Not until this is fixed will job creation start….

Blogging will be a tad light for a bit….involved in some TEA Party activities are requiring my attention. so the longerish posts will have to wait.  In the mean time….

Uncertainty is the problem.  Small business, both at the national level and here in NH, is under attack from the Lefty Progressives.  Some believe them (that is, small businesses) to be nothing more than "social benefit" entities (re: mandating social benefits), some believe they are ATM machines where one can just hit the right buttons to get the cash (without worrying about the accounts going dry), or just hate the idea of something being successful without the Government playing a role.

This from Boortz does a good job at a summary:

I’ll just share one quote with you here. This is from Bill Dunkelberg of the National Federation of Independent Business:

"The horizon is filled with cost unknowns, from healthcare to cap and trade to yawning deficits and the need to come to grips with them, from paid family and medical leave to card check, from expiration of the Bush tax cuts to state decisions about their finances. Washington cannot expect small business owners, facing difficult economic circumstances anyway, to commit themselves to investing in new employees or equipment and vehicles without acknowledging and revealing the policy-inspired costs that will be imposed on them. It is all about uncertainty and confidence."

"Uncertainty and confidence." Uncertainty as to what this anti-Capitalist in the White House is going to do next, and a complete lack of confidence in his belief in the private sector.

Indeed.  If I still owned a small biz with employees, I’d be loathe to hire anyone, lest the cost bankrupt me.  Buying new equipment?  Why should I, if the new taxes that the socialists want to levy upon me actually come to pass. Inserting more of Government by mandating long periods of paid leave?  Who do the anti-capitalists believe are going to want to purchase my goods or services at the prices I will then have to charge?

All decisions have consequences.  Thus far, I see not a single decision from DC that would signal that the Progressive Dems are done beating on those that normally create the jobs.  Not one.

Most biz people want certainty (and that is not the same as security). I say most, as it seems that Obama and the new policies are leading us to a statist corporatism where companies will profit from playing the political game instead of competing in the marketplace; I have, at times, chronicled that advance trend here on the ‘Grok a few times.

Want to really test that theory?  Ask those biz people who lean or who are very left in their political thought: how people have you hired in relationship to your employee base?  Why aren’t you hiring more to support Lynch / Norelli / Obama / Reid / Pelosi?  Why aren’t you putting YOUR money where you want others to put theirs?

Uncertainty – who has brought it and why?  Remember the phrase: Determined Weakness