Where the GOP goes from here

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They need to make their case for smaller government and economic conservatism to the people and *most importantly* stop laying down while they get slandered.....and slandered...and slandered...... this election was great evidence that when you repeat something, no matter how demagogic or farse, it becomes not only a cultural tautology but bears then the full weight and benefit of group think and social conformity.

In extract - they need to clear the air that they're NOT the party of anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-freedom, anti-black, anti-hispanic, pretty much anti-everything except for white, rich, male, and protestant. Unfortunatly, as late in the game as it is, I have a feeling we'll be down to a one party system within 20 years time (Democrat) and if something else emerges it'll likely be both worse than either party we have now AND gravitate even more grown children of all stripes. That new party could very well be the American brown-shirts that everyone is worried about seeing surface.

The funny thing about it - our best weapon against demagogy is the opposite of it; clear, lucid, adult-to-adult explanation. We need more Charles Krauthammers, Bill Bennets, etc.

OK, I will give that a try. Everyone is wrong.

First off you have two parties, both selling Free Lunch. There is no such thing.

Republicans might say things, they do it for the money. The old values, and I used to be one, when a dollar was an ounce of silver, and debt was a four letter word.

Everything they pitch now devalues the dollar, tax cuts drive up debt, leads to printing more money, so the rich they pander to are the main losers.

Democrats used to be about a fair deal, but supported labor unions that would not accept minorities. Their aid to women put them to work for low wages, and drove up the cost of living, to where they have to work, which puts a downward pressure on wages.

It is not gays that are killing marriage, what was lifelong fifty years ago now has a half life of eighteen months. Even Hollywood of the sixties only went to Reno a half dozen times, the press was worth it, but raising children, a known by product of marriage, is not as secure, in eighteen month sections.

Students were helped by Pell Grants, then loans, till Universities found a captive and not too bright group of consumers, and raised prices, leaving the educated in lifelong debt, and the heads of Universities making CEO money.

Minorities were promissed Civil Rights, and found that being equal to whites was still a bad deal, whites would rather hire mexicans, and Civil Rights became a gay issue.

Black women found they could get money if they had children, then Section Eight housing, food stamps, then workfare put them in job training, their children in daycare, and they were first in line for jobs. Black men could not have children, did not qualify for anything, but jail.

It split the Black Community into educated women with jobs, and uneducated men with police records.

Tons of money in the bank is not business, Investing cash is not business, it is free riding on those who work. I will buy your food, fuel, house, before you do, and you can pay more, because of my wealth.

Most people I know in business fit the description, I pay to work here. You work to get something saved, invest it in paying rent, work long days, and slowly build a business, where everything wears out, has to be replaced, and besides working twice the hours anyone would for wages, has to consider where they will be in five years, will this still work? Many have spent twenty years of hard work to be replaced overnight. Walmart killed most small town business, and made it worthless.

Do something that works, there is a line outside looking to copy it, with deep pocket investors, ship it off shore, and retail it for less than your production cost.

Big business, The Fortune 500, does not employ hardly anyone. The same for Small Business, less then 500 employees. Most people work for Micro Business, the guy that lives there, has all his assets on the line, and makes a payroll of three to five. He does not think about Capital Gains.

Still, the tax forms he has to fill out are the same as the Fortune 500, and even if you owe nothing, the cost of compliance is about $50,000 a year. He does not think a lower tax rate will fix everything, but a simpler tax code would.

In defense of marriage, which has become part time, marketing has to change. Perhaps one woman and a half dozen part time men who pay support, keep her Social Security paid up and create some security where she could raise a child, Mary has six daddies. It beats having six in a series.

The rights of children to a secure childhood, has been neglected by our Hedonist partner changing lifestyle, and one guy gets stuck with the ex daddy bill for eighteen years. After that he is not likey to pay for the university.

So I could see buying in to several timeshare marriages. It would still feel like cheating, since I am in business.

True that robot consumers are needed. the main business complaint, lack of customers. Nothing I ever did lasted. Change happens faster, but I have the same limits. I try to be several years ahead of the market, my speed to get there, but it happens faster now. Same idea, but with a million behind it. The market will have died before I could get there.

