Broke With Great Roads
Am I the only one seeing that Hope and Change is now defined as throw tons of money at “infrastructure” programs and hope that it will change?
The left has no idea.
Their whole stimulus plan is based on spending billions (or trillions) on construction crews and those lucky enough to operate a paving machine. And, if you haven’t noticed, it’s winter.
Roads and bridges aren’t going to grow the economy. They’ll always need maintenance – and are depreciating assets.
Here’s a hint – businesses creates jobs. The economy is changing and the new infrastructure that drives it really only requires a cheap and dependable power grid.
FUND ASSETS.
Why not make it easier for small business to start-up and succeed. Seems to me that after the last bust in 2000, the whole Fortune 100 shifted. Companies that started during this period are the ones at the top today. GM, Ford, GE, and the industrials cannot be counted on to take us into the next decade.
Try creating a program to provide seed capital to those with good business plans that hire employees. Remove the government paperwork barrier – an instant killer of this kind of a plan. Get the local Chamber of Commerce to manage the approval. (Ask them – they’d jump at this.)
The red tape of running a business scares away a lot of entrepreneurs – so create a new form of limited liability company that requires less paperwork, takes an online application to start and that has a year end that doesn’t require a Chartered Accountant to file. You can start a business in Florida in a few hours.
LOWER THE BARRIERS TO ENTRY.
Unemployment benefits aren’t allowed if you’re working to start a business – change the program so that if you start a company, you’ll get three months of unemployment benefits to help you through the start up stage. Then instead of people waiting for someone to give them a job, they’ll be creating their job for themselves.
At the end of the day we’ll have jobs and businesses that will last longer than repaving the Trans-Canada highway.
