Posted on 05/31/2011 7:05:20 PM PDT by khnyny
Maybe they figured out their payrolls were bloated and people figured out to stay in a job they actually needed to put in 8 hours work for 8 hours pay. Plus O’s policies for business, I wouldn’t be hiring either.
I am reminded of an old saying - “Every problem has a very simple answer ..... and it’s usually wrong”. Before we all leap onto the tariff bandwagon, it might be worth weighing the possible repercussions and unintended consequences.
Has anyone pondered the potential consequences of retaliation (which I guarantee will come as surely as night follows day)?
And, at the end of the day, why should we expect investment to be committed to domestic manufacturing when the major discouragement to such investment are the totally unpredictable and capricious effects of federal regulatory and political interventions into the economy. Who is crazy enough to invest in such an atmosphere?
No one in business large or small has any interest in helping the US or any other economy!!!
The only reason to be in business is profit!
That exactly summarizes the basic problem that now exists in the USA. The term "corporate citizenship", when business was in partnership with the USA, is a philosophy from a bygone era. Today the GE's, Goldmans, Wal-Marts, the former Bell System, Apple, etc are all looking out for international shareholders and bonuses for CEOs only and not the economic viability of the USA. We're just another market that they see as declining and have contributed to the decline.
The USA was a powerhouse because the country and business were in partnership as patriots, instead of today where China and other nations are just as important to GE, etc. The Citizens United election funding decision allows these international companies to control our government and work to eliminate our sovereignty. Illegal immigration and amnesty will be one byproduct. Conservatives will rue the day that the Supreme Court made the ruling that international corporations can use unlimited money to fund our elections. If you believe that such a ruling will benefit America and conservative causes, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Because there is no need for the jobs. If profits are booming with the reduced work force, why hire?
This writer doesn’t understand. The NYT’s clings to their top-down elitist view of the world. The corporations he cites do not hire new workers. When they shed workers during recession, these big companies re-hire few of them when things turn around.
It is small or new companies that create new jobs and they have no reason to hire now.
this is just more evidence that Gov’t is encouraging the polarization of the American economy.
It is called uncertainty. Businesess do not invest in people unless they think they can get a return. With Obamacare on the horizon, taxes possibly going up, unknown regulatory changes, etc, businesses are reluctant to invest.
You’re out to lunch!!
Nothing stopping you from starting your own business.
Corporations hate the concept of a republic and 50 little countries with their own silly laws and borders. “We need a national law” is their mantra. What that leaves us with is a leviathan central government, a dead republic and corps loyal to the “global establishment”.
Jobs are booming in China.
Wake up America. “Free trade” is destroying the United States.
Unbridled, corporations will do things that are bad for the republic. There needs to be checks and balances. There are none. Govt is totally in bed with Corporate America. This government-business model is better known as fascism.
They are — offshore. Duh.
Most of the Free Traitors around here are graduates of the Judas Iscariot School of Business.
That's the beauty of it, it is impossible for our trading partners to retaliate as they already tariff the hell out of everything made in the USA.
Oh wait, but he can mandate that we all have health insurance? /s =.=
Two words: Illegal aliens.
As the economic downturn shed 4.3 million American jobs, employment for illegals added 1.1 million. It really is as simple as that. And it is why the Chamber of Commerce has become the enemy of the American worker.
Who wants to hire when there are:
Increasing energy and raw materials costs
Obamacare on the horizon
Global warming legislation
Potential for forced unionization
All the above affecting your customer base
I'm confused. Is he opening them without putting any money in? Nice trick. I'd like to know how to do that.
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