Posted on 09/05/2011 10:59:17 AM PDT by 1010RD
WASHINGTON — Politicians and business groups often blame excessive regulation and fear of higher taxes for tepid hiring in the economy. However, little evidence of that emerged when McClatchy canvassed a random sample of small business owners across the nation.
"Government regulations are not 'choking' our business, the hospitality business," Bernard Wolfson, the president of Hospitality Operations in Miami, told The Miami Herald. "In order to do business in today's environment, government regulations are necessary and we must deal with them. The health and safety of our guests depend on regulations. It is the government regulations that help keep things in order."
SNIP
McClatchy reached out to owners of small businesses, many of them mom-and-pop operations, to find out whether they indeed were being choked by regulation, whether uncertainty over taxes affected their hiring plans and whether the health care overhaul was helping or hurting their business.
Their response was surprising.
None of the business owners complained about regulation in their particular industries, and most seemed to welcome it...
SNIP (You'll have to read it to believe it)
(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...
The gags almost write themselves. FReepers, you've got plenty of material to work with here. Have at it.
What? Who interviewed the guy, a muslim with a scimitar?
Mr. Wolfson went on to add, “Barack Hussein Obama II is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.”
Well, seems to me that they now make news instead of reporting the news.
Also, it seems to me that they did that very thing in Germany about 60-70 years ago.
Why? Its a waste of good bandwidth. Just like with the "Professors" and "Academics" they develop a theory and to hell with contrary evidence.
I’ll bet dollars to donuts that this a union shop.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
(None of the business owners complained about regulation in their particular industries, and most seemed to welcome it...)
That sounds like a poll conducted in Syria! Not one of the business owners complained about business regulations; 100% welecome more regulations! Baghdad Bob must have found a new job at the McCrappy papers.
Drill....and every segment benefits!!
What he's saying is, if it weren't for regulations, we bed&breakfasts would be serving arsenic in the tea.
Guy runs a small group of 5 hotels staffed with illegals. Can’t imagine why he likes Obama.
These were probably all union-controlled businesses.
That's why I have a simple rule for our company: "When we want to grow, we have to go...to Asia."
Just in case anybody is unsure where the “reporters” stand within the political spectrum, here’s another quote from a “random” business owner: (He credits the federal stimulus effort with helping to keep some smaller firms afloat.)
Riiiiiight!
http://therealdeal.com/miami/articles/developer-bernard-wolfson-on-the-city-s-first-leed-hotel
GREEN HOTEL owner.
No, it depends on you to set standards of service and enforce them!
Clearly! “I can’t be trusted to do the right thing government! Please regulate me!”
crony capitalist
http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/bernard-wolfson.asp?cycle=10
BUT, he gave to Republicans, including Sharon Angle, last year.
“In order to do business in today’s environment, government regulations are necessary and we must deal with them.”
translation: Only when you are screwed are you free.
Yeah, I’ll buy that if you throw in a free Starbucks.
Somehow, this became a question of whether we should or shouldn't have any government regulations whatsoever. The latter is the definition of anarchy. Nobody is claiming we don't need any government regulations at all.. I'm okay with being told to drive at 65 mph on most highways. I would not be so sanguine if Obama told me not to drive above 5 mph, which is equivalent to how he is choking the economy.
I'm okay with the government prohibiting McDonald's from putting rat poison into their hamburgers. Telling them not to exceed a certain calorie count is another story. Read my tagline.
From the article:I never want to do business with Mr. Wolfson's company. Ever!
"Government regulations are not 'choking' our business, the hospitality business," Bernard Wolfson, the president of Hospitality Operations in Miami, told The Miami Herald. "In order to do business in today's environment, government regulations are necessary and we must deal with them. The health and safety of our guests depend on regulations. It is the government regulations that help keep things in order."
Anybody who says that is not trying to deliver the best quality to their customers. They are trying to do the bare minimum to get by. What he's saying is that his business is so shady, if the Government didn't force him to operate in a healthy, safe manner, he would endanger his guests to make more money.
After 40 years in Miami real estate, developer Bernard Wolfson, president of Hospitality Operations, is bringing a first to the market -- the city's only LEED hotel, a Hampton Inn in Brickell.
http://therealdeal.com/miami/articles/developer-bernard-wolfson-on-the-city-s-first-leed-hotel
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies intended to improve performance in metrics such as energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_in_Energy_and_Environmental_Design
How the hell did they do “random”? That sounds like a flat out lie. Loaded dice would be more honest.
Bernard Wolfson, Fla Attorney, Developer, political contributions in 2008...Wasserman-Schultz, Wexler.
