“I’ll tell you where the ‘shovel ready jobs’ are, they’re in the White House Press Office!Setting aside the mixed metaphors, which can be forgiven in light of her frustration and angst, she nailed the feelings of all of us out here in small business America. Her emotion and plain-spoken truth on the subject are much appreciated by many of us!
If you think you can put a top spin on this [jobs] number... Sixty four thousand jobs? That just about fits in two small towns on Long Island. Sixty four thousand jobs, BIG DEAL! Sixty four thousand jobs is nothing! … We lost EIGHT MILLION jobs since the crisis began. And why aren’t jobs being created? Because businesses are afraid! They’re afraid of what’s coming out of Washington DC! They feel like they’re standing stranded in the middle of traffic with all the regulatory policies coming at them like a freight train. It’s really bad. When you talk to small business people like I have, they are scared.”
I continue to find Elizabeth MacDonald to be one of the best informed, clearest thinking, and most interesting business analysts on television. I often have the Fox Business channel on in the background while I get computer work done, but I have gotten in the habit - whenever Elizabeth MacDonald rcomes on, to stop whatever I'm doing and really listen. I have yet to be disappointed by that habit.
Keep up the good work Lizzy Mac!
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