I’d like that, but again - it’s meddling with the structure already. FIRST, just stop tweaking. Stop the changes. Let it stabilize as it is RIGHT NOW, and promise to keep it that way for 5 years while you discuss and decide what to do in the future.
The number one obstacle to progress is changing the rules of the game. For now, the BEST thing that could be done would to just stop changing. Hold fast, and let business get its feet back underneath. THEN go forward.
>I’d like that, but again - it’s meddling with the structure already. FIRST, just stop tweaking. Stop the changes. Let it stabilize as it is RIGHT NOW, and promise to keep it that way for 5 years while you discuss and decide what to do in the future.
The problem is that if we stopped all changes RIGHT NOW the “stabilization” would be the same stabilization a corpse has. Do you really think things like the ObamaCare bill and the Dodd-Frank Finance Reform bills DON’T have time-bombs in them?
In 2014 it becomes a FELONY not to have health insurance thanks to Obamacare; that little fact is going to have some major impacts on people [and therefore businesses].
I agree with you. The accounts I’ve read from the Depression express the same frustration by businesses and farmers at the rate of regulatory and other change coming out of DC in those days. They honestly did not know what to do. For many in business, the war was a relief, because then there was a PLAN: “Win the war.” OK, now with a plan, expansion could begin.
After the war, there was a heck of a recession from ‘46 to ‘48 or so, as, once again, business had to absorb a large amount of change.