Career politicians don’t understand the nature of jobs in this country – that’s why, despite all the “stimulus money” and “government job plans” we see being thrown at the situation, we don’t see a significant improvement in employment. Unemployment still hovers around 10%, which means that on any given block in America, two people are out of a job. This is unacceptable. Yet it happens, because career politicians believe that the only way to create jobs is to create more bureaucracy. They don’t see that bureaucracy is the problem, not the solution.
In a post-debate press conference, Mayor White criticized Farouk Shami’s 100,000 jobs guarantee by saying that there was no was the state could hire that many people. This is exactly the sort of ridiculous rhetoric we’d expect from a career politician. Farouk is not saying that he would add 100,000 jobs to the government payroll. He knows that the way to create jobs in America is to create opportunity for business to create jobs. We are a capitalist country, meaning that work, sustenance, and self-worth is provided by business rather than by government.
The way business works is, if there’s a potential to make a profit off of somebody’s work, that person will be hired. The way the Texas government can create jobs is to create the potential for profit in the state of Texas. This bold, innovative notion is Small Business 101 to the average entrepreneur, and second nature to somebody like Farouk Shami, but people like Mayor White simply can’t wrap their minds around how it works.
How Farouk Shami Will Create 100,000 Jobs and Ensure Every Texan Who Wants to Work Will Have That Opportunity
Farouk has several plans to create jobs. Any one of these plans individually will create 100,000 jobs, but put together, this could mean the end of recession in Texas. These plans are based on putting green energy and high-tech initiatives into place, as these are the businesses which are poised to make the most profits in the coming years. Farouk also knows that outsourcing to places like China and India is a major part of why unemployment is so high, hence, his plans are expressly committed to making sure that jobs stay here in America. Here are just some of Farouk’s plans for economic revival in Texas.
* Use the Texas Enterprise Fund to help small businesses grow, expand and hire new workers. Under Farouk’s plan, many of the jobs created will be green energy jobs.
* Require utility companies to provide financing for solar panels, to be paid back as part of a customer’s utility bill. This would create a much greater demand for solar panels, thus creating jobs in this fast-growing private sector.
* Lure companies to Texas by using our border with Mexico as an asset. They can build plants in clusters, with the high-paying capital-intensive manufacturing in the U.S. and the low-paying low-capital elements in Mexico. This eliminates the benefits of outsourcing those same jobs to Asian countries.
* Invest in crumbling infrastructure and put people to work repairing old roads and building new ones.
* Give out-of-state corporations the tax incentives they need to a) build facilities in poor parts of Texas and b) pay workers there a living wage.
* Create incentives for every sort of green energy business, from research to manufacturing solar panels and wind turbines to creating massive wind and solar farms in the vast land expanse with which Texas is blessed.
* Give broadband companies the opportunity to install broadband Internet access statewide, in every rural and urban county. This, in addition to providing cable companies wi