Questions:
Q: Who operates retail
businesses, that pay minimum wage, during the school year?
A: Adults, often with families to
support. The adults can't just go home after school or for summer
vacation!
Q: What does business do?
A: Invest in an enterprise to
create a product or service... Customers buy what you’re selling
and you get back more than you put in, or you fail.
Q: What’s your return on
investment if very few people are confident enough to spend money?
A: Not much... Your business may
sell what people want to buy, but when they aren't confident (don't
spend money) your business still fails.
Q: What’s the return on
investment from education?
A: Knowledgeable folks to staff
your business. ROI is about 20 years for a college grad (pre-K to
Bachelor's degree) and 15 years for a high school grad... There’s
absolutely no monetary value on an educated workforce; No bankable
return on investment.
Education is a long, complex and
expensive investment with no direct, cash value; no for profit
business can tolerate this cash free ROI.
Q:What’s the ROI on common
carrier infrastructure: roads, bridges, water mains, sewers, waste
water treatment, airports, seaports, electric power grid,
telecommunications grid, etc…
A: People, materials and product
can be moved about; life's boring because everything works. There’s
no cash value on this return either.
Q: Research and Development
(R&D): Capable of being large, complex and expensive... Starts
with, “what if,” and goes to some result that may not have
recognized value (money or otherwise) for a long time. What is the
ROI?
A: Nobody knows... Requires a
belief in crystal balls and fortune tellers to get predictions.
Q: What does regulation do?
A: It defines the, “playing
field,” and rules of the game. Officials (government) must
determine who’s playing by the rules and be able to penalize the
rule-breakers. Following the rules might mean no more than
predictable, day to day functionality... An environment where one
succeeds or fails, on a level playing field, based solely on merit.
It takes a great deal of
planning, research, development, time, money and effort to create an
environment where an economy can function, let alone thrive. If the
background prep is done well: rules are followed/updated/enforced and
there are customers with money to spend... Then, and only then, will
capitalism work. An economy thrives only if all participants do their
part and pay their share of the costs involved.
Sunday, July 26, 2015
Chasing Shadows!
Democrats are spending way too
much time trying to raise money like Republicans... A fool's
errand!
1% may have all the money, but 99% has almost all the votes.
One might find a case about political spending to take to court, but it's going to need to go all the way to the SCOTUS. This time the court's decision must repudiate the notion that paid political access is, somehow, equivalent to free speech.
Or, one could point out (to as many folks as possible) that a bill to rectify the situation requires a US Congress that actually works with the President... Something we Progressives, Liberals, Independents and Democrats did not vote for (because, to too large a degree, we don't vote) in 2010 and 2014.
We can not all be bought, but when we don't vote we give our power away!
1% may have all the money, but 99% has almost all the votes.
One might find a case about political spending to take to court, but it's going to need to go all the way to the SCOTUS. This time the court's decision must repudiate the notion that paid political access is, somehow, equivalent to free speech.
Or, one could point out (to as many folks as possible) that a bill to rectify the situation requires a US Congress that actually works with the President... Something we Progressives, Liberals, Independents and Democrats did not vote for (because, to too large a degree, we don't vote) in 2010 and 2014.
We can not all be bought, but when we don't vote we give our power away!
Your Vote is the Key to Democracy...
Voting is the key to a democratic
republic, and too damn few of us exercise that key responsibility.
When those who are supposed to represent us realized that most
were not paying attention they succumbed to the temptation to feather
their own nests; at the expense of whomever it required.
The elected officials, and their entourages, are happy in their comfortable digs and have continued the very human trait of protecting their turf.
To return to, "of, by and for the people," we must all register and vote in every election; some must become candidates (Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently, for the same reason). We can not take back what we have given away quickly, because we've allowed folks to fortify their positions. But, if we, the people, don't start soon the end result is feudalism; a system that favors (and entrenches) the top 1%.
One might find a case about political spending to take to court, but it's going to need to go all the way to the SCOTUS.
One could point out (to as many folks as possible) that a bill (bills/laws) to rectify the situation requires a US Congress that actually works with the President... Something we Progressives, Liberals, Independents and Democrats did not vote for (because, to too large a degree, we don't vote) in 2010 and 2014.
1% may have all the money, but 99% has almost all the votes.
We can not all be bought, but when we don't vote we give our power away!
The elected officials, and their entourages, are happy in their comfortable digs and have continued the very human trait of protecting their turf.
To return to, "of, by and for the people," we must all register and vote in every election; some must become candidates (Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently, for the same reason). We can not take back what we have given away quickly, because we've allowed folks to fortify their positions. But, if we, the people, don't start soon the end result is feudalism; a system that favors (and entrenches) the top 1%.
One might find a case about political spending to take to court, but it's going to need to go all the way to the SCOTUS.
One could point out (to as many folks as possible) that a bill (bills/laws) to rectify the situation requires a US Congress that actually works with the President... Something we Progressives, Liberals, Independents and Democrats did not vote for (because, to too large a degree, we don't vote) in 2010 and 2014.
1% may have all the money, but 99% has almost all the votes.
We can not all be bought, but when we don't vote we give our power away!
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