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2003-01-30 03:33 | User Profile
============== FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ============= America First Party 1630 A 30th Street #111 Boulder, Colorado 80301 [url=http://www.AmericaFirstParty.org]http://www.AmericaFirstParty.org[/url]
Wednesday, January 29 2003
ECONOMIC PRESCRIPTIONS: BAND-AIDS, NOT CURES
Boulder, CO -- Following the State of the Union Address, America First Party National Chairman, Dan Charles, issued the following statement:
"In his State of the Union address last night, President Bush presented ahazy economic plan to bring this country out of its current doldrums. Although both the Republicans and the Democrats have plans intended to revitalize our nation's economy, both plans are deeply flawed because theyignore the true nature of our economic slowdown.
"President Bush said that he would not pass on to future presidents, to future Congresses, and to future generations the problems of today. But thatis exactly what he is planning to do by proposing an orgy of federal spending and an economic plan that focuses on short-term solutions to thewrong problems. His plan fails to correct the policies that continue to harm our nation and our people. The same is true of the Democrat's plan.
"Both the Democrat and Republican plans focus on consumer spending--althoughthis is not the cause of our present recession. Our present setback is caused by the slowdown in capital spending by businesses. If there is a problem with consumer spending, it is caused by wage deflation as much as by over taxation. By providing short-term, debt-ridden solutions to the wrong problems, the President and the Democrats are using the same tactics to grow the economy that the robber barons of Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco used to grow their companies.
"Part of the capital spending slowdown is rooted in the overcapacity of tech infrastructure that occurred in the late 1990's. Nobody should be surprised that there is a lull after such an unprecedented boom. But the sad truth is that the policies of both Democrats and Republicans have encouraged companies to close factories and ship American jobs overseas, rather than build new factories and create new good paying jobs here. NAFTA and GATT create unfair markets and harm both our national security and economy.
"President Bush's tax plan is wholly inadequate and fails to address the problems. Like all socialist solutions, President Bush's plan merely fiddles around the edges and attempts to use the tax code as a sledgehammer--coercive of corporations, investors, and individuals to act as government wants them to act and making fewer Americans pay a larger share of the costs of our common burden. He had an opportunity to promote a system that is simple, fair, and constitutional. He failed.
"The best way to put money into consumer's hands is to end government sponsored wage deflation. NAFTA and GATT, H-1B and other Guest Worker programs, and out of control immigration all put downward pressure on wages by placing American workers in direct competition with workers who are paid far less.
"If we want to attack the true cause of this recession, the government should stop promoting policies and entering into agreements such as NAFTA and GATT. These treaties disguised as agreements reward companies for shutting down American factories and hiring workers in China for 25 cents per day. It is time our economic policy put the American worker and American businesses first. Democrats and Republicans put them last."
Contacts: Dan Charles, Chair, 1-866-SOS-USA1, ext 4 Romelle Winters, Press Secretary 1-866-SOS-USA1, ext 2
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2003-01-30 06:19 | User Profile
And the purpose in posting this onehander is .....?