Comments on: Small business optimism dwindles, as Fed and Congress press for solutions

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:59:57 +0000

“Show us how ignorant we are.”

I’ve done that countless times, but I get your point.

It’s not that Bush tax cuts can be tied to jobs created, although they probably can, it’s that raising taxes now, taking disposable income out of people’s hands, in the middle of a recession when the government is trying to encourage spending to help create jobs, is stupid and counterproductive.

Letting the Bush tax cuts expire will be the same as raising taxes, “genius.”

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:16:21 +0000

Show us how many jobs were created at what price each under the bush tax cuts, genius.

Show us how you can honestly say “Not one person in Obama’s white house has ever worked in the private sector.”

Show us how ignorant we are.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:33:06 +0000

Obviously, you people all work for the government. That’s the only thing that could possibly explain your total ignorance of the real world.

By: Lane

Lane — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:21:16 +0000

There’s also that troublesome government-industry revolving door, too; we all know too well how business tends to look out for itself rather than also doing what is right by everyone and the environment, too.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:34:30 +0000

“Government cannot help businesses until we get people in government who understand business.”

What a dumb thing to say.

Because what conservatives mean by that worked out so wonderfully for the country under the last administration, as if all that money in tax cuts, de-regulation and unenforced regulations generated an economic boom.

By: Lane

Lane — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:25:39 +0000

>> Government cannot help businesses until we get people in government who understand business. Not one person in Obama’s white house has ever worked in the private sector.

What hysterical nonsense!

A quick check at http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/staff reveals that many on the White House Staff have impressive backgrounds including stints in the private sector, for instance.

Need I mention the ongoing Republican obstructionism in lieu of actual dialogue with those across the aisle?

It always takes two to tango. Both Democrats and Republicans. Both government and business. Both producers and consumers.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:35:37 +0000

“They are concerned that Washington is not doing enough — not extending unemployment benefits, not pushing through big jobs programs, not committing to additional stimulus, not reassuring the markets.”

Nowhere in that report does it say that. That is the reporter’s opinion.

Washington believes the solution is to provide tax incentives to hire people and pressure banks to loan them money. But businesses don’t hire due to tax incentives or bank loans. They hire in response to an increase in sales.

Businesses aren’t interested in expanding now. “Six percent characterized the current period as a good time to expand facilities” and “Overall, 90 percent of the owners reported all their credit needs met (or they did not want to borrow).”

Here’s the bottom line: “Owners do not trust the economic policies in place or proposed, and they are distressed by global and national developments that make the future more uncertain.”

Government cannot help businesses until we get people in government who understand business. Not one person in Obama’s white house has ever worked in the private sector.