Dear POTUS Obama and the Dems in Congress --
As a small business person who supported you in 2008, I have spent the past year working to get a decent health care bill passed so I could consider expanding my business. As the year ends, here are the reasons that I WON'T BE HIRING NEXT YEAR! I'm willing to bet there are ALOT of other small business people out there who feel similarly. Since you guys just don't seem to get it, I decided to spell it out for you!
1) NO PUBLIC OPTION IN THE HEALTH REFORM BILL -- Over the past 13 years that I have been in business, I have been unable to provide health insurance for myself let alone any employees. During that time I have watched my business associates change insurance companies every year because of the significant increase in premiums while decreasing benefits. I am not willing to go through that. I do not believe the current bill will provide the options my business needs to insure that all employees have health insurance. The easiest remedy is to just fire or not hire any employees. Then no worries.
2) INCREASE IN UNEMPLOYMENT TAX -- Since Texas did not take the Federal Stimulus Funds last year, the state is now significantly in the RED in our unemployment fund. So much so that they will be increasing the State's unemployment tax 300%. Again the easiest remedy is to fire or not hire any employees. Then no hassles with the taxes.
3)LACK OF AVAILABLE CREDIT -- Most businesses at some time, encounter problems with cash flow. In the past they have used some form of CREDIT to help them get through these times. Since the credit markets have decided that small businesses are a high risk despite their spotless credit record and have cut off and/or decreased the credit available, it makes no sense for my business to take the risk of hiring new employees. In fact it makes it more likely that I will have to terminate employees.
4)CAPITALISTISM -- The purpose of capitalism is to make money. In these difficult economic times, I can make more money by keeping my overhead as low as possible. The best way to do that is to just fire or not hire any employees.
5)GREED -- See capitalism above
6)SPITE -- You guys are pathetic. The ONLY thing MORE pathetic than Obama and the Dems that I admit I voted for, are the Obstructionist GOPers whose only slogan is "JUST SAY NO"! Somebody please explain to me why you kowtow to the Republicans over the people who got you elected in the first place. Basically, you have compromised my rights away, so to spite you, I just won't hire. In fact it's more likely I will fire employees just to spite you.....and make more money with less hassles and no worries for me.
7)LIMITED GOOD CANDIDATES -- One would think with all the unemployed people out there, the odds of finding an employee that is worth what you would be paying them is an amazingly low percent. Why is that? An Employer has to spend time and money to sift through the hundreds of people who are worthless to me as employees because they don't know basic US geography or they have no idea how to think for themselves let alone work without supervision. Add to it that most people believe themselves to be entitled to be late, or take time off when you depend on them, or just not do what they say they are going to do in the first place. It's hard enough to keep a business going in this current economy without the chaos that unqualified employees can cause to one's business. It's not worth the risk ESPECIALLY since you guys can't get things right in Congress to help us out and make things better.
There's an old saying that goes..."don't depend on anyone except yourself". So like many small business owners I would rather so it myself and KNOW it gets done correctly, than to rely on some worthless employee whose ONLY concern is themselves. That means no new hiring in 2010. And quite frankly, I don't think that will help the economy recover quickly. But since you guys don't listen to the people and only care about politics so you keep giving us these lame programs, you will be LUCKY if that's all I don't do in 2010.
Quite frankly, I'm seriously considering sitting out voting in the next election. It's quite possible that if millions of people like me do this, we will end up with a bunch of Republicans in Congress backed by the NUTTY tea baggers. But that won't be on my conscience because YOU ABANDONED ME BEFORE I abandoned you. I am tired of being called a liberal because I DON'T TRUST CORPORATE FASCISM and want THE CHOICE of a gov’t run program. Anyone left of Rush Limbaugh is an alleged liberal. I'm tired of the garbage coming out of the White House by Rahm Emanuel and POTUS Obama. I'm tired of politicians who are suppose to be representing the will of the people, NOT LISTENING to the will of the people. I'm tired of the lies and the propaganda and the broken promises.
I just want to get back to work. And since I won't be hiring next year, I've got a lot of work ahead of me.
Get if right in 2010 or THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES!