President Obama to focus on making America competitive!

Posted on Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 10:46 AM

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Judging by the heading, this means the President will be turning his policies 180 degrees from where they have been over the past two years. To a bystander, this administration has seemed to be anti business, anti growth and pro big government every chance it got. The cherry on top was a massive health care bill turning 1/5 of the nations economy over to government controlled socialized medicine.

If the President is serious about making America competitive again, I can make a few quick suggestions, from my humble perspective:

Open up Americas vast oil and gas reserves that have been cordoned off to exploration by extreme environmentalists. Allow the development and extraction of huge oil reserves from Alaskas ANWR. This barren piece of land is close to already in place infrastructure on the North Slope and would be up and running quickly. We are like the crew of the ship adrift 100 miles off the coast of South America dying of thirst, but don’t have enough sense to lower down the bucket to get the fresh water that flows out to sea from the great Amazon river.

OK, America doesn’t export enough, so here’s a uniquely American product that we are awash in. We can export it which will instantly boost our production and make us competitive at the same time. This products export will have another effect beneficial to Americas economy, it will hamstring our competitors by decreasing their production. It will also hamper our competitors efficiency and endurance, kind of like putting a 50 lb. weight penalty on a horse race: Lets export 80% of our trial lawyers to foreign countries.

Lets lower taxes for all the taxpaying Americans. Encourage employment in America by lowering the tax rate for all American Corporations who manufacture products and employ American citizens in America.

Reform our education system! Promote, push and champion the hard sciences. We need to be at the cutting edge of technology and new ideas. Loosen the grip of educations organized labor and make our education system a merit based outcome system, rather than constraining it to conform to what the latest negotiated labor contracts are.

If I heard President Obama champion any of these ideas and actually follow through by executing them, I would become his greatest fan...OK I got a little carried away, maybe not his greatest yet, there are several other issues he has to deal with first, but any of these would be a great start.

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susanna | Jan 25, 2011, 05:40 PM EST

The Democrats had to balance the budget after Republicans lead the country into incredible debt - that was George H. Bush. Sonny Bush came in and destroyed all the Democrats did and had the largest deficit in the history of America! Now who is "pro big government?" America ranks 37th in health care in the world - thank God for the new health care bill! Now, it is mandated that insurance companies have to spend 8o cents on medical for every dollar we give the greedy insurance companies! No more over 50 cents for every dollar we spend on health insurance going to CEO's huge salaries and bonuses (fact) and no more being turned down for preexisting conditions! hey, how the heck do we pay for pubic schools? It's called socialism! who pays for your streets and repairs and police and firemen? It's called socialism! Gads, do you not have a brain?? America doesn't export enough because, thanks to the Republicans, we are no longer a manufacturing country but a consumer one. America use be 33-35% manufacturing (70's) now is 11% thanks to the Republicans who gave big tax breaks to Americans who moved their companies over seas! I am so glad the Democrats under the direction of Obama, stopped the tax breaks! Get your facts straight dude- you sound like another ignorant Republican - very "Sarah Palinish!"

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maloney | Jan 24, 2011, 02:09 PM EST

obama has once again shown the direction he's taking America. Acorn just opened their office in NY with a new name & the same people from before. Another crooked election on the horizon.

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hancock | Jan 24, 2011, 12:30 PM EST

Thats a nice change.

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olovely | Jan 24, 2011, 07:54 AM EST

There used to be a time when conservative journalists considered the facts rather than the partisan talking points. No longer, I see. You've forgotten how the Bush administration ran up the biggest deficit in American history, presided as Wall Street near-destroyed capitalism and stuck us all with the bill, and handed Obama the worst economy and jobs market since the Depression. I mean, how can you not know that?

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maloney | Jan 23, 2011, 06:43 PM EST

Don't hold your breath waiting for obama to do anything other than to keep on doing everything he can to destroy America. He will tell more lies in the next year than he has in the past 2 1/2 years.

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