How to fix this f'n mess

We'll never be able to make things better in this country if we can't identify what's causing our problems--i.e. unless a supermajority of Americans agree on what's *wrong* with it.

Even then, of course, it will be phenomenally hard to actually *change* those things, because congress has a huge vested interest in keeping bad programs, but we need to start the process somewhere.

Let's start with something the Left should agree with:  End government subsidies to corporations--a.k.a. "corporate welfare."  Does anyone disagree?

This means no transfer of tax dollars to corporations to do anything--including training unskilled people to possibly eventually be workers.

Whoa!  I just heard a million liberals screaming that someone has to pay to train workers, because that's the only way to put people back to work!

Really?  Bullshit.  The only way to put people to work for longer than a gummint subsidy lasts is for employers to decide they need to hire more workers.  And here's a flash for ya', Sparky:  Successful employers don't hire more workers than they need. 

The only way they'd need more workers would be if businesses were expanding--rolling out new products, for example.  And guess what?  They aren't.

U.S. auto makers were forced by bloated union contract restrictions to try it the other way, keeping thousands more (union) workers on the payroll than they had work for.  It damn near killed all three of the Big Three.  Would have killed GM and Chrysler, except Obama gave the former $60 Billion and sold the latter off to the Italian government.  Lesson: when a company is forced--whether by government diktat or union contract--to employ people it has no use for, it quickly becomes a money-losing proposition.

The next 3 sentences are for our friends who went to Hahvahd, Yale or other Ivies:
  1. "Businesses can't continue operating at a loss for long.
  2.  Government is not a business.
  3.  Less than one percent of government employees know anything at all about what's needed to run an actual business.

And one other thing on that corporate-welfare point:  The government must not bail out *any* failing company, for any reason.  This includes banks, brokerage houses, defense contractors and...auto makers.

While there's no denying that Obama's bailout of GM saved that company--and the jobs of its 68,500 U.S. employees--it was also a vote-buying scheme paid for by taxpayers.  Each job saved cost American taxpayers roughly $250,000, depending on what the gummint realizes from the sale of its remaining GM shares.  From a strictly economic standpoint the bailout probably wasn't worth it--but from a political standpoint was a masterpiece, ensuring millions of votes for Obama and other Dems in 2012.

So let's see what else we can agree on (if anything).