Toledo Mayor Mike Bell gave the state of the city address yesterday and announced that he intends to seek re-election. The local paper sought comments regarding the speech, including from Bell's detractors and potential opponents.
It was the usual criticisms along political lines, until you get to Joe McNamara, current president of the Toledo City Council.
In a single quote McNamara reveals such complete lack of understanding of the marketplace and economics that you're left wondering if the quote is, indeed, an actual quote.
But this is Toledo - bastion of liberal illogical philosophy which is part of the reason people refer to us as 'little Detroit,' as it certainly seems many of our Democrat politicians are leading us down the same path as our bankrupt neighbor to the north.
According to The Blade (emphasis added):
Mr. McNamara, a possible Democratic candidate for mayor, said Mr. Bell’s state of the city was “a really bad speech.”
“It wasn’t focused on the lives of people in Toledo,” Mr. McNamara said. “We have an 8.2 percent unemployment rate and the economic development focus should be on people and jobs, but this mayor talked about business and profits. Business and profits are great, [but] it doesn’t lead to jobs for the people who live here. That is what’s important.”
Business and profits are great but they don't lead to jobs...
Yep, definitely a starred item in the "not business friendly" category while also earning 'stuck on stupid' designation.
How, exactly, does McNamara think jobs come about?
Obviously, not from the money companies make when people purchase their product at a price greater than expenses. No, companies whose products are in demand don't use those profits to hire more people to produce even more products for people to buy. And they don't use the profits to hire people to help create new or improved products.
They must just sit on the profits - greedy, evil business owners that they are.
Business owners want to deal with people who understand their situation. This doesn't mean you have to have owned or run a business, but it sure does help when the people making the rules, imposing the taxes, setting the fees and issuing the regulations have an accurate understanding of the impact of those decisions on the people who do, in fact, create the jobs so desperately desired.
Companies are not going to want to even talk to a mayor who believes such rubbish as 'business and profit don't create jobs.'
With thinking like this, sadly not isolated to McNamara, it's no wonder businesses and population are fleeing the city.
1 comment:
He has no chance to become Mayor. With statements like that, he simply continues to dig in the hole bigger that he's already in.
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