Business Outlook

What is the outlook for existing mid-to-large sized businesses during the first two quarters of 2012?  Wouldn’t we all like to know the answer to that?  Unfortunately, we haven’t got any paid psychics on staff, so all we have to go on is a handful of random speculative comments from our readers and analyst-friends.  It seems the economy is still high on everyone’s list of things that need fixing in America, and President Barack Obama’s administration has been chronically unable to improve things through stimulus spending and investments in green technologies (ie: Solyndra) so where does that leave us as a struggling nation whose backbone has always been small businesses?  In a body cast, it seems.

Yes, America’s back is broken, and the liberal democrats in Washington have done nothing to repair the damage.   They would rather see our country permanently paralyzed by dependence on welfare programs that repeatedly fuel the cycle of poverty among the poorest of our poor, who, consequentially, live a life comparable to the “middle class” in some other countries, all without working for it.  What, you may ask, does this have to do with business?  Everything.  Here’s why.

In business, the big fish eat the little fish.  It’s just like the food chain in the oceans of our planet.  The big fish in this scenario are companies currently enjoying the favor of the federal government — those “too big to fail” banks and companies associated with the American auto industry come to mind.  And who can forget Solyndra, the green company Obama himself endorsed after receiving a large campaign contribution from them?  Solyndra enjoyed billions in America’s tax payer dollars before going bankrupt, unable to account for any of the money it got from the Obama administration.  Can big businesses in places like Michigan and Rhode Island be given the idea that this will continue if the current president is re-elected?  Why not?  It only enables them to continue to lap up tax dollars like hogs at a trough of slop while the little businesses trudge along, struggling to exist while having no choice but to hire American workers and pay American salaries.  They are who has kept the country alive.  They don’t enjoy the luxury of sending our jobs overseas to sweat shops in China and elsewhere.   And so they remain.  They stay in business for as long as they can before they are squeezed so firmly by big government that breathing and thriving are no longer options.

The best news for America’s economic outlook for business is that at least it is an election year.