Quote Originally Posted by alan View Post
Leaving them alone.

As an example, during the first quarter of this year, this administration proposed or enacted more than 250 regulations amounting to more than $24 billion dollars in regulatory costs to businesses, large and small.

The cost of compliance is increasingly becoming a larger and larger drain on even the smallest businesses.

Power plants are closing as a result of this administrations energy policies, which seem to be designed to cause energy prices to "necessarily skyrocket". This increases costs to manufacturers especially but everyone is affected by the un-necessary increase of their cost of doing business. They've also made it increasingly difficult to harvest our own energy sources, increasing our dependence upon foreign sources and keeping gas/oil prices un-necessarily high.

And let's not even get into what they've done to the dollar as a result of their experiments in quantitative easing. I believe it's been de-valued by 7 or 8% in the past year.

Plus, just about everyone who provides jobs are labeled as millionaires and billionaires who must pay more. Government shouldn't be in the business of class warfare, but this administration seems to feed it's base the necessary class envy in order to keep them engaged.

All this, and more, does nothing to improve the job market, but it does satisfy a certain demographic. Is that what we want from our government?
PROPOSED or enacted? A proposal doesn't cost does it. You are trying to count the cost of these proposals as if they were enacted, which they weren't? That's kind of fudging it, don't you think. You and I both know congress makes proposals all day long, most of which are NOT acted on.
And when you say 'this administration' are you speaking of Obama's administration, or are you lumping in all democratic proposals? Again, not the same is it. And I'm guessing some of those proposals were republican proposals.

And do you have any examples of these draconian regulations that are choking small businesses?

And which energy policies of this administration are causing power plants to close? I find it hard to believe the energy companies are having to go hat in hand during a period of record profits. I think you will find it hard to drum up any sympathy for billionaire oil barons.

This cry of pity the poor billionaires is getting really old. They are paying the least taxes they have ever paid, thanks to Bush and co. and have been coddled and catered to with (thanks to Fox news and incredible right wing salesmanship) an army of worker bees sitting in their double-wides pumping their fists in the air saying "Yes! Tax cuts for the rich! That's what we need!"
So, where are the jobs? Huh? Where are they? They got huge tax cuts from Bush and guess what? We lost jobs! Jobs went away! Where's the trickle? Where's the big boost we are supposed to get from all this 'job creator investment'? It's a lie Alan. It doesn't work. The only thing they are creating with this wealth gift is more wealth...for themselves.

You want to know what the key is? You want to know the truth? Well here it is. Pretty simple actually. If there is no demand for the product, then your rich guy isn't going to invest in more product. And he isn't going to create jobs to produce a product no one wants or can afford. And unless you rich guy is in the food or shelter or energy business, chances are people aren't buying. And why aren't they buying? Because the middle class is being squeezed dry by the class warfare the wealthy/republicans have been waging on them. And the middle class is their customer. Or was. But without a middle class....and on and on it goes.

And it's not just Obama's base that thinks the wealthy should pay more in taxes. A MAJORITY of Americans think this. And lots of them are republicans.