Still Looking for Ideas?
White House Jobs Summit has come to symbolize the most recent example of a long-line of mismanagement over the last year of the current administration. From failure to fully vet candidates for cabinet-level and other administration positions to the complete refusal to acknowledge ideas for success that were anything right of crazy-left. The Jobs Summit, in itself failing to include vibrant job creators like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Businesses, revealed a string of ideas to aid recovery for the current economic malaise. Interestingly, and of course not surprisingly, these ideas centered around sound, conservative fiscal principles like improving tax credits for businesses to stimulate hiring. What is frustrating to most of America, however, is the fact that Republicans have been lobbying these ideas from the beginning of the debate this year, and which have been clearly laid out for the President since his election.
For instance, check out the similarities between the Republican House plan for economic recovery laid out in January by House Minority Leader John Boehner which centers around helping those most impacted by job losses (families and individuals) and those that hold the key to job creation (small businesses). Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal laid it out in his case for health-care reform when he suggested “conservative principles work when applied to real-world problems.” Most recently, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney unveiled a ten-point plan to solving our current economic woes. Among these, are ideas designed to shake the shackles of a crippling government upon the private sector and to allow the spirit of enterprise to prosper once again.
It is not re-inventing the wheel. Amazingly, this country, and we the people, are merely a by-product of the solutions that we most need now. Our government is best when it governs the least – when it allows itself, its economies, and its people to be free and to tap into what makes it best – the people and the drive to solve and succeed.
