Quote Originally Posted by floatman View Post
corporate America and small businesses are not the job creators, they will not hire one person more then they need to make their product, the working people are the job creators in this country, the more money they make the more things they BUY!!, the more things they BUY the more jobs are needed
Why would any company hire one more person than is necessary to build and market their product? Business is there to make money and provide return to stockholders.

Let me make sure I understand. Corporate America and Small Business aren't job creators...but the middle class union workers are, by spending their high wages on more stuff...thus creating jobs to build more stuff. Where do you think the middle class gets those wages in the first place? Is it not Corporate America and small business?

Look, I'm kind of simple minded, so I'll give a real world example. My company employs about 700 people across the Southeast. We had been growing, opening new warehouse locations that employ an average of probably 30-40 people...our last two new facilities were in Mobile AL and Columbia SC. We have had plans to open in two other cities this year, but those plans got put on hold. Why? One word: Uncertainty. It's hard for businesses to be certain that their investments in new capital and new employees will pay off when you can't get a feel for what's going to happen with regulation, taxes, health care, the fiscal cliff at the end of the year, and the progress of the economy. The result is that 60-80 people in a couple of cities won't have new jobs to go to with our company this year. Now, multiply that times thousands upon thousands of small businesses like us and you see why jobs growth is most certainly affected by small business and their ability to create new jobs. We, like many other businesses, are pausing on new investment and keeping our money in the bank until things are more certain.

I'm not blaming union men, I'm not blaming the wants of Americans, I'm not blaming government, I'm not blaming business...I'm blaming all of it together in some mixture that got us where we are today. Nobody is squeaky clean.