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Is to pose this one simple question to the masses:
Do you want another decade of stagnation and deep cuts, another decade of regression and fear, while we continue to lose our global grip on competitiveness, or do we want to win the future by investing in America in a major way through infrastructure, education, innovation, technological advances, manufacturing and all of the emerging jobs markets that these will create?
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Anyone who opts for choice 1 is either lying to themselves or is too stupid and shouldn't be allowed to vote.
If the Dems kept on this message they would win a landslide victory in the House, Senate and Presidency. I think Americans have had enough of talking about austerity and stagnation. They are waking up to the idea that we are completely off message about our desire to lower the deficit immediately. Poll after poll shows us over and over that the deficit is one of the least of our citizens concerns. People want JOBS. People want America to be #1 again. People want to feel the pride of manufacturing, building, competing, inventing, supplying, creating, taking risks, and succeeding. People want to know that there is a job waiting for them when they graduate college. A career. People want the American dream again.
What does austerity give us? Hopelessness and stagnation. Worry and panic. Paranoia and fear. A future where we will see the rest of the world pass us by as we stand still for a manufactured deficit backed by pieces of paper that aren't back by anything at all. Just think, our deficit is imaginary. We are letting an invisible entity hold us back.
But since we owe this imaginary, invisible deficit to another country and are obligated to pay for it, why the f**k would we not try to create revenue to at least make an attempt to pay down the deficit?! Sure we would have to spend money we don't have, to pay back money we won't have, but eventually we would break through to a surplus, whereas austerity would make this feat either impossible or take twice as long due to stagnation.
Spending money to make money. Isn't that rule #1 in business startup?! Why do Americans get it but they don't? Notably republicans. Again, Americans won't care about the deficit when they are employed with good jobs and living the American Dream. We can operate while running deficits, especially when the outlook is very bright. Imagine, at one time Apple was operating while running deficits, but they knew the future was bright and so did the marketplace and world economy. So much of economics is psychological, which is why it's always good to have a light at the end of the tunnel.
Investing in America IS that light at the end of the tunnel. Austerity is the darkness we could leave behind.
Side-note: End the wars and reform the tax codes as well.
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