Fire your expensive advisers and just read to us each of the hundreds if not thousands of killing regulations you will cancel. Regulations are a scandal neatly out of sight of voters. If you can't do this, why exactly does the GOP exist except as a training program for lobbyists?
12/2/2011, "Choking on Obamacare," George Will, Washington Post
"(Carl's Jr. restaurants founder) Karcher died in 2008 but his legacy, CKE Restaurants, survives. It would thrive, says chief executive Andy Puzder, but for government's comprehensive campaign against job creation.
CKE, with more than 3,200 restaurants (Carl's Jr. and Hardee's), has created 70,000 jobs — 21,000 directly and 49,000 with franchisees. The growth of those numbers will be inhibited by — among many government measures — Obamacare.
When CKE's health care advisers, citing Obamacare's complexities, opacities and uncertainties, said it would add between $7.3 million and $35.1 million to the company's $12 million health care costs in 2010, Puzder said: I need a number I can plan with. They guessed $18 million — twice what CKE spent last year building new restaurants. Obamacare must mean fewer restaurants. And therefore fewer jobs. Each restaurant creates, on average, 25 jobs —
and as much as 3.5 times that number of jobs in the community.
CKE has about 720 California restaurants, in which 84 percent of the managers are minorities, and 67 percent are women. CKE has, however, all but stopped building restaurants in this state because approvals and permits for establishing them can take up to two years, compared to as little as six weeks in Texas, and the cost to build one is
$100,000 more than in Texas.
CKE restaurants have a 95 percent employee turnover in a year — not bad in this industry — and the health care benefits under CKE's current "mini-med" plans are capped in a way that makes them illegal under Obamacare. So CKE will have to convert many full-time employees to part-timers to limit the growth of its burdens under Obamacare.
In an economic climate of increasing uncertainties, Puzder says, one certainty is that many businesses that now are marginally profitable will disappear when Obamacare causes that margin to disappear. A second certainty is that "employers everywhere will be looking to reduce labor content in their business models as Obamacare makes employees unambiguously more expensive."...
Government's metabolic urge to boss people around has grown exponentially and today CKE's California restaurants are governed by 57 categories of regulations. One compels employees and even managers to take breaks during the busiest hours, lest one of
California's 200,000 lawyers comes trolling for business at the expense of business.
Barack Obama has written that during his very brief sojourn in the private sector he felt like "a spy behind enemy lines." Puzder knows what it feels like when gargantuan government is composed of multitudes of regulators
who regard business as the enemy. And
25.4 million Americans who are unemployed, underemployed or too discouraged to look for employment know what it feels like to be collateral damage in the regulatory state's war on business.
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Why bother burning a house down when it's easier and cheaper to give it termites? That's what's been done to America. ed.
via American Thinker
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