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I don't need a tax credit -- I need a job!

by Les Porter

In many ways Pat Buchanan sounds like the House's impotent "Boner." (Did you see that "look" the "Boner" gave the President? The intense hatred in his eyes? Just before the "I Won" statement?)

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Image: Wikipedia John Boehner, House Minority Leader, 2008-2009
John looks friendly here! He led the "0" Republican Vote!

Pat doesn't "get it." And he should -- he was one of nine children where early on he had to work hard in the family pecking order. The rhythm method does not work. But it did Pat a lot of good. Those niceties over, it is hard to imagine how Pat reached his present state of Obstructionist Republican Idiocy. Thank goodness he is not in the Senate. Or the House. Especially not in the Senate.

But you had to "hear" Pat on MSNBC News Live on Saturday Morning, Jan 24,2009, talking to Mike Barnicle. Pat Buchanan wants to give every one who buys an American-Made Automobile a $5000.00 Tax Credit! Wonderful, wonderful! Michael Barnicle thought that was a great idea. He did not ask how the person could "pay" for the car to which he could claim a $5,000 deduction.

Who is the guy, the man or woman, or the family who can "afford" to buy any "new" American-"made" automobile without a job? He can't even pay for his ARM. If he doesn't have a job or a place to live what good is a tax cut for his car? Sounds like a Republican. Look, I campaigned for Goldwater, but I eventually awoke. Buchanan campaigned and worked for Nixon, then Ford, then Reagan -- one of the early models for Karl Rove to imitate, emulate exceed and complete. I thought, running as a candidate outside of his GOP days showed signs of his mental recovery. I would not vote for him because of his connections to the last nearly civil Republicans -- but he wasn't completely separated.

Clearly, it is not a tax cut that American's need. It is a Job. A good paying, meaningful job! Not a job that rewards banks, the wealthy, the exploitative corporations -- and especially NOT the Fossil Carbon poison purveyors. The Jobs we need are fossil carbon free jobs. The jobs need to be "building" the transmission network as well as the infrastructure that has been abandoned. The most important factor is to have the government pay the people to do the work. That does a lot more than a tax cut -- since there is just not going to be enough to make a few of the "wealthy" create new jobs. Period. If they could make money investing in creating jobs, they would be doing it. Cutting taxes for them doesn't help the economy.

For example, we Do Not need Cap and Trade -- we need a Fossil Carbon Tax, collected by the Government, and 100% returned on a per capita basis to bona fide American Citizens, not illegal aliens. Any Fossil Carbon used for anything, as a feed stock, as fuel, for plastics or food should be taxed where it arrives in the US or at the mine or well head.

Pat Buchanan might have been an Ordinary American at one time, but he "just don't get it," now, and like many other "Republican" Big Fossil Carbon purchases, he thinks a "Tax Cut" or a Tax Credit will stimulate the national economy. But how does the buyer "pay" for his purchase? And where does he park it? At his foreclosed hovel? Or on the street?

No Pat. The whole thing is about JOBS! Most of these good jobs had dirty job components that would have to be cleaned up in the US but could be shipped overseas since "Profit" is not at all connected to or in line with worker or "employees" survival. Pat has had "good luck," but in an equal opportunity situation, or with the roll of an un-weighted pair of dice -- where would he be? You gotta realize he was a Nixon guy and that becomes a taint that you really have to wash hard to become clean.

(Can you imaging Pat, now, 70, pan-handling on the corner, living in his car -- reaching out to Republicans -- to support tax cuts and credits. Opposed to job creation. Yeah.)

But some of Obama's economic helpers don't get it either. They are acolytes of the Banking Cartel. They do not serve the species interest.

And, President Barack Obama, you NEED to get better advice! I voted for you, but you may not really have heard my voice or the people's voice. If you listen to some of the people that are in your economic adviser's group -- the likes of Robert Rubin, Larry Summers (with help from Lant Pritchett)and Geithner (who worked for Kissinger and Associates), these guys are ALL PART of the economic problem. Geithner has too large of an arterial connection to the Federal Reserve Cartel of Banks. What is Good for The Federal Reserve (Cartel) is not really good for Americans. Geithner helped in the decisions by Paulson to give this or that institution funds without strings. He was in on the decisions as part of his job at the New York Fed Cartel bank.

Geithner needs to be interested in preserving the American System of Government -- not the Federal Reserve Cartel. Profit, Future Value, Compounded Interest, financial derivative instruments,credit cards unlimited, hedge funds, all are in the self-interest of the Banking Cartel -- not in the interest of Americans, or for that matter, the billions of people across the globe. Geithner needs to have his umbilical connection to the Federal Reserve cleanly and permanently cut.

Geithner's grasp of the "real" world, a world that does not involve the imaginary monetary universe, needs to be inculcated. One way to do this inculcation is to reduce his pay and accouterments to those of one or another American at or near the poverty-level. Then see how he thinks on fixing the stimulus -- without protecting the Cartels that have caused this difficulty. (Oh, I won't deny that all us American slackards in some cases were loaned 125% of home values -- a situation like staying for the last card in Seven Card Stud, betting on the "come," that home values would increase through time. Who skimmed the money? Yep Wall Street and Banks. Paulson may have to move to China and explain the bad paper he sold them.)

Honest fellow, Greenspan, at least in front of Congress, admitted he was operating on a Flawed Model while serving the Fed. Summers, Geithner, Rubin all share that flawed model which serves several of the ancient Deadly Sins. Realize, there is not a speck of "religion" in the Seven Sins -- these have to do with species survival, or non-survival.

Some for the main economic advisers of Obama are interested in protection of the "banking system" not the people or the planet. These are folks feeding off the teats of largess, the money milking money printing mechanism of the banking cartel. Some priorities have to be brought into clear focus.

Maybe Obama will come to his senses. We have a Planetary Emergency and we have caused it. This Fossil Carbon problem is the fuel for the melt down. What if we have a couple more Katrina's spawned in the warming oceans of the next few years? But it isn't just stopping fossil carbon emissions. It is going the extra distance to remove what we and corporations we allow to exist have placed there and continue to place there.

"Jobs," lots of them, are the issue. Credit cards, credit, future value, ARMs, hedges, all need to be controlled. Some eliminated. Some written off, some debts "forgiven." Really. If I give you a Tax Cut, are you going to create some jobs? Really? It did not work under Reagan, why would it now? Giving the Republicans Tax Cuts and credits moved the jobs offshore some distance, but they still wanted to be able to exploit the markets here, you know, sell you stuff you used to make within the country.

Because of the "vote," this country could be ruled by the people, not just by the banks, or the Greedy Wall Street Crooks. Cap and Trade makes more Wall Street Millionaires and does nothing for the environment or for the Commons we all breathe.

Recall that if you deposit one cent at 1 percent compounded annually, it yields $1.9 quadrillion dollars in 4000 years. Would a bank assign such to your offspring through time. The yearly interest now would be $19 trillion. More than the US GDP. We could not even pay the interest on the penny investment.

We need to govern the Banks. Pat? How would that translate to you? And Pat, we need jobs to buy the American-made cars for which you want to give us a tax credit.

Get the jobs and the cars will sell.