What Obama Must Do Before Stimulus II

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How many decades has this country allowed corporations to outsource jobs with tax breaks as a reward? How long have huge corporations controlled agriculture and retailing in this country and forced small businesses and farms out?
Everyone keeps trying to lay this on the "little guy" and I am sick of it. Talk to the small farmer and Main Street shop owner who have lost their dreams in the last few years. Tell them they should have worked harder, and smarter, and taken more of a chance.
There is a stacked deck on the table and, if you try to be a small, independent business person in this country, you will finally find it.

DG of OK 3:48PM September 09, 2009

This great country if gets healthy can handle and incorporate 10 times more immigrants then now. The main problem is the destruction of economy and further lack of jobs. The economic structure looks like a pyramid, the more successful small businesses we will have at the bottom, the more stronger and taller will be the pyramid consisting of:
1. Top investors/Clans/Banks/Masons
2. Large Corporations (Suppliers of products to small resellers)
3. Medium size corporations (Suppliers of products to small resellers)
4. Small corporations (Suppliers of products to small resellers)
5. Upper class workers
6. Middle class workers.
7. Small family size businesses and freelancers
8. Government workers and Union administration workers
9. People on government assistance (future workforce for small businesses)
10. People living on the street (future workforce for small businesses)
Just think about this pyramid and mason pyramid before you dig for facts.
It ‘s drawn on every dollar. And mason pyramid it the very top part with the eye.
The question is, why the masons became so blind? Why everybody and they allow to destroy themselves
and foundation they based upon too. Let’s build you Builderbergs and other members of the great pyramid and not destroy.

AC of NY 11:37PM July 20, 2009

I recommend the following steps:
1. to control prices on imports and local products at warehouse level by right pricing structures rewarding the best, most talented in sales businesses, & best performing ones. You can only receive lower price, if you can sell more, & there is has to be no wholesale to public stupidity anymore. It has to be illegal.
2. Do not allow illegal advertisings by comparing prices, like Microsoft does to Mac now with Laptop Hunters. We need more creative ads, not just Chinese-style price beating stupidity.
3. To split giant monopolies like Microsoft, Google, Intel, Costco into smaller companies
according to anti-monopoly laws. Turn Costco, Walmart, etc. into wholesale-to-business only chains. Do not allow them to sell wholesale to public anymore.
Otherwise split them into small ones and start regulating their pricing by making them to buy from
Government controlled warehouses.
4. to control minimum wages for visa workers at border level.

AC of NY 11:35PM July 20, 2009

The government now thinks on how to keep our wages and store prices down. To temporary prevent inflation. However this is first rule of controlled Socialistic economy. The visa workers help Angle Sam to achieve this goal a lot. When number of visas and visa wages are deregulated. However this is not the main problem. The main problem that due to drastic reduction in number of small businesses on Main Street and within manufacturing sector we do not generate enough available jobs anymore. They all have being opened in China, India, South America, Eastern Europe, Etc. but not here in USA. Same as with uncontrolled low priced imports, blood sucking retail giants, no-need-to-win-wars, and other "tools of Globalization". We all know that there is no such thing as Healthy Global Economy, when multiple governments are existed and when they do not coordinate properly their attempts. How can we build Global Economy, if we have been destroying our economy for the part 30-40 years. Macro Economy has to have rock solid foundation of Healthy Local Micro Economies in each country. We need to start thinking in terms of small business owners in order to restore our system and economy. The bureaucrats have no idea what small businesses needs are. We need to constantly remind them that they have to represent us and watch after corporate giants. All large corporate giants want is more and more power over small businesses. And instead of being large wholesale supplier to them, they become their killers. Let’s start with the bottom of the economic structure, with helping small businesses to come back & start growing again. Let's vote for strict anti-monopolistic policies, regulation of pricing & distribution of imports, regulation of visa jobs. One may say it's not a capitalistic approach to regulate prices and jobs, however it is, when it's done properly & with right purpose of stimulating local manufacturers, resellers, and retailers. Don't we realize yet that we can't help entire world and save it by setting up Chinese-style economy here and turning China into our outsourcing zone. Everything has to have healthy balance. I'm not saying we need to completely close borders to imports of merchandise & labor, however we need to learn how control it in a smart & creative capitalistic way. What I suggest is to spend some of the bailout money on economic advisors with retail experience to help them to figure out the right way of restoring the mass of small businesses and manufacturers.

AC of NY 11:34PM July 20, 2009

During past 10-15 years of "global economic" reform and "free trade" our Feds and financial clans have been successfully working on conversion of our system into monopolistic body with socialistic engine. They wanted to give birth to an ugly mutant and they did it. I call the new system Masturbism, or you give it your name. It's partly socialism due to high spending on people at the bottom and free huge money for selected by government leading giants/companies in their industries. This reminds me Soviet Union/USSR a lot. We used to have full government control of all industries starting with manufacturing, then distribution to warehouses and ending with large government controlled chains of small and large stores/retailers. That basically what's going on now slowly but surely here in USA. Government taking over large giants by borrowing them fresh printed money which costs government almost nothing. This is hidden type of step-by-step privatization of these formerly privately own chains. This is why government was demolishing our normal capitalistic economy starting from 1970 by almost uncontrolled import of import cars and other products and making local manufacturers go out of business. It started with manufacturers, then professionals such as programmers and engineers in 2000 and up. Then the most deadly hit was introducing and empowering by credits and patronage "small business killer chains" like Walmart, Kmart, HomeDepot, Lowe's, Staples, Target, BestBuy, Sears, Marshals, Liquidator, Ikea, etc. They all say to us "Save More, Live Better" or "More Saving, More Doing". Oh yes! However what they not telling us, that we eventually will close most of our small businesses operated by us, our family members, friends, neighbors, etc. Who will benefit from buying from these stores? Mostly people in need who are on government assistance, people with stable jobs with stable companies, government employees, and similar individuals. If you have more money then you can spend per month you will survive without going to this kind of large stores which are basically working for government now. The goal here is to socialize the retail industry by slowly and surely killing small independent retailers with "price beating"/ "wholesale to public" concepts and tools. Who is wining here? Nobody, but government and its direct investors/clans. What it does to our Capitalism and USA market? It kills it. The first rule of Capitalism is to protect small businesses and local manufacturers from monopolists in their industries. There are has to be no blood sucking giants, if we want to preserve healthy capitalism and its creative spirit. Government was created to protect small businesses from giant monopolies and uncontrolled imports. It failed to do so and sold its soul to clans. Every smart and talented small business owner knows that it's impossible to fight a wholesale to public giant, and most of businesses give up to fight or just not being given new births anymore

