No Jobs

Common sense should tell you that the impact is just more than people losing their jobs. Our problem is no jobs. I don't believe that the government can create jobs but I believe that they can do things to help employment. Taxing everything, from banking to tanning booths, is not the answer. Cutting taxes to allow business to grow and don't create anything that is uncertain, like the true cost of universal health care. To this day no one has seen a bill, no one has had a change to read a bill and no bill has made it to the desk of the President. All this causes business to hold back on everything from inventory to the amount of employees they keep. That is not the only thing, on the job injury goes up for a bit but then it falls because of fear of losing the job after they get back to work. We hear the the talk about making college affordable to all but with no jobs how good is a degree. They talk about re-education of unemployed people but some are of them are on the boarder, age wise, but most reeducation takes more than a few months to complete the retraining, and no one is hiring. The people at unemployment tell you, you may have to take less money than you a use to, still no one is hiring full time, maybe part time but no benefits, which is what you are really after. The biggest thing is the State, Federal and the unions officials, still get their money, make no mistake about that, they get their money, after all we would not want them to have to take a cut in salary. Through all of the bad times we have had, I can't recall any time when the politicians and the Unions, every went with out their money. As I remember, when the government did not pass the bill to keep the government running, the politicians their staffs and the Unions, got paid but no one else did, funny how that works. I guess that some politicians may be out of work come November some may be unemployed but remember in Illinois the University of Illinois, being broke itself, they still found a place for the Ex-Governor Jim Edger. Broke only when it comes to hourly wages?
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When,Where and How

Common sense should tell you that more inspections, at the American airports, would not have stopped the underwear bomber. Every time we find a bomber, on a aircraft, coming from overseas, the first thing we do is beef up the inspections in the U.S.. The problem is and has always been in other countries. In this case Nigeria and or Amsterdam. We should try to all countries to inspect better. Now I know, that we can't get others to due a better job and I know that we can't be everywhere but we can inspect at major airports, where one would need to change plains to get to the USA. Places like London, Israel, Russia and Austria, would not need to have our own people but others we need to control the passengers. We need not have people in countries that do not have direct flights to the U.S. but we need to check, ourselves and not rely on others. Now I, also, know that it will never be done, because of feelings of some other countries would be hurt, that would be a price I would be willing to take. Have the military instead of a TSA, we know how to inspect people. Unless you can get, what is called an hourglass system, at all major foreign airports, that have direct flights to the U.S. slowing down domestic flights with more inspections, will not help anything. Our security, at domestic airports are just fine, it's the airports overseas that have direct flights to the U.S. that is the problem. When do the people in charge get it. I know of a city that the answer to a Molotov cocktail was to put in a metal detector. This what happened, with the underwear bomber, all security in the USA, got tighter. The threat came from Nigeria by way of Amsterdam no place in the U.S., so why tighten down the domestic airports and backup flights, who knows. Get it right it is the foreign airports, nothing will get better.
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One of the Problems

Common sense should tell you that our political chose is not the whole problem. As I see it, it is the appointments that the politicians make. These people are not approved by any one, except the politicians contribution team. Most of these appointments, are to positions we, as non-politicians, never heard of or did not know that is was a position. Some of these persons, like to get the appointment because it helps them in the long run, about customers and contacts, not for money gain. Others, however, have money on their minds. As government works, they get their hand on the money first. That is also why most programs become under funded. The administration cost are to big to fund the actual program or take out enough that it becomes under funded. The question that is the least asked, is the question that always should be the first asked is never asked. Like the V.A., they tell congress how many people they have helped or say they have helped. The question should be how many have they turned away and why. If the answer is money, then look at the administration cost. The waste and fraud, can be found there, because they are political, GOP or DEMS., no one will do anything because they may want to appoint some one some day. There should be, wait, there always should be, but never is. We should demand a list of all positions that are political appointments and a list of all appointed to these positions. Have committee that checks the hires, check the qualifications and say yes or no. The best way to handle the money, is to. have a budget for the administration cost and a budget for the programs operation. Therefore the appointees could not get their hands on the programs money. A lot more programs would be better funded and a lot less appointees would become rich for their appointment.
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