Bob Ellis Writes...

During his speech, President Obama asked what was the best way to grow the economy and create jobs.  Here are a few suggestions:

• Repeal ObamaCare and its business-burdening costs and requirements
• Pass a balanced budget amendment so businesses can have confidence that congress will not come along at any time and burden them with more socialist spending
• Pass an amendment requiring every bill submitted to cite which of the enumerated powers of Article 1 Section 8 authorizes congress to act in that area
• Prohibit unionization for government workers–a move that will save gargantuan amounts of taxpayer dollars that can immediately be spent in the economy by the taxpayers
• Abolish the EPA and its economy-strangling regulations that hinder new growth and retard economic expansion
• With the EPA gone, this should help clear the way for new oil refinery development (we haven’t built a new one in 30 years, and our current infrastructure is almost maxed out)
• Eliminating the EPA should also make it easier to build new power plants to meet our nation’s great need for electricity, as well as create thousands of new jobs
• Open ANWR in Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico and other locations around the country to oil drilling–this will create thousands of jobs and help meet our nation’s energy needs
• Abolish the Department of Education and it’s tremendously wasteful “middleman” approach to education funding
• Privatize Social Security (as Chile did successfully several years ago) and Medicare, putting billions of taxpayer dollars and more efficient use of those dollars back into the private economy
• Repeal the Frank-Dodd financial bill, a 2000-page bill that will spawn 5000 pages of regulations, further strangling and hindering the financial industry from success
• Dismantle Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and sell off the loans to private finance companies; the federal government has no business being in the finance business, and ending the massive corruption and cronyism that have come with Fannie and Freddie will save the taxpayers billions
• Repeal the anti-business National Labor Relations Board so that businesses are not hindered in their plans to expand and hire more people (like Boeing in South Carolina)
• End all business and corporate taxes (other than sales taxes) which have been driving jobs overseas.