It’s the Regulations, Stupid
September 8, 2011 12:30 P.M.
By Henry Payne
The canary in the Obamanomics pixie-dust mine has been American industry choking on green. From EPA’s carbon crusade to light bulbs to Obamacare, hyper-regulation has weakened the industrial jobs engine.
Ask jobs creators in Michigan what President Obama should do to resurrect the economy tonight, and the answer is uniform: Take your regulatory boot off our necks.
A variety of business people interviewed by the Detroit News editorial page this week spoke in one voice about Obama’s job-killing regs. “Stop over-regulating the industry. From the EPA lead laws to the new OSHA fall protection laws, we need to stop the barrage of Washington-based mandates,” said home builder and CEO Colin Herren, in a typical comment.
They all echo a Georgia retailer who put a finger on the cause of this job-starvation earlier this summer. Barack Obama as “the single biggest impediment to job growth today,” said Home Depot founder and business legend, Bernie Marcus. “Home Depot would never have succeeded if we’d tried to start it today. Every day you see rules and regulations from a group of Washington bureaucrats who know nothing about running a business.” (Planet Gore)
