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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	WW, I give up
	Date:	11/4/2008 4:03:21 PM

I understand your concept, but not your reasoning. Of course companies don't create jobs they don't need.
I just don't understand why you think it is wrong to raise the taxes on these huge companies. MM - I believe you said that you own a medium/small company -- so I can definitely see the cause and effect. Relatively speaking, I assume your business is pretty transparent, business-wise. Putting new mandatory health care requirements on you, raising your taxes, etc, I can see why you could not create new jobs, assuming you had the business to do so.
Sometimes I feel like I'm back at work when I'm on this board... LOL. I had a constant stream of companies telling me how I didn't understand their business either, but the problem was, I understood it too well. My agency dealt quite a bit on foreign companies buying US companies (from a technology basis) and sometimes we would be forced to put restrictions on them moving jobs offshore or closing down product lines. So while I am sure I don't understand it as well as you, I'm not totally ignorant.
In my last job, I ran the operations of a small government agency with its own budget and expenses -- granted we didn't have to make a profit, but we did have to have a balanced budget. It's not quite as cut and dried as you might think. And sometimes we got whacked out budget cuts in the middle of the year. Or our cash flow would be constrained arbitrarily by the comptroller. And I had to be able to cut funds in one place, to fund new jobs too because our mission would be expanded.

As far as my attending public school, I have to say that (with regret) the public school I attended were much better funded than those in Alabama. And back in the day, the class sizes were much smaller than they are now too. I'm really in favor of spending money on education, so people aren't put the position of having to send their kids to private school.

I hope Exxon is spending money on research for new energy sources.