Many people are scratching their heads over this challenge of perpetual unemployment and asking the government to fix the problem. That’s interesting because government is the problem, not the solution, to paraphrase Ronald Reagan and others who have reminded us since. Apparently politicians have become ingrained in the heads of the populace to trust the government, that they just assume the government will or can fix everything. Unbelievable really, unfortunately that is not the case.
Today we have our citizens complaining about offshoring, outsourcing, unemployment, trade deficits and the national debt. But if we really look at the problems, they are all related to poor management. And as an entrepreneur and former entrepreneur, all I can remember in all my days of providing jobs, products, and services, the desires of the masses, is the aggravation and barriers to entry of my government, no, not just the federal level. , although certainly there too, it was from all branches and levels of government.
There was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal recently, it was an editorial and it touched on this topic. The article appears in the newspaper of Monday, October 25, 2010 and is titled; “Licensing to Kill” and pointed to many instances of purely insane local ordinances, laws, and fees that scared away small businesses. I actually know this for a fact, but what bothers me is that everybody else in the world doesn’t know this, or that city councils and city attorneys constantly come up with more local regulations that stifle growth, creating companies and, therefore, the growth of employment as well.
The Wall Street Journal article also pointed to a study, a research paper done on this subject that empirically showed how jobs and opportunities were wasted in this way. You should read this editorial in the WSJ to see their point of view and then go back and read my action plan to stop this problem and provide economic and job growth in this great nation of ours.
What we need are Red Magic Marker Committees, groups of concerned small businesses that can review all laws, rules, regulations at all levels of government and start drawing lines through most of this red tape and non-stop nonsense. Make it easier for employers, not harder, and if we do that, those jobs will be everywhere, and once again we will prosper like never before. Now then, stop arguing with me, with your BS policy and do this. It’s the only way to get those jobs back! Please think.