The lead story today on one of the more popular news websites today is titled “10 things Obama must do in 10 weeks”. These were earth shattering recommendations, worthy of real focus for the most powerful man in the world. The top few suggestions were: Simplify the message, Channel Ronald Reagan, Propagandize the truth, Go on the offensive…I wish I was making this up. I really do.
I came up with my own list. It took me about 60 seconds. There are three issues that are currently pushing us closer and closer to the brink, job growth, divisiveness, and the most dangerous and most ignored issue, national security.
The geopolitics on the globe, certainly in the Middle East, will change in a fundamental way if Iran expands their nuclear capability to include weapons. The Presidents policy, if articulated accurately by the media, is it will take a year for Iran to be able to enrich uranium, and if they get it, we will provide our allies in the region with a nuclear umbrella. Look at a map, do the math. The latest strategic nuclear agreement with Russia exacerbates the situation. We are drawing down, and Russia is assisting Iran with the enrichment process. Huh?
Job growth is neither a simple issue, nor one that can be fixed quickly. But any reasonable person knows incremental steps to reduce barriers for small business is the best opportunity to create conditions for success. Property and corporate tax abatements, reduced regulation, streamline filing processes, and reasonable expectations on required corporate benefits. If small businesses become competitive quickly, they will create jobs. That’s what small businesses do better than any other sector of the economy, by far.
Another novel concept for sustainable job creation is for the federal government is to stop competing with the private sector. All the current job growth in America is coming out of the public sector, and they are getting more and more involved in areas that they aren’t designed to do well, and in turn it damages the economic system as a whole. It’s tough to compete with an organization that can print its own money.
In the area of divisiveness, build the mosque or don’t build the mosque. Let all the illegal aliens in, or keep them all out. If you want to “channel Ronald Reagan”, you don’t take a stand on issues because you’re smarter than us, you take a stand for America because you serve us. What I remember about Ronald Reagan was he took pride in America being the greatest country in the world. He expected, even demanded we seek excellence as a country. He wanted us to be the only superpower. Most importantly, he created conditions for us to make great things happen, locally and individually. He knew the federal government had neither the skill nor the capacity to fix anything long term. Ben Franklin once said “the best way of doing good for the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.” He went on to say “…the less that was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
The best way to channel Ronald Reagan is to demand excellence and lead on the principals that create the conditions for success. What’s wrong with being proud of being an American? Instead we are expanding the welfare state. We are creating an entire generation of Americans’ that don’t understand the difference between rights and privileges. Why should I compete for anything that the government intends to provide for me? French novelist Jean Giraudoux said it well “only the mediocre are always at their best.”
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