Friday, January 16, 2009

Job Creation

Obama has been hammering the public about job creation. He tells us it's the job of the government to create jobs. Excuse me! Private enterprise, not the government, creates jobs. It's called investment. My former boss understood the economy and how things work without government interference.
I went to work as a salesman(peddler) 1988. We are an industrial maintenance reduction company. In other words, we keep equipment running so that other industries save money. There were 41 workers in our operation when I started. It's is a small business but it's recognized as the best of it's type in the world at what it does. 70% of small businesses make up the bulk of our economy. When I retired in 2007 my boss employed 122 tax paying citizens. Barack Obama and the Liberals didn't have one thing to do with the addition of 88 men and women to this vital firm. These people are raising families and "giving" tax money to the Federal and State government. BHO is adamant that the way to work our way out of this economic malaise is through the re-building of our infrastructure. He wants to establish 600,000 government jobs(started with your tax dollars) to help get the process started. I have a problem with this for a couple of reasons. Search your memory bank back to the Clinton years. Bill and Al Gore, along with their minions, went on a rant about tobacco and how it was killing our people; second hand smoke and all that. The tobacco companies ended up giving billions, maybe 800, to the states to provide educational programs so that our children wouldn't become addicted to the weed. What happened? Virtually every dollar sent to every state went into the pockets of special interest groups to re-build the infrastructure. We don't need massive "shovel leaning" jobs in this country. It was tried in the 1930's and it failed. Anyway, aren't highway created jobs temporary? Once the road is completed then what? Once the pot hole is filled then what? The government would be better off pumping up private industry to expand and create new jobs. Here's a another example of how the government fails in job creation. The Clinton's touted 100,000 cops on the street. It was done to make us feel safer. Hell, it was done to win an election. Well, the highest number of police on the street, through federal funds(tax money), came to 20,000. Each city was then to tax their own to reach the magic 100,000 number. No one told us this during the campaign. If you understand this I'm happy for you. If you don't, then you're a liberal.
I want to ask you, would there be a better chance of economic success by having a private company create through it's own capital: employment, investment, and expansion without government interference or by having the government borrow(from taxpayers) to start jobs that go nowhere?
Sadly, there are a heck of a lot of Obama supporters who won't admit that this economic crappola being fed us is going to lead us to the path to nowhere. I want you to remember the Obama voter from Cleveland who seriously stated: when Barack is elected, "I won't ever have to pay my mortgage or pay to fill up my gas tank, again."

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