Jobs

American will soon begin to awaken to the truth that our largest issue is jobs. Every politician that tries to point to the news story dujour, fairness in sports, immigration, the Middle East, and the crisis dujour should be thrown out of office in the election. Our focus must be jobs.
According to the CEO of Gallup Polls, jobs have become the number one issue that concerns people around the world. In every country, the creation of jobs is the number one issue. Few people without jobs are likely to list global warming or gas prices as their number one concern. Few people that remain in lousy jobs with poor pay list anything other than a good job as their number one issue.
When politicians consider new laws, ordinances, rules, taxes and restrictions, the impact on jobs must be a very high priority. When bridges, roads and other infrastructure are discussed, the impact on jobs must prevail.

We need good jobs. We do not need shovel ready jobs, government job creation bills or temporary jobs. We need good jobs from the private sector.

Taxing the uber wealthy and taxing large corporations will not harm jobs. However, taxing small and middle businesses is a problem. This is where real job creation begins. There are thousands of ideas that can come to fruition when the government makes it simple to form a new company.

Easing restrictions on the means to raise small business capital is a good start. Excusing small businesses from many regulations and reducing permit fees to a dollar is also a good start. We need new business start-ups and that is where the government could play a huge role by getting out of the way.

Unintended Consequences -

The anti-immigration laws of Arizona, Alabama and other states will have severe unintended consequences. In fact, much like the increased security at the border, the results will be the exact opposite of what backers hoped to accomplish[1].

States passed laws to force illegal aliens to leave their state by citing the huge cost of illegal aliens. These costs included huge increases in expenditures for education, medical treatment, social services and the cost of crime. Unemployment was also cited as a problem caused in no small part by the illegal aliens.

As these laws took effect in Alabama and Arizona a huge number of illegal aliens fled those states. The unintended consequence is that these states will be proof that the illegal aliens not only did not cost the states significant amount of money, but the money lost because of the exodus of illegal aliens significantly harmed the state, city and county budgets.

If the illegals were costing huge amounts of money in school, hospital, police and social service budgets we should soon see each of those entities asking for less money in the coming budgets. Also, unemployment figures should be dropping like a rock. The reality will be difficult to conceal.

Alabama is already reporting that sales taxes are down. No significant changes occurred in employment figures due to the mass exodus.

The only significant change in these states may be the number of business failures because unemployed Americans will not do the dirty jobs. Social Services will not see enough of a decrease in their workloads or budgets to lay off any workers. The thousands of dollars spent by the ‘illegals’ in business where they purchased groceries, clothes and other items will no longer support many businesses. Barber shops, movie theaters, auto repair shops and a host of other businesses will see fewer customers. Sales taxes will decrease and rental properties will be vacant.

The unintended consequences will reach beyond the economic impact on these states. The documented results will become irrefutable facts that support amnesty for people on U.S. soil without authorization. None of the advocates of anti-immigration laws desire such an outcome. However, as more data is gathered, economists and even 4^th grade students will be able to extrapolate the data to show the impact on the national economy if 11-million people leave the USA.

Today, all is not lost. Although there are thousands of pages that already suggest the real impact of anti-immigration laws, more months are needed to collect data. Perhaps Arizona and Alabama will suddenly reduce taxes and perhaps their unemployed will fill those vacant jobs. Cleaning fish, picking crops, lawn maintenance, house cleaning and making beds at motels are honest jobs and perhaps all of those unemployed citizens are gobbling up those jobs as I type.

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[1] When it became more difficult for temporary workers to enter the USA, millions would not risk returning home to Mexico out of fear that they could not return to the USA next year to support their families. Millions of workers on U.S. soil without authorization remained instead of returning home as they did in years past.

The Circus

As election time draws near we will see a return to the circus. As in Roman times, the people simply need a circus to be happy. Keep the people from actually thinking. Keep the people from seeing what the wealthy and people in power steal. Provide the people with 'proof' that their bigotry and dislike of 'those people' is justified.

By generating and perpetuating stories that blacks are all on welfare and that whites are all bigots, the people can blog and spread the fear. People are so stupid that they will believe that the welfare programs are the cause of unemployment and the trillions of dollars of debt. Yes! They are so stupid that they will blame the welfare cheats, even though there are tons of information that show the bailouts and banking laws are the real problem.

Soon we will also see the stories about Mexican illegal aliens being the cause of unemployment. Even though illegal immigration is at a historic low and even though businesses are going belly-up because they cannot find workers, the people will buy into this fiction.  Most of 'us' do not want to see our culture and society change. That is our real fear. However, we do not like being accused of racism so we love stories that show our spoken reason for anger about illegal immigration is because it causes so many of us to lose our jobs.  The circus will continue. We will fight among ourselves and those really causing so much of the unemployment and national debt will continue to do business as usual.

We will not stop. We will not focus like a laser on real problems and demand laws that limit bankers and millionaire law makers. Most Americans remain blissfully focused on 'those people' instead of demanding that no law maker can trade on Wall Street. Law makers legally use inside knowledge to invest and enrich themselves by millions. No wonder we the tax payers are burdened with trillions of dollars of debt. We deserve it. We chose the circus.

Begging for Immigrants

The media does not repeat stories from cities like Baltimore where the mayor stated the necessity of immigrants to achieve population growth. (http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-01-07/news/bs-md-ci-immigration-growth-20120106_1_foreign-born-immigrants-population-decline). For several years, major studies, articles and books about the projected need for immigrants have been largely ignored by the media. Instead, the media reports what many want to hear: immigrants = problems.

Within 50-years we will be begging Mexico for immigrants. The Mexican economy may be so strong that our needs for immigrants will be ignored. One sign that this possibility exists is that Mexico’s economy remains in much better shape than our own. Typically, it is said that when the U.S. economy catches a cold, Mexico’s economy catches pneumonia. However, this is not the case in today’s world economy. Most Mexicans returning to their country are doing so because there are jobs in Mexico and not in the USA.

No reasonable person can argue with the facts concerning our birth-rate and the impact of severely shifting population facts. Today, one out of every 9 Americans is "old"—another former youth turns 50 every 8 seconds. Those age 65 and older now exceed 35 million, a number poised to explode. January 2011 ushered in the first of approximately 77 million Baby Boomers, born from 1946 through 1964 and are surging toward the gates of retirement[1].

The largest block of potential voters will demand more and more services from the relatively small workforce that contribute payroll taxes. Our country will require more young workers that our birthrate will not supply. Beyond the need for taxpayers, we will need workers to repair, build and maintain the infrastructure.

Often, the people demanding solutions to the current immigration problems are backward in their thinking. Many simply want immigration to end. Many more want walls, fences and expulsions. The reality of the immigration problem is that we need an immigration policy that meets the needs of our country and a policy that is moral and just. We need temporary visas. We need control of our border and control of employers. We need a guarantee of fair treatment of guest workers. We also need a national identity that includes English as our national language. Those unwilling to take an oath of allegiance and work towards citizenship should be identified as temporary workers and quickly removed from U.S. soil when their work-permit expires. Guest workers should be strictly tracked.

Human traffickers and those employing persons unauthorized to be on U.S. soil should be severely punished. The punishment must exceed the benefit of transporting or hiring unauthorized people. At the same time, farmers and certain other employers should be permitted to hire as many foreign workers as needed. Americans often will not do dirty jobs. (At least not while staying on the public dole is an option).

The prediction: we will change our immigration laws to encourage more immigration within 20-years or we will be begging for immigrants within 20-years.

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[1] Read more: http://transgenerational.org/aging/demographics.htm#ixzz1jAwcZw6C

More Danger

Media will work us into a state of fear by focusing on Soviet, Chinese, Korean and Middle East dangers. Stories about the need to keep the Pacific sea-lanes free for our overseas trade. Nothing has really changed, but the news focus will convince Americans that even the smallest reductions in the military budget will put our country and our military men and women in danger.

The tactic of media bombardment works with illegal immigration and will be used to maintain INCREASED spending in the military budget. We will lose sight of the truth: the proposed 'cuts' are primarily in new military spending increases and NOT on today's military budget.

Danger! Danger! Danger!

Yes, the work is a dangerous place. There will be many, many stories to remind us in the coming months. As the mere possibility that future increases in military spending may be cut, we will be reminded of two things: countries around the world will attack us at any moment AND our brave military deserves our support.

There is no argument that the men and women in uniform deserve our support. However, implying that they are all about to take pay cuts or put in harms way without equipment is disgusting. People enriching themselves by millions in future military contracts (including millionaire congressmen investing in weapons companies and seeking campaign funds from these companies) use the brave men and women that actually fight in the wars. Some personnel in the armed services fear any cuts because there will be fewer need to promote people to fill higher ranks.

There are an estimated 1,000 U.S. military bases around the world. (Even the Pentagon does not seem to know how many - search their website)!

We have bases in over 130 foreign countries! Most of this will not be reported in the news about the possible military spending cuts. What will be reported is every routine military deployment and test of military equipment in China, Russia and North Korea. The media owners, arms industry, upper ranks of the military and congress will scare us as much as possible so we can continue to function as the world's supplier of weapons.

Want a safer world? Congress should prohibit the sale of all weapons to all foreign countries

Military Spending = Patriotism?

Liberal and concervative media will push the patriotism button. It will go something like, "Congress is considering cuts to our brave military, many of whom served in Iraq. As China, North Korea and the entire Middle East increase military spending, some think they will all remain as peaceful as lambs."

Absent from any discussion will be the hundreds of countries where our 189 military bases are staffed. Seldom will there be discussions about the fact that The USA has a larger military capability and spends more money on military than the next 10-countries combined (friends or enemies). Yes, if you organized the military spending of all nations, we are number one and the COMBINED military expenses of the next 10 countries is less than what we spend.

Our geographic location makes it difficult for a land invasion, unless Mexico or Canada attacks! As for 9/11, the military found not stop it. Some would argue that if we stopped being the world's policemen, we would not be so hated around the world.

We should have all of the military we need to protect the United States. Our military should not serve the businesses in foreign countries. We should spend enough to remain the best military in the world and we should enact laws that prohibit sales of our weapons.

However, we will not see any such action. Tomorrow, we will see more and more stories that imply any cut in military spending will harm our troops, put America at risk and is unpatriotic.