With the recent Presidential election, the Republican Party is asking what went wrong with the results . . . that is to say, why didn't we win the election with Mitt Romney.
Listening to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity in the following day's (I don't usually listen, but got hooked for some reason) got me to thinking.
Rush's proposition is that "conservatism is the road to prosperity." With no data to back this, I offer this alternative reasoning why this is so. Conservatism is principly based with a religious background. If you are ultra-conservative, then you will hold the belief that the woman's place is in the home - ie: homemaker. Now as a homemaker, you do two things, 1) you are not looking for work which lowers the unemployment figures, and 2) you drive up the demand for men as the primary source of labor, which in turn, drives up pay scales.
Prosperity is in reach.
Now while responding to a caller on Sean's radio program who (I believe) was from Michigan, Sean made a statement that Ronmey was the best hope to promote the Spirit of Entrepreneurialism in America and that under a Romney administration, the auto industry would have come out of it's crash several years ago better and stronger than under the current state the auto industry is in via Obama's bailout. This by removing the unions and other laws that have a "strangle hold" on the auto industry in America. Now, what would happen if the unions and other laws were removed. 1) workers pay would be lowered as a stipulation for them to keep their jobs, 2) there would most likely be some layoffs, 3) a number of jobs would most likely be sent overseas, and 4) profits would rise. Now let's make an unreasonable assumption that all those laid off as a result of consolidation and offshoring were republicans. Let's see their reaction when they are told that their future lies in the Spirit of Entrepreneurialism. Go ahead, start a business. Now for those still working, their standard of living must decline unless they get a second job.
Prosperity is in reach?
2 comments:
LOTS of inconsistencies in your post (especially in terms of that Hannity episode, let alone the four terms that you postulated.
God help the folks who voted yet again for Obama and are still holding their hands out...for a hand out. This nation seriously needs to re-think economics in terms of long-term prosperity.
True inconsistencies, but again, only personal postulations which represent a "seed for thought."
Been a while - Happy New Years Rae.
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