Because Americans love infomercials!

Did anyone catch Barry's primetime paid advertisement last night?

One thing I know is that it must be pretty bad when even Yahoo! News can smell the BS.

I may have discussed this issue before, but I believe that it cannot be stressed enough. You always hear Obama and other leftists, or even moderates, talk about the need to "eliminate tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas." On the surface, it sounds good, right? Damn them for their lack of patriotism! Punish them!

But trust me on this: anyone who advocates this has no idea what they are talking about, or they think that the public will buy into it. Do you know why so many companies send jobs overseas? Do you? It's pretty simple, really. They do it because the taxes for operating in America are too high. The US has the second largest coporate tax rate in the world. So, doing business in other countries with much lower tax rates saves them a lot of money.

So, what is these people's plan for stopping something that is being done because of high taxes? Why, they raise their taxes!

[smacks self in forehead]

So go ahead and raise their taxes. They'll just continue to outsource even more. Congratulations, dumbass.

It's like saying, "The construction workers aren't building our house as quickly as we want. Let's take away their tools!"

I don't think that a lot of people understand how money works in our economy. I have already talked about how we are all connected to the much maligned "wealthiest 1%" and how our success depends on theirs, and how they give us jobs. It seems like Obama and his constituants wish to use money as simply a system of rewards and punishments. It doesn't work that way.

But speaking of punishments, does anyone see something else here that is potentially even more disturbing and dangerous? Some in the government wish to use these tax hikes as a form of punishment for companies who outsource more than they like. And they are convincing a lot of Americans to agree, creating class warfare. That's a whole other topic - but what else do you call "You in the middle class are struggling, and we're going to stick it to those Wall Street fat cats," or the constant juxtaposing of Wall Street and Main Street? Obama claims to be for Americans, but does he realize that people making over $200,000 (or whatever that number is now - he keeps changing the level at which his tax cuts would apply) are Americans, too? And Wall Street is still a street in America.

Anyway, back to punishments. They have convinced some of us that it's a good idea to punish these people, regardless of the fact that the problem would only get worse. But here's the thing: sending jobs overseas is not illegal.

Do you see what's happening? OUR GOVERNMENT WANTS TO PUNISH PRIVATE CITIZENS FOR DOING SOMETHING THAT IS NOT ILLEGAL.

Anyone else even a little frightened?