Jobs, Jobs, Jobs – It’s All About Jobs

• When all is said and done…all the political rhetoric, posturing, and speeches, in the end, why I am running is “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.” As a small business owner for over 20 years, I know a thing or two about meeting payroll and hiring workers.

  Today’s announcement that GDP was revised down is disheartening, especially for the many in District 12 who are looking for work. I know that, and as a small business owner, let me tell you how we can get jobs back in our economy, today!

  1. End the talk of socializing medicine. Businesses are afraid their taxes will skyrocket and costs will grow. They won’t hire as long as this donkey is still in the room.

  2. Make the Bush tax cuts permanent, reduce corporate taxes, and reduce income taxes again. Reducing taxes gives people more money to spend and gives businesses additional revenue to hire.

  3. Eliminate the capital gains tax. If businesses know they can buy equipment or invest in something, free of taxes on that investment, they will do so. Once businesses begin to invest in capital, they will invest in labor to run that capital.

  4. Allow dinosaurs of business to go under. Allow GM, and other businesses that cannot compete, to go under. Those workers will have jobs, but they will have jobs at Toyota and Honda and Ford plants in low tax states like Alabama and Tennessee, rather than high tax, high regulation states like Michigan.

  5. Announce across the board spending cuts in the federal government and a debt payment schedule. Government borrows from the same place most of us do (when they aren’t just printing money). All that borrowing means business can’t borrow to finance a new project, or build a new building, or hire a skilled laborer to fix plumbing, lighting, electric, etc.

  6. Commit to a strong dollar and audit the Federal Reserve. Let the American people know who is getting our money, where it is going, and why. Demand that the dollar be the strongest, most stable currency in the world, and demand China start floating its currency.

  7. Vigorously crack down on Medicare and Medicaid fraud and start saving taxpayers billions.

  8. Reduce government sector employment through buyouts and attrition and at the same time, increase automation. The federal government should never be a permanent employment program.

  9. Allow for the nationwide sale of health care, along with serious and real state level tort reform.

  These are just a few things that would spur hiring immediately, and would also put the Federal government on solid fiscal footing.

  Government cannot “create” jobs. Government can create an environment where entrepreneurs and risk takers, create jobs. When the State Department, the Department responsible for foreign policy, has two or three times as many employees in Washington DC as overseas, we have a priority problem in the nation’s capitol.

  I want to go to Washington to fix these things. But, if I had to choose between going to Washington in 2010 because unemployment was over 10% or fixing it now, regardless of who gets credit, I say fix it now. People need work, families need income, and America needs her spirit back.