Small Businesses Feel Washington Democrat Policies Strangling their Ability to Hire or Grow in Future
September 13, 2011
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Small Businesses Feel Washington Democrat Policies Strangling their Ability to Hire or Grow in Future
Recent Survey Says Business Owners Have Little Expectations for Improvement in Business Conditions DC DEMOCRATS STILL DON’T GET IT: Obama and Congressional Democrats are doing everything they can to disguise their new $400 billion stimulus proposal, even changing their rhetoric in the hopes of winning over voters who are opposed to more failed government spending: “Though the House minority leader [Nancy Pelosi] and her caucus are still pushing an economic stimulus agenda to save the economy, they’ve radically changed their rhetoric with the hope of winning over voters who saw ‘stimulus’ as close to a dirty word. Democrats are now being careful to frame their job-creation agenda in language excluding references to any stimulus, even though their favored policies for ending the deepest recession since the Great Depression are largely the same. … That’s a sharp shift from last year’s messaging strategy, when Pelosi issued hundreds of press releases touting the benefits of the 2009 stimulus bill in hopes of making believers of skeptical voters.” (Mike Lillis, “Pelosi Drops the Word ‘Stimulus’,” The Hill, 9/6/2011)
MADE IN WASHINGTON, DC: However, due to the stubbornness of Washington Democrats to sacrifice their limitless spending spree that has failed to create jobs, small business owners find it hard to be anything but pessimistic: “Small businesses in the U.S. became less confident in the economy’s future for the sixth straight month in August, following a bruising spending battle in Congress, a survey showed on Tuesday.
“The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) said its Small Business Optimism Index fell 1.8 points to 88.1.” (“U.S. Small Business Optimism Weakens Again in August,” Reuters, 9/13/2011)
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