The government has a role to play in the economy, it can either encourage an economy to grow or persuade an economy to shrink. President Kennedy stated that tax cuts creates jobs and salaries that create more jobs and salaries. This result comes about when the government helps the economy by lowering the tax burden on industry and the individual. This was also the strategy employed by Ronald Reagan as he led the United States out of the most serious recession since the Great Depression. George W. Bush also lowered taxes, which created an economic boom for most of his time in office.

The government persuades the economy to shrink when it takes over the role of "job creator" from the American people. Franklin Roosevelt believed that it was the government's responsibility to create jobs and he was right in his belief that government can create jobs. In fact, anybody can create a job. To paraphrase the economist Milton Friedman jobs can be created simply by "handing somebody a shovel and paying him to dig a ditch and then finding somebody else to fill in the ditch." We have theoretically created two "new" jobs. What President Roosevelt did not realize was that government can not create jobs at the expense of the private sector. President Roosevelt increased taxes to support the massive government "recovery" programs he instituted. Roosevelt honestly believed that the government could run an economy better than the private sector. His attempts to end the depression were devastating and made things worse.

Lets take a look at the minimum wage, Roosevelt saw that Americans were suffering and they were suffering because they were not receiving enough income. The problem with using a minimum wage to repair this problem is that it leads to more unemployment. Imagine that you are a business owner during the depression and you have about seven employees. You make just enough to turn a profit and you pay your workers accordingly. Now Roosevelt institutes across the board tax increases in order to fund his programs and the minimum wage. You now have to fire some workers to maintain your level of profitability and still pay the new wages and taxes. Now the nation has a few more people added to the social program's books and now we need even more taxes to fund these programs. The higher taxes causes more businesses to fail and more people on the unemployment line.

Roosevelt also made the same mistake with prices. Wages were too low and prices were too low, so he sought to ARTIFICIALLY increase both. He saw that farmers were struggling and tried to manipulate the market price of produce by enforcing new regulations that limited the amount a farmer could plant and the price on the market.

So the point is .... "President-Elect" Obama is attempting to employ the same strategy to bring the United States out of a recession. He has proposed massive government infrastructure programs through the construction of new roads, public buildings, bridges etc. etc. etc.
But this is the same as "handing somebody a shovel" ... these new infrastructure plans will only create the jobs needed for the construction and no more, when a school is built ... it is built, end of story. Obama also fails to recognize that we do not live in the 1930s anymore. American citizens were more likely to be able to work as construction laborers then. After all, the hardest hit sectors of the economy included heavy manufacturing. The artificial jobs created by the government in the Great Depression could, at the very least, offer temporary employment to the out of work laborers. However, the unemployed today include many more white collar workers, such as accountants, bankers, and workers in the technology industries. The unemployed today are not nearly as prepared for heavy labor as they were in the 1930s and 1940s.

It is also important to note that FDR's plans did nothing to stop the Great Depression.

Why? ... because government can only create artificial jobs that do not lead to "more jobs and salaries that lead to more jobs and salaries."

by JR @ http://www.conservatives4palin.com/

Dee Dee Myers has written a piece for Vanity Fair in which she complains about the conduct of one of Obama's speechwriters at a party with a cardboard cut out of Rodham.
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But where was the outrage of high ranking female politicians and advisers when Sarah Palin was being trashed for nearly three months on the campaign trail? Where were the charges of sexism when Reuters used pictures like this to headline their reporting or when Obama supporters used profanity to describe Palin on their T-Shirts:
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where were people like Dee Dee Myers when the media was questioning Palin's ability to raise her children and perform the duties of the Vice President? If these people have any knowledge of basic history and government, they would know that as the Governor of Alaska, Palin does more on a day to day basis than the Vice President does ... one can make the case that being the Vice President brings less of a workload! When asked what the Vice President does, George HW Bush simply stated: "You die, I fly."

and Dee Dee ... you served for a President who routinely cheated on his wife while in office and that is the highest form of denigration known to the human race, where was the outrage then? The Obama speechwriter's conduct is classless but it is still a joke, while Slick Willy's conduct is anything but.

When you hear a democrat telling you that they want to see more women in higher office, remember that they only mean liberal women ... Republican women are more than fair game for the democratic smear machine. If Sarah Palin were a liberal democrat we would have already have seen at least three television specials and a Hollywood movie telling her story but because she is a popular conservative Republican, her story must be squashed by the media.

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Is this true? Will Caroline Kennedy be appointed to serve the remainder of Hillary Clinton's term in the Senate? What the hell is going on in this country? .... are Senate seats like so many leaves in the autumn air, where one can simply take a swipe and become an owner?

