Election Issues Today

An economic environment that merely subsidizes the “sit on your butt” mentality, the welfare mentality, the entitlement mentality, does NOTHING to revive our nation’s industry, create jobs or enable the “supply and demand” equation to work.

Endless extensions to unemployment benefits only rewards those who get comfortable on the couch in front of the television set.  After a while, they begin to believe it is the government’s job to support them; that it is their right to draw benefits until someone comes along and OFFERS them something better!

Seed money for entrepreneurs, small businessmen and construction contractors and sub-contractors is needed to create jobs.  Workers who live in apartment buildings overrun with kids and unemployed men and women just feed upon their own misery by commiserating with each other about how the country is against them, the government doesn’t help them, the employers lay them off and then go on vacation in foreign countries, etc.

Everyone waits for a government hand-out, and that has never worked and never will work to motivate individuals to get off the coach.  Some of these “chronically unemployed” need a reality check, a wake-up call, an empty stomach, to get them off the couch and outside the door long enough to clear their heads and at least go look for work.

Enterprising people start their own little business, offer their services, work at multiple jobs and work at whatever jobs ARE available.  Besides the bailout of big banks and financial institutions, government seed money to small enterprise is needed, including help with making payroll, funds for retraining employees, assistance to employees in making down payments on homes, etc.

Send a message to your Congressmen to be creative, be original, be innovative, look beyond mere handouts that require no initiative on the part of organizations and individuals, and stimulate economic conditions in which private enterprise can flourish, while the lazy man must learn to fend for himself for a change.