The faster our economy tanks, they believe, the sooner they can fulfill their dreams of a socialist society. That is their agenda, the idiots. As if their lives will remain intact once the barbarians overrun the borders.

Does anyone know how much Intel gave to the Obama campaign before his election? Are they so stupid that they didn’t see this coming?

this. Do you think the Dems/Administration will let him get away with saying things like this and go unpunished? Let’s see. Maybe a new punitive tax on US semiconductor manufacturers who move operations or expand overseas would do just fine.

I can only hope that the message is finally starting to sink in. A little more than a decade ago, my Congressional distrct, which leads the nation in creating successful companies, and is the nation’s second wealthiets, was represented by Republican, Tom Campbell– He may not be the favorite of some at RS, but he was a good fit for this district and a generally reliable Republican vote and policy innovator n many areas, who won praise from conservative stalwarts like Tom McClintock.

Now, in my district, and almost every one around it, Democrats win with 70%+ majorities. It would be hard to think of another area in the country where the Republican presence has fallen so far, so fast. IMHO, A lot of that damage was self-inflicted by poor Republican policy and messaging, but a lot was also because people didn’t understand how bad Democratic economic management was going to be.

I’m hopeful that 2010 will be the start of a Republican comeback in Silicon Valley. There is no reason why anyone who cares about innovation or job creation should support Democrats.

My background is not finance, but in the course of ecent business dealings with a large company, I became aware of the signal fact the the pension funds have for some while now been moving money – the pension funds for the teachers in Ohio and Michigan, for example. Not the Soros crowd or even the Warren Buffett crowd , not investing it in Iceland or Malaysia, but the “we’ve got to put this some place safer than it is now.” And they are acting. Millions, even billions (?) of dollars are moving, or, “repositioning.” I know where. This man in the WH is quietly considered now, by Dems and conservatives, anyone who has responsibility in the financial world, a maniac and he is stealth-panicking our Economy to death. FWIW you may quote me and the phrase. It’s one thing to decry on RS how bad the 0 is, it’s another when a non-finance type like me stumbles over something astounding like this.

will be lucky to keep the lights on by next month! Thanks to all those ignotant fools that voted for this commie!

will be lucky to keep the lights on by next month! Thanks to all those ignotant fools that voted for this commie!

Impeachment must be set up to begin on the 1st day of the New Congress. America and citizens/voters/taxpayers will not stand by and watch and incompetent CORRUPT politicans destroy the greatest Nation on this earth THE USA.
We have had all the CORRUPTION of obama, obiden, schumer, murray, boxer. leafy, reid, pelosi, frank, dodd, kennedy, byrrd, durbin, rangel, waters, Mccain, graham, lincoln. winer, the nelsons, the list goes on. These elitest has not been doing their jobs the last 20 years but padding their own pockets.
Taxpayers/cotozens/voters are not going to let the slime continue to operate in Washington, DC or the State Houses.
Its like I don’t give a dang where the mosque is built as long as it is not on Hallowed Ground and when a radical hijacker airplane landing gear goes through a building and that plane went on to murder Americans at Work, THAT IS HALLOWED GROUND, Got that eman the pman.
I learned long ago you don’t start negoiating with left wing librals or radicals from their side because their side is so far out of reason to begin with and you will be the one getting yenyanged.

There i will sleep better tonight.

(mostly in business or first class thanks to all my frequent flier mileage) and have had dozens of conversations with business folks moving at least part of their business overseas.

These are multi-year investments – many companies are not confident that we (Republicans) can or have the will power to turn things around in a significant fashion.

Folks – this country is in more trouble than you can possibly imagine.

These companies are making mid to long term investments that will take years of a proven pro-business track record to even begin to see a turn around.

I’ve been meaning to write a diary on this, perhaps I will (leaving in 10 days for another 90+ day trip).

P.S. There’s also plenty of folks moving overseas from CONUS.

At least the 1st part regarding regulation burdens with the cost of manufacturing. and building new plants – however his desire to basically import “gut-cheap” labor from third world countries like India and SE Asia to replace American technology jobs would be devastating to one of the last industries still providing jobs in the US.

These guys don’t want to come out and say it, but we are an aged market and not where they were going to look for growth no matter what policies are in place or who is in power. Companies can read the demographic writing on the wall and knew that not only are we an aging population (with the costs that entails), but we were also so overleveraged for the past 30 years that once the party stopped (as it did in 2007/8/9) we were going to take years to retrench, pay off debt, and emerge as a nation that consumed less (on a per capita basis).

Do we need to lower corporate taxes – yes (they don’t really generate much of the overall pie anyways) and do we need to regulate much more tactically – yes (but regulation is needed as is proven time and again). But even with that, our time as the world’s consumer has likely ended and in the long run our economy will be the better for it.

The template looks like this, cut from the OP:

Not long ago, ________ said, “our research centers were without peer. No country was more attractive for start-up capital… We seemed a generation ahead of the rest of the world in ___________ technology. That simply is no longer the case.

Congress set us up for the fall, Bush laid down for them. Now Obama and his wrecking crew are delivering the death blow.

Even the liberals.

I used the tag line:

“We need change alright. Change to some people who know how to create jobs.”

Both of which can be done at the local/state level. The fed-gov has shown little or no interest in either of these. Manufacturing goods and their related services are the only path to a true economic recovery. Tax and utility abatements are the only attractive incentives that will draw mfg. back to the U.S.. Border control will be achieved by the following, armed national guard troops, a functioning fence, and punative, painful, fines to companies who employ illegals. These common sense fixes are not new, they just need to either be finally implemtented or revisited.

It would be hard for a rational person to disagree with much in this article, however I think the people of this country have bought into yet another gradual deception, of which they are completely unaware. The concept of those guys in Washington being our leaders is hogwash. They are our employees, hired to do a job that they are not doing.

I suppose I could be wrong about the rest of you, but I don’t need a leader, I am perfectly capable of determining my own destiny, and I would appreciate the folks in Washington allowing me to do so. Once again, we hire them to represent us (that means do what we tell them to do), not lead us (as in force us to do their bidding). We already know where we want to go, and it’s not the direction that these self styled leaders are taking us. They aren’t leaders, they are employees. It’s time that they started acting that way, and equally, it’s time we once again began thinking of them that way. They are hired to be followers (of our direction) not our leaders.

We have laws being written bt lawyers. Regulations being vetted by lawyers. Lawsuits being judged by judges approved by the lawyers union (American Bar Association) and argued by lawyers who get a percentage of the award.
This leads to multi milloin dollar lawsiuts for things like hot coffee being too hot. Or legislation that is unreal and unreasonable like the democrat in the mid 1990s who wanted all buckets to be manufactured with a hole in the bottom so they could not hold water. It was debated on the house floor. Iit was NOT defeated it was ammended. If you think i am kidding look at the warning on the side of a 5 gallon bucket of soap found in any store, the one with the small child drowning. Look also at the plethora of warning labels on consumer products. They were put there to AVOID layers and lawsuits. Companies have to buy insurance to protect them selfs raising the cost of doing business.