Small Business Advocates Need To Show Up In 2011
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
Last week a strong supporter of the small business community was asked, on a national talk radio program, to share his insight on what small business needed to do in 2011 to improve their situation. The response he gave was to focus on “politics, politics, politics”.
It’s a page from the script of “the world is run by those who show up”. However, instead of taking the approach of corporate enterprises, who engage in the legislative process to wheel and deal outcomes around special arrangements which favor themselves, the work of small business and individual freedom activist should be on legislative pursuits to shrink government.
The advancement of state and national limited government (in the form of simple and straight forward laws to direct creation of less – and also in the form of regulation replacement for less intrusiveness) will not only set the stage for greater private sector opportunity, but will also permit the private sector keeping the resources they earn. Government doing less is a cost-effective option and a more responsible alternative to the expansion of government we’ve been getting through massive initiatives like Obama-Care. In Washington, D.C. and in Carson City the greatest legislative achievements we could hope to obtain will take the form of spending reductions, limiting budgets to fit available (perhaps even decreased) tax burdens and clear directives to the non-elected bureaucrats that they will be required to reverse their administrative expansion of regulating non-legislated outcomes.
Defunding negative bureaucratic initiatives (like the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Global Warming” regulatory package) will be necessary to motivate an improved understanding of what “don’t go there” means. The power and leverage of the checkbook can be a effective curb to demonstrate legislative intent, reflecting the best interests of growing a prosperous economy – as opposed to destroying opportunity and getting us more of what we’ve already got.
True grassroot activism, demonstrating the spirit of “We’re Still Mad As Hell”, is as important for getting things done in the legislative process as it was in the election system. The Jane and John Doe citizens who stepped up to get directly involved in the 2010 election cycle need to remain as active in holding those who were elected to be accountable.
We’ve seen and understand that the comrades of government expansion consider their work never done – regardless of election results – and they plan to practice and carry out whatever strategies they need to do in order to meet their ends. We can already forecast that arguments for bi-partisan compromise will be promoted as long as the outcome will be an expansion of government’s invasiveness. That’s why proactive proposals for limitations need to be presented so leftist extremist can be given the chance to demonstrate their bi-partisanship and statesman-level capabilities.
The count-down to getting involved is nearing launch time and hopefully you…your friends…neighbors… and family members are committed to sending the e-mails needed to keep legislators informed and making the phone calls to share the necessity of preventing government from extracting resources that will be better spent by those who earn the dollars. Personal visits and face-to-face contact can also be effective in communicating your insistence that reduction of government budgets will best accomplish the long-term results which construct a framework for jobs and prosperity.
Last week a strong supporter of the small business community was asked, on a national talk radio program, to share his insight on what small business needed to do in 2011 to improve their situation. The response he gave was to focus on “politics, politics, politics”.
It’s a page from the script of “the world is run by those who show up”. However, instead of taking the approach of corporate enterprises, who engage in the legislative process to wheel and deal outcomes around special arrangements which favor themselves, the work of small business and individual freedom activist should be on legislative pursuits to shrink government.
The advancement of state and national limited government (in the form of simple and straight forward laws to direct creation of less – and also in the form of regulation replacement for less intrusiveness) will not only set the stage for greater private sector opportunity, but will also permit the private sector keeping the resources they earn. Government doing less is a cost-effective option and a more responsible alternative to the expansion of government we’ve been getting through massive initiatives like Obama-Care. In Washington, D.C. and in Carson City the greatest legislative achievements we could hope to obtain will take the form of spending reductions, limiting budgets to fit available (perhaps even decreased) tax burdens and clear directives to the non-elected bureaucrats that they will be required to reverse their administrative expansion of regulating non-legislated outcomes.
Defunding negative bureaucratic initiatives (like the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Global Warming” regulatory package) will be necessary to motivate an improved understanding of what “don’t go there” means. The power and leverage of the checkbook can be a effective curb to demonstrate legislative intent, reflecting the best interests of growing a prosperous economy – as opposed to destroying opportunity and getting us more of what we’ve already got.
True grassroot activism, demonstrating the spirit of “We’re Still Mad As Hell”, is as important for getting things done in the legislative process as it was in the election system. The Jane and John Doe citizens who stepped up to get directly involved in the 2010 election cycle need to remain as active in holding those who were elected to be accountable.
We’ve seen and understand that the comrades of government expansion consider their work never done – regardless of election results – and they plan to practice and carry out whatever strategies they need to do in order to meet their ends. We can already forecast that arguments for bi-partisan compromise will be promoted as long as the outcome will be an expansion of government’s invasiveness. That’s why proactive proposals for limitations need to be presented so leftist extremist can be given the chance to demonstrate their bi-partisanship and statesman-level capabilities.
The count-down to getting involved is nearing launch time and hopefully you…your friends…neighbors… and family members are committed to sending the e-mails needed to keep legislators informed and making the phone calls to share the necessity of preventing government from extracting resources that will be better spent by those who earn the dollars. Personal visits and face-to-face contact can also be effective in communicating your insistence that reduction of government budgets will best accomplish the long-term results which construct a framework for jobs and prosperity.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 1/2/2011 6:22 AM 
Categories: Citizen Involvement
Tags: Small Business Limited Government Reduction of Regulations Less Tax Burdens Business Opportunity
Categories: Citizen Involvement
Tags: Small Business Limited Government Reduction of Regulations Less Tax Burdens Business Opportunity
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