This has nothing to do with the Six Degree theory nor does it have anything to do with my efforts to make some money on line.

I am just using this platform to vent my frustrations with the politics and general response from the public and news media regarding the current economic condition in the US and other parts of the world.

Today I saw an ad that said something like this: “we need to go back to more simpler times, we need to not be so involved with “things/possesions”.

Seems like a really good attitude, doesn’t it?

That attitude my friends is what will only make our condition worse.  Think about it.  The only thing that made our lives what they are today is “things/possesions”.

The only way to create wealth for everybody is to PRODUCE THINGS, actual tangible things!  Then have people BUY those things, and around we go.

We are not, I say NOT, going to bring our country or the world out of economic crisis by government spending more of  OUR MONEY, that cannot work.  Pretty soon they will run out of OUR MONEY!

Govenment cannot create jobs, fool-hardy idea.  The only jobs government ever created are more jobs within the government.  The wages and salaries for those jobs, by the way, are paid for by OUR MONEY!

Remember government workers DO NOT PRODUCE anything.  They are only users of resources.  By the way those are OUR RESOURCES.

We need to have manufacturing businesses making things.  We need to have the public at large buying those things.  By the way we need to buy them whether or not we actually need them.

Here’s how the economy cycles: “you earn money, you spend money, you earn money, you spend money”.

The process of you spending money causes other people to earn money.  When they earn money, they spend money and someone else has the opportunity to earn money.  The more people doing this the more healthy the economy.   Money flowing and the government keeping their greedy hands off of as much of it as we can keep them from will make us great again.

This is not brain science or rocket surgery.

If we listen to the wackos that think we can go back to the dark ages and live off the land we are nuts.  Those times are gone and will never return.

We only became a wealthy nation  by making things and people buying those things.  Then make more and people buy more, around and around we go.  Seems crazy but it worked, didn’t it?

They say this is the information age and information is the hole grail of economics.  Hog wash, the problem with information is; it is not a tangible asset.  The information age only puts a small number of people to work.

We need manufacturing.  We need factories making things.  This is what will put people back to work.   By the way if all we manufacture is “green” products or green energy products there is not enough demand to create a reliable cycle. 

We need a cycle of making things, buying things and then making them again.  The only thing that keeps an economy going is a cycle of turning the money.  Environmental things will NOT create a money turning cycle.

Green things will stagnate the money, it will end up with limited distribution.  Limited distribution of money kills the economy.

You know what else stagnates the flow of money?  You may not like this but it is a simple truth.   “People thinking they are entitled to something they did not earn.”   That’s correct, people need to work and pay their own way.  Don’t expect your neighbor to pay your way for you.  By the way that neighbor becomes the government.

When you think and the illustrious government convinces you that you have the “right” to something you did not work for, the only way for you to get it, is for your government to give it to you.   The only way the government can give you something is for someone else to fork over “their” hard earned cash so you can have it.  

Once you have a significant portion of the population getting things they did not work for and earn, it starts to slow down the natural cycle of money.

You are not earning what your are spending.  In other words you are not “producing” anything that someone else can buy with their earned money.

You have just thrown a monkey wrench into the cycle.  Now the government is spending money that no-0ne has actually earned, no-one produced anything. 

The rest of us can’t work hard enough to generate enough money to give to the government to give to you, we just plain run out of energy and resouces to carry you.

If you curtail the cycle either with government intervention or the intervention of special interests groups you end up as we are today with an economic crisis.

Government cannot fix it.  Actually they could be the catalyst to fix it by just getting out of the way.  Stop spending our money, stop limiting what business is capable of doing.  GET OUT OF THE WAY.  GET OUT OF OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS, GET RID OF AT LEAST 50% OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, THAT MEANS DISMANTLING BURACRACIES, LIMIT THE POWERS OF UNIONS, STOP THINKING YOU CAN TAX AND SPEND YOUR WAY OUT OF THIS.

STOP MAKING A BUSINESS PAY $.50 TO A COLLECTION OF LOCAL, CITY, STATE AND FEDERAL AGENCIES FOR EVERY $1.00 THEY PAY AN EMPLOYEE.

Thing about how many MORE employees a business could afford to hire if their payroll load wasn’t so heavy.  Good grief, if I pay an employee one dollar I then have to pay govenment agencies another fifty cents just so I can pay that person one dollar.  What kind of craziness is that?

Okay, now I am getting a little carried away, aren’t I?

Well it seems so simple to me and the government or at least the powers to be want you to think it is very complicated.  WELL IT’S NOT.

Economics 101 or ecomonics 1.   I make something, you buy it, now I can buy something someone else made and they can hire you to help them make it.  Now you have the money to buy what I made.    Get a few million people into this cycle and you have an economy.

Sacrifice just enough of your money to the local, state and federal government agencies to fund the following things, no more, no less.

Schools, roads, fire and safety, utilities oversite, national security.   The rest of it you are responsible for yourself.  Don’t make me responsible for you. (There are probably some other things that could or should be included in this list, but for now these are what I think are essential)

I will help my neighbors out of the goodness of my heart and my sense of morality but don’t think I owe it to you or your neighbor, as you don’t owe it to me.

Remember our country says you have the “right” to the “pursuit” of happiness not the “right to happiness”.