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I listened to part of George W. Bush’s state of the union speech last night when it replayed on CNN. One part that kept coming up was his insistence that his plan will lower taxes for all Americans and this will help to stimulate the economy. What I think is that, if a person is not working, then a tax cut doesn’t really affect them. If people are being laid-off left and right because their jobs are being exported to other countries, then tax cuts really doesn’t affect them. I can see how the tax cuts can help the rich, who don’t have to worry about their jobs, but come on George, what are you going to do for the regular Americans?

He says, “Our first goal is clear: we must have an economy that grows fast enough to employ every man and woman who seeks a job.” I think the first goal is to get big companies from laying off Americans and shifting the jobs outside of our country, the second goal can be to cut taxes, which would then help since people would have jobs. What we need is the government to give incentives for large companies to keep the jobs here in this country. We need to increase tariffs to keep manufacturing here in the States.

Jobs George, jobs. You need to get companies to keep the jobs here. That’s what’s needed first before tax cuts. Jobless people could care less about tax cuts.