Economics have been on my mind lately, and I can’t really explain why. I’m having one of the best years of personal income I ever had, some of my friends are making that money and investing it in personal betterment or safety nets for the future, and a select few are stuck in the material world of buying and reselling smartphones.
To those that own a small business; I idolize you. You guys are facing ever-increasing pressure from both the governments and laborers in this society. My post called “Tools” was just about the government aspect. The pressure from laborers only stems from the fact that they demand too much for what they’re worth. The whole “Americans won’t do certain jobs” thing is a bunch of bulldink. Americans will do all jobs, just as long as they are slightly over-justly compensated for their efforts; which is why foreign labor is looking really good right now, and that is another problem in and of itself.
So why is this post titled “The Impending Commercial Real Estate Collapse”? Well, that’s kind of what it’s about. It’s not a secret (and it’s highlighted in our post called “Tools”) that the government is now dolling out taxpayer dollars in the form of entitlement programs. You all know what those are, you’ve heard them before I’m sure. In that post I also go over the fact that the money in the public sector will dry up if the private sector does not get more productive (remember, working for the government counts as a public sector job). So, if a ton of wealth is being eaten and redistributed to the government workers and leechers; that’s less for money for products. Now, I may know what you’re thinking. It may be, “But Bran, governments and leechers buy things all the time. What are you getting at here?” Well, it’s getting to the point that the government is getting selective on who it buys materials and things from. Those that are granted the ability to produce things for the government are rewarded with contracts and some major money. Leechers are not given all that much money and are prone to buy things from mega corps like Wal-Mart and all the big manufacturers that make product for that store chain (ya know, because it’s cheaper). You see the gap that’s widening here? You need to be at least at a middle-income bracket to enjoy shopping local; or hope that your local home-grown grocery store takes food stamps, which is a form of leeching by the way 
. If you’re a vendor or service provider, you need to bump up your volume to stay in business, or try to undercut your competition when competing for that contract from the government. There are those that succeed in such measures, and there are those that fail. Those that fail will be foreclosed upon and have their old property sold off or kept by the bank to repay the loan. The rule is simple, if you don’t move enough product or don’t provide enough service to keep your debts under control, you’ll lose; and with an America that’s thriftier than they were ten to twenty years ago, more businesses will lose. As these small businesses are closed, tax money will be lost, which will then have to be collected from elsewhere; via increased taxation or decreased department budgets. I haven’t gone into the new financial regulations yet because quite frankly; I have no clue what they are. Nice.
Isn’t wealth redistribution great?
[...] It seems that the political viewpoints of both We Are Change Branson and the Branson Tea Party seem to be pretty close to the same. We both like small governments, state sovereignty, less regulation, less entitlement programs, etc. We seem to be as open-minded as the people that attended the rally in April. Also, as you can tell by the header graphic on the main page, we are very patriotic. The next thing we’ll probably do is add a “Tea Party Patriot” button on our site with a link to yours. Since we are patriotic, we are concerned with where this country is headed. I began to get a little concerned when Bush was expanding the defense budgets during the second half of his presidency. Those who trade liberty for security deserve neither. I’m a little concerned about the constitutionality of The Patriot Act and flat out not convinced that the Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010 is constitutional. And for impartiality, I can’t say as to whether or not the Healthcare Laws are unconstitutional or not (as I don’t have time to skim through the entire thing and try to pick one out), but requiring a healthcare plan to be a citizen of this great nation seems to impede the sense of liberty, doesn’t it? And now we have financial reform that puts all kinds of new constraints on financial institutions while the government was urging those same institutions to make those risky investments in the first place. Credit is going to be hard to attain; and I have a feeling in my gut that a lot of property around here will become the property of banks; unless unemployment makes a sharp down-turn. We went over the fact that government spending can’t help keep this country afloat for long. [...]