Hello ladies and gentlemen and thank you for tuning in. Today I am going to explain to you how to fix the economy immediately or at least by your next paycheck. 

It is simple, but first let me throw a couple bits of data at ya…DUCK, here they come.

Well first good news to you here in America, your Productivity is higher than ever. You are proving that “Lazy American” myth is nothing more than hype from the illegal immigration lobby. Productivity has done nothing but gone up since 1995 according to the Economic Policy Institute. Well, that’s about it for the good news, if you count that you are working harder than ever as good news.

Just from 2000-2005 your work load went up 16.6%. Good going! Oh, and that was about as much recognition as your gonna get. Because in that same time your wages slipped 2.9%. Sorry. But don’t worry; CEO wages went up 186% and Corporate profits, whew, amazing the monies generated just quarterly by most U.S. corporations. GO TEAM!!

While wages are stagnant, while you are living off Food Stamps and other aid just too put food on the table and gas in the car to go to work that pays nowhere near a living wage. (I have asked this before but never get an answer; Wouldn’t you be embarrassed as a human, as an American, to know that you are making an insane amount of money, yet your employees are making poverty level wages and need Federal aid to get by? Forget the profit for a moment and think about the moral implications and your soul if you are in that position. P.S. What good did all that greed do Ken Lay?)

Food has gone up 5.8% in just the last year, and we, yes America, we have set a new record, one that we should all be so proud of; 28 million people will be using Food Stamps by this month as projected. All Food Stamps are is subsidized wages from the government for companies to greedy to pay their employees a real wage.

Wages for high school AND college grads have pretty much flat lined since 2001. I know from experience that no matter how much skill you have, no matter age and time in the work force, change jobs and you are making the “starting wage” at the new job, the same wage to that just out of high school person. Is that a shame or what? What happened to paying on skills and performance? What insane Human Resources Executive thought up the insulting $0.25 an hour annual raise? That is only $2.00 a day.

So, what is my fix for the economy? Well simple, it is not government intervention; it is not tax cuts to Corporate America or investigations of the oil execs. What we have is simply that wages have not gone up, inflation and cost of living has exceeded what people have to spend, we cannot buy more, and therefore our wallets have been out paced. If I can figure this out why can’t those experts always on CNN and FOX news?

America’s corporations need to begin thinking about the country, the people and not the profits. If you take a look at the quarterly profits of big companies you can see very plainly that giving a real raise to their employees will not truly hurt. How many millions and in some cases billions in profit do you really need? What needs to happen is a substantial raise in pay across the lower and middle class. People making money can pay their mortgages. People with enough money are spending it on goods and services and not just, rent, food, gas, and utilities. People with enough money aren’t living off credit cards and then defaulting into bankruptcy. When Americans have money, by God we spend it.  So, give us some money, we sure as hell are earning it.

It is up to those hording the dough for all these record breaking profit quarters to break away, crying I am sure, of some of the loot. But the security, health, and prosperity of the Nation is on them, they need to realize this and take the correct, moral and Patriotic action.

See, told ya it would be simple thing to fix the economy. Now we have to wait to see who jumps first.