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Elaine Chao

Profession : Politician

Birth : March 26, 1953

News-free existence is not a serious proposal, but it is worth noting that while today's 24/7 media environment is wonderful in many ways, it can also be like drinking out of a fire hose and intensify a downward reinforcing cycle of despair.

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The greatest job creation is driven by entrepreneurs and young businesses, so they merit special attention.

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Confidence, capital, and new markets fuel entrepreneurship and job-generating expansion of existing businesses.

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For significant job creation to occur, prospective entrepreneurs and current business owners must not fear the future or be under assault from their own government in the present.

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America needs a new approach to boost the economy - one that does not doom future generations to being saddled with paying off today's federal deficits.

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Policymakers, elected and unelected, need to be ever-mindful that the U.S. economy does not exist in isolation.

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There should be an immediate moratorium on federal regulations that endanger jobs.

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We need long-term tax reform that promotes private sector job creation. And legislated mandates that kill jobs by raising the cost of payrolls need to be eliminated.

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To better deal with shortages of qualified applicants now and in the future, government policy makers need to acknowledge that government job training programs could stand improvement.

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Employers should overcome a myopic quarterly earnings posture and focus on long-term strategies for growth that include investing in their own skills-training efforts to enable a broader pool of applicants.

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America's competitive advantage lies in its human talent. All of us should be doing everything we can to cultivate and develop our work force.

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America's private sector job creators need elected leaders to lead and get out of the way.

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Around the time President Lyndon B. Johnson was declaring a War on Poverty in the 1960s, federal, state and local governments began accelerating a veritable War on the Private Sector.

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President Obama has been admirably pro-trade in public remarks, but there has been no progress in moving any new free trade agreements to expand exports abroad and create jobs at home.

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The expenses of complying with Washington's torrent of mandates and regulatory overreach are costing American workers jobs and income growth.

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Washington's parasitic approach to the private sector must change for there to be widespread, near-term and enduring prosperity and job creation.

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The borrow-spend-and-centralize agenda that has been so destructive to job creation elsewhere in America has been a gravy boat inside the Beltway.

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To foster entrepreneurship, expansion and job creation, more leaders at all levels of government have to demonstrate some understanding of what it takes to build and grow businesses in the private sector.

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Confidence, capital, and credit fuel entrepreneurship and economic expansion.

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As tough as it is for many college graduates to get their planned careers on track, it could be worse: They could be trying to find a job without a college degree.

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