Government has asked the lawyer educated politicians how to create jobs. Government has asked economists how to create jobs. As a result, America has ten to fifteen percent unemployment, depending on how many those that have “dropped out of the work force” are actually unemployed as opposed to self employed.
Isn’t it time to ask the owners of small businesses how to create jobs?
Isn’t it time to ask engineers how to create jobs?
Isn’t it time to ask entrepreneurs how to create jobs?
Small business usually has only one level of management below the owner. Small business has three hundred employees or less. Small business has always been the backbone of America.
If small businesses have been vital to America’s economic development, they have been perhaps even more important as a component of American culture. More than the cultures of other nations, that of the United States has developed as a business culture; and the love affair of most Americans with business has focused especially upon small business. From the time of Thomas Jefferson to the present, many Americans have seen the owners of small businesses as epitomizing all that is best about the American way of life. [A History of Small Business in America]
Politicians and economists haven’t had much experience with owning or running a small business other than to run a law firm. At the very least, they aren’t the experts in the field. Isn’t it time to talk to the experts?