{"id":11797,"date":"2011-10-26T15:44:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T19:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11797"},"modified":"2011-10-26T15:46:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T19:46:23","slug":"more-on-obama%e2%80%99s-war-on-ambition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11797\/more-on-obama%e2%80%99s-war-on-ambition\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Obama\u2019s War on Ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11794\/whaddya-mean-we-kemosabe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quin\u2019s point<\/a> is well taken.\u00a0 Obama-era regulations and rhetoric are scaring away the kind of investment growth the country needs to get Americans back to work.\u00a0 On the regulatory side, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/NewsAndAnalysis\/Article\/585699\/201109221753\/Higher-Capital-Demands-Force-Banks-To-Sidelines.htm\" target=\"_blank\">increased capital holding requirements<\/a> stack dollar bills in bank vaults while small business loans dry up.\u00a0 Cost-of-employment drivers like <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2011\/08\/25\/employers-consider-dropping-health-coverage-under-obamacare\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obamacare<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michigancapitolconfidential.com\/15923\" target=\"_blank\">EPA\u2019s threatened regulation of carbon<\/a> make any rational employer look for ways to enhance productivity and efficiency instead of staffing up. \u00a0Simply put, under President Obama it\u2019s cheaper to do more with less to keep what you have rather than risk the money and regulatory gauntlet trying to increase market share.<\/p>\n<p>On the rhetoric side, my recent column on the <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1183-obamas-5-most-recent-dumb-statements\" target=\"_blank\">five most recent dumb statements by the president<\/a> contains just a sample of his daily assaults on the ambition and energy of America\u2019s job creators.\u00a0 What the president fails to see is that a sustainable government depends on a vastly more prosperous private economy.\u00a0 Until he learns the importance of that relationship, we\u2019re likely doomed to being (and producing) much less than we otherwise would.<\/p>\n<p>Btw, Quin: I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve got business contacts in the Mobile-D.C. corridor.\u00a0 Are any of them looking at the current and future regulatory scene and thinking, \u201cGee, what a great time to expand\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quin\u2019s point is well taken.\u00a0 Obama-era regulations and rhetoric are scaring away the kind of investment growth the country needs to get Americans back to work.\u00a0 On the regulatory side, increased capital holding requirements stack dollar bills in bank vaults while small business loans dry up.\u00a0 Cost-of-employment drivers like Obamacare and the EPA\u2019s threatened regulation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,19,608,102,35,300],"class_list":["post-11797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-economy","tag-epa","tag-free-market","tag-obamacare","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11797"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11803,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11797\/revisions\/11803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}