The economy problem is simple. You need people working, people making money, and people spending money…

All three have to be in effect at the same time for it to work…

If you disrupt the balance, such as we did during the Republican economy where due to uncontrollable derivatives we had businesses betting tremendous amounts money, instead of putting it into manufacturing, you are setting yourself up for a correction..

When one balances the economic activity of any president, and rates his tenure as either good or bad, it is only fair that the correction, if any, that follows his tenure, be counted into that equation.. It does no good to say the first years of the Bush economic plan were real good, thereby proving the value of conservative Republican doctrine..

Because you see, Republican doctrine is what caused our financial mess today..

The idea, that you could export jobs, bankrupt the Treasury, and overextend 30% of America’s mortgages, and have all those negative effects compensated by making the top 1% so much more wealthy, is simply put.. “The Republican Economic Philosophy” .. Any fool can see such a philosophy could not work… but we elected people more stupid than fools. We elected Republicans…

We therefore made our bed; we have to lie in it..

But simply put,

You need people working, people making money, and people spending money…

Which means everyone needs to forget about corporate profits this year… There comes a time when mankind, who has been holding on mistruths for so long, comes to it’s senses, and accepts the obvious. Excessive corporate profits do little for the economy.

By forgetting about corporate profits, I’m not saying don’t have them.. I mean only that a shift in focus needs to occur. Instead of sending money away to the stockholders, investing in one’s business needs to happen now… Whether it is through weather proofing, energy efficiency, building windmills, or even just providing another open checkout line, once any business has cross the line into the black, it needs to stay as close to that line as possible…

It does not pay to cough up an 5 extra percent, if it means laying off one worker. That one worker, is a priceless treasure right now, precious fuel for a sputtering economic engine…

If the lack of investment is because of banks.. something needs to happen. If the lack of investment is because of taxes,.. something needs to happen. If the lack of investment is because of too little government money trickling through our economy, something needs to happen.

Democrats are about making this happen. Republicans are about stopping it from happen..

So really, who are the “patriots” here, and who are the “traitors”?