As the Obama administration and their hosts of economic advisors try to figure out why all their efforts to buy their way into an economic recovery are failing, the true reason is so simple, they’ll never understand. Capitalists are on strike.
Assaulted with absurdity from all angles – the health care takeover, destructive regulations, red tape, environmental roadblocks, rising energy costs, out of control inflation, a weak dollar, insane trade policies, interference through forced unionization, tax increases on the state and federal level, and a hostile attitude towards free enterprise – the people who hire workers and invest money have simply said “no mas.”
The cost of every input into their business is going up, the costs of dealing with governmental entities to run their business is going up, they funds they need to finance their businesses are drying up, and costs for employees, from health care, legal costs, and new rules and regulations, are shooting through the roof. Job creators see that it’s cheaper to buy a machine made in China to do the work of the people they would have hired, and farm out the technical support to call centers in India.
It seems as if EVERY move being made by this administration is anti-job, anti-capitalism, and anti-American. Their focus on unions, environmentalists, bureaucrats and their corporate supporters, means nothing positive will be done toward free enterprise until this administration is replaced and it’s rules, regulations and entire agencies are scoured clean.
The good news is you can’t force a business owner to hire a new worker or expand their operations. My next fear is that the Obama propaganda machine will start to demonize the private sector, saying, “look at those evil capitalists, they have money on the sidelines they’re not investing in American jobs.” I can just see the new “sidelined money tax” whose proceeds will go toward “job creation” in Democrat leaning, unionized states.
Until things change – in a big way – capitalists will remain on strike.
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Excellent article POX. Absolutely true … so obvious and so easy to understand.
But, in the minds of the Obama types, people like you and me are so stupid and inept that we need big government to step in and take care of us.
And apparently, when Obama types are busy thinking about how stupid people like you and me are, they have just enough brainpower left to come up with programs and “solutions” like you mention in your article … programs and “solutions” that harm our nation and our people on many, many different levels.
But going a little deeper, I sometimes wonder what exactly it is that the big government types are afraid of. What is it about individualism, personal-responsibility, free-enterprise, capitalism, etc. that strikes absolute fear and panic within them and causes them to lash out like they do?
Perhaps they subconsciously understand that their lack of production and contribution would cause them to be left behind? Perhaps they fear they would not be able to measure up or keep up?
Whatever it is, their fear drives them … they are a “low self-esteem” body of people … and fear / low self-esteem has NEVER created positive results for anybody. It never has and it never will.
Anyway, keep up the good writing so more and more people can become aware of truth and reality and thereby become motivated do something GOOD for our nation.
Warmly,
Calle
MarriedAndHappy.com
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As well they should. If the Government wants to attack business there is nothing in our Constitution that can force a business to produce. As a matter of fact there has over the last 90 years been many disincentives to produce. Hence the manufacturing flight to China and other nations.
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I see a lot of tea being drunk here. You advocate trickle down and years of it hasn’t worked. You advocate deregulation and history has repeatedly shown that unbridled greed fails. Regulated competition works. You maybe correct that some areas of commerce may need some redressing of regulations; but, for the most part, the reason capitalists are with holding investing in the U.S. is that they want an U.S. operating environment akin to China’s and South Asia (no environmental protections and no labor laws – just unbridled lassez faire economics where costs are externalized). The problem with that is it will self-destruct within one generation. Your argument that operating in the U.S. isn’t profitable, is totally false. The rich are richer than they have ever been and the gap between the poor and rich is the widest it has ever been. The U.S. is second in the world for having the lowest effective tax rate and the U.S. worker is the most productive worker in the world. This article isn’t valid, it is only bologna served with tea.
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You are forgetting that corporations and other businesses must get government permission to operate (charters, licenses). Maybe, just maybe, these greedy corps and their officers can run off and live in Viet Nam to operate that machine….only to be nationalized in the end.