The Obama Touch
Charles Gasparino: How Obama’s routing the recovery.
But owners of small businesses — the usual engines of economic growth — are still refusing to hire back workers as they normally do when the economy turns up from a sharp decline.
Talk to them, and they’ll gladly tell you why: Having weathered the recession, they now fear the administration will choke off the nascent recovery and increase their costs through higher taxes to pay for the myriad of programs President Obama has in store for us, including the hyperexpensive health-care overhaul.
Maybe that’s why only the government is hiring these days. Give the article a read. Wary small businessmen are just the tip of the iceberg…
