We really need the red magic marker committees now, in every city in America!
Many people are scratching their heads over this challenge of perpetual unemployment and calling on the government to fix the problem. That’s interesting because the government is the problem, not the solution, to paraphrase Ronald Reagan and others who have reminded us since. Apparently, politicians have rooted themselves in the head of the population to trust the government, who simply assume that the government will or can fix everything. Really amazing, unfortunately that is not the case.
We have our citizens today complaining about offshoring, outsourcing, unemployment, trade deficits, and national debt. But if you really look at the problems, they are all related to poor management. And as an entrepreneur and former businessman, all I can remember in all my days of providing jobs, products, and services: the wishes of the masses are the aggravation and barriers to entry of my government, no, not just at the federal level. , although certainly there too, it was from all branches and levels of government.
Recently an interesting article appeared in the Wall Street Journal, it was an editorial and it touched on this subject. The article appears in the article of Monday October 25, 2010 and was titled; “Licensing to Kill” and pointed to many instances of purely insane local ordinances, laws and fees that scared away small businesses. In fact, I know this is a fact, but what bothers me is that everyone else in the world does not or that city councils and city attorneys are actually constantly crafting more local regulations that stifle growth, creating companies and, therefore, job growth as well.
The Wall Street Journal article also pointed to a study, a research paper done on this topic 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 come 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 is a Committee of Red Magic Markers, groups of concerned small businesses that can go through all the laws, rules and regulations at all levels of government and start drawing boundaries through most of this bureaucracy and incessant nonsense. Make it easier for entrepreneurs, not harder, and if we do that, those jobs will be everywhere, and we will once again prosper like never before. Now, stop arguing with me with your political nonsense and do this. It’s the only way to get those jobs back! Please think.