Jan 26 2009
Economic Environment Must Enable and Encourage Enterprise
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.
While I disagree that everyone wants a free handout (most people I know go crazy if they’re not working and hunt down a job, any job,asap), I agree wholeheartedly that the economy would be best stimulated by encouraging enterprise.
I’m a WAHM trying to get more than one business off the ground and it seems it’s impossible to get a fair shake sometimes…especially in this economy! Getting anything resembling a loan is near impossible. The banks get bailed out and still they’re stingy. What was the bailout for, if not to stimulate commerce and the industries driving it?
I’d like to see the money go whereever it’s best needed, and this is one place it’s definitely needed. Moving the markets forward is what’s going to help, not allowing them to stall completely.
Again, great post!