THE TRUTH ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT

Dear Mr. Herbert:
Wow, you made the plight of the American worker seem complex and gravely troubled but somehow you forgot to mention that the unemployment rate is a very low 5.1%? I assume you were, essentially, lying to help Kerry get elected? Lying is typical of the NYTIMES so I'm not surprised. If you want to make businesses even healthier so they can employ even more, then don't vote for a liberal Democrat, i.e. John Kerry, since a liberal Democrat is antibusiness as surly as he is antimilitary.
Instead, why not recommend an end to high wage labor unions that very literally drive millions and millions of American jobs overseas and that make the goods and services they produce here very expensive for Americans to buy?
Why not end all taxes on business (which are merely passed on to consumers like any cost) so business is free to make decisions based on what makes business sense rather than what makes tax sense?
Why not streamline regulation of all kinds so business is freer to produce and hire more?
Why not make pensions private so business can be free to conduct business rather than required to invest in and manage gigantic social welfare or retirement programs?
Why not eliminate the complex and burdensome payroll tax and the entire payroll tax industry so small business can easily hire workers and to reduce the costs and the huge paperwork burden on all business?
Why not eliminate the minimum wage so business can hire more workers who produce more goods at a more affordable cost to American consumers?
Why not privatize health care so it is cheap and competitive, and so it doesn't cost business more and more $billions that might be invested in new products and new jobs?
Why not recommend that the federal gov't not channel billions and billions of the nation's limited capital into private residential real estate that might be better invested in new businesses and the jobs that would follow?
Why not eliminate the tax on venture capital to eliminate the tax on new ventures that create new jobs?
How odd that you couldn't make one recommendation in support of business? That is the same problem John Kerry is having: its hard to support business when you are antibusiness isn't it?

Sincerely,
Ted