“Job Creation”, A False Concept in the USA?

Is the task of creating significant numbers of jobs an impossibility for the United States economy in the “Global Market’?


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We are hearing a lot of political rhetoric about “Jobs Creation”, “Jobs Bills”, “Jobs Saved”, “Jobs Stimulus”, “Jobs-Jobs-Jobs”. But just as the old lady said in the hamburger commercial as she looked for the meat…..”Where’s the Jobs?” Well, if you really want to find them you will have to go to China, that is where you will find those millions of jobs we have lost since we adopted the concept of free trade, the “global” economy, and obediently dropped all of the tariffs, quotas, and duties which afforded some level of equality in our marketplace for domestic products.

Sure, we may be buying those “made in China” products at a good price at Wal Mart, but it is difficult to even pay those low prices when you are out of a job and have no income except for government assistance. And the growing social burdens created by the declining markets, growing unemployment, and general decline of the economy are creating insurmountable debts which may eventually destroy the U.S. economy. Good idea?...I think not.

It appears to me that the only arena in which our national leadership can create jobs is in the industry of “Government”. New jobs are plentiful in Washington as huge new bureaucracies are being formed to administer absolute control over our lives and our environment. Meanwhile, they pour borrowed funds into the unquenchable, gaping budgets of federal, state, and local government agencies…and brag about “saving” jobs. At the same time they are serving out more unnecessary, wasteful “Pork” than Sonny’s Bar-B-Q!

These inept, ill conceived trade “deals” which were passed during the Clinton administration with bi-partisan support, have today eroded the basic structure of our industrial sector to a point where there no longer exists any hope of real jobs creation. It is a political spoof which will not happen. Those jobs, those factories, those industries, those companies….are forever lost. They have been lost because of poor business decisions made for political reasons by our elected leaders. They should now pay the price, since there is rampant proof of the results of their folly.

Under the overregulated, over taxed, over labor priced environment in which our nation’s industries must struggle, there is no hope for successfully competing in the marketplace on a long term basis. The only way we can hope to regain any of these life threatening losses is through a national program of common sense reductions of these impairments to our industries, combined with sensibly applied international protections from products entering the US markets from countries which do not compete on a fair, equitable basis. We must level the playing field, or our team will never win.

The real tragedy in this matter is the continuing ineptness of our national leadership in these matters. They continue to “pile on” new, costly environmental regulations over our remaining industrial sector, higher taxation, higher labor costs requirements such as mandatory health care, and reduced industrial assistance programs in operational financing, …all of which further widen the cost gap favoring imported products. They have a pro-union, anti-business mentality which makes any real hope for “Jobs Creation” an impossible dream, except for government jobs.

“God Bless America”….cause they ain’t “Getting it Right!”

Rudiments: Odds and Ends Worth Mentioning-

● I applaud the Chipola Baptist Association for their “Buckets for Haiti” program. It is a clever concept and will help thousands of suffering people in that politically ruined nation. (Please Note, I began by saying something nice this week.)

● Some area newspapers have dug out the story about Marti Coley receiving a salary increase some three years ago, and her role in helping Chipola obtain funding for the Arts Center which is currently under construction. This is old news, and I feel it is playing “dirty pool” for the media to dig the story out of the past and present it as new news. I wrote a story reporting this occurrence many months ago entitled “Dirty Games Junior Colleges Have to Play”. It is wrong to give rebirth to this as we enter the 2010 campaign period. Their intent is obvious, and I do not agree with their tactics.

● While we are discussing politics and Marti Coley, it has come to my attention that a group of liberal minded “reform-a-crats” in Tallahassee want to close Dozier and place those thugs in private “halfway houses” around the state. We need Marti’s presence in Tallahassee to defend this valuable employer in our community, and the social purpose it performs.



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