Jobs will come if Obama gets out of the way

Democrat strategist Doug Schoen recently remarked  that President Obama is incapable of creating jobs.  I have observed more than once that Obama is philosophically unable to allow the creation of jobs because he believes that government should be in control.  He and his administration have passed laws and issued regulations that have made it more difficult for banks to lend andfor  companies to borrow funds in order to expand. Other regulations are ham-stringing business in various ways.

Obama is in love with the "green" industry and opposes oil and gas and coal.  Allowing the Keystone pipeline to go forward would add 20,000 jobs immediately and at no cost to this country.   Allowing the full development of shale and permitting drilling off shore drilling  to proceed could eventually provide a million jobs. We can get by without positive action from Obama; we need for him to get  the government out of the way and let private industry provide the jobs.

I did not succeed everytime

It was that dead time between Christmas and New Years and nearing the end of my first year as an economic development specialist for the state.  I reviewed a group of inactive files, devised a letter inviting company officials to visit, and offering to pick them up in the state's jet.

A maker of men's suits in Georgia responded and visits were scheduled  ( I thought) for Greensburg and Covington.  When we arrived in Greensburg the industrial team was not ready but soon arrived and we had a productive meeting.  We were late to make the scheduled time for Covington, and I asked the client if he minded putting off lunch because the Covington team was waiting.  He complied, saying, "They will surely offer us some coffee."  When we arrived at the chamber of commerce office, we were informed that they did not expect us. A group of leaders was organized and our  meeting went forward.  

We left to go to a restaurant that, I assured the client, was highly recommended.  After a pleasant meal I began to write a credit card.  The waitress said, " That's not us; that's a restaurant down the road."

I was speechless but the client wasn't.  He said, "You took us to two places that didn't even know we were coming. We missed lunch and to top it off, we eat at the wrong restaurant."

(A week later I rode the state jet to Georgia to pick up the client and several of his staff to go to Greensburg  fo conduct a labor survey.  We bucked head winds returning to Baton Rouge so were an hour late for a meeting that had been called.  Yet, we were told, 200 people waited, only two leaving because cows had to be  milked.  The survey went well and I wish I could say the company located a plant, but it was later determined they did not require added production.)

Happy thanksgiving to all

Like the old hymn says, count your many blessings -- name them one by one;
                                    and it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

I have promised myself that today I will forget personal pains and problems and ignore the mess our so-called leaders have gotten this nation into.

So that's why he said New York was dangerous

Most of my many industrial prospecting trips were for one week; I'd leave Sunday afternoon and return Sunday night. However, I took two weeks to call on companies in South and North Carolina, and once I attended he apparel show in Atlantic City and went on to spend a week in New York before going home. 

I was on that particular trip to New York that I met with the owner of a company  that made a top line of women's dresses.  His plant was located in California and he was looking to move and/or expand.  We met in his hotel suite, and he remarked that when he had business in New York City that he never left the hotel. "New York is a dangerous place," he said.

Some weeks after my meeting with this prospect, we read a long article about him, that his Cadillac had been found abandoned and he was missing.  Further, he was in the FBI witness protection program and had been established as a garment manufacturer.  As far as I know, he was never heard from again.  Yes, he had a reason to fear New York.

Super committee is colossal fail

As of one today the super committee, supposed to find l.2 trillion in cuts, savings or revenues, has done nothing, as really was expected.  Congress and the president have the power and the responsibility to come up with a plan to cut spending and reduce the debt.  The markets are already falling and a further down grade of our credit rating is likely. 

This administration has carried excess spending to heights never before approached.  It is easy to spend and become popular with certain groups while some courage is required to reduce funds.  This nation is in bad trouble. Much waste could be eliminated if  Congress and the president would just do it.  But painful cuts are coming in entitlement programs, and those cuts will not be received happily by those affected.  Certain groups, including that stinking outfit AARP, have already run ads defending their funds and castigating anyone with guts to vote for the cuts.  Let me say as strongly as I can -- this nation is in danger and every day we delay makes our situation more perilous.  Greece, here we come to join you unless we act now.  When I say cuts are needed I don't mean we have to cut out steak twice a week and drink a cheaper wine; we are going to have to get by on smaller pieces of corn bread and less buttermilk..

Carter had a fancier name to criticize us

With unemployment over 9 per cent, the economy in a shambles, debt over 15 trillion and wasteful spending exploding, Obama has identified the cause -- Americans are lazy.  Remember Jimmy Carter.  Unemployment and inflation were in high double figures when he said the problem was the American people were in a "malaise." That's an old French word meaning, roughly, "out of sorts."    

Carter and Obama have something in common -- they are both miserable failures as president.

Obama is over seas but he has his thoughts on this country enough to blast public schools while sending his children to private schools.   I think our schools would do better if the federal government was completely out of them.  I favor abolishing the Department of Education, but Obama's criticism  while visiting Australian schools was out of line.

Our problems are not because Americans are lazy; they are not.  Get government off our backs and we will compete.  Do away with the EPA regulations added under Obama's rule and companies will begin to hire. The head of Coca Cola has pointed out that it is easier to get permits to build a plant in China than it is in the United States.  Our corporate tax rate must be lowered to make it profitable to operate here. Otherwise, you'll have corporations loved by Obama, like General Electric, figure ways to avoid paying any taxes.

Thoughts that come on a beautiful day

Another beautiful fall day.  November can be sunny and pleasantly warm or cool, but it can also be cold and wet.  Thinking back to my childhood and days on the farm we would be fully engaged in picking cotton, harvesting corn, peanuts, sweet potatoes, and hay.  Cutting sugar cane and making syrup would usually be done around Thanksgiving on into early December.

I didn't have a garden this summer so have no late vegetables to harvest.  I look out my front door and see the ground covered with pears  which ripened and fell at the slightest breeze.  I usually make pear preserves and/or pear relish but have been too lazy and with too many pains to take advantage of an abundant crop, letting them go to waste.