Rerun Reaganism

History gives us an insight on, how long a recovery might take. Since World War II of the U.S economy has had only one increase in the employment-population ratio of five percentage points in a single decade: the recovery Ronald Reagan's fueled with his 1983 tax cuts.
The employment-population ratio recovered less than two years after hitting bottom, during the mid 80's. This generated a momentum that continued through the rest of the 80's, due to 1986 tax reform that reduced the top marginal income tax rate to 28%, this allowed America to employ the millions of women, baby boomers, and immigrants who were actively looking for jobs. At the end of the boom in 1990, the employment ratio increased from 57% to 63%.
An administration which pursues job creation — not ideology — would note this record and see how companies and individuals create wealth and jobs if they have the right incentives. Instead, the current Administration has policies that are muddied with ignorance and have bought into the notion that recovery can only happen with higher taxes and greater regulatory burdens. This is causing consumers to restrain spending, and business to cut back production, reduce costs (i.e. lay off workers, middle managers, rely on part time workers, shift the cost of benefits onto the employees as well as cutting back the number of benefits) creating such a drag on the economy that even the government cannot reverse, even through the use of stimuli, that really shift the burden of the recovery onto the taxpayers who are making less and paying more to support proven the failure of socialist and communist regimes.
We have no time to waste. Rather than talk down Reaganism, the Politicians in Washington should heed its lessons and unleash the American Economy with a hands off approach that alone can put us back on track and prevent us from repeating the past of Carter or worse prevent us from reliving the great depression. Ronald Reagan while campaigning for office said "A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his." it is time to edit this to "A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid lose theirs"

Is Cash for Clunkers Stimulating our Economy? Or Bottlenecking Retail?

I live in Florida, where we just survived our bout with Obama's Transfer of wealth program called "Cash for Clunkers II, the Appliance Sequel". What a bust! If anything it hobbled the retailers. Working in the appliance retail industry, myself, I saw firsthand, how the Cash for clunker program suppressed sales in the days leading up the event people weren't going to buy if they could get a better deal later on, unless they had to); Then created a dam bursting effect during the two days that funding lasted. This was followed by a lull in purchases, afterwards due to out of stock situations at the Vendor level. At my store we saw an 18.5% loss in business up to the day prior the onset of "Cash for Clunkers", add in the next two days and we ended up with a 1% loss in sales over the previous year. You might say "well it was an increase so it must have worked!" This is what Democrats live for, the numbers do not lie they say, but, they do mislead. For example; In November of 2009 we ran a 20% increase in sales over the previous year (even with 2009 being a recession year) in December (the month the Cash for Clunkers program leaked out) we had an 20% loss in sales, In January we had a 16% loss of sales (as more people found out), February followed with a 25% loss, March showed a 21% loss, and the first part of April (the 1st through 15th the days prior to the Cash for Clunkers event) showed an 8% loss in sales. Now when you figure in the time frame from 12/01/2009 till 05/01/2010 and bounce it against the same time period 1 year ago you will see a 1% loss in sales. NO GROWTH! The Stimulus was a bust, at least in our store (makes you wonder how those numbers work throughout the state and the states which have already had their events, also what will be the effect in those states with upcoming events?). and when you look at the sales gain in November before the cash for clunkers info was released a 1% sales loss could have actually been as much as a 19% sales gain over the December/April time frame (had the trends continued on). This demonstrates that the government in order to increase sales actually created a bottleneck in the sales process, where the only sales being made were for products that did not qualify (Ranges, dryers, and microwaves; sales of which were also depressed because of people not understanding how the program worked) or for those products the consumer could not do without when their old unit failed (even then I personally sold inexpensive non energy star rated refrigerators that will make due until the event took place and will be relocated to the garage to serve as a beer frigs after their big fancy E-Star frig shows up). Then during the event, consumers found dwindling supplies that ran out or were backordered past the "have to have" date (May 10th which was recently extended to May 31st well after the event was over and that info is too late for consumers to take advantage of). Another matter is who paid for all of this? You and I did! That’s right, even if you didn’t purchase an appliance; you did $17,600,000 (in Florida alone) worth of appliances, since it was your tax dollars that funded the program. Now let me explain something more, this stimulus didn’t really help the lower or middle classes, not truly. There were those who were able to take advantage of the savings, but, for the most part the Upper Middle and Upper class were the major benefactors in this program. Just think the Lower class gets out of paying taxes, or even gets larger tax returns than their withholdings, and the Upper class has more write offs on their taxes, so what this did was transfer wealth from the middle class (who pays more taxes) to those who didn’t need it in the first place. There you have it a program designed to stimulate growth ended up retarding growth, increased the tax deficit, moved a lot of money around (and how much did the administration of that cost?) benefitted the wealthy, and finally make Obama and his Democrat cronies look like they did something good for the country… Talk about your smoke and mirrors!

Roll Call

The 219-212 roll call Sunday by which the House passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Voting yes were 219 Democrats and 0 Republicans.

Voting no were 34 Democrats and 178 Republicans.

