Posted 03.04.2010
Wouldn’t it be nice if…
...the government would do more than give lip service to being pro-business?
By Jeff Thredgold
Wouldn't it be nice if...
...the President and the Congressional leadership would stop talking about being "pro-business" and actually a) promote pro-business policies, and b) remove anti-business initiatives that dominate their agenda?
...we weren't running a federal budget deficit of $183 million every 60 minutes?
...the Federal Reserve's upcoming attempts to unwind unprecedented monetary stimulus would be successful, with inflation staying under control?
...we could make real progress in "clean burn" coal technology?
...there was a stronger collective effort to improve opportunities in America's inner cities?
...American voters would send dozens of long-term members of Congress from BOTH parties home in November?
...more working people would save seriously for their Golden Years (an estimated one-third of the U.S. population saves zero for retirement)?
...our kids realized sooner that Mom and Dad might actually know what they are talking about?
...President Obama and the Congressional leadership were more focused on providing incentives for wealth creation and less focused on wealth redistribution?
...Wall Street "high rollers" had greater legal and financial accountability for the financial market abuses of recent years?
...the news media would run positive stories more than once a generation?
...the Osbournes were never heard from again?
...our 401(k) balances would continue to rebound nicely in coming years?
...some of the mind-boggling research advancements in energy production and alternative energy soon made their way into the economy?
..."government" would recognize that it is there to serve the people, and not the other way around?
...drive-by shootings were replaced by drive-by moonings?
...American corporate and consumer confidence would rise solidly in coming months?
...F.I.C.A. (Social Security/Medicare) taxes were less painful...four out of five American workers now pay more F.I.C.A. taxes than they do federal income taxes?
...airlines that lack serious competition in various markets didn't gouge the public?
...America's Vietnam War veterans would finally get credit for serving their country?
..."nature" was much less destructive?
...the Administration and the Congress would reach an intelligent, workable and cost-effective compromise on health care?
...men and women were from the same planet?
...we actually got serious about U.S. energy independence with a program geared to 1) conservation, 2) alternative sources of energy, 3) access to much more oil and natural gas in Alaska and on the Continental Shelf, and 4) developing massive deposits of oil shale in the West?
...American military personnel could see their families more often?
...our illustrious Congressional representatives actually knew what was in various bills they voted on?
...primary and secondary schools had to compete for teachers, students and funding - just like colleges and universities?
...fewer people were killed each and every year in the name of "religion"?
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