I have never turned down a customer, till after I got to find out what a horrible person they were. Business is intense, you live it, so you have to really like what you do, who you work with, and the customers.

Mostly I do it because I like the freedom of working sixteen hours a day, then filling out paper work. I do discrimanate, troublemakers are shown the door. Be nice, or leave.

It is all of our problem. Real work is declining, which means working harder to make less. Children seem an endangered species. There are not enough to pay our Social Security, even if they were trained to do something that produced a $100,000 a year.

As is they are over weight, under exercized, given a propaganda and Edutainment education, and have no idea of the past, future, or present. Most of them have had serial parents. they change as fast as school teachers. They are not going to catch the brass ring of the Middle Class they grew up in.

Unemployment, declining values, wages, money, are going to be around for a while. Then it will get worse. The government has to borrow money to aid New York and New Jersey, pay the War Babies Social Security, a trillion a year to make up for the tax shortfall, and the interest on the debt can only go up.

Painters, roofers, have been replaced by Mexicans, people who used to own construction companies are cutting grass. The small shops that survive were the tax shelters. Owners are working the floor in my hardware store, grocery. 8% of people left last year seeking work somewhere.

Two and three generations are living together, leaving millions of empty houses. The student loan generation cannot pay or go bankrupt.

It is not a choice between Mitt or Barry, our life died, and we need a new one.

For one we have to break up the large Capital Pools, raise taxes on them, and on stock trades. Tax speculation out of business.

The driving energy of our economy is dumb people like me, that work more than the rewards are worth, then invest my pitance back in. Lots of little people striving for a little more is the best economy. My business is also my social life, community, it keeps me involved.

Consumerism has died because through ebay and Goodwill, I can find anything I need. There is some good in Globalization, and cheap goods from China. We could not make it for the price.

Our sense of work has to change, it is something that cannot be enforced. A lot of the long term unemployed need ongoing support, and perhaps a hint that they could do something useful in return. There are poor towns that could use a paint job. Fixing your neighbors house, keeping a community garden, planting flowers on main street, fixing up playgrounds.

The WPA was an organized version, they did a lot of good art and building. Paying people to not work is needed, I support the reverse income tax, it would put all the social service food stamp people out of work, reducing the cost of government. Paying people and giving them the option to work on things they support. would be a better deal.

I think we need to reach out to the young, and tax them. From Fifth Grade, $10 a year, and they have to vote. As they are in school, a class in how government works, what the issues are, and the $10 goes into their year fund. Any year, we have five million, so they would raise $50,000,000 a year. Seven years of that they would have about a half billion, and so would every other year.

They are in this together, and being self funded, they would have a start in life. $50,000,000 will buy about 40,000 acres of good farm land. Next year they would have that income and another $50,000,000. By the time they finish high school they could have an age group country, with housing, work, and further education. Land is the basis of all wealth, the rest is labor and knowledge.

They would be retired, secure, and just starting.

We have to change our concepts of living. we need stronger identity groups. Giving them the vote would not greatly increase the electorate, and as they have to vote, being kids, and about 10% of the potential vote, anyone running would have to try for their vote. Seniors are known for always voting, and they get more than the kids starting out. Lets level the deal. As only half of people do vote, they would become an important block, and still have a curfew and bedtime. As adults, they would continue voting.

Raise, educate, and empower good citizens, with freedom and self interest. They would be a broad enough group of people to take on any project. If churches can be tax free, they too should be exempt. Their assets will grow. All of the money, $100 each, is nothing compared to the value of their labor in making it into something. Age group bookbags, T Shirts, we are talking big money. A clothing line?

The concept is something like States Rights, that many models can be tried, and see which work best. That had problems with regressive views, but an age group is a single time, with a common world. They are diverse, but they are one. As trained voters, they will form a more perfect union.

Off the soap box for now.

The GOP will just have to regroup and reassess what happened during the past election. Obama for some reason--I have no idea what that might be, exactly, though I have some ideas--managed to pull in the Hispanic vote and the vote of single women, and the Republicans have to think of ways to reach these groups more effectively.