EMPLOYERS DON'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT NEXT FROM ADMINISTRATION
 
 

Note: Tim Griffin has called on House leadership to provide the private sector certainty in order to create jobs. His most recent statement can be found here.
 
Obama succeeded only in creating uncertainty
 
By: Thomas Sowell
Examiner Columnist
July 14, 2010

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With the Obama administration being on an anti-business kick, boasting of putting their foot on some business' neck, and the president talking about putting his foot on another part of the anatomy, with Congress coming up with more and more red tape, more mandates and more heavy-handed interventions in businesses, would you risk $26 billion that you might not even be able to get back, much less make any money on the deal?

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What does all this say? That people don't know what to expect next from this administration, which seldom lets a month go by without some new anti-business laws, policies or rhetoric.

When you hire somebody in this environment, you know what you have agreed to pay them and what additional costs there may be for their health insurance or other benefits. But you have no way of knowing what additional costs the politicians in Washington are going to impose, when they are constantly coming up with new bright ideas for imposing more mandates on business.

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