What does it cost?

Friday – August 13, 2010

What does it cost?

This week, the new unemployment numbers came out. The number that was released represents new time claims for unemployment. The number released was 484,000 people. The Vice President said this was the summer of recovery, another platitude, another sign of symbolism over substance. The bottom line is that the President and the Vice President owned this economy when they took office.

This number represents yet another sign that the President’s economic plan is not working. This economic plan has been tried many times before and it has always failed. The reason it fails is that when people lose their job they don’t pay the taxes. This number is once again on the rise. This number will not get better, because business is still shedding employees. Business owners are not confident. Business owners are now afraid of what their bottom line will look like come January of 2011.

If these numbers of new time claimants represent one company that had to layoff one employee then we would have 484,000 companies that are now unsure of the future economic recovery and the expense of that recovery on business. It is called a tax hike.
When Government doesn’t have revenue coming in, then government must raise taxes to increase their revenue to pay for the social programs that liberals create. In this case, it is the stimulus package that has not worked and it will be the healthcare plan that the Obama Administration and the Democratic House and Senate passed. 73% of the deficit we now have has occurred under this President.

Another statistic is that, when the House is in session, it costs $19,000 per hour to run that body. That’s over $150.000 a day for an 8 hour session. There is no cost estimate on the Senate or the White House. Another stat that is not readily available is the cost of running the Federal Government. But forget that. Just look at the deficit, which is over 13 trillion dollars now. This didn’t occur under Bush, it has occurred under this administration. This White House and this Congress have spent more money than all the administrations put together. That includes George Washington thru George Bush.

New polls show that 76% of the people polled said they wanted the President to start taking responsibility for the economy and stop blaming Bush. This was a FOX news poll these numbers also are now showing up in other polls such as the Gallup poll.

When a country has the deficits that this country has, our allies will suffer, because their Foreign Aid is reduced. This Foreign Aid is needed to keep the peace and to keep our allies our allies. When a country has the deficits that this country has, our defense and national security priorities and objectives are jeopardized in ways that leave us vulnerable. When a country has the deficits that this country has, with the levels of unemployment we now have, less people are paying taxes. When people work, tax revenue goes up. It is just that simple!

What does it cost a nation when a President is not capable of making the decisions that he has been elected to do? The costs are now being seen in the numbers of the unemployed and the poll numbers that are now saying Mr. President, do your job and don’t expand the ideology that is now costing too much in terms of the resources that have kept us strong as a nation and a people!

I advanced the notion this week, that when we organize around the upcoming election and future elections, don’t use the politics of hate. Use the politics of fact and use the issues of what a failed ideology and a failed policy can do to a country. The facts are right in front of you.

Every Friday I try to leave you with a quote. Today it’s Jefferson and three things he said.

“A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned-this is the sum of good government.”

“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for preservation of our liberty.”

“History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.”

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: In the 81 days remaining until we vote in the midterms use one of these quotes when you describe how you hate the ideology of progressive politics.