Why The Current Economic Crisis Shows Conservatism Works, And Why We Must Combat President Obama's Policies

by Justin La Grange

We are in a massive economic crisis -- and Barack Obama's strategy is seeking to turn the United States into California. And California is the epitomy of what doesn't work and why we are in this crisis in the first place -- it is the microcosm of real Democratic liberalism.

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California is about to go bankrupt, and let's examine why:

1. Massive government spending and wasteful expenditures, often perpetuated by a notoriously hard-left legislature.
2. As an extension of 1, you have a huge proportion of the workforce in government jobs to support these massive wasteful spending programs. This workforce is overpaid, have far above market rate benefits packages, and cannot be fired -- as a result this workforce has extremely low productivity because why be productive when you can't be fired. The positions distort the market for jobs in California and drastically harm the alternate private sector economy. You're also spending enormous amounts of money for what is comparatively a relatively miniscule output.
3. Broad welfare programs that encourage many not to work, or if they do, they again distort market realities when it comes to wages. Why work hard at a $25,000/year job when you can work in a $10,000 a year job with welfare subsidies.
4. Points 1-3 require very heavy taxation all around to support these outrageous policies. However California is finding out that companies don't want to pay huge corporate tax rates so they set up shop elsewhere, resulting in California loosing ALL of that revenue.
5. California is in the top 15% of states in terms of state and local tax burden, especially on upper income earners -- ironically, the people in the economy who have the capacity to innovate and create businesses and jobs. People either cannot innovate and create businesses because of disincentive from the tax and regulatory burden, or they're creating jobs elsewhere where there is less of a tax and regulatory burden. And by regulatory I mean massive regulations that are needless bureaucratic landmines that just sit on the books so they give some bureaucratic idiots something to do -- or not do.
6. California has one of the most rabid and powerful union environments in the United States, disincentivizing businesses from setting up shop where they cannot operate their own businesses in the most productive ways they see fit. Ask 10% of the unemployed in California whether they would want powerful unions in California or would rather have an anti-union low-tax haven where companies would like to set up shop and offer them jobs.

Moving away from this liberal landmine called California, let's look at the Republican South and the Conservative Mountain States. These "red" pro-growth states are on the up in this downturn, the bright spots amidst the liberal carcasses that surround them. They are low-tax, anti-union, small government havens, and people there are just happy to have jobs (relative to California, at least). Their economies are sustaining the best during this downturn. Let's also look at America in the global macrocosm -- it has been the most economically and socially free major country in the US, and coincidentally, has grown to have the highest standard of living amongst all its classes in the world, compared to major European social-welfare states who enjoy a standard of living about one-third that of the US.

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So here we are, finally realizing that liberal tax and spend anti-growth heavy-welfare large-government paradigms aren't sustainable in a downturn economy and cause a downturn economy. And I thought "sustainability" was a liberal keyword.
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Meanwhile, Barack Obama is seeking to ramrod more policies and programs almost identicial to those from 1-6 down our throat during an economic crisis. Much like industry and entrepreneurs

are fleeing California because their businesses cannot survive in such a greedy government environment (or they don't even want to try), industry and entrepreneurs will flee the United States for more sustainable places to do business. Ask Switzerland how its employment rate is doing after business is flocking there due to its low corporate tax rates? And what kind of business would want to set up shop in the US, with the second highest corporate tax rate in the world, and employ you? Do you want big inefficient government with heavy taxes, or do you want a job? We've already gotten far past a point where people in the private sector can no longer subsidize a massive uninnovative unproductive overpaid federal/state government. And

