America’s technology sector can provide a wellspring of economic dynamism and new employment.\u00a0 As long as government doesn’t poison that potentially abundant font, that is.<\/p>\n
At a seminar today entitled “Technology and Economic Recovery”<\/a> hosted by Americans for Technology Leadership<\/a>, panelists Shahin Kohan, Dr. Joseph Fuhr and Karen Kerrigan explained that our information technology (IT) sector offers a much-needed vehicle by which we can overcome economic stagnation.\u00a0 Dr. Fuhr<\/a> explained that IT spending is expected to grow 2.3% per year between today and 2013, compared to expected gross domestic product (GDP) growth of just 0.5% during that span, and that employment in the IT industry will grow by over 1 million jobs compared to expected employment shrinkage in other fields.<\/p>\n For her part, Ms. Kerrigan, who serves as President and CEO of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council<\/a> and founded Women Entrepreneurs<\/a>, explained the destructive consequences of federal overregulation and taxation for small enterprises that create most new jobs in America.\u00a0 Ms. Kerrigan pointed out that the prospect of even more suffocating regulations and taxation on small business and technology entrepreneurs only discourages innovation, expansion and hiring.\u00a0 Mr. Kohan, an apparel entrepreneur from Los Angeles who is CEO of Focal Technology Solutions, Inc.<\/a>, illustrated ways in which new technology can assist creative entrepreneurs in a highly competitive worldwide market, along with terrifying examples of how state, local and federal bureaucracy can destroy American jobs and businesses.<\/p>\n The message was simple:\u00a0 give technology enterprises freedom, and innovation, and critical job growth will soon follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" America’s technology sector can provide a wellspring of economic dynamism and new employment.\u00a0 As long as government doesn’t poison that potentially abundant font, that is. At a seminar today entitled “Technology and Economic Recovery” hosted by Americans for Technology Leadership, panelists Shahin Kohan, Dr. Joseph Fuhr and Karen Kerrigan explained that our information technology (IT) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1542,19,102,1541,1543,148,1544,1546,179,71,1406,1404,1545],"class_list":["post-6080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-dr-joseph-fuhr","tag-economy","tag-free-market","tag-growth","tag-karen-kerrigan","tag-net-neutrality","tag-shahin-kohan","tag-small-business-entrepreneurship-council","tag-stimulus","tag-taxes","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-women-entrepreneurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6080"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6084,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080\/revisions\/6084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}