Keeping business is government’s job

The conservative view fostering commercial/industrial vitality is due to the fact that businesses create jobs, not governments. Governments are our employees. We are the boss; they work for us.

Conservatives see the socioeconomic path ahead being driven by flourishing enterprises that add employees, build new facilities, create new products and drive emerging markets. Liberal thinking envisions processes that grab this entrepreneurial apparatus by the neck, then wring from it tax dollars to pay for social ills and political corruption. That that is the right thing to do.

Seriously? How do liberals plan to pay for the their ever-expanding social programming when the likes of CAT, Motorola Mobility, Abbott, Baxter and others consider to relocating operations away from Illinois? They seek relief from the oppressive commercial climate fostered by the state of Illinois. Senior executives at these organizations are charged with the responsibility for defending the enterprise and magnifying shareholder equity. Mr. Quinn and Co. better knock off the abuse.

Old advice: Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

Do you remember when Boeing moved here? Why did Illinois and Chicago want it so badly? Hmm. Why would the states of Indiana and Wisconsin, New Jersey, Delaware, Nevada among others, want CAT so bad? Think they wanted Boeing? Think they’re talking to Deere too? And talking to many, many, many others? Remember: Nothing runs like a deer. And please close the door before the CAT gets out.

Joe Lance

Palatine