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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	Here's another idea
	Date:	1/8/2009 9:17:16 PM

I have spent the lsst 17 years listening to US industry complain -- about taxes, about regulations, about market conditions, etc. Day in, day out. The truth is they want the government to subsidize them. They want to be unregulated and untaxed. Yet every time an industry get deregulated, things get worse. They can't self regulate. Why shouldn't they pay taxes??? The truth is they like to carp and complain about how bad it is.
American business is some of the most successful business in the world. In the cases where they have lost world wide market share, they did it to themselves -- not by being overtaxed, but by not driving a hard enough bargain. So spare me. Yes, it's hard for them right now, but it is hard everywhere. Not just for them. And if they have to lay people off, I agree, it's a sad thing, but that is the nature of the market. It's a cold world. Businesses are money making endeavors, not your mom and dad.

You are correct, I spent my career in the government. But, I have a MBA and I also have advanced education in managmenet. So I'm not quite as isolated as you might think. And the last 20 years I worked, I was involved in an awful lot of highly competive acquisition competitions in the overseas makrets. And I was deeply involved in some very complex deals where foreign companies were buying US companies. And I made policy decisions that affected millions of dollars of overseas sales by US companies. I can't tell you how many times I was summoned to the NSC so some company could complain about how Commerce Department and Defense were trying to put them out of business. Funny, I'm not aware of any of them going belly up beause of government decisions, despite their predictions.

I don't claim to be an expert at running a business. But, I've been hearing these particular whines for a very long time. So pass the cheese, please.