gimini210's Blog

I guess math is not used in government. They still have not caught on that putting a finger in a dike does not fix the crack. The crack is still there and it is only going to get bigger. You can not put money into a business that has an overhead to run greater than it's income. It is along the lines of putting a bandaide on a gash that needs stitches. It wont work. The Big 3, banking and all the rest are still sinking even as congress tells us it is working. I am guessing they think we can not see what is going on.

Look at the companies losing money everyday. They are cutting back on employees, closing down alot of stores, shutting down alot of companies and still our economy is bleeding. Congress extended the unemployment and added more taxes onto to businesses as the business pays into unemployment. They added another burden onto an over burdened system. How does that help? More lost jobs, more unemployment and a larger crack.

When will they learn that when a thing is ruptured you have to repair it with more than a finger in a dike. You have to use math. Math runs computors, business, and budgets. It is what tallies our pay checks, and balances our bank book. You have to use it at some point and time when working with something that is based on math. All they need to do is reduce taxes on businesses, while some businesses make pay cuts and benifit cuts.

Trim down expences not raise them. If you go to the store with $100.00 you can not buy $200.00 in products. If you tried you could not pay the bill. You have to pick what is more important and congress does not get it. Right at this moment we need to create jobs and keep the ones we have. There are few out there without a job who would not be glad for anything rather than nothing. Unemployment is a real pay cut and it doesn't last long, while the benifits suck while on it.

If a company is not earning enough to stay open they are not earning enough for higher taxes, nor the ones they have now. Extended unemployment sounds good but the cost is far greater than the sound. We have companies closing down and when they extended the unemployment they hit the very people they say they want to help. What they need in government is a large group of men and women with knowlege of how businesses work and not people who never ran one and think they can fix it by throwing money into it.

Would you rather take a pay cut, lose a benifit, and keep a job or lose a job and see more companies fold? I know I sound like a know it all but I have family in business and their unemployment taxes just went up again. Some of them had to lay off more workers as they were not making a profit as it was. They talked to the employees and everyone agreed to pay cuts earlier in the year but even that was just a temp fix to prevent layoffs. Now they have to. Some have gone to just family working for them.

If I can figure this out I do not understand why congress can not. So they cut their spending for a few years and cut taxes on companies so they get a little relief to go on until we start our economy back up, who will this hurt? We have seen their plan fall flat on it's face with a resounding boom. Now it is time they rethink their stand on our economy and admit they are wrong before we have a BOOM heard world round.

Congress should take pay cuts and give up dining out, stop using jets to fly from point to point, have less holidays and do like the rest of us, tighten their belts not keep on spending like there is a money tree outside the White House. It is time to face facts, there is too much waiste and not enough brains in congress.