How About Some Straight Economic Talk?

What is it with this double speak about jobs that we have to refer to new  orders, tax incentives, plant expansion, or relocation as "saving or creating" a certain number of jobs? Which is it - save or create? Big difference.

While a company employing 50 people that gets new orders and is able to keep everyone employed versus laying people off or shutting the doors has in essence "saved" 50 jobs, this does not contribute to overall job expansion.

If all we are doing is saving jobs, fine. We can celebrate that we aren't losing ground.

However, let's focus on creating jobs - non-government jobs that is. Non-government funded jobs also.

This either-or nonsense is not helpful. Tell us we held our own or we grew, not that we either held our own or we grew and that no one is sure which it is.

That same company with 50 employees that hires 1 new person created 1 job. They "saved or created" 51 jobs. Big difference.

 

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12 comments • Steve Hoffacker - Sales Trainer/Coach, Sales Books Author, Photographer • June 08 2011 02:01PM

The President Can't Deliver

That's right, the President cannot deliver on his promise to create jobs. It doesn't make any difference if you like him or not. It doesn't make any difference if you believe him or want this to happen or not. It can't be done.

Job formation and growth comes primarily from small businesses, and the government has been doing everything it can think of to damage or penalize small businesses - taxes, mandates, and regulations.

Government cannot create jobs. It can pay someone to be on its payroll, but this is not a revenue producing job. The government only manufacturers one thing - money. It provides very few services - national parks being a good example of one that does generate revenue (although probably not enough to offset operating expenses.

We need government. We just don't need so many people employed by it.

So we can listen to the President and the Congress promise to create jobs, and we can say that job creation is our number one priority or concern as a nation, but we we cannot expect is that the government is the one to create any meaningful, sustainable employment.

That is up to us. The government cannot demand that we create and fill a job in our business, but they can help make the econmoic climate so attractive that we desire to do this on our own,. That is how job growth will happen.

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42 comments • Steve Hoffacker - Sales Trainer/Coach, Sales Books Author, Photographer • January 22 2010 09:47AM