Prior to his appearance at the Daytona Speedway to be the grand marshal for the Pepsi 400, the presidential campaign for Republican hopeful RUDOLPH GIULIANI hit a major speedbump (pun always intended). During a town hall meeting this weekend that the former NYC mayor presided over he was loudly jeered. RUDY said all the right things to this crowd of bible belt NASCAR fans when he was questioned about whether or not more people should die in the desert, but he stumbled over himself after saying that he opposed the implementation of a ‘flat tax’ system as a way of overhauling the federal income tax system.
Even though I am a registered Republican voter I also oppose the ‘flat tax’ rate system as proposed by several Congressional legislators because it still allows the rich and corporations to shelter their earnings while the middle class (read: working class) shoulders the brunt of the responsibility for funding governmental services like the war in the Middle East.
Here is the new DALLAS PENN Dot Com buzzword phrase for the next decade in the American economy – COMPASSIONATE CAPITALISM. This is the idea that corporations and big business must be held accountable for their uncontrolled profiteering. With so many sectors in the private industry consolidating and merging there are companies returning to their original monolithic monopoly-like hold on our economy. Bell Telephone which had been split into many pieces is transforming into a tele-communications Leviathan under the name of Verizon.
No presidential candidate has spoken to America’s biggest problem which isn’t terrorism, but a lack of opportunity for living wage employment. This speaks directly to all the companies that have outsourced entire divisions of their manufacturing, processing and customer service overseas. Guess what GIULIANI, CLINTON, McCAIN, OBAAMA, et al? It’s STILL the economy stupid!
Amen, Pastor Dallas! Preach!
Bloomberg/Dallas Penn for Republican nomination?
Disagree,
Obaama and Edwards have Spoken about the economy. Edwards has a detailed plan to give tax incentives to companies that do not outsource jobs.
It’s funny that so many people fight to protect the right to rampant capitalism when it consists of removing jobs and even weakening the country. Yeah you jeans cost lest when made by people getting less than a dollar an hour…but it also means that their home country are the makers and the sellers.
Ron Paul, ya’ll, Ron Paul
outsourcing and living wages are something that previous generations didn’t have to worry about as much as we do. the permanent lower class (ie; illegals) are the new age slaves in a country whose economy was born on backs of slave labor!
illegals are always looked at as the problem, however if you look closely at their working conditions the fact that they are often threatened with death, women raped or worse if they complain, they are indeed working for slave labor in a country that’s not theirs.
No presidential candidate has spoken to America’s biggest problem which isn’t terrorism, but a lack of opportunity for living wage employment.
Yup. *in Jay-Z’s voice* I vote for Dallas for President. Good post homie
Cosign Amadeo,
Back in the day, Henry Ford made sure his factory workers got paid 2X that of the average US factory worker. Ford, a Nazi supporter, was no good guy. Ford did this out of his own profit self-interest. By paying his factory workers the higher wage, those folks could BUY HIS CARS, and hence H Ford would have a stable base demand for his Ford cars.
Sadly, I don’t think any American CEOs or PhDee Dee Dee no-think economists think this way in 2007.
When engineers, radiologists, accountants, etc are getting offshored to Asia, what are Americans supposed to do to replace those jobs?
Without such jobs, how will the US middle class avoid decreasing?
Without the same level of US middle class, how will the “TI” CEOs of Consumer Products companies have a market to sell shit to?
Truth is stranger & better than fiction:
An Arab-Mexican dude just sonned Bill Gates as the World’s richest dude
http://elgringocolombiano.blogspot.com/2007/07/worlds-richest-person-arab-mexican.html
I’m actually against the flat tax. Why get rich or die trying, only to end up having to shoulder the same burdens the poor and middle class do? Yo, this is America homeboy! Eff a Democracy, this is Capitalism at it’s best. Once we realize that, and get our effin hustle on and collect that guap, we made it out of the effin Matrix! I got my paper right, now I ned mt taxes right! If I wanted shit fair and equal, I’d move to Quebec To- Effin-MORROW!
Guiliani could pass a law giving one million dollars to every Hip Hop Photographer and name a city after me and return all land to Native Americans and suck off three winos in Macy’s window to apologize for his horrible, hatin, dividing, police state antics while he was the racist mayor of NYC and I would still curse him, his gangster father and the bad karma NYC/America and the world shared the day his punk bitch ass was born.
Fuck him, FucK Bush and all republicans, democrats, independants and all the dumb asses that keep electing them.
America is like a bttered wife who listens to her husbands lame lies and says “well, maybe this time he’ll be better” then she gets fucked over, beaten, kicked in the ass and he only apologizes when he gets put in handcuffs.
Politicans should be given 6 months in office. If they don’t at least start to improve shit, they get bounced, fired and if they try to steal on the way out put their asses in jail. Ernie Paniccioli author of Who Shot ya?