I know the liberals want these things but how do they expect to accomplish them?

Question

I hear liberals say they want to keep jobs from going over seas.

They want the price of oil to be lower.

They want more fiscal responsibility.

How do you expect it to be accomplished? Please don't send some link to a campaign web site. I want YOUR opinion, not their propoganda.

Answer 1

I think that a great many people think that it's our job to decide how the world should behave.
It's not.
What we should do is start acting in our own interests.
If we want to keep jobs here, then make it more expensive for the corporations to take them overseas. Right now, it is cheaper for our corporations to do business anywhere else than it is to do it here.
If we want the price of oil to be lower, then we have to do some drilling of our own or use alternatives. If we reduce demand, we will lower the price.
If we want more fiscal responsibility, then we have to cut off the charge account of Congress,where they never heard of a program they didn't want, we have to quit printing money every time we run out,and we have to live within our budget.

These are very simple problems to correct, every housewife has had to do it. If we did with our money, what our government does with our money, every day, we would be put into jail for malfeasance and fraud.
Only the government gets to steal that much. But we keep electing them, so who is to blame?

Answer 2

Jobs going overseas-give tax credits to people who keep the jobs here. Use tax incentives so that domestic goods fare better competitively.

Price of oil- a comprehensive energy policy that stresses reduction in demand. Promote alternative energy sources and alternative forms of transportation.

Fiscal responsibility-Better budgeting Make the rich pay their fair share of taxes or lose their subsidies. Stop paying for irresponsible and immoral wars which accomplish nothing. Return jobs that are being performed by for profit contractors to dedicated and competent civil servants.

I expect to accomplish this by electing a real Democratic majority to the House and Senate and electing a Democratic President.

Answer 3

You make trade deals that favor workers, not CEOs. For example, the US can decide to lower tarriffs if the nation substantially increases their workers standard of living. That will raise their income and hopefully level the cost of labor between nations much faster. That in turn will stop outsourcing.

You can also decide to protect vital industries like the steel industry with tarriffs. For most of this country's history, government got it's revenue from tariffs. We seem to have managed just fine.

The worst thing you can do is have this law of the jungle system where the already wealthy and powerful become more so on the backs of workers.

Answer 4

As regards the jobs issue, I think most are against free trade. Obama is on record as being against the Korean FTA (which I disagree with, as I think we fleeced them)

In 2005 the US spent 16% of GDP on healthcare and 6% on military ependitures (including Iraq and Afghanistan supplementals)... I'm not an economist, but I think that if we move to single payer healthcare, it might be possible to reduce costs as an economy of scale. Additionally, if we shift the burden of health care from companies to the government, it may make American businesses more competitive. Finally, if we were to reduce military expenditures to 3% of GDP, that would give us an additional $300 billion to play with to limit deficit spending (we need to stop this carrying of 6% of GDP in debt, this is insane).

I am a liberal, I don't know if I like any of the "solutions", as they will all be difficult and painful.

Answer 5

when bush took office, oil was $35 a barrel.
he had secret meetings to establish an energy policy.
that policy's sole purpose was to enrich the oil companies. it worked.

it would have been easy to go down another path.


as far as fiscal responsibility, the fact is that clinton balanced the budget and bush has handed us the largest budget deficit in history.

it would be easy to change the results by changing the policies.

Answer 6

If you intended to bait the conspiracy phychos and mouth-breathing liberals, you've done a good job.

Your question does go a long way toward exposing the liberal pipe dream. These comments are "feel good" distractions from the actual Dem platform. Maximum wealth redistribution, maximum control over daily lives, consolidated and permanent power in the hands of liberal, elitist dems and serfdom for the rest of the country.

Answer 7

1 Impose taxes on Corporations who outsource jobs. Give incentives to Corporations who do not outsource.
2. Use the technology we already posses to render obsolete our need for oil.
3. Stop spending money if you don't have it in the coffers.

Answer 8

maryjell hit the nail on the head fiscal responsibility is the answer ,bring back the gold standard!

Answer 9

As much as I hate to admit it, I think the conservatives are almost to blame as much as the libs for this predicament.
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Answer 10

What they say and what they do are 2 different things. Especially since Fine Stine (sic), Boxer and Pulozi (sp) have their fingers in the trade with China. You here these things because it's getting close to the elections..Don't get me wrong..the Repubs aren't too far behind when it comes to double talk.