Oh that’s easy. One of the causes of these problems is tax cuts for the rich. And the way you get jobs is put people back to work.
Then people feel good about this and that and spend money, your boy, healthcare, and so on…
… as congresswoman Carolyn Kilpatrick explains.
But for the non-stupid, the way to create opportunity is the big question. My answer will be the old tried-and-true Conservative argument: Hey Uncle Sam, get your fucking mule out the way – I got all kinds of shit I want to do! In other words, people create opportunity. If you want them to do more of something don’t tax it or tax it less. So cut taxes on putting forth effort.
Be careful though. This is necessary but short term thinking. We can’t just deregulate and cut taxes all day long. We need to tax so we can pay for decent public schools so kids like Bill Gates will have access (as billy uniquely did) to some seriously fancy hardware systems and come up with the next revolutionary thing. And we need regulation to make up for irrationality – like not 
noting that we were in a housing bubble or allowing 10/1 over leveraging in derivative funds. We have to be sure not to try regulating our way to prosperity too – like using Fannie and Freddie to hand any jerk a home loan or two job or not to keep the up-cycle cycling up.
I’d like to say the solution is cutting spending. This would allow blessed tax cuts which usher in business like a land-run. But promising spending is the bread and butter of the Liberal Democrat campaign machine. AND – once you start a program or entitlement repealing it is a political nightmare not to mention the mess of trying to take it apart without a big mess and screwing people.
Of course, as much as Democrats shit on tax cut ideas – how do they court business into their areas? The same way everyone else does. They give obnoxious concessions to giant companies to move in. So you end up with the worst of both worlds. One giant not paying taxes with all the job creating companies footing the bill.
So – the solution: I think we need Obama to come to Michigan and give a speech. He’ll give us plenty of ambiguous and
unrealistically optimistic solutions, blame everything on his political opponents, and give us some industry leaders to vilify. He might even try to sell the idea that new monstrous bureacracies will create opportunity.
But seriously – bottom line, make nice with business – all business. Business is the essence of society.
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