Real World Economics 1.2

           As conservatives and liberals who acknowledge the need to work together to arrive as a successful society into the 22^nd Century, we need to deal with the impacts of economic change in a way that brings along those negatively affected and capitalizes the strengths of our ingenuity and those positively affected.

We need to find government’s place in the mix. We need Congress. We just need it to act like an adult. I’m not saying it should be allowed to drink yet. But baby Congress is past puberty now, and needs to take public citizenship seriously. Polarization was ever so prepubescently entertaining, but now it’s time to produce. Americans are sick of “talking point” politics. No more smarting off. No more ‘Kick the Can.’ “Outsiders” are banging on the gates of government! It’s time to solve old problems, anticipate new ones, and get America moving—not as liberals or conservatives, but as Americans. That won’t be done by any President—our economic problems trace directly back to Congress.

Around here, we think it should be illegal to hide money from the taxman overseas. We think a higher national minimum wage is needed. We think if you leave education to the States, you’ll get the crap they have in Texas, and if you follow the Libertarian mantra, you’ll get the tax stupidity they have in Kansas, and that Governors in Nebraska and Kentucky lust for. And if you leave voting rights to the states…..well, you know. Some things the fed gov needs to do. We think a flat tax would unfairly burden all but the richest Americans, and wonder why businesses get to deduct expenses but individuals don’t.

It’s clear the War on Drugs, and bank & financial market regulation are not working. And how about that self-perpetuating, war-industry-enriching War on Terror. If that doesn’t terrify you, what’s it gonna take? It’s clear that “corporate citizenship” is mostly gone, and that corporations are not people and money is not speech. We think church and state should be separate and that government is properly secular.

Why don’t YOU sound off and help America fix the real economy? The stakes couldn’t be higher.