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Created on: November 20, 2008 Last Updated: December 04, 2008
Whoa, enough! More bail outs why? Seems to be primarily available to the large organizations and unions which helped this economic crisis and were never penalized while the CEO's still receive salaries, benefits, perks and bonuses for failure and the small businesses remain in limbo. So far, the first bail-out to citizens did not provide the results the economic brains expected.
Instead of financing these corporations, the government should be diverting money and reinventing
programs to:
Support and provide tax-incentives to start-up and established businesses for creating jobs for citizens
and seniors,
Allow tax incentives for on-the-job training,
Re-educate people to develop skills to become employable in the technological environment,
Send children who are not college-material to trade schools,
Target and tax businesses outsourcing to other countries components as well as finished products,
Provide tax-incentives to businesses for bringing jobs back to the United States,
Encourage children to obtain an education,
Reinstate and increase grade standards instead of lowering them,
Stop blaming teachers, schools and parents for the sub-standard level of graduates,
Bricks do not educate children; Teachers cannot educate disinterested children,
Parents with less education than their children cannot help their children, but they can encourage their children to learn,
Charge non-property owners with children for each child's education,
Stop taxing childless citizens with property,
Local taxing agencies find it easy raise property taxes and to lien property owners,
As the number of property owners decrease, the burden of government expense increases to a point where they no longer can afford property,
Stop accepting immigrant children in the educational system unless the parents pay entry fees, pay
taxes or own property,
The educated gurus and investment experts played fast and loose with money entrusted to them without accountability and lax enforcement of restrictions on investments and retirement accounts while the citizens loosing their jobs, houses, assets, savings, medical care, cash and retirement benefits are left out in the cold. These were people supposedly educated in the principles of economic trends but I wonder what the experts really were taught. From the economic condition of the country the citizen's guess would have been as good as the experts. Most citizens do not need a business degree, master's degree or PHD to learn life's basic lesson of Economics 000: Can't have more going out than coming in.
Unions and their members creating economic havoc during their strikes for greater benefits health benefits, retirements accounts - and wages - such as $56/hr to place bumpers on cars - were little concerned how their give-me demands would affect the economy, raise prices, create a trickle-down affect and other individuals working in small or single proprietorships? In their ardor union members failed to realize that their dues paid lobbyists and union leaders their stipend - strike or no strike - and if their demands closed a business union or no union - there is no job. With the bail out are the CEO's corporations, unions willing to take wage cuts and forego benefits to align themselves with the common worker and laborer?
Now, as these bail-outs run the country headlong into a stronger socialistic government, these large organizations look to the government for welfare.
Whoa, enough No more hand-outs!
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