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."
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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 ...
“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.
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