AC of NY 5:27PM July 19, 2009

I see that one of my brethren here in Texas still doesn't get it. The Obama plan can't possibly work... hasn't ever worked in history. His plan is for the government bureaucrats to handle everything in your life. The Soviet Union tried that. How'd that work out there?
Less taxation... less government control of industry... less directives from bureacrats in D.C... more autonomy by the states. In short, let's get back to the system laid out by the U.S. Constitution, not the quasi-Socialism crap espoused by the Obama cult following.

Darrell of TX 8:37AM July 19, 2009

these problems were handed to President Obama and they were
accidents already happening. Yet when he got in he just
let all the dogs out. Some of us have been watching
all this evil all our lives, and just putting up with it.
George Bush such suddenly dropped every hammer to make
Mr. Obama looked and feel like a failure. Yet I know
the God is on the Throne and He is helping this President
fix America. I think all the whinning babies art to grow
up, take out their bottles and PRAY EVERYDAY.

E WASHINGTON of TX 10:30PM July 18, 2009

First Stimulus package from Obama: Jury's still out. We will see in the next 6-18 months whether it will bear fruit.
George's Bush's TARP plan was and is a joke. Alot of your commentors conviently forget about that fiasco. I also don't agree with the bailing out of these companies that are "Too Big" to fail. That's exactly the reason they should fail. Teddy Roosevelt knew this when he enacted anti-trust laws at the start of the 20th century, and that's what we need now.
If there is another stimulus package, get it in the hands of the people who will grow the economy: American small business. Our country has always been about opportunity and building the better mouse trap, not huge conglomorates that choke the life out of an economy.
Wanna create jobs, wanna lower our national debt to other countries, stop the bleeding foreclosures and layoffs - make 300 to 500 billion available for small business loans. And have the government do the direct lending, these private banks and insurance companies have shown that they cannot be trusted.
Bail out plan: Economy in bad shape - banks in bad shape; take taxpayers money and infuse banks to stabilize: banks then take taxpayers money and lend it back to taxpayers to help spur economy.
Has it happened that way: NO! Banks paid off THEIR debt, bought smaller banks to help THEIR business and hand out bonus money to THEIR people. And it was OUR money, not theirs. The creation of jobs, on a large scale, in the private business sector will boost the economy and if one or two sectors fails, we won't have a "too big to fail" meltdown like we are experiencing now.
And finally, if your company uses more then 15 to 20% of its labor to produce its product or service; or more then 15-20% of your components are made over seas and used to assemble your product, you are no longer an American company.
Which means, no more corporate tax breaks, no more government bail out money. You take away jobs that Americans can do and ship them to China or India, your NOT an American company. Ask those countries to bail you out. That's not FREE trade but its FAIR trade, remember its only business, right?

TS of CA 7:19PM July 16, 2009

I'm not a physic but we could see this coming. What has changed to make all these corporations start laying everybody off? Nothing. The same work is needed that was needed before Barack took office. This is just a ploy to make the President look bad. Wake up people. Had he not been elected, it would be business as usual and all the scheming, golden parachutes,not to mention the infidelitIES and behind the scenes mess would still be going on and the public would still be contributing, without even knowing it. Are the states spending the stimulus to get the economy back on track. Surely not in Texas. I'm from a small town in Texas and I can guarantee you the governor of Texas has done nothing and I mean nothing for the people. He's probably trying to punish people for not voting Republican. Roads are bad, trash is everywhere and a lot of Texans still don't have running water because they can't afford to pay $1,100 to get on the city water system. This is not the 50's. Everybody should have running water. Way to go Governor/Senator of Texas. Barack saw what was going on as a senator and now he's trying to fix it so you all better deal with it. I'm one of the unemployed Texans and need a job worse than anybody but I'm willing to lose just so my son's future will be better than mine. And who on EARTH wanted temperamental, divide the country with lies, quit in the middle of a crisis, fight fight fight, John McCain/Sarah Palin. We had enough of that with George W. Bush so thanks but no thanks. Keep on keeping on Mr. Obama. We WILL get there.

Vivian King of TX 4:24PM July 16, 2009

Obama is doing the best he can do with a bad situation. Everyone who criticizes him
should sit down and come up with their own plan for economic recovery, or shut up.
The stimulus will work- but unfortunately we have become a nation of whiners
who expect instant gratification for EVERYTHING. Who said the stimulus would work
in 5 months? Geez people, get a grip... Big O has only been in office since
JAN. 20th!!! The economic meltdown has been 20 years in the making- it will take
2-3 years to fix it, at least.

philbro of OR 3:06PM July 16, 2009