How stupid are you. The problem is goverment is to big on all levels. If you live in Arlington Virginia goverment takes 44,000 per family per year. How about this, cut goverment in half, and give that money to the families they stole it from. You have to give the free market your money. The goverment takes it, or you go to jail. Big goverment is the problem, where the Hell has the 4 trillion the Dems have spent this year gone. Vote libertarian, politicians suck.

The only way to stop the carnage is to put a middle class blue collar worker in the WHITE house. One. Pull the troops out of everywhere. We are not a police force. If they want to off themselves let them. Two. No more foreign aide of any kind. We are not a bank. Three. Disband all unions of any kind everywhere. Their usefulness has expired. Four. Even out the trade between countries. You sell us $1M worth of goods. You have to buy $1M worth of goods. Five. Get rid of ALL illegal aliens. Not just Mexicans. Every last one of them. Six. Speed up the process to lessen dependency on foreign oil. Invest in renewable resource technology. If these steps were to be implemented the USA could balance it's budget in less than 2 years. It would also be able to eliminate the national debt.

Even in the 29 depression productivity increased due to layoffs...We are headed for a jobless recovery because of transnational corporations rule your government, you know, the government who is elected to represent you. Outsourcing started with Jack Welch and every Republican has supported it along with the corporate Democrats, as Bill Clinton did.

In 1973 was when exports started to decrease and imports began to infiltrate our shores, and it has been out of balance since then. Why? In 1948 GATT was passed which reduced America's tariffs from 29% to 15% and things got moving toward globalism and the export of jobs from this country. Since then tariffs have been reduced to around 5%.

However, we could have been in a better position if we had an economy more closely to that of Germany's pre 1990. Corporations are made by the government to be productive and competitive, by not allowing them to become monopolies, and therein lies the difference.

You see, if the neocon Republicans and the corporate Democrats were for free enterprise they would break up the monopolies in health insurance, gas and oil, auto industry, etc. and allow small companies to grow and prosper without being bought and sold with debt by their competitors. But they're not.

They are being bought by the corporatists pimps to say big government and taxes are the problem to growth. It's mainly the libertarians of the Ayn Rand ilk that believe that no regulation and big government is the problem. If that were true, why do we have a banking failure and no competition in health insurance, gas prices, pharmaceuticals, after years of tax breaks and deregulation and on and on.

Because they get their campaign contributions from them to keep things the way they are. It's time to change our elections to public funded elections and make it illegal to take any money from anyone..............

President Reagan.... 4% unemployment rate. All of your 'facts' are slanted as is your politics.

You are right on the money! Unfortunately I believe that your math is a calculated and diabolical plan. A concerted effort has been taken by the powers that be in charge to create a wellfare nation in order to control the population. The fix is exactly what you propose except that the politicians are all in on the plan. Bloody revolution is the next step in the process and it is already defensed against with the patriot act. Good luck and great post.

Dear Mr. Swinney:
I appreciate your comments very much. Fox and other commentaries tell us how bad it is going to get the government is very ratical but no one is telling us what to do. Buy gold and silver, store food, write to aall the congressmen but the tornato of global control is coming like a sumani?????????? I thought about trying to move to New Zealand you have to have an expensive resume to get into this country Israel the same where can one go for safety?

Clarence is FAR from stupid. The statistics are VERY real. Anyone can access them from our own governmental agencies. Most will not because they are too lazy to learn how to think for themselves: "RUN FOREST".

Businesses located in USA (none are American businesess as they are privately owned and not property of the state), are choosing to relocate their key employment centers in places in the world that do not beleive the creators of all wealth and income (businesses) are a bad thing. Nobody with a brain is starting to build new businesses in USA (the only source of job growth) as they are building in China and other places that want to grow and prosper. In other words, we are taking our cheese out of your reach and you will not get the money you think you will from teh rich or businesses - you are screwed.

Rich people are creating jobs with taxpayer money. This is socialism, not capitalism. In a capitalistic democracy, rich people should only be credited with creating jobs through profits from the technological advancements they make that create a demand by the public for their goods and services.

Poor people create jobs by spending a greater percentage of their disposable income, thereby increasing demand for the goods and services of private enterprise. Give a poor person the same amount of taxpayer money that the government is throwing at failed corporate enterprises and they will create jobs too.

It was under regan when the way we count unemployment was changed