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Can one person change an election?

Seriously! I have been posting what I hope is thoughtful arguments against the bad policy the Demo Team is pushing forward. It seems that there are plenty of people that agree with me …. So …. What can we all do to get our message out there and influence people? Letters to the Editor, Forums, and Blogs? This is a link to a list of every newspaper (nearly) in the US. http://www.usnpl.com/ Take a minute to help. Copy and paste from articles you agree with. DO SOMETHING! PART 1 Your average American gets an idea for a product (or service). He (she) draws up a business plan and finds investors or secures a bank loan to start a business. The business buys property and hires builders. They contract for equipment and machinery to be made. They hire employees to make their product or line of products, and they sell them to retailers. The retailers hire people to price, display, and sell the products or services. The idea spreads throughout the system creating jobs and chances for many. If they are able to sell their product at a competitive price and the consumers find use and value in their product, they may succeed. If not, they must cut costs or fail. That’s what happens in a Free Market system. If you work and are good at what you do, you have a chance. This is a simple example of how (now don’t choke on the term) Trickle Down Economics works. You can apply this model to Grannies Bakery on the corner, IBM, GM, or Starbucks. To deny this process is to deny the indisputable. It starts with an idea, and it ends with a chance for jobs and success. It’s a chance to take one idea, make an improvement on it, and start a business of your own. That’s why McDonalds is not the only one out there selling hamburgers! That is the American Dream! A chance! Competition makes products better and less expensive. Competition makes services more responsive and less expensive. Does Trickle Down mean if companies are successful and make more money, that soon my job flipping burgers is suddenly going to start paying me 75k a year? No. It means businesses will expand and give others a chance for a job. It will also give everyone more chances for advancement. If your skill level, motivation, or lack of education relegates you to flipping, maybe that should encourage you to learn to do more and be the best you can be at your job. The Free Enterprise Capitalist system simply gives everyone willing to participate the best chance to live comfortably and succeed. What about those executives making 10 million a year? Do I think that is right? No. But what do you think he (she) is doing with all that money? Stuffing the mattress? Bank savings accounts? The mattress pays nothing, and the bank only pays a few points of interest per year. They are way too greedy for that. What they do is buy. They buy goods, services, and invest in stocks from their company and others! That creates more chances for all of us. I do not think the Free Enterprise System should be allowed to run wild. Everything needs rules to keep it on course. Interest groups play an important part in the system. Saving Trees, Dolphin free tuna, and the Global Warming groups all need to play a part to keep greed from trampling the innocent. However, we have, in many areas, allowed these groups to stop progress instead of guide it. We have all paid for it. We have also paid for government intervention and paid dearly. NAFTA and our government’s refusal to insist that trading partners remove their tariffs on our products have made them too expensive for other nations to import and buy. But no one is talking about that now, are they? Obama says we should “Stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship our jobs overseas”. Like it or not, we are competing in a global economy. To stay competitive, companies must lower their costs. Unfortunately, that means finding less expensive work forces, less restrictive controls, and lower tax rates. Giving tax breaks does not cause companies to ship jobs overseas; it is encouragement to keep them here! Bad tax policy also spreads throughout the system. It causes lay offs, closings, slows production, and stifles investing. If the Government is hostile to business, all will lose some and some will lose all. That will increase our dependency on those in our government that created the problem in the first place. Does that sound like anyone is looking out for you? We don’t need that kind of “change.” We need a CHANCE!

Public Comments

1. Ron Paul will be on the ballot in Louisiana and Montana... This is a very important and interesting development in the political landscape as we proceed toward the Presidential Election in November 2008. What this means in effect is that a very likely possibility exists that Ron Paul (for President) and Michael Peroutka ( for V.P.) could very well be the winning political ticket in Montana and Louisiana. Numerous Republican voters who are dissatisfied with the McCain/Palin ticket may very well desert on Election Day to the Paul/Peroutka ticket. Such a shift in the voting of the people voting in Montana and Louisiana, could very likely result in NO MAJORITY IN THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. This of course would result in the Election of 2008, being determined by the Congress. The Congress will then select the next President and V.P. of the United States of America. It in fact does not have to be any of the candidates for President or V.P. , all that is required is that the majority of the votes be cast for the new President and his V.P. Most likely with a broad spectrum of political opinions among the candidates who received electoral votes, a compromise ticket is a distinct possibility!!!
2. Yes, his name is Joe the Plumber.