Ron observes The REAL State of the Union – Part 1
Ron Boat
Parliament of Victoria, Australia
Member of the Legislative Council · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
CEO of White Tiger Group, LLC
Strategy and International Business Consultant, Business Mentor, and Speaker
Adjunct Faculty Northeastern University School of Business and Department of Mathematics
MBA in Strategic Planning and International Business
PhD Candidate in Applied Mathematics at Northeastern University
Columnist and speaker
FOX Contributor
Author – “Negrophilia: From Slave Block to Pedestal ~ America’s Racial Obsession,”
Tufts University graduate in political science
Evening, late morning and most recently morning drive time talk radio host on WRKO in Boston
Named three times to Talkers Magazine’s “Top 100 Most Important Talk Hosts in America”
With the insight and opinions of these valued contributors, I’d like to answer the following and see if we’re really living the American dream or just dreaming of an America once great. Each answer is their own rational and poignant opinion, quoted exactly as presented by them.
PART 1 -
Bernie: “Economically, it is difficult to see how America will ever pay off its debt – particularly with an administration that clearly has no interest in doing so. To make matters worse, the Republicans seem equally disinterested in taking on this challenge. John Boehner’s recent performance has been abysmal as the GOP rolls over at the very time it should be standing strong. Further lifting of the debt limit is just postponing the inevitable – and making the situation worse. The US may think it’s immune from the problems hitting Greece but it may be a case of ‘the bigger they are, the harder they fall’. There is very real concern about how the financial collapse of the US would impact the rest of the world, particularly those countries who are America’s closest trading partners.”
Dorina: “As individuals it is getting harder because of the proliferation of parasites. As a force in the world we are weakening, but that is a sensible historical trend because the other nations of the world are getting stronger. The recent, purposeful acceleration of the trend is a Bad Thing ™. In my day to day observation of the mass market I am noticing less traffic, empty stores, people postponing spending on what they deem non-critical, and a general malaise. I am also seeing a distressingly high proportion of people who are unemployed or underemployed and display little hope for improving their situation.”
Todd: “We’re still teetering on a cliff. We’re still in the problem area. We could still fall off the financial cliff. A lot of what gov’t is doing is fear driven – they’re scared we’ll understand how bad things are and then we’ll be scared, which of course would be very scary for politicians wanting to win reelection. So they have a rabid belief in stimulus – stimulus creates the illusion that we’re in a recovery from the crash rather than that we’re still in the car bleeding waiting for the ambulance.”
Bernie: “The US also seems to be hit hard by the entitlement mentality. Americans were once seen as resilient, enterprising and independent. No doubt, many Americans still are but that general image has been shaken of recent years. The ‘something-for-nothing’ mentality is leading the United States down a path from which it may not easily return.”
Dorina: “Get out of the way. Stop “protecting” people with the overabundance and incessant increase in regulation. Stop with the money grab and the class warfare. Stop trying to “help” people by force. Forcible charity is not charity.”
Erik: “The problem here is not that we have an incompetent or shortsighted government (we do), but an administration whose intention is to bring about the social and political change they desire partly through manipulation of the economy. Thus, doing anything to arrest the decline would be working at cross purposes. They have no motivation to do so. B) Definitely; anything that will stultify or hamper business will harm the economy, so naturally they’re going to do it. It doesn’t take much investigation to see that this administration has taken the opposite tack from that which would turn the economy around right down the line.”
Todd: “There are lots of things that could be done to spur economic growth. Generate jobs by allowing oversees funds to be repatriated at reduced tax rates or even tax free. We need better tax policies for job creation, better healthcare policies, a pullback on regulation rather than a government eager to create more bureaucracy… We should have a president that goes to job creators and says “let’s partner on creating new jobs.” Instead the president threatens job creators with higher taxes and more regulations.”
Todd: “Oh, sure. How do you have a representative government when the people we elect to represent us no longer hold the power? This is the hazard of big government – huge amounts of money flowing through Washington fund oversized bureaucracies that make decisions on auto-pilot. Members of congress don’t know where the levers are to pull to affect change because institutional Washington is bigger than congress. One example – There are 16 different intelligence gathering agencies in the federal government, very good at hiding what they’re doing from each other and from oversight. Do our elected representatives even bother trying to regulate them, or do they spend their time raising the $500,000 or million dollars they need to raise each year, on the low side, to run their reelection campaigns?”
Through these writings and views of fellow workers and others in my circle, I’d like to say that I would see a positive expression but I fear that the reality of America’s future may well be staring us in the face. With a lessoning of regulation and invasion of our personal and business lives; with a return to morals, values and real authentic governance, without racial or class warfare, then the REAL state of our union would be improved… if we can work positively toward our futures monetarily, spiritually, socially and patriotically.
Even though Bernie lives and works in Australia, his grasp of our future may be most foretelling: “In a nutshell, it seems the United States is in an advanced state of decay on a number of fronts. I am desperately keen to see a strong USA leading from the front but fear those days might be rapidly coming to an end.”
In my next article we’ll continue this Q/A approach from around the world with the subjects of national security, our real future as a free country, and the question of election fraud and trust emanating from our last national election.
2013-03-01 08:46:59
Source: http://alspoliticalview.blogspot.com/2013/03/ron-observes-real-state-of-union-part-1.html
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