Roadmap
For many, the number 1 issue in 2010 is jobs. What to do?
* Understand how jobs are created.
* Correctly diagnose why jobs are not being created.
* Correctly prescribe a solution.
* Develop a national consensus that the proposed solution will work.
* Start to execute the plan.
* Adapt to changing circumstances and sustain the commitment to and execution of the plan.
At each of these steps, confidence improves, leading to business expansion, leading to job creation. All of the other gimmicky BS that politicians of all stripes spout are 2nd or 3rd order effects relative to the fundamental driver of economic activity: the gestaltic sum of each individual?s perception of the economic future.
* Jobs are created by individuals who start or expand businesses. People start or expand businesses when they are confident in predicting that following some plan will be good for them, usually meaning make them more money while not putting them at too much risk.
* Jobs are not currently being created because of the FUD created by complete Progressive governance. Successful entrepeneurs and businesses are smart and predictive and they see that our current financial model is unsustainable, and that the intellectualoids runnning the government element of the economy are busy reading Keynesian entrails and prescribing more leeches, which is not going to work.
* The correct solution is to restore confidence in America?s financial future. That requires a re-ordering of our federal finances: A long-term commitment to pay off our national debt; a medium-term budget plan to go from deficit to surplus; budgets with actual dollar amount reductions in defense, entitlement, and discretionary spending; a less moronic tax system. Tax increases and more deficit spending are the exact opposite of the correct solution.
* To develop a national consensus that the plan will work, you need to articulate the plan, run on it, and win. This is not good enough.
* To start to execute the plan, on Nov 3 you need to gather your new caucus, write a budget, and get every swinging dick to sign off on that budget. Prepare and get out in front of the upcoming all-out assault from the MFM wing of the Progressive Front. If you don?t win (and to win, you have to actually fight) the upcoming budget battles, we?re all doomed, you first.
* If you stand up, fight, and win the early battles on the budget, the economy will have improved significantly. 2012 will then be about sustaining the recovery and jettisoning the Progressive roadblockers. If you lose, either the actual budget battles or the perception thereof, 2012 will be about old people eating cat food.
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