Obama challenged businesses to “step up” and hire people to speed up the economic recovery. Here is another course of action:
- Let the free market loose by getting the government out of our way. No Healthcare, Cap & Trade and enforcement of federal immigration laws.
- No more Quantitative Easing (stimulus) by the Federal Reserve.
- Cap the Budget Deficit Ceiling now.
- Enforce existing laws: The Department of Injustice under Eric Holder does not instill confidence in the justice system. No justice = no faith in the country’s future.
- No more government control of the stock market by POMO.
- Develop and implement an energy policy or get out of the way. The government’s stranglehold on energy production and exploration is killing jobs and the economy. It is also making America lose faith in the future through high energy costs.
As a small business owner who manages his own bookkeeping, I know how much of my business goes directly to federal, state and local taxes. I also know that this money is wasted. When businessmen work for the government instead of themselves, there is no incentive to make more money.
Let me be clear Mr. president: I will not hire or expand my business to pay tribute to a government whose objective is to either destroy the country or convert it to Socialism. Since you have never worked in the real business world, I do not expect you to understand how it works but your entreaty to me to “step up” only will entice me to “stand up” for the future. The economy is collapsing due to this administration’s policies: it is time to STAND UP AND RESIST.
David DeGerolamo
Obama Tells Companies to ‘Step Up’ and Hire Workers
President Obama urged businesses to “step up” and hire workers, pressing banks and other corporations to do more to help an economy that he said would take “several years” to recover fully. In a town-hall style meeting conducted by CBS News on Wednesday, Obama said the weak housing market and high gasoline prices were the biggest “headwinds” dragging on the economy.
“We’ve got a lot more work to do to get businesses to invest and to hire,” he told the audience in remarks broadcast on Thursday.
“It’s going to take us several years for us to get back where we need to be.”
The strength of the U.S. economy is likely to be the main factor that determines whether Obama will succeed in holding on to the White House next year.
He said businesses and banks that reaped the rewards of extraordinary measures to pull the country out of a deep recession had a responsibility now to invest hordes of cash into U.S. jobs.
“It is time for companies to step up,” Obama said.
“American taxpayers contributed to that process of stabilizing the economy. Companies havebenefited from that, and they’re making a lot of money, and now’s the time for them to start betting on American workers and American products.”
