance with Minority Leader McConnell, but he stepped on McConnell's toes.  When Majority Leader Reid refused to open the bill to discussion, Minority Leader McConnell called for Cloture (requiring 60 votes)

After the filibuster ended (once again filled with rhetoric) by United States Senators insulting and calling American Voters on the right names, suggesting that honest working Americans are terrible terrorist. Democrats used  Seniors and Military and Veterans as strawmen threatening they would not get paid. The Senate Majority leader could not coerce his left footed bunch nor force enough votes from his own caucus to pass the  his own bill with 60 votes. (Democrats have 53 Senators).

Then Majority Leader Reid in the middle of the Danse Macabre going on in the well of the Senate took a powder to the Whitehouse to talk to his other left footed partner President Obama, and took Pelosi who can't dance either with him.

When the Majority Leader returned to the Senate after all the bashing and threats to American citizens had ended and time for the debate had expired.  The Majority Leader of the Senate could not pass his own 2.5 trillion dollar bill that forces tax payers to dance as fast as they can to February of 2013, and allows left footed President Obama to waltz across America during the 2012 Campaign season.

Majority Leader Reid decided that one day of dancing and threats was not enough.  He delayed the vote on his bill first until 1a.m. Sunday then later decided to repeat the Danse Macabre at noon on Sunday.
Never mind that left footed Obama is dancing to a funeral dirge.

And then I woke up.

And it was Debt Ceiling Debate Day all over again.

Democrats it is time to dance with the Partners American voters sent you.

Senator Reid now is the time to be America's Majority Leader, and do what is best for America.  President Obama, Suit Up and put your dancing shoes on.   America is tired of lying Drama Queens giving speeches filled with untrue rhetoric given by two left feet who won't dance. 

We are not Russia.

We are not Zimbabwe, or Venezuela or some other third world scum pond with an uniformed citizenry.

If our elected leaders cannot serve their bosses, (the people) then We The People will change them at the next opportunity for elected officials who will adhere to their Constitutionally sworn fiduciary duties.

No More Agendas, no more insults to The People who sent you to the Dance. 

It is well past time for President Obama to soundly chastise Democrats and the mainstream media for calling average everyday American citizens vile names. 

It is time for the Democrats to for once put their agenda down and put America first.

It is time for the Democrats to follow the lead of fiscal sanity.

Republicans have put their right foot forward.

The One Cent Solution, The Mack Penny Plan

Congressman Connie Mack, R, from the 14th Congressional District in Florida has introduced The Mack “One Percent Spending Reduction Act of 2011” (H.R. 1848) 

This genius, elegant, beautifully simple plan is one that is not only fiscally sound, but easy to understand. 

From Congressman Mack's website, here is his brief synopsis of the bills key provisions:

One Percent Spending Reduction per Year: The Mack One Percent bill cuts total spending – mandatory and discretionary – by one percent each year for six consecutive fiscal years, beginning in fiscal year 2012.


•FY 2012 – $3.382 trillion*, less one percent => $3.348 trillion cap


•FY 2013 – $3.348 trillion, less one percent => $3.315 trillion cap


•FY 2014 – $3.315 trillion, less one percent => $3.282 trillion cap


•FY 2015 – $3.282 trillion, less one percent => $3.249 trillion cap


•FY 2016 – $3.249 trillion, less one percent => $3.216 trillion cap


•FY 2017 – $3.216 trillion, less one percent => $3.184 trillion cap


Overall Spending Cap in FY 2018: The bill sets an overall spending cap of 18 percent of GDP beginning in fiscal year 2018.

Enforcement of Spending Cuts: The one percent spending cuts would be achieved one of two ways: either 1) Congress and the President work together to enact program reforms and cut federal spending by one percent each year; or 2) If Congress and the President fail to do so, the bill triggers automatic, across-the-board spending cuts to ensure the one percent reduction is realized.

*Congressional Budget Office March 2011 Baseline for Total Outlays minus Net Interest

Furthermore it laws out a clear plan to bring this nation out of economic chaos and to clear fiscal solvency, by paying off our Nation's colossal debt.

