I have been reading up on the benefits and good news that is being introduced in the Stimulus Package and there is a lot of interesting stuff that hopefully will help the economy, our environment and the infrastructure. The problem is, it isn’t enough and it isn’t getting into the hands of people fast enough. Here in California we are at a pivotal point where there isn’t any incentive to do business in the State of California. How crummy is that?
Folks- text, email, fax, write and telephone your State representatives and the Governor to not only get the budget passed and balanced but to get their own incentives going to get and keep business in the State of California. I have mixed feelings that California will another (if not the first) state to start going Third World. By that I mean that the quality of life out here will get bad enough to have people homeless everywhere, embracing superstitious nonsense and out of work. We can’t live like that. This ties back into my blog and my question.
What will stimulate getting the money into the hands of the average citizen? I am not advocating giving $10,000 to each American (though that would help). I am advocating for direct accountability to getting money to the average person. I like the tax breaks for workers and the increase in benefits for people who are unemployed and on COBRA benefits.
Protectionism isn’t the answer though I agree to a certain point that we need to roll up the doors and windows a little bit and get and keep more work domestically than trying to get it internationally. I am an international businessman and that is a very hard thing for me to admit to. I still do business in Europe, Asia and Australia. I just wish that I could do more business but I need to focus on getting people working again.
Ideally for all you Fed stimulus receiving people who have a day job. Take the extra money that is in your paycheck and stash it as savings for something fun for you to do later on.
I wish there were more direct incentives to get money into people and getting more energy saving, green and reconstruction projects going. Ah, time to get off my rant stand.
Remember Californians that we need to get on the case of our State representatives. We need to remind them to get in contact with us, their constituency and listen. We need to get more jobs going and we need to do it fast.
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