Nation's CEOs paid better last year than in 2007

Rockdoc Franz wrote:

neptunechimney wrote: [
What, reducing the power and budget of the federal gov. isn't intelligent?

I think you misunderstand. What you propose is not a matter of intelligence, it is a matter of implementation. How will you reduce the budget? Will it actually be possible to get it under control? Are there alternative pathways for the federal budget that have less of a deleterious effect on our nation? If you reduce power, how will that change affect the states and how will you insure they can handle it? It is one thing to throw out concepts or cry for changes that need to be made and quite another to provide a viable plan of action. This is exactly what we have not heard from past presidential candidates because none had a plan, much less a viable one.

Yes I did. Sounds like you are looking a detailed plan. I do not have one. I will take a swing at some of the issues you raise. The budget needs to be cut across the board. Any discussion of what to cut/not cut will result in endless bickering with both sides making emotional appeals to and for their interest groups.

I am not hopeful because I think that the majority of politicians do not want to make any substantive changes. The only way they will do what is needed is to threaten their jobs. The only political force that is currently doing that is the Tea Party. If that grows and all but pol's from the most brain dead safe areas fear for there jobs things will change, provided we keep there feet to the fire.

IF reducing fed power increases state power we control it with elections. The added bonus is that if we are unhappy with the results in our state we can move to one we prefer.

I believe it was Aspen Valley who pointed out that the painful steps necessary for this country to recover are not something any politician is willing to take on because the people are not ready to carry that burden. She put it much better than I. While this is undoubtably true, when will the people be ready? It is going to take a group of politicians with more guts than we have ever seen before, a scenario unlikely to happen.

Rockdoc Franz wrote: I believe it was Aspen Valley who pointed out that the painful steps necessary for this country to recover are not something any politician is willing to take on because the people are not ready to carry that burden. She put it much better than I. While this is undoubtably true, when will the people be ready? It is going to take a group of politicians with more guts than we have ever seen before, a scenario unlikely to happen.

Could they be listening? Of course there is plenty of time for them to chicken out. "Bad Dog."

"“Without significant spending cuts and reforms to reduce our debt, there will be no debt limit increase,” Boehner plans to tell the Economic Club of New York here this evening, according to remarks obtained by POLITICO. “And the cuts should be greater than the accompanying increase in debt authority the president is given. We should be talking about cuts of trillions, not just billions.”

Under Boehner’s vision, for example, Republicans would have to find more than $2 trillion in cuts if they wanted to raise the debt ceiling by that amount through 2012 — which is in line with Treasury’s estimates on the debt limit. But Republicans could also go for a more incremental increase in the debt ceiling, coupling that with a smaller offsetting cut in spending. Boehner’s preference is for immediate cuts, not promises to pare back spending in the future.

But by mentioning “trillions” in long term cuts, Boehner is clearly putting entitlement reform in play — including Medicare — since it would be near impossible to cut trillions without affecting entitlement spending.

Boehner will say that “everything is on the table … that includes honest conversations about how best to preserve Medicare, because we all know, with millions of Baby Boomers beginning to retire, the status quo is unsustainable. If we don’t act boldly now, the markets will act for us very soon.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54604.html

And if you tax the CEO's, will they head overseas too along with their corporations? And how many more jobs will leave with them if you kill the golden goose.

It has been a while, so again, once again from the department of redundancy department:


"2. Hold your newly elected politician's feet to the fire the first time he breaks ranks on a key vote. He is like a puppy. When he leaves a mess on the carpet, get out the switch. "Bad dog! Bad dog!" Let him remember that switch"................


http://www.garynorth.com/public/6827.cfm