In it's purest essence the Mack 1% bill works by subtracting one cent from each federally budgeted dollar. All of those Pennies are then applied to the deficit.  The deduction of that one percent also forces a decrease in the baseline budget of those federal dollars for the following fiscal year.  This amount may sound minuscule but one cent begins to add up when those pennies are taken from a budget of trillions. (For those of you who, like me, are mathematically challenged, it is a savings of 10 Billion dollars for every 1 Trillion dollars spent). The amount left after the penny per dollar deduction is then used to form an automatic cap for the following years budgeting. 

The One Percent Spending Reduction Act of 2011” (H.R. 1848) is a piece of legislation Ben Franklin and Abraham Lincoln would have embraced. 

Imagine what a 2 cent solution would do.  It is easy to see from this bill that indeed a penny saved is a penny earned.

It is doubtful that the Tax and Spend Democrats would ever allow this efficient bill out of committee or support it much less pass it into law.  Should this plan ever pass both houses and reach the Big Deal Loving Champion Spender Obama would he exercise his veto? 

Obama's only solution to this nation's difficulties is throwing trillions of dollars at America's problems.  Obama prefers  to raise taxes and spend money this nation does not have.  No President in this nation's history has squandered more tax dollars on Agenda driven nation breaking programs than Obama.

All of the official information regarding “One Percent Spending Reduction Act of 2011” (H.R. 1848) can be found at the Library of Congress.

Since being introduced on May 11, 2011 the Mack Bill has gained 46 Co-sponsors .

The following Organizations support  H.R.1848, National Taxpayers Union, One Cent Solution, and
Freedom Works .  This list needs to be longer!  If your favorite Conservative Organization does not back this sound and simple plan it is time to urge the Board of Directors to do so support this bill.

It is left to We the People to pressure each of our Representatives and insist that this uncomplicated simple solution is passed by both houses with a VETO proof vote that insures it's passage into law.  We owe massive debt to nations whose politics, governments and ideals are diametrically opposed to our Founding Principles.  I say that owing this debt to nations that do not have our best interest at heart is not only a bad idea, but an untenable position for our Nation.

8/5/2011 To show your support for the One Cent Solution please sign up At the One Cent Solution Action Center that can be found here: http://www.onecentaction.org/

If not now, when will our elected officials, protect this nation with fiscal solvency?

Debt Crisis Chicken Dance By President Present Without A Plan

In an incredible  continuing display President Obama and his Administration and the Democratic Party have been exposed in a deadly game of Chicken. 

Now this would be funny if this game were not about the future of the United States, and threatening an Economic Collapse.

Obama and his Administration are continuing to stonewall not only the Congress with a Republican Majority, but the American voters.

I Searched the Internet, for several days, and I could not find one link for the President's Plan.

Where is the President's Plan? 

The President has not put forward a plan, or even apparently contemplated one since the last Debt Ceiling increase in May of 2011.

Senator Reid and the Democrats in the Senate have every intention through arcane Parliamentary Procedure in the Senate to deny any plan put forward by the House.  Senator Reid called a vote to table the Cut Cap and Balance Bill put forward by the house last week.  It cannot even come up for a vote again in this session unless Senator DeMint and other Republican Senators find a way around the Senate Rules to bring it up for another vote.

In one Press conference after another in recent weeks President Obama compared himself with President Ronald Reagan.  President Obama is no Ronald Reagan.

Democrats are floating the idea that Obama can on his own raise the debt ceiling with out Congress, and Whitehouse officials are denying the President is considering doing this.

Maybe this President thinks he can run around Congress and write an Executive Order...

Who knows.  Since the President has not even said what he would do any wild speculation based on his behavior of what he would do when he cannot get his agenda passed through Constitutional means is up open to Pin the Donkey Tail on the Debt ceiling.

Is Obama having a mid life crisis?  He turns 50 on August 2nd, and has plans of  a huge fund raising party in Chicago.

Does President Obama like Nixon have an enemies list, if he does he might as well add me and millions of other American voters to it if he lets America Default and lose it's Triple AAA Bond Rating.

If the President who thinks being Present allows through his defiance this Republic to Default he is indeed the worst President in US or World History.  Even the President of Greece was able to cut spending.

In 2012, like millions of other Americans, I have a vote.

I intend to exercise my right to vote, and I will encourage every other voter like me, to vote against  this Agenda driven President.  

My vote and the votes of many other ignored, threatened, and unhappy voters will hand this President who finds our Constitution fatally flawed a colossal Electoral Landslide loss.

A loss President Obama has truly earned, a result of his fatally childish, unserious, wholly Agenda driven Presidency.