The Cain and Bachmann Ticket

[focusonzenergy]

Is a Cain and Bachmann Ticket a possibility?
Is the ticket balanced(will it garner electoral votes)?
Will it pass muster(get support of Republican establishment)?
In the primaries(Strategy of choosing running mate before primaries)?
With the voters of all ilk(does each have similar appeal across demographics)?
Perceived success against Obama(if he runs) and Biden or Clinton ticket?

THEIR POSITIONS ARE ALIGNED!

Cain makes the fundamental point that he is the only candidate who is presenting a basic economic reform in his 9-9-9 program (9% personal income flat tax with no deductions, 9% corporate income tax, and a new 9% consumption tax on everything). He says that all the candidates are promising to undo the damage Obama has wrought in his presidency by repealing the likes of Obamacare and Dodd-Frank. But he says that all this will do is to roll the clock back to 2008 when the economic collapse started. "Our economy was sick then and is sick now," Cain says. He says that fundamental changes in our tax code, such as he is pushing, are the only way to cure the original problems that led to the roller coaster ride of the past few years. He criticizes Romney's jobs program saying that it "only replaces one set of loopholes with another set" and says that his de-regulation proposals just replace Obama's regulations but do nothing to restructure the tax incentives which are so destructive to economic growth. A very, very good point! (Dick Morris)

Bachmann makes a very good point of her own. She says that, while every candidate promises to repeal Obama's programs -- health care and Dodd-Frank --that it is not so simple. She likens the job to cancer surgery where you have to get out every single cell from every single organ into which it has metastasized. Obamacare has infested each part of the health care bureaucracy from HHS to Medicare to Medicaid to private insurance down to the individual doctors' offices and hospitals. Its effect won't go away when a repeal bill is signed. What of the tens of millions or formerly private patient records now sitting on federal computers? What of the health care rationing that is already taking place as a result of the data collection under the bill? She says that she was there when it passed and has fought it ever since and is the only one who knows how to root it out - all of it. Bachmann points out that a 3,000 page bill now runs to tens of thousands of pages of regulations. "This bill is still being written," she observes. She makes the same point about Dodd-Frank which has infected every aspect of the financial system and must be dealt with as firmly. She points out that someone needs to understand the damage it has done to community banking and federal regulation to realize how to uproot it and repeal it. (Dick Morris)

Presidential hopeful Herman Cain vowed to, within the first 30 days of his administration, create a panel of oil and gas officials to instruct the agency in overhauling its permitting program, adding that eliminating the program entirely also “would be an option.”

“I'm going to appoint some commissions for every regulatory agency starting with the EPA,” he told reporters at the liberal Netroots Nation conference. “It's going to be a regulatory reduction commission and ... I will ... take those recommendations and make the process more streamlined as well as eliminate unnecessary regulations. And the people I'm going to appoint to those commissions, for example with the EPA, will be people and businessmen who have been abused by the EPA for the past decade or so.”

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) dubbed the regulatory agency the greatest threat to American jobs.

"Every time liberals get into office they pass an omnibus bill of big spending projects," Bachmann said. "What we need to do is pass the mother of all repeal bills, but it's the repeal bill that will get rid of job killing regulations; and I would begin with the EPA because there is no other agency like the EPA, it should really be renamed the 'Job Killing Organization of America.'"

THEY BOTH UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH
WHY GOVERNMENT JOBS PROGRAMS DON'T WORK

The working consumers have little left in their pockets to spend on products other than their needs. Likewise, The non-working consumer, on welfare or drawing unemployment has little left to spend on other than needs. That is the big fallacy of unemployment benefit checks and government jobs programs, they are only a subsistence stipend, to spend on bare essentials and do little to aid in an economic recovery and any excess is squirreled away as a hedge against an unknown future.

Well the US economy is made of businesses that provide the needs of the population: food, energy, clothing, & shelter(landlords & real estate agents), so those industries are as busy as they ever were. It is all those businesses that provide what consumers want (manufactured goods & services & new shelter), the extras, hell how about birthday presents for the kids. And it is in those businesses where most of the job loss has occurred.

It is the positive difference between living expenses and income (discretionary income) of the consuming family that boosts an economy and promote economic growth and nothing else!!!

WHY GOVERNMENT CIVIL SERVICE JOBS ( PAYROLL BLOAT) DON'T WORK

Government is an overhead expense. Overhead costs only go to increase the cost of products sold here or overseas in the export market (the government overhead burden is different in each country) Greece's products can't compete while German products can. Company ABC reduced its overhead by introducing office automation and combining duplicate functions and increasing productivity of workers and one while Company XYZ didn't keep up and lost. Economics 101, You have got to reduce the price of the product so more people can afford the product so more people buy the product requiring more workers to produce the product.

TWO SIMPLE STEPS TOWARD ECONOMIC RECOVERY TODAY!
THE US NG/PROPANE/E85 VEHICLE AND GSHP ENERGY POLICY AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY PLAN

1. Remove the EPA barriers for low cost NG/E85/PROPANE VEHICLE RETROFIT KITS
2. Greatly increase the residential GSHP tax credit to 60% or more and eliminate all other energy related tax credits(including that photovoltaic tax credit and the Solyndra nonsense).

THE BOTTOM LINE

With families and businesses it is all about the bottom line. Increase income and decrease expenses brings surpluses(family profit) to the bottom line where it may be spent on extras.

GOVERNMENTS AND BUSINESSES DO NOT CREATE JOBS, CUSTOMERS DO!
PUT COMPETITION BACK INTO THE FUEL MARKET.

CAIN AND BACHMANN 2012

 

[CT9]

No as an independent conservative I want to support a GOP nominee, if Bachmann is involved at all I cannot will not support the candidate no matter what. She is in way over her head and has no business even being in the race...

 

[Truthmatters]

You pick a VP that will increase your draw not be the exact same draw.

He doesnt need the nutter on the ticket

 

[rightwinger]

I would love that ticket

There is no way Obama could beat such a pair.......honest