Sunday, February 08, 2009
My Response to a Professor’s Commentary
I read a commentary this week from an economics professor this past week. He had some ideas for stimulating the economy. I totally disagree with his ideas. They only favor corporations and wealthy people and would ruin our country.
One suggestion he stated was to abolish corporate income taxes. He believes that the corporations would spend the money they save from this for labor or in research and development. Riigght! I have a better suggestion. If a corporation does business here in the U.S. and hires American workers than cut the corporate income tax for them as a reward. Those companies that outsource jobs but want to sell their products or services here should be made to pay a penalty tax and the money shoul go into the unemployment fund for all the people they put out of work.
Another suggestion he had was to increase immigration for highly skilled and technical people. Sure. Put more Americans out of work because corporations want the cheaper labor. My thought is let’s shut down all immigration until such time as every American who has a job and wants a job is working. We don’t need the extra workers right now and this would lessen the pressure on our services and infrastructures. In addition, we must encourage our young people to value education and study science and math. These children should be encouraged to go into these type of careers. Companies should be required to hire Americans first or pay a penalty.
The professor’s last idea infuriates me. She says that American labor shouldn’t be allowed to unionize. This is a way of taking away worker’s rights. He is suggesting that workers should be stuck in low paying jobs, working long hours and have no benefits while the business they work for makes obscene amounts of profits on the worker’s labor. Worker’s should have more benefits and pay. The corporations need to have responsibility toward American workers when they want Americans to buy their products and services.
We Americans must continue to state our opinions against ideas from people who want to turn our nation into a two tiered society. We must stand up for our rights or we’ll become slave workers so a few can live off our backs in comfort.
One suggestion he stated was to abolish corporate income taxes. He believes that the corporations would spend the money they save from this for labor or in research and development. Riigght! I have a better suggestion. If a corporation does business here in the U.S. and hires American workers than cut the corporate income tax for them as a reward. Those companies that outsource jobs but want to sell their products or services here should be made to pay a penalty tax and the money shoul go into the unemployment fund for all the people they put out of work.
Another suggestion he had was to increase immigration for highly skilled and technical people. Sure. Put more Americans out of work because corporations want the cheaper labor. My thought is let’s shut down all immigration until such time as every American who has a job and wants a job is working. We don’t need the extra workers right now and this would lessen the pressure on our services and infrastructures. In addition, we must encourage our young people to value education and study science and math. These children should be encouraged to go into these type of careers. Companies should be required to hire Americans first or pay a penalty.
The professor’s last idea infuriates me. She says that American labor shouldn’t be allowed to unionize. This is a way of taking away worker’s rights. He is suggesting that workers should be stuck in low paying jobs, working long hours and have no benefits while the business they work for makes obscene amounts of profits on the worker’s labor. Worker’s should have more benefits and pay. The corporations need to have responsibility toward American workers when they want Americans to buy their products and services.
We Americans must continue to state our opinions against ideas from people who want to turn our nation into a two tiered society. We must stand up for our rights or we’ll become slave workers so a few can live off our backs in comfort.
# posted by Freedomstar @ 6:31 PM 