It is this kind of remark that shows how far some people have digressed from personal responsibility to having government be their concience. In many cases it is just a matter of government being used to level (sans illicit behavior) to level competition. You don’t trust anyone who would have government be your concience.
Obviously this establishment serves a fine cup of Koolaid.
The two people in the story begging for more regulation give to democrats. Wolfson is a huge donor. Daniels is a small time donor. The maid service guy donates to LaRouche (wacko), and Zajic has a relative (probably Dad) that gives to the Republicans.
***Mr. Wolfson went on to add, “Barack Hussein Obama II is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.”***
WOW! Kind of like what Frank Sinatra said about Lawrence Harvy in THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE!
It just rolls off the tongue naturally without thinking!
Mr. Wolfson went on to add, “Barack Hussein Obama II is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.”
“Captain STERN!”
“Yes Hanover?
“Here’s your money. And Hanover...”
“Yes Boss?”
“Goodbye, Hanover” Flushing noises
Heavy Metal Movie for those who don’t get it.
This small business owner says that this article is full of crap.
They simply went on a ride-along with each locality’s Business Inspection Task Force.
Right - because you're too stoopid to figure out how to do things safely (and keep from getting sued) without some bureaucrat in DC ginning up a boatload of regulations!
Uh-oh! Texas better start worrying that their small businesses will move to California.
...as he deposited his stimulus check into an Isle of Man offshore account.
These people are highly paid, professional reporters who have been college-educated to high ethical standards.
They simply picked random names out of the Yellow Pages at each location and interviewed the first person to pick up the phone. If they’d cherry-picked the respondents or left out divergent or contradictory opinions it would be obvious and skewed.
You can see the article is chock full of scientific polls, statistics, numbers and graphs proving their point. If it were just a jumble of anecdotes from a few selected liberals who happen to run businesses then it would look like a fake wouldn’t it?
Wait a minute! You mean he’s a plant?? He doesn’t really represent John Q. American-Small-Business?
The Media would never stoop to such a trick.
Exactly. Can you imagine a guy so wicked that without the threat of government enforcement he’d, he’d, he’d... well, what would he do to his customers?
Only liberals can be or think we are this stupid.
FROM WIKI-
McClatchy Company: ...
In 2008, McClatchy's bureau chief in Washington, D.C., John Walcott, was the first recipient of the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence ... In accepting the award, Walcott commented on McClatchy's reporting during the period preceding the Iraq War:
... our reporting different from so much other reporting? ... we sought out the dissidents, and we listened to them, instead of serving as stenographers to high-ranking [Bush administration] officials and Iraqi exiles
FROM WIKI-
I.F. Stone:
Journalistic style: According to Nation Magazine ... an outspoken leftist journalist
Well the 21st century McClatchy paper is just following its long tradition:
“Known as a supporter of the people’s interests against those of corporations and corrupt politicians, James McClatchy (1824–1883)made The Bee a bastion of progressive reformism.”
Luckily for us a lie told a thousand times is still a lie. The only insult is did the McClatchy reporters and reporterettes really think we’d buy it?
That sounds more like it; maybe I fell for a little cosmetic surgery to the donation list .
Exaclty. Please, government, stop me before I hurt my customers again!
I hate to be a grammar Nazi, but shouldn't idiots read liberals? Wait, I just repeated myself. Please ignore this post.
Right, just like Pulitzer, the Oscars, the Noble Prize, et al. It’s just a bunch of liberals awarding each other for being liberals. Then the liberals, coveting anything they don’t possess, write about the prestigious awards.
It’s like grade inflation for losers.
Although, I think it was Laz who originally named them totlitarians - a brilliant mix of childish dictators or simply a typo that tickled my Freudian slip. I think I’m going to steal that.
If you read the article, you discover the following
“None of the business owners complained about regulation in their particular industries, and most seemed to welcome it. Some pointed to the lack of regulation in mortgage lending as a principal cause of the financial crisis that brought about the Great Recession of 2007-09 and its grim aftermath.”
I got that far into the article in my morning newspaper and then realized that the respondents were obviously cherry-picked.
So, without the government looking over his shoulder Wolfson would imperil his guests' health and safety.
There is no other way to read this scumbag's statement.
Government is the last entity that should be "regulating" health and safety. People have been indoctrinated into thinking that without regulations bad things will happen. Nothing could be further from the truth.
A truly free market will provide superior health and safety enforcement mechanism -- both in speed and efficiency. Milton Friedman (his son) Ludwig Von Mises, and many others have written at length about such matters.
Governments have suppressed the ability of the market to handle the matter of health and safety, so most people can't even allow themselves to think about how the market would handle it. They just assume "we need government."
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