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Letter to
editor - Response to Obama email about creating jobs
9-14-20
I just received an email blast from
President Obama in which he urged me to put pressure on Congress
to pass his plan to create jobs. I replied:
Dear Mr.
President
It’s not possible for you to: ”…lay
out a clear plan to get Americans back to work.” because
creating jobs is not a President’s job.
Creating jobs is what I do. I am Main
Street America.
Even under the
best of circumstances, I can do nothing more than create an
opportunity for a job. The potential employee is the one who
must have the desire to pursue happiness through work. We can
only lead a horse to water. We cannot make him drink.
Providing
people with free food, free health care, extended unemployment
income and other forms of happiness is an incentive to not
achieve them through employment.
Taxing other
workers to provide these entitlements breeds resentment.
Offering tax dollars to me as an
incentive to hire from a particular group of people that you
would like beholden to you for creating their job will have no
effect.
What you can give us as President is
our freedom. Reduce the tax and regulatory burden on Main Street
and we will create the job opportunities. Think of it like
chickens and eggs. If you want more eggs, you first need healthy
chickens. The rest comes naturally.
David Crawmer,
www.republicamerica.us
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