Jobs leaving the country by the thousands (millions) and some folks think we should do nothing about it while the Chinese laugh their asses off at them.

So far Obama is doing plenty about it. He's driving more jobs out of this country, out of existence and into the unemployment lines.

Jackass

Jobs won't come back until the environment for the production of wealth is restored. That means:
Massive amounts of debt have to be extinguished.
Government shrinks to a small fraction of what it is.
Government stops intervening in the market.
Taxes and regulations are severely reduced.
The dollar is on a commodity standard.
Americans start to save.

Sadly, it won't happen for the foreseeable future. Obama is on the same path that's been destroying jobs in the past.

Ray what you propose would really change the way this country operates. the poor and elderly would suffer the most if we shrunk the govt down to what you want.
#19 | Posted by jackass

You've been mislead into believing government is the cure when it's the problem. Problems aren't solved when the masses are lied to and coerced. They're created.

There will never be a recovery unless the stranglehold Wall Street has on Washington.
#21 | Posted by nutcase'

You're right, but I would go further and say there won't be a recovery until voters lose faith in big government.

Money

In a way you are right. But I remind you that big corporations get their power from big government. It is fair to say that our government is mercantile, corporatist, or oligarchical in nature.

Ray, if you were not so hardcore pro corporate anti labor

It seems that way to you because you're filtering what I say through your own wrongful ideas. In a laissez faire setting corporations can achieve monetary power by satisfying consumer needs and wants. In an interventionist setting, corporations get political power through government. The more political power corporations have, the less monetary power they need. In short, political power is a means of screwing the working public.

I would go further and say there won't be a recovery until voters lose faith in big corporations.

Voters don't vote for corporations in the ballot box. They vote with money. Money that can't be coerced.

#31 | Posted by ArmyVet
Which "Big Government" is the bad "Big Government"?

"Big" is a quantitative adjective, the entire political system that has grown beyond all reasonable bounds.