| Re: As we slide down the scale ..... PR&C |
Subject: Re: As we slide down the scale ..... PR&C by Ultraman on 2010/12/5 21:40:01 Isn't one of the reasons we are losing manufacturing because of the cost of labor? Does some of that have to do with the unions? I'm just asking. You can't spend more than you make for very long, be it a family or a Government. You can't have an ecomomy based on that overspending. As Andy states the price of gas became the tipping point. If that was all it took than it was just a matter of time before it all blew up. I think that we pay enough taxes, its the spending we need to regulate but as long as you can print money or keep borrowing it from China to cover your asses then who cares, right? If the folks in this country ever got to living within their means and saving a large portion of their paychecks the economy will never get to where the experts think it needs to be because we aren't out buying every new toy that comes along.......unless you take some out of savings instead of just slapping plastic. Mmmm those 3D TV's look exciting to me. All of this does not count in the purchase of stuff for our Corvettes. There you gotta do what you gotta do. The only Bush taxes I'm concerned about them changing are the death taxes and capital gains/inheritance taxes. The Govt does not have a right to get their hooks on what my folks scrapped and saved and paid taxes on all their lives. Or whatever amount I can come up with at the end. I will go to the wall on that one! Provide for the National defense, keep the schools top notch, make sure the roads and infastructure are in order then leave me the hell alone! |
