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Bogus Report on Black Friday (One Minute to Read)

11/28/2014

I heard on ABC news (20-20), that sales for Black Friday was around $68 billion dollars. This is the usual type of problem I see on practically a daily basis.

1)      How many people in this country have much discretionary money and shop on Black Friday? I’ll make this simple math and I’m being very generous to their study, but let’s say 100 million people made purchases. If this is the case then each one of them would’ve had to of spent $680 dollars. How realistic do you think this is?

2)      Where are they getting their sales figures from? Most corporate retailers don’t even have a recap on their own sales until possibly the next day. How are they getting their hands on sales from companies who aren’t Best Buy or Wal-Mart? The Retail Federation who often provides information like this does have their fingers on the sales of these huge retailers but little else.

I wanted to give you yet another example of an inaccurate report that’s being shared by ABC News. The problem these major news networks have is that due diligence is a thing of the past. I’m not a genius so if I can figure out a report is bogus they should be able to as well.

I guess they might not care because who’s going to challenge them? The problem with letting this one (or any of them), go is that it just feeds the fodder for them to say anything they want and since these networks are very liberal their tendency will be to not care a thing about what they say about the Republican Party…just like we experience every election cycle. How about the job they did on the Tea Party (a.k.a. Constitutionalist)? What a terrible group of people.

I’m contacting ABC News as I have a couple of times before and will let them know about their miscalculation. One time they corrected what they reported the very next evening while the other time they never said a thing besides apologize to me…it was one that would’ve made ABC Nightly News (Dianne Sawyer), look really bad. Anyhow, what the heck, I’m going to demand they change it. J

November 12th, 2014

11/12/2014

November 12th, 2014

11/12/2014

First of all in reference to the corporate tax breaks republicans are trying to give large corporations the fact is it’s any corporation (filed as a C-Corp), large or small. My company was considered mid-size and we only had 380 employees. Our country has by far the highest corporate tax rate (35%), than not only any industrialized nation but also in lower developed countries like Afghanistan where it’s 20%.

On average our corporate tax rates are close to 15% higher than other competing countries and in a global economy it puts us at a huge disadvantage as our products and services costs much more unless our corporations make adjustments. To remain fairly competitive our companies have to reduce costs which mean lower wages and fewer employees among other things.

The problem is millions of people don’t know this including many citizens of North Carolina so Kay Hagan constantly demonizes Tillis for helping corporations. She tries to make it look like he’s just taking care of the rich when he’s trying to help increase wages and jobs. Think about it, the increase in both wages and jobs means more tax revenues at both the state and federal levels but the money would come from mostly exports (because we’d become more competitive globally), which means the money will be coming from the other side of the globe…we’re talking incremental taxes while increasing the standard of living for our citizens. Either Democrats/Liberals don’t get this or they do and don’t care since they can use it to get votes. You decide. In my opinion they’re lying, something we couldn’t get away with in our jobs because we’d be fired.

Not only is our federal corporate tax rates higher than competitive nations North Carolina piles on with an additional 5% corporate tax rate. Tillis wants to make our state more attractive to outside corporations by getting rid of it. Can you guess which state has been consistently out-performing all others in bringing in new business? It’s Texas a state without corporate taxes and a state which is booming in every economic measure.

I’m sure you know Congressman Charles Rangel from New York, one of the most liberal people in Congress. Did you know he’s pushing for a 5% lower federal corporate income tax rate? There’s no doubt that if someone like him is pushing for it our corporate taxes will come down in the very near future so there’s significant light at the end of the tunnel. Not enough of a decrease but it's a start.

The hard part for me and I’m sure you as well is that I’m surrounded by people who think pretty much the way I do. I say this with the exception of Dr. Dean Hoffman who is part of our conservative email list as he is a minority at UNCC. From politics to religion I don’t have the opportunity to debate many liberals (I do have two that are hard core left). It’s usually like beating my head against the wall trying to get them to see the light. So I know I’m preaching to the choir in my articles but my hope is that it will both inspire you to be more aggressive in getting involved in politics and maybe provide you with simple verbiage (I didn’t attend Harvard J), to get various points across in your network.

