We are the real creators of jobs
If you want to see the most effective job creator, look in the mirror or around in a crowd.
We are the real job creators.
Every time that we decide to buy food, clothing, gasoline, a movie ticket or a piece of lumber, we create demand for goods and services.
Businesses invest in new equipment and hire more people only when demand exceeds production or service capacity.
Proposals to reduce business taxes to increase profits will not create more jobs.
The uncertainties of the recession have caused businesses to retain profits and sit on reserves of cash.
Reduced business taxes do little or nothing to stimulate job creation unless accompanied by increased demand.
It’s time for our Washington representatives to get past counterproductive political posturing and get to work on a healthy bipartisan combination of stimulus, cost controls and progressive tax policy.
They need to work not only on government initiatives that promote improved infrastructure, education, research and development, but also on sound regulations that protect our financial system and environment.
We (the real job creators) will do our share to achieve a healthy, sustainable economy.
RONALD GOLDEN, MARIETTA
Who has honesty and character?
I couldn’t agree more with the letter regarding the polarization of the country today (“Country’s division begins at the top,” Readers write, Opinion, July 6).
I am almost as old as the writer and have never seen it this bad.
My only question about the letter is the suggestion or request that we should vote for honesty and character.
Nothing would make me happier, and I would appreciate it if someone could find those qualifications in any candidate — and let me know who that is.
One or the other (or both) are missing in just about all of them.
BERNARD ROSS, WOODSTOCK
Pitts’ arguments have become trite
Some things you can always count on in the AJC: reporting of current news, an update of the weather, an informed market report, some interesting horoscopes and opinion pieces that stir your thinking.
In the latter category, we can always count on Leonard Pitts to be raging about racial issues — and if he can’t find a reason to despair, he will invent one.
His arguments have become trite and are out of place in a society that seeks to move on to better discourse.
He speaks against ideological tribalism and then engages in it over and over.
Please, Mr. Pitts, use your skills to improve problems. Don’t create more.
MEL MATUSZAK, DACULA
