I have talked before about the surge in small business, about the dollars that have been on the sidelines now being deployed by business owners into expansion, capital equipment and new product and services.
This is the unreported sector, the subchapter S and LLC businesses that get scant mention from the WSJ and Bloomberg and no mention in the media.
Today, I needed to find an office manager for a client. Six owners of temp agencies tell me now they are recruiting talent as few are flocking to their doors. They cannot keep people . Also, even temps are refusing part time gigs.
All this is in a state that is doing it’s best to pass a gross sales income tax to match an insanely high personal income tax.
I expect Soros may find he needs to pay more to get people to be street fodder.
The American Economic Engine can only be shackled for so long. Once the noose is loosened just a bit, the surge will not be contained.
If working class jobs are there, I do not care what Steven Colbert or his sidekick Paul Ryan say. Trump will win big league. If the GOP cannot figure that out and run on it, they are stupider than I had imagined.



Unleash your imagination. For motivation, look at the suggested Federal budget.
Sadly they are stupider than you imagine.
I am afraid you are right. They are not just stupider than I imagine, they are stupider than I am able to imagine.
Not only are they stupider than you imagine, they are stupider than you can imagine.
My husband and I both read this post thoroughly. The responsible Millennials are frightened by the economic downturn and understand that there are many small businesses looking to hire people who can step up to the plate and take charge of growing a business and will be compensated generously.
On the other side of the hiring spectrum, I’m almost embarrassed to admit as a non-parent that the PTAs in our business communities encourage their kids to work for us part-time not only to earn money but to ‘learn the ropes.’ Interestingly, many of these kids are from wealthy families and as one investment banker father once related to me: “You two have had a bigger influence on my son than I have!”
One store comes to mind. We have three brothers, two sisters and a mom pitching in. The new joke is:
If you aren’t related to anyone working here, well …
Those jobs I had in my teens were critical to my learning. It is tribal in process, to please adults who are not your parents.
Once, kids tried to act grown up, to be adult. Now , we have adults trying to be kids.
I sense a great capability for the millennials to reverse this trend, to grow up and take charge of their life. They have seen the excesses and stupidity that came before. We have a generation of Alex Keatons out there if Trump and the GOP let the economy boom. Nothing drives people like opportunity to succeed. Remove that and you get socialists.
“We have a generation of Alex Keatons out there if Trump and the GOP let the economy boom.”
You have seriously won my heart and mind, sir.
I shall endeavor to deserve the honor.
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