"What is Business Waiting For?" asks Joe Nocera, a Person of Left-Liberal-Progressive Persuasion

In order for businesses to seriously consider the sort of framework you've proposed, hiring for hiring's sake and not for a business' proven 'short-term' best interest, the framework of Government must also change...back. Back to what, you ask? Hasn't Government always been much like this current paradigm?

No, it hasn't. Government has grown...monstrous, and social. Government has encroached into every facet, into every tiny detail of commerce and industry. Isn't that a good thing, you ask? Don't we need as much Government as possible, to ensure that every Citizen is treated equally and fairly, and succeeds in life?

No, we don't. Such thought is the problem. We cannot bake individual success into our little Republic's responsibility to it's Citizens; and it's people like you who think Government is the solution, and more of it is better, that is the problem.

A Left Liberal Progressive Government is anathema to thriving business and full employment. Mark that in stone; it's solid fact, and can't be altered, no matter how much 'social need' there is that you desire to address with Government, at the expense of your economic engine.

You've got to put this monster down; control your desire to have Government micromanage to the point that you smother growth and Capitalism. You must curtail the ever-increasing expansion of Government, so that this Republic's economic engine can again run smoothly.

You've got to appease me. Who am I, you ask?

Why, I am John Galt, and I'm not a lone figure. I'm everywhere, signing your paychecks.

Or not, as the case may be.

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