The Senate was designed by the founding fathers to be the chamber in which the state governments would have representation in the new republic. Early senators were not placed in office by popular vote but sent to New York and then Washington D.C. by the state legislatures. The Senate was supposed to be the wise and patient chamber of Congress, in which important matters were to be debated by great statesmen such as Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. For many decades the Senate was the battleground for the countless battles over the issue of slavery, the compromises forged in that sacred chamber were able to hold off the Civil War for at least 30 years. However, we now award Senate seats to those with certain last names. The great State of New York will hand over one half of its representation in the United States Senate from a Clinton to a Kennedy.

Is it a joke now?

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Hope and Change - Corzine for Treasury Secretary

Rumors are circulating that the new Secretary of the Treasury will be current NJ Governor Jon Corzine.

This makes perfect sense because Corzine has been able to lead New Jersey to economic prosperity while lowering taxes and cutting insane government spending.

His record in NJ can be compared to the job done in Michigan by Governor Jennifer Granholm, who appeared on stage with President-Elect Barack Obama during his first press conference. Granholm of course has led her state to great economic heights, which include a recession and the destruction of the auto-industry.

Corzine-Granhom 2012!

John F. Kennedy has a book credited to him entitled Profiles in Courage. In the book the future President tells the stories of great Americans who risked their reputation in order to defend their beliefs in America. Kennedy outlines the careers of eight notable Americans, including Daniel Webster and John Quincy Adams.

If President Kennedy were alive today I am sure that he would be honored to include the Alaskan Governor in the pages of the book.

Governor Palin is a great example of what a real American is.

She is the daughter of school teachers who rose to be a candidate for Vice President of the United States.

She saw problems with her city ... so she ran for the city council, eventually serving two terms as mayor.

She saw problems with the state government ... so she ran for Lt. Governor and lost.

She saw problems with the state Republican party and she reformed it.

She was appointed to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and resigned in protest when her calls to end the corruption there went unanswered.

Then she ran for governor ... she faced off against a former popular democratic governor and the INCUMBENT Republican governor. She won


Two years after becoming governor she was asked by Senator John McCain to be his running mate for the upcoming Presidential election ... she answered the call to serve her country.


She certainly showed courage in Alaska but the courage she would show in this election was something for the ages.

From the first moment she was savaged by the media and the elites ... some in her own party.

They made fun of her looks, they made fun of her family and the state she calls home. They spread unbelievably brutal lies about her record and her family. They made fun of her voice, made fun of her clothes. She refused to stop, she believed in America and took her case directly to the American people.

When she won a debate ... they said she lost
When she drew thousands to rallies ... they called her a racist stirring up hate

and the worst part of all

When her ticket was defeated on election day ... the rats and assorted scum from within her own campaign threw her directly under the bus.

The network that claims to be "fair and balanced" ran a story attacking her based on "unnamed sources"


Now, it doesn't matter to me if Sarah Palin ever runs for national office again, with the way she has been treated she shouldn't put herself out there again to be dragged down. She is better than those people spreading the smears and the lies in order to cover up for the horrible campaign they headed.

However, the thing about Palin is that she doesn't care about the opinions of rats and she has the courage to indeed run for national office.

I believe that President Kennedy would have been honored to include the Alaskan Governor as one of the people who deserve the respect of having a profile in courage.

In January of next year the United States will welcome a new president to the White House. When we welcome in a new one, we also say goodbye to man currently holding that office. Despite his best efforts, President Bush was never welcomed.

President Bush entered the Oval Office at a very different time in the United States. He was a peace and prosperity president. However, in 2001 he would face the greatest crisis in the past fifty years. On September 11th, 2001 the United States was the victim of the greatest terror attack even inflicted on U.S. soil. At the end of the day nearly 3000 Americans were dead and three iconic symbols of American power were either destroyed or damaged ... the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

President Bush's response was quick and decisive. In the previous administration, answers to terrorist attacks on American interests were incomplete or non existent. President Bush made it clear that he would not hesitate in using American military force to defend this nation.

President Bush also inherited a recession and through his efforts to pass massive tax cuts, he was able to jump start the economy. During most of his eight years the American economy roared.

The first time I was able to exercise the right to vote ... I pulled the lever for George W. Bush and was proud to do it.

I have had my disagreements with the President, specifically on spending and the immigration issue but don't regret my vote for him.

He has endured much during his two terms, from a media that distorts his record and words to a growing majority of the American people who have grown to dislike him and some, with absolutely no class, have hated him.

But the one thing that can be said about the President is that he is honorable. He made decisions because he thought that they were right and he had the interest of defending the nation in his heart.

Being the honorable man that he is, you will not see him running around the world trashing his successor, unlike the actions taken by former Presidents Carter and Clinton during his administration.


There are two former Presidents who come to mind when thinking about President Bush's legacy ... Abraham Lincoln and Harry Truman ... one was killed because of his efforts and the other left office with the lowest approval ratings in history, yet both are now regarded as two of our finest presidents.

Lincoln made decisions knowing that he was hated by most of the country but he made those choices because they were the right choices.

President Bush has made some tough choices but I don't think he regrets them.

I hope that he enjoys a peaceful retirement ... he deserves it.