Below are named the 219 traitors to our country, the "Representatives" who failed to "represent" their constituents and vote no. This action has demonstrated they do not believe in either a democracy nor a republic. Be wary the democratic party is attempting to nail the coffin lid on freedom. One step at a time, they raise the temperature of the water you are sitting in one degree at a time so eventually your frog is boiled, and you never even tried to jump out. If they had their way you would turn over all your hard earned money to them and they would spend it as they see fit, giving you only that amount they have to to ensure you stay quiet. But rest assured at that time, the gravy train will end for those collecting welfare and they will have to work doing what they (the politicians) tell us. Don't believe for a second, that socialism isn't communism, and communism doesn't want to control your every thought and move. Don't think Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, will be doling out the hard earned money, you have let them steal from you. They will keep it for themselves and enjoy their health care, the health care, you and I pay for, which is head and shoulders above what they want to give to you and I. Keep in mind you and I are going to see the effects of this traitorous action before 2011 and won't see the benefits (yeah right benefits) until 2014 (makes you wonder what will happen to all those collected taxes from 2011, 2012 and 2013). Maybe they just want us to believe that the new benefits will even happen. Just wait until we are waiting for routine medical care like they do in Canada, and the UK. Our health care system may not be perfect, but it is the best in the world. It is time to stand up and vote every one listed below out of office. replace them with people who will listen to the American citizenry and represent them. This is not a revolution! it is democracy, VOTE! VOTE VOTE! and make your vote count.

ARIZONA Democrats -- Giffords, Grijalva, Kirkpatrick, Mitchell, Pastor

ARKANSAS Democrat Snyder

CALIFORNIA Democrats -- Baca, Becerra, Berman, Capps, Cardoza, Chu, Costa, Davis, Eshoo, Farr, Filner, Garamendi, Harman, Honda, Lee, Lofgren, Zoe, Matsui, McNerney, Miller, George, Napolitano, Pelosi, Richardson, Roybal-Allard, Sanchez, Linda T., Sanchez, Loretta, Schiff, Sherman, Speier, Stark, Thompson, Waters, Watson, Waxman, Woolsey

COLORADO Democrats -- DeGette, Markey, Perlmutter, Polis, Salazar

CONNECTICUT Democrats -- Courtney, DeLauro, Himes, Larson, Murphy

FLORIDA Democrats -- Boyd, Corrine Brown, Castor, Grayson, Hastings, Klein, Kosmas, Meek, Wasserman Schultz

GEORGIA Democrats -- Bishop, Johnson, Lewis, Scott

HAWAII Democrats -- Hirono

ILLINOIS Democrats -- Bean, Costello, Davis, Foster, Gutierrez, Halvorson, Hare, Jackson, Quigley, Rush, Schakowsky

INDIANA Democrats -- Carson, Donnelly, Ellsworth, Hill, Visclosky

IOWA Democrats -- Boswell, Braley, Loebsack

KANSAS Democrat -- Moore

KENTUCKY Democrat Yarmuth

MAINE Democrats -- Michaud, Pingree

MARYLAND Democrats -- Cummings, Edwards, Hoyer, Ruppersberger, Sarbanes, Van Hollen

MASSACHUSETTS Democrats -- Capuano, Delahunt, Frank, Markey, McGovern, Neal, Olver, Tierney, Tsongas

MICHIGAN Democrats -- Conyers, Dingell, Kildee, Kilpatrick, Levin, Peters, Schauer, Stupak

MINNESOTA Democrats -- Ellison, McCollum, Oberstar, Walz

MISSISSIPPI Democrat Thompson

MISSOURI Democrats -- Carnahan, Clay, Cleaver,

NEVADA Democrats -- Berkley, Titus

NEW HAMPSHIRE Democrats -- Hodes, Shea-Porter

NEW JERSEY Democrats -- Andrews, Holt, Pallone, Pascrell, Payne, Rothman, Sires

NEW MEXICO Democrats -- Heinrich, Lujan,

NEW YORK Democrats -- Ackerman, Bishop, Clarke, Crowley, Engel, Hall, Higgins, Hinchey, Israel, Lowey, Maffei, Maloney, McCarthy, McMahon, N; Meeks, Murphy, Nadler, Owens, Rangel, Serrano, Slaughter, Tonko, Towns, Velazquez, Weiner

NORTH CAROLINA Democrats -- Butterfield, Etheridge, Miller, Price, Watt

NORTH DAKOTA Democrat Pomeroy

OHIO Democrats -- Boccieri, Driehaus, Fudge, Kaptur, Kilroy, Kucinich, Ryan, Sutton, Wilson

OREGON Democrats -- Blumenauer, DeFazio, Schrader, Wu

PENNSYLVANIA Democrats -- Brady, Carney, Dahlkemper, Doyle, Fattah, Kanjorski, Murphy, Patrick, Schwartz, Sestak,

RHODE ISLAND Democrats -- Kennedy, Langevin,

SOUTH CAROLINA Democrats -- Clyburn, Spratt,

TENNESSEE Democrats -- Cohen, Cooper, Gordon,

TEXAS Democrats -- Cuellar, Doggett, Gonzalez, Green, Al, Green, Gene, Hinojosa, Jackson Lee, Johnson, E. B., Ortiz, Reyes, Rodriguez,

VERMONT Democrat -- Welch,

VIRGINIA Democrats -- Connolly, Moran, Perriello, Scott,

WASHINGTON Democrats -- Baird, Dicks, Inslee, Larsen, McDermott, Smith,

WEST VIRGINIA Democrats -- Mollohan, Rahall,

WISCONSIN Democrats -- Baldwin, Kagen, Kind, Moore, Obey,