NATIONAL DAY OF LABOR

The following post is from my guest blogger Mr. Howard Hill, CPA. We welcome your comments!

NATIONAL DAY OF LABOR

I have requested that President Obama call for a “NATIONAL DAY OF LABOR “, THIS LABOR DAY. He should have a summit on Labor Day and invite the largest 1000 corporations in America. He should ask each of the top 1000 companies to Pledge to hire at least 1000 new employees, in the United States, by the end of the year. These pledged jobs should be posted on a national federal “Job Bank “website. The president should institute a Jobs credit for all employees hired by the end of the year of  10% . Offer a  15% credit for anyone hired in the month of September. The employee has to keep his job for at least 1 year in order for the employer to get the credit.

Additionally the president should ask every employer in the United States to hire at least 1 person by the end of the year. The job credit would be available to all employers. Any employer who pledges to hire at least 50 employees should be included in the national Job bank website.

This is an opportunity for the President to lead on the jobs issue.  I believe that this leap of faith will get America back to work and set the economy on fire. The key is that all the top employers need to hold hands and Jump off the cliff at the same time. If they do so they will reap 10 fold what they pledge and create enormous wealth. The effort should be bipartisan. Those corporations and individuals who refuse to participate will be conspicuous by their absence.

President Obama or congress did not layoff the 15 Million Unemployed Americans, corporate America layed them off and it is high time that they hire them back. I just watched a program that showed the pictures of the 30 American soldiers who lost their lives when their helicopter was shot out of the sky in Afghanistan. These soldiers and thousands of others have lost their lives in these and other wars protecting “vital American interest”. We all know these are vital corporate interest, so they can expand their international operations, while at the same time closing plants and laying off American workers. It is time that they repay the American people for all we have done for them, Hire Americans!

Howard Hill, CPA

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Politics and the Diversity of Thought

I know it has been some time since my last posting. Since then one significant event in particular has occurred that was foreseen on the horizon; is that we now have a Republican controlled House. With this control comes a new found revelation (as if this is new) that there must be a sharing of power and the willingness to collaborate to move this country forward. The fact that collaboration is something that has been forced to happen I personally see as a good thing! This should have been the mode of operation from day one. President Obama came into office with the mantra of change and the notion of working “across the aisle” to bring about this change and to bring a new perspective in the way we govern.


Now it is time for everyone to open their minds to the possibilities of the diversity of thought this new found collaboration can bring. Is the latest tax compromise a glimpse into the type of results that can come from this era of collaboration? Is this tax compromise good for the country? Will this collaboration continue? It is my hope that the results of collaboration and leveraging the diversity of thought in our political arena will be a catalyst for the type change we believed we were getting when this new administration came into office.

I welcome your thoughts….