The Gekko jobs summit

Last spring, I noted that I don't believe that anything ever got accomplished by having a meeting.

I take that back. The only thing to ever be accomplished in a meeting is the scheduling of the next meeting. If you can think of something else that was ever achieved from holding a meeting, please let me know, I'd like to have it recognized.

Meetings are the reason I got out of corporate America.

But of course, now we're in the midst of a calamity known as the Obama presidency and what does The One want to do?

Have a meeting.

Hey Big "O". If you are serious about creating jobs, don't have a meeting; just implement to these thoughts.

1) KILL nationalized medicine. Right now, employers are shaking in their boots waiting to see what your health care increases are going to mean to their costs of labor. They're not comfortable hiring new people if it results in mandatory COBRA coverage or the likes. GET RID OF THE UNCERTAINTY!!!!!!!

2) KILL the automatic minimum wage hikes. There's a reason unions pursue minimum wage hikes. Many union contracts have wage rate pegs to the minimum wage. When it goes up so do the wages of lot's of other employees. That just makes it more expensive for American companies to use American workers.

Why have a manufacturing base here when it can be done overseas for a lot less?

I've detailed the story of a clothing wholesaler/manufacturer who used to run multiple plants across this country. He still has his job. The workers at the plants no longer have their jobs. Allow companies to hire lesser skilled workers at competitive world wages and bureaucracy.

3) KILL card check and all the other liberal canards out to "help the workers". See the uncertainty issue above.

4) KILL the corporate income tax. Once again, companies are actually penalized by having operations here in this country. STOP IT! Create an environment where companies want to locate here and not Ireland.

See..... now that's not so hard you don't need to have a ridiculous meeting to cure what ails our job problem today. Unless you're not serious, then go ahead and order the donuts.