Posts Tagged 'regulations'

Bamboozled by Obamacare

Bamboozled by Obamacare

As a small business owner, I knew it was coming. As a skeptic of any pronouncement by the White House relating to healthcare, I knew consumers and small businesses would get socked with higher rates. And as an employer who works with private health insurance providers, I knew they would be able to manipulate Obamacare to make even more money. It has all come to pass as I had feared.

Remember how private insurance companies were bemoaning that under Obamacare they ...

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Made in America Panel Predicts a Continued Rise in Right-to-Work States

Made in America Panel Predicts a Continued Rise in Right-to-Work States

Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America by urging listeners to look at the new job numbers with a jaundiced eye. Although Gallup predicted the new unemployment rate would hit 8.3 percent, the Obama administration once again was able to manipulate the jobless numbers to make it appear that the jobless rate has dropped below eight percent.

“You can’t take these job numbers seriously. They are just cooking the books.  What the numbers ...

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Choking on a Twinkie

Choking on a Twinkie

(Photo courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons)

Like many Americans, I was saddened by the news that Hostess Bakeries in the United States would cease operations, because who doesn’t have fond memories of, and love, for a Twinkie or Ding Dong?

But as a business owner, I was even more saddened that 18,500 employees would lose their jobs because the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco and Grain Millers (BCTGM) Union went on strike rather than negotiate a new contract. The closure also means the end ...

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Made in America Panel Advocates for a Sane Tax Policy That Will Help Small Business Create Jobs

Made in America Panel Advocates for a Sane Tax Policy That Will Help  Small Business Create Jobs

Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America by welcoming former U.S. trade representative Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, who is a Senior International Partner for Wilmer-Hale, which offers legal representation across a comprehensive range of practice areas.  She joined the firm after serving as the U.S. Trade Representative—the chief trade negotiator and principal trade policymaker for the United States—from 1997 to 2001, and acting as deputy USTR from 1993 to 1996.

In his introduction Neal ...

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Made in America Panel Proposes it’s time for America to convert employees from selling products to making products

Made in America Panel Proposes it’s time for America to convert employees from selling products to making products

Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America by warning that with today’s economy and taxes, 25 percent of low wage retail jobs are going away, predicting that high unemployment and under-employment are the “new normal.”

Joining the show as a first time guest was Iain Murray, who heads the Center for Economic Freedom at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which works to ensure that voluntary economic transactions remain free from government coercion and control.

“The ...

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