Barack Obama wants to grow government? It cannot happen. We are already running up debt and deficits out the wazoo, and federal expansion is something we cannot afford -- we will endure massive inflation, go bankrupt, and our currency will become worthless. It will be an economic decline much worse than Japan and even rivaling the joke that is "please cry for my union" Argentina (look up their economic histories after massive federalization).
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Liberals love to throw out these idiotic stereotypes of greedy fatcats and profits out the wazoo, but the truth is that most American businesses, from the very smallest to the very largest, have extremely small profit margins. Even the oil companies during the crude spike only posted a limited profit margin of about 8%. And a lot of American businesses are in the red. And more than half of Americans are invested in the stock market, so the success of major corporations is tied into the wealth of the common middle class American.
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In regards to charges that part of this crisis was do to lack of "regulatory" measures, yes, that is partly true. However, conservatives do encourage regulatory measures that ensure that companies hold up their end of the bargain with consumers in the marketplace since the free market works best when both sides of the company-consumer equation are equally well informed and free to make the best decision for themselves. And liberals are equally responsible for this banking crisis. Clinton and his cronies insisted to the Fed that everyone should be able to own a home, and therefore eased the flow of money into risky loans (to risky people). And Greenspan idiotically refused to reel back low rates and easy money when economically upward conditions did not warrant this easy credit.
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In closing, the banking crisis and economic downswing is not the economic emergency -- Barack Obama's massive budget, increasing the national debt more than all of our former Presidents combined and increasing federal government and regulation to a massively unsustainable scale -- is the real emergency. I'd say go to Tea Parties, but it isn't enough. Barack Obama and his unprofessional cronies are ridiculing you while they enjoy your White House. You need to militantly mobilize for 2010 and 2012. America is at stake.

A High Schooler Was Asked, "If There Was A Plague in LA, Where Would You Go?"

My dear cousin was enlisted in writing a daily blog for her high school English Class. Unfortunately, it was an English Honors class, further showing the degredation of our nation's Public School System. I'd hate to know how mediocre the regular class is.

Here is the prompt: If You Heard There Was a Plague in LA, Where Would You Go?

THE RESPONSE:

"Ummm, since I am totally terrified of death, I would have to think of a really good place to go, really far from LA and from the epidemic plague thing and the undocumented immigrants who probably brought the disease through one of the Los Angeles area ports and spread it through the sewer system and the burritos. It couldn't be Victorville either because there's a bunch of freakin' hillbillies there.

So, ummm, I would gather all of my things, especially my brand new Gucci shoes, my phone, my dog Leonardo Christopher Shannanay Nicoli Jimenez Ricardo, and my boyfriend, cause he's a keeper - well, after he looses a couple pounds and learns how to not ejaculate prematurely.

But anyways, I would take my prized possessions, and buy my own island, if I didn't already have one at the time, because that is something I have always wanted to purchase. Haha. Like the ones off the coast of Dubai that are shaped like the world, yeah that is where I would go if a plague came to LA.

I think it would be pretty cool. Just me, my man bitch, and my most important baby Leo. If for some reason food became scarce, my dog Leo and I would eat him first, because he is a disposable commodity after I become pregnant and repopulate the island. It would be called [my cousin's name] island because I am a princess, and since the island would be off the coast of Dubai, when my boyfriend pisses me off I would send his ass away to get more shoes or makeup or whatever other necessities I need to be replenished.

Although come to think of it, I would like to go to a wet mountainous region. I would want it to be sort of like the jungle, kind of like the jungle book except Mowgli or that tarzan guy would be over eighteen and look fine fine fine and not like that one prepubescent twerp in the animated movie. It would have lush surroundings with very green vegetation. It would be a fertile land and have plenty of water in the form of streams, waterfalls, pond thingies and the water would be filtered so I could drink it and bathe in it. Although if Evian Corp. wanted to send me a gazillion cubic foot tank that might also work too, as long as the water is not bottled anywhere near Los Angeles or Latin America, cause this one time in Venezuela I got really really sick from whatever bacteria they have in the water and the locals are unfortunately accustomed to.

However, in that mountainous region, like my island, there would be a beach nearby just in case I wanna tan, and so I could have fresh sushi but close enough where it didn't bother me. So my fantasy place would be like the island of The Incredibles. I would want it to be very very simple...but technologically advanced and top of the line. Something like a device to cool the sand so I could walk on it in a hot day would be nice, while the island still looked lush and primitive like the beaches on the Mexican West Coast or Nicaragua.

The most important thing would be little treehouse cabana type things, covered with white linens, and equipped with champagne and cabana boys who feed me frozen grapes. It would be just me and my lover on the island with our male servants so I don't have to worry about him cheating. If he cheats on me with one of the cabana boys, or at worst, my dog, he will totally be executed.

And I would have perfect boobs and all the relaxed linen Tommy Bahama clothes, shoes, and accessories I could ever want!

Man, that would be the life. I would do this regardless of the plague."