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Gene Hoffman
President/CEOCorporate Strategies International
Walmart's E-Mail: Is Economic Collapse Imminent?
February 21, 2013
FROM RETAILWIRE:
An e-mail sent by Walmart's vice president of finance and logistics has many questioning whether the national economy is getting ready to go all Great Recession Part II on us. What is your perspective on the various factors currently influencing the state of the economy? [more...]
Tony Orlando summed up his case very well.
The government is not that of my parents, nor would it be nearly as effective if it were. The breakdown in the family as the teaching unit of our society, its values, truth and honor is a tragedy. And we have to pay more and more taxes for that socio-political transformation.
The government is encouraging our dependence upon it by trying to micro-manage the economy with endless new regulations control from Washington and its continued failed stimuli. That's killing the self-determination spirit that built America's fiscal greatness.
To government, I opine, get out of trying to rule the economy. Go on a diet! Politics just fouls up a free economy because it takes away our "freedom of individual will."
Consumer spending and the economy will rebound if the government stops trying to manipulate it.