Veterans' Healthcare (One Minute to Read)

11/9/2014

I calculated how much it would costs to provide our veterans with healthcare benefits comparable to what seniors are getting now and it would be around $15 billion dollars. My calculations below include everything from office visits, surgeries, PTSD counseling, mental illness medications, etc. Many of our VA hospitals are a mess with limited services, inadequate medical equipment, long drive times to get to the hospital and long waiting periods.

All our vets would need is their own medical cards. Things would be smooth because the type of program needed is already in place as our federal government has been managing Medicare and Medicaid for decades.

Some of our politicians are posturing saying it’s tragic that our military personnel are being treated the way they are but it’s their fault with not overseeing the VA effectively and not providing them with the funding necessary. They’re increasing the budget but more VA hospitals and personnel aren’t the answer as we’d be throwing good money after bad.

If we went with a card program like Medicare participants have our vets wouldn’t need to travel long distance to VA locations as they could see the doctors of their choice who are closer to home for them.

Emergency room visits wouldn’t be an issue and they could finally have more physical therapy visits. For example travelling two hours to a VA hospital for therapy isn’t realistic so our veterans don’t go as often as they should or possibly not at all.

This idea isn’t a band aid approach it’s a long-term solution that’s quick and fairly easy to implement. It’s truly a win-win with our veterans getting the medical services they deserve. As it is now they’re mostly forgotten. They go into a system that pretty much none of us know about. It’s human nature to not get involved in things until it affects us on a personal level so I hope this article inspired you enough to contact your representatives and push this idea. All you’d have to do is go to their websites and copy and paste this article. Don’t you think the people who risked their lives for our country have earned our support?

Political Fodder (Two Minutes to Read)

11/9/2014

First of all in reference to the corporate tax breaks republicans are trying to give large corporations the fact is it’s any corporation (filed as a C-Corp), large or small. My company was considered mid-size and we only had 380 employees. Our country has by far the highest corporate tax rate (35%), than not only any industrialized nation but also in lower developed countries like Afghanistan where it’s 20%.

On average our corporate tax rates are close to 15% higher than other competing countries and in a global economy it puts us at a huge disadvantage as our products and services costs much more unless they make adjustments. To remain fairly competitive our corporations have to reduce costs which mean lower wages and fewer employees among other things.

The problem is millions of people don’t know this including many citizens of North Carolina so Kay Hagan constantly demonizes Tillis for helping corporations. She tries to make it look like he’s just taking care of the rich when he’s trying to help increase wages and jobs. Think about it, the increase in both wages and jobs means more tax revenues at both the state and federal levels but the money would come from mostly exports (because we’d become more competitive globally), which means the money will be coming from the other side of the globe…we’re talking incremental taxes while increasing the standard of living for our citizens. Either Democrats/Liberals don’t get this or they do and don’t care since they can use it to get votes. You decide. In my opinion they’re lying, something we couldn’t get away with in our jobs because we’d be fired.

Not only is our federal corporate tax rates higher than competitive nations North Carolina piles on with an additional 5% corporate tax rate. Tillis wants to make our state more attractive to outside corporations by getting rid of it. Can you guess which state has been consistently out-performing all others in bringing in new business? It’s Texas a state without corporate taxes and a state which is booming in every economic measure.

I’m sure you know Congressman Charles Rangel from New York, one of the most liberal people in Congress. Did you know he’s pushing for a 5% lower federal corporate income tax rate? There’s no doubt that if someone like him is pushing for it our corporate taxes will come down in the very near future so there’s significant light at the end of the tunnel.

The hard part for me and I’m sure you as well is that I’m surrounded by people who think pretty much the way I do. I say this with the exception of Dr. Dean Hoffman who is part of our conservative email list as he is a minority at UNCC. From politics to religion I don’t have the opportunity to debate many liberals (I do have two that are hard core left). It’s usually like beating my head against the wall trying to get them to see the light. So I know I’m preaching to the choir in my articles but my hope is that it will both inspire you to be more aggressive in getting involved in politics and maybe provide you with simple verbiage (I didn’t attend Harvard J), to get various points across in your network.

Bogus Report on Black Friday (One Minute to Read)

November 12th, 2014

November 12th, 2014

Veterans' Healthcare (One Minute to Read)

Political Fodder (Two Minutes to Read)

Author: John Mann

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