So Smokey, how do we raise the financial level? You keep saying that over and over, with no idea how that’s supposed to happen.

Originally Posted by: Cheesey 

I've repeatedly covered this point, and will do so again.

To start, place tariffs on most imported products. Make it less expensive to make it in America once again. From steel to televisions to medical products, reestablishing an American manufacturing industry would create good jobs and supply a further need to supply/service those businesses.

Use enterprise zones to get small businesses started or rescued. Low interest loans with long term repayment plans would be a key feature. Tax relief could also encourage small businesses as well. Jobs would be created and the overall economy would benefit.

More. better paying jobs would also result in more tax revenue. This revenue could be utilized to fund infrastructure in great need like bridges, roads, and utilities projects. Also Education should see more funding for labs, building maintenance, and new student housing. Job training centers could also be included as training for new businesses will be in greater demand.

Not supplying multi-million giveaways to political friends would also mean more tax revenue for medical, scientific, and other research projects that will pay big in the future. Direct more use of the railroads to transfer freight/raw materials. Cost would be reduced and wear on already strained highways would ease. Truckers would still be used as before, but more regional routes would replace need for coast to coast runs.

Many ideas known/unknown would come into play. A healthier middle class that would include minorities would go a long way to change the ever widening gap between the haves and the havenots that is a great part of today's unrest. Real change requires leadership.

Originally Posted by: Smokey 

It’s SOUNDS good, but it’s not realistic. People here want too high of wages and benefits for companies to exist here. Look at fast food places. People want $15 an hour to flip burgers.
The cost of products made here would make it impossible for the people living here to afford them.
Add the greed of business owners, and you have a dream plan that’s not going to happen.
Even if you got a handful of companies to build here, that wouldn’t be enough to help.
The reasons I all ready stated in this post are the reasons companies left in the first place.
And to place tariffs on products coming into the country.....who would end up paying those tariffs? That’s right, it would be passed on to us, the consumer.
We owe so much money to places like China, that if they ever said “pay up”, we’d be in real trouble.
So dream scenarios won’t help the reality.

Originally Posted by: Cheesey 

Reading about Floyd’s funeral....thousands waited in line for hours to get a glimpse of his golden casket....and there was a picture of him with angel wings and a halo.
His death was sad, but they make him out to be Mother Teresa! His arrest record has him arrested several times for theft and drug convictions. And in 2007 for armed robbery in a home invasion. Sentenced to 5 years in prison, he was paroled in 2013. Hardly a saint if you ask me. And he was a huge man, not some little guy. Had he done what the police told him to do, it wouldn’t have escalated.
That’s what I don’t get. The media makes him out to be this perfect guy who did no wrong, and don’t put any blame on him for his actions in this. Had he complied with the cops, he would still be alive. Yes, the cop went over board with the use of force. And he will be tried in court for it. I’m NOT justifying the cops actions!
But the use of Floyd’s death is insane. Just using him to throw fuel on the fire to cause more damage.

Thousands of people died because of corona virus, and families couldn’t even have a funeral to pay their respects to their loved ones. Yet thousands are allowed at Floyd’s funeral? Tell me there are not other motives at play here.

Originally Posted by: Cheesey 

Youre a piece of shit

Originally Posted by: bboystyle 

Real classy.
Tell me where I’m wrong?
I’ve noticed that the “kind, loving, compassionate” liberals always resort to comments like this when they don’t have any intelligent response.
Way to show what you really are. You couldn’t show anything point to where what I said was somehow wrong.
It’s ok.....I’ve seen the same thing from other liberals on here. I myself won’t lower myself to your level.
Tell me, is calling someone that has a different point of view “a piece of shit” politically correct?
I know... you must be from the political party that allows different opinions, (unless they are different then yours).
Soooo classy!

Originally Posted by: Cheesey