Published: Monday, February 13, 2012
Government
Less is more, unless we say so
Do not be fooled by the grand rhetoric you read and hear these days: Some cry out for less government and less regulation, so as long as it's for making profits, but heavens no, not in how you choose to live your personal life. Somehow, most of us must have missed that in the Bill of Rights.
Some opposed the idea of putting people to work on our country's declining infrastructure. Now it's imperative for the country to build an oil pipeline through the center of our breadbasket. How silly to question this, you just have to ask who will benefit most. Hint: this pipeline is for exporting the oil we all pray stays in the pipe.
Some point fingers about the debt. At the end of the 1970s our debt was just under $1 trillion. By the end of 2008 it was about $10 trillion and now over $14 trillion, $2 trillion or more of which can arguably be applied to the consequences of pre-2008 policies. What we got is what some are calling "class warfare." Hint: Check out the relationship of our debt to tax rates and who has benefited most.
Some protested helping out the auto industry, but GM is again the No. 1 automaker in the world. What's that about letting the free market work again? Hint: your loss is their gain.
It's the private sectors that are the job creators! Well, to keep profit margins up, these said job creators (banks) are calling in small business loans all across the country, redoing loans at higher rates for those able to and letting those who can't just fall by the wayside. Go figure.
Some are begging to be asked: At what cost and to whom? Hint: Look across this country and see the continuing systematic attack against labor, education and social programs.
Dennis Doolittle
Arlington
Some opposed the idea of putting people to work on our country's declining infrastructure. Now it's imperative for the country to build an oil pipeline through the center of our breadbasket. How silly to question this, you just have to ask who will benefit most. Hint: this pipeline is for exporting the oil we all pray stays in the pipe.
Some point fingers about the debt. At the end of the 1970s our debt was just under $1 trillion. By the end of 2008 it was about $10 trillion and now over $14 trillion, $2 trillion or more of which can arguably be applied to the consequences of pre-2008 policies. What we got is what some are calling "class warfare." Hint: Check out the relationship of our debt to tax rates and who has benefited most.
Some protested helping out the auto industry, but GM is again the No. 1 automaker in the world. What's that about letting the free market work again? Hint: your loss is their gain.
It's the private sectors that are the job creators! Well, to keep profit margins up, these said job creators (banks) are calling in small business loans all across the country, redoing loans at higher rates for those able to and letting those who can't just fall by the wayside. Go figure.
Some are begging to be asked: At what cost and to whom? Hint: Look across this country and see the continuing systematic attack against labor, education and social programs.
Dennis Doolittle
Arlington
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