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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (130508)	4/18/2012 10:02:52 PM
From: TopCat	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224744

"Yes, Sed said it is just one of the shoes that has to drop." And to you that means eliminate it? I don't think so. It means FIX IT! Why are you liberals so afraid to fix things?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (130508)	4/18/2012 11:32:37 PM
From: Wayners	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224744

I don't think the Post Office needs to go. They need to increase a postage stamp to $1 or more period. The Federal Reserve is creating so much money that it has to be done. Post Office has the numbers, they know which of their products, Express Mail, Priority Mail, distances and locations are money losers and they need to scale back or drop those services or charge a lot more. Run the Post Office like a real business!

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (130508)	4/19/2012 7:23:22 AM
From: TideGlider	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224744

Federal Workforce Continues to Grow Under Obama Budget Conn Carroll February 22, 2011 at 2:05 pm Since the beginning of the last recession ( December 2007) the private sector workforce has shrunk by 6.6% while shedding more than 7.5 million jobs. Over that same time period, the federal government workforce (excluding Census and Postal workers) has grown by 11.7% while adding 230,000 jobs. This trend has continued throughout the Obama Administration. Since President Barack Obama was sworn into office, the private sector workforce has shrunk by 2.6% while shedding 2.9 million jobs while the federal workforce (excluding Census and Postal workers) has grown by 7% while adding more than 144,000 jobs. Now, President Obama’s FY 2012 budget proposes adding even more people to the federal payroll. Specifically, the President wants to create an additional 15,000 federal government jobs including 4,182 additional Internal Revenue Service employees 1,054 of which will be needed to implement Obamacare alone. The problem with all these additional government jobs is that government spending does not create the economic growth needed to sustain private sector job growth. Heritage analysts James Sherk and Rea Hederman explain: The resources the government spends do not materialize out of thin air—they are taken from the private sector. Research shows that government spending crowds out private investment. Each $1 increase in government spending reduces private-sector investment by between $0.46 and $0.97 after two years and $0.74 and $0.95 over five years. Government spending substitutes for private-sector investment; it does not supplement it. Increased government spending further reduces private-sector investment, making the problem of low job creation worse. Moreover, government spending misdirects economic resources. Political priorities, not economic return, drive government spending. The desires of influential Members of Congress and political fads determine where government appropriations are allocated. This often differs greatly from the use that creates the most wealth and jobs. This is one of the main reasons why countries in which the government spends heavily to create jobs—such as France and Germany—do not enjoy higher employment rates. In fact, countries with greater government spending and larger public-sector payrolls have higher unemployment.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (130508)	4/19/2012 8:15:06 AM
From: Sedohr Nod	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224744

No Kenny, I didn't say anything at all about eliminating the p.o......Why is the concept of living within your means so hard for you lefties to grasp?....Clearly, and I do mean clearly, we have a poisonous financial atmosphere in almost all levels of government.....That is true whether or not George W. Bush ever existed and even if we had never liberated Iraq....What ever excuse you care to come up with, we can't continue on the glide path to insolvency. I have a friend that has been living on a property with a interest only mortgage with the principal amount coming due fairly soon....His low payments have "allowed" him to live far above his means....new four wheel drive trucks, travel trailers, 66" flat screen televisions and what ever else hits his fancy......It has been interesting watching him trying to figure out what he is going to do when the day of the balloon payment hits. One of his ideas was to hook on to that travel travel and boogie to Arizona and just leave the place, which lasted maybe 2 weeks before he realized that wouldn't work out so hot......It's very hard to escape bad financial management practices, especially a life time of them. Asking government to live within their means is far from a radical thought......and yeah, I know I just wasted a few minutes of time with this, but at least it was mine to waste.