WASHINGTON — Politicians and business groups often blame excessive regulation and fear of higher taxes for tepid hiring in the economy. However, little evidence of that emerged when McClatchy canvassed a random sample of small business owners across the nation.
"Government regulations are not 'choking' our business, the hospitality business," Bernard Wolfson, the president of Hospitality Operations in Miami, told The Miami Herald. "In order to do business in today's environment, government regulations are necessary and we must deal with them. The health and safety of our guests depend on regulations. It is the government regulations that help keep things in order." [...]
McClatchy reached out to owners of small businesses, many of them mom-and-pop operations, to find out whether they indeed were being choked by regulation, whether uncertainty over taxes affected their hiring plans and whether the health care overhaul was helping or hurting their business.
Their response was surprising.
None of the business owners complained about regulation in their particular industries, and most seemed to welcome it. Some pointed to the lack of regulation in mortgage lending as a principal cause of the financial crisis that brought about the Great Recession of 2007-09 and its grim aftermath.
Bingo. Anyone who brings up that regulations LIE should just be reminded of the Wall Street disaster. That's what happens when there are no regulations. I can't believe the wingnuts are actually calling for less regulations when it comes to our food, drugs and environment. They would be selling us rancid meat and rat poison disguised as "sleeping pills".
Doctors already prescribe Coumadin for patients prone to blood clots in their legs or lungs.
The active ingredient in Coumadin is Warfarin.
Which is the same active ingredient in rat poison.
I run three small businesses.
Federal and state regulations are NOT a problem.
I hired some additional workers this year because business is good.
I was just reading a sign business trade magazine yesterday that showed the results of an industry survey that asked what the biggest impediment to growth was for them in this economy. "Taxes and Regulations" came in last. And the sign industry has to deal with quite a lot of regulations.
Come to Illinois and say taxes aren't killing business..facts are reality pesky things.
"Unfortunately, the Cult of Warm doesn’t accept that there is a debate. As far as they are concerned, the debate never happened because it never needed to happen because they were always right. They can’t intelligently address dissent, because their science is not based on discovering the evidence needed to lead to a consensus, but on insisting that there is a consensus and that accordingly there is no need to debate the evidence."
Great quote and spot on correct.
"The masses... do not conceive any ideas, sound or unsound. They only choose between the ideologies developed by the intellectual leaders of mankind. But their choice is final and determines the course of events. If they prefer bad doctrines, nothing can prevent disaster."
Pondy- mmmm..... lets see. YOU want the government to SERVE YOU with all your medical care. YOU want the GOVERNMENT to support YOU, you take no accountability for your sorry azz self. You are too much of a victim to actually be accountable for your own fukking self. You want the governement to be accountable for you. YOU are in a traditional victim stance.
Oh, just for shts and grins, and IF you can actually read, look up reality therapy. Thats what sheeple need.
Mac- Like I have said over and over. I was hit with low dose sarin. Period. I got my VA. I don't use it because it's the absolute worst health care in the world, and what PTTP wants to go to.
Pttp- WTF?
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Iraq WAS only a tactical win for the Jiha'adist. Their goal is much larger.
"Pondy- mmmm..... lets see. YOU want the government to SERVE YOU with all your medical care. YOU want the GOVERNMENT to support YOU, you take no accountability for your sorry azz self. You are too much of a victim to actually be accountable for your own fukking self. You want the governement to be accountable for you. YOU are in a traditional victim stance." -od
As usual, you are so full of sh*t that it is spurting out your ears. The astounding audacity you present with your asinine assertions about what everyone else thinks and believes actually puts pb to shame. And that's saying something!
I want a single-payer health care system. I want to pay my taxes, extra taxes even if needed, and have the government oversee the health care of its citizens out of such taxes that everyone would pay and share the cost of... as opposed to having health insurance corporations, whose obligation lies first and mostly with its share holders, overcharge the living sh*t out of us all for health care if they even let us have it.
I'm not looking for anyone to take care of me. I'm looking for value on my dollar which I am more than happy to pony-up. I don't expect it to be free. No one here expects it to be free. That's your Sarin-soaked brain lying to you. One need only compare what people in this country pay for their health care (IF they can even get it) to what people in all other civilized countries pay through their taxes to see that Americans are getting hosed BIG time.
So please, quit making yourself look like the blithering idiot everyone in here takes you for and stop telling me and others what we want, think or believe. You are extremely miserable at it.
Btw, anyone who has to rely on for-profit health care through an insurance agency is automatically in a "victim stance".
"So you want a politician to make your medical decisions, right? ala Canada and the kid they were going to pull the plug on? or the VA? Great systems." -od
dude, where exactly is this perfect health care system in this country that never has any problems, abuses or waste that you seem to think we are all ingrates for not loving?
What I have is MUCH BETTER than socialized medicine. I have both, I chose to pay hundreds a month so the government doesn't make my health decisions, and I have a plan that I am responsible for myself instead of your uncle sugar saying what I can and cannot have. I don't believe that the federal government has the CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT (remember the constitution? I know it's a petty thing to bring up, but until you change it, that's what we have).
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Iraq WAS only a tactical win for the Jiha'adist. Their goal is much larger.
"What I have is MUCH BETTER than socialized medicine. I have both, I chose to pay hundreds a month so the government doesn't make my health decisions, and I have a plan that I am responsible for myself instead of your uncle sugar saying what I can and cannot have." -od
How nice for you! What health insurance company are you with that will simply cover anything YOU DECIDE that you need? And for only hundreds a month? Your Aunt Insurance Company will let you make and then cover any health decision you make? Like hell it will!
You keep acting like single payer would automatically be worse in terms of what's covered when that is not a foregone conclusion by any means. It certainly isn't in all the other developed countries. All health insurance companies decide what they will and won't cover or even if they'll give you insurance covering you in the first place. Why do they get a total pass from you in that regard but it's a deal killer for you when looking at single-payer? Why do for-profit corporations looking to fleece you for whatever they can cheat you out of to make their precious profit get a special dispensation from you?
"I don't believe that the federal government has the CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT (remember the constitution? I know it's a petty thing to bring up, but until you change it, that's what we have)." -od
Well that's your interpretation. Many people tend to take, "and provide for the common defense and GENERAL WELFARE of the United States" at it's obvious meaning.
The Federal Government would have the constitutional authority to mandate health care if it covered everyone, was paid for from general funds and was overseen by a Federal Department and not-for-profit government insurance agency.
But to mandate that Americans are required to buy a product or service from a private corporation or face penalties by the government? That is NOT constitutional.
