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No matter how many beers you drink, what good movie you watch, or how much snuggling you do with the wife the night before, when you wake up all your problems are still right there. I'm talking the big ones here: the economy, the weak-ass president we have, swine flu ummm...Nancy Pelosi knew about some aspect of the Bush torture regime but didn't do anything about it, like call for Congressional investigations which totally should never happen, but maybe she should face a Congressional investigation for not calling for one, am I right here people?

You wake up on Saturday and all the world's problems are still right there.

Then you read the letters section of the Register Guard, and some kind soul has taken the time to solve all of our problems. Read. Understand. And know that everything is going to be alright.

Look for a new economy

As soon as the tax and interest and unemployment rates all level off at 8 percent and lower, the economy embarks upon a long extended era of clear sailing such as no civilization on Earth has ever known.

History never predicted people would suddenly envision such an outcome.

Clear seas, clear sailing, a powerful economy quickly restarted and firmly under control. All the parts still in place and functioning. All the people striving together, fulfilling their potentials. The sounds of song and laughter spilling out beneath the nighttime skies.

An old economy grinds to a stop. The abstract details of a new economic era stretch before us, like the first turns highlighted on a GPS readout, outlining the beginning of the next leg of the journey.

Personally, I am keeping a watch to see the tax rate and interest and unemployment rates all come together at 8 percent and lower.

For me, that is the first sign of entering the new economy.

Nancy I. Campbell

Yoncalla

As my good buddy Lex might say, Boom!

Lower the tax rate from 36% to 8% (or lower!) and you are going to have some good times on your hands. No more government waste, no more bloated bureaucracy, no more, well anything from those fat cats in Washington.

The relatively high interest rates keep the poor people, who obviously don't know how to manage their money, from borrowing any to buy goods they don't really need, but also makes sure that those who do loan money - to the right sort - make a healthy profit. This encourages leading - smart lending - and big profits.

The relatively high unemployment rate means that people will work for the wages they deserve, not some over-inflated wage gained by the government manipulating the labor market by working for low unemployment. And once those government workers hit the pavement looking for honest work, wages are going to plummet to what are their natural, moonlight-dancing levels.

Oh happy day indeed!