"....brought to you by Carl's Jr."
Posted on 12/05/2011 5:56:00 AM PST by Kaslin
A couple of weeks back on these pages we wrote of our outrage over the following jaw-dropping statement made by Harry Reid, the Leader of the Democrats, on the floor of the U.S. Senate:
"… my Republican friends have yet to produce a single shred of evidence that the regulations they hate so much do the broad economic harms they claim. That's because there aren't any."
Reid is using his power as the Majority Leader of the Senate to deny nearly two dozen regulation relief bills already passed by the House to come to the floor of the Senate for a vote at a time when 26 million Americans are unemployed, under employed, or have given up even trying to find a job.
George Will, the nationally syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, put an exclamation point on the issue of excessive government regulation with a column about the plight of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s. Founded in 1941 by a 24 year old truck driver named Carl Karcher with $326 and a hot dog cart, CKE now operates 3200 restaurants employing 70,000 people. Karcher’s story is yet another example of the American Dream becoming reality.
Karcher passed away in 2008, but his legacy lives on with CEO Andy Puzder now at the helm. Puzder says that the company is surviving these difficult times, but “it would thrive, but for government’s comprehensive campaign again job creation,” as George Will wrote.
This is a real life tragic story of how state and federal government regulation is killing jobs and the economy they all say they are pledged to “stimulate.” As you read Will’s entire column (link here) think, too, about how many other Carl Karcher’s American Dreams will never become a reality because the convoluted morass of government thou-shalt-not regulations that send a loud-and-clear message to today’s entrepreneurs to “don’t even think about it.”
"....brought to you by Carl's Jr."
If Dingbat Harry had ever done anything in his life besides suck on the public teet, it would be self-evident to him how regulations stifle creativity, job creation, growth and productivity.
I am mostly certain that I would not start my company had I to do it over again in these times. Never mind the economy. The regulations alone would have discouraged it. Now that I have it it is a struggle every day to comply with Exxon size regulations at our scale.
Why can’t year-end close and taxes and reporting happen at some time other than Christmas?
Whenever some entrepreneur comes up with an idea to create wealth, the first things the leftist politician/bureaucrat thinks is how he can tax and regulate it, and then how can he make money off it. Lib/leftists do not care one whit whether the thing created by the entrepreneur is good for the country. The only thing they care about is how it can make them, the leftist pols, more money and give them more power.
The time-travel movie shows Carl’;s Jr. surviving 500 years later under VERY heavy regulation.
The movie in question is Idiocracy
Harry Reid never goes places to where he can really see what is going on, and his lifestyle is something different from the average working people, so even if he was smart enough to be able to recognize what is happening in America he would not be able to see it, he is just like most of the other college trained life long politicians.
Too stupid to see the gathering places of regular people fading away, restaurants that are no longer because of government regulations, mom and pop cafes where you could actually get something fit to eat for a fair price.
Towns of a thousand population where there were three restaurants and now one so called food joint, you eat what you can stand and then get the hell out, no use waiting for any friends to show up to visit and eat and drink, they wont be there.
This all happened since the no smoking laws, this is just one small example of stupid Government regulations to appease the socialist environmental dictators.
Meanwhile McDonalds just bends over and takes one from Moochelle anytime she opens her pie hole (Happy Meals, ads aimed at kids, too much salt on the fries, etc.)
I am sure that earns them a waiver in every case.
Reid, please read FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression. It is chock full of solid evidence of all the harm caused by FDR's regulations. Plus it has an outstanding bibliography if you want to read all the original academic research that supports the findings of the harm caused by regulations. Every Republican in the House and Senate should read this book.
Thats the nub of it.
Also see this: California rated last as pro-business environment
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