Today's Nuze: December 31, 2003

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2003

STARTING MONDAY!

The Neal Boortz Show debuts in several new markets on Monday! First .. we're on our way to Pittsburgh! Starting Monday, January 5th, you'll hear Boortz on WPGB-104.7 FM (formerly WJJJ-FM) from Noon until 3:00! I can't tell you how proud Belinda, Royal and I am to be included in this hard-hitting lineup. Spread the word! Boortz is on the way with some insensitivity training for his home state of Pennsylvania! We're also starting Monday in the Santa Rosa - San Francisco area on 1350-KSRO from 9 to noon! If this keeps up I'm going to have to stop calling myself America's best-kept talk radio secret.

STRUCK A NERVE

It looks like I struck a nerve yesterday with a comment here in the Nuze about American entrepreneurs. I pointed out that those who start their own businesses ... those who work for themselves ... don't sit around whining about their jobs going to India. That comment unleashed the predictable torrent of emails from the whiners who complained about evil bosses and nasty corporations who were "shipping jobs overseas."

Time for some harsh reality. Someone needs to tell you folks that those jobs aren't yours. They don't belong to you. Those jobs belong to the business owners. You don't create a job and then head out there into the business world to sell that job to an business owner. Instead, you develop a set of skills which you then try to sell to a businessman. The job belongs to the businessman. The skills necessary to perform that job belong to you. If you can trade what's yours for what's his then you are in good shape. If your skills don't meet the needs of the employer job, or if you have priced your skills too high, then the employer will go elsewhere to find the skills he needs to fill his jobs.

So ... if you are out there in the the cold, cruel world trying to sell unneeded skills to employers, or if you have priced your skills out of the marketplace, then it is you, not the employer, who needs to make adjustments. Stop whining and get busy.

Oh ... there is one alternative. You could always go to work for government in some basic clerical position. Government jobs are the last refuge for the unskilled.

Now ... here's an email message from someone who gets it:

Message:
Neal,

You are so on the money with regard to small businesses. I worked for years as an accountant and financial analyst, but I also did home repairs and custom cabinets as a hobby at first, then, part-time work. When I managed to work myself out of my last position, I was in business for myself full-time and haven't looked back since. Over one year later, my business is thriving in spite of the government (you're welcome, DeKalb county, for my business license fee, the State of Georgia, for the tax on my labor, the Feds, for the Social Security - an oxymoron if I've ever heard one - and the seniors for your prescription drugs) and tort attorneys (my liability insurance is a good chunk of cash). Despite these business expenses, I am the happiest I've been in years and thank my last employer for pushing me into something I've wanted to do for a long time but was reluctant to give up the "security" of a job with benefits (I have a family of four to support).

No, my job won't go to India and I'm not considered in the top 10% of income earners (yet), but I'm with you all the way with your stance on government interference and it's desire to take a good part of what I've earned with my labor and give it to people who are looking only for what they feel they're "entitled" to.

I've obtained my own health insurance, and have started my own retirement program. Why people are relying on the government to provide health care and retirement income is a mystery to me - if you want it, you can get better quality of both. If it's a priority, take some of your good-time money and use it to fund these things.

Thanks and keep up the good work!

Mike Mogilski

THE BROUHAHA CONTINUES

We still have an organized effort out there to get me booted off the speakers list for the Libertarian National Convention in Atlanta next year. Their principal complaint is that I support the war in Iraq. Web Guy forwards a few email messages to me every day from people saying "I'm going to do everything I can to make sure you don't speak to the Libertarian Convention ... blah blah blah."

Here's an email from a different point of view:

Dear Mr.Boortz,
I am amazed that there are Libertarians that want to prevent you from speaking at the national convention in May. In my opinion, those who are attempting to silence you do not deserve to be called Libertarians, but instead deserve to be called totalitarians.

Mr. Boortz, I supported the war with Iraq as well. I supported the war because I believed Saddam Hussein was a threat to this nation and had to be stopped. I believed that we had no other choice and I believed that by ridding the world of this dictator, the U.S. done a great service not only for ourselves, for the people of Iraq, but for the whole world. It was the right thing to do. There are those within the party that do not see it that way. I, like you, followed my conscience, and if that is a crime, then pronouce me guilty as charged.

Mr. Boortz, I believe the war on terror is not only a war on the American People but a war against Western Civilization. It saddens me that some in the party don't see it that way. It also saddens me that the some libertarians want to practice the fine art of political correctness, gagging those that don't agree with their view of purity, instead of practicing liberty. If these forces succeed in preventing you from speaking, then the Libertarian Party should cease to exist. They would be committing biggest crime of them all. The crime against liberty of thought.

I hope you do speak at that convention, and I hope to see you on C-Span giving a great address as I know you can. In the meantime, may God bless you and may God be with you as well.

Your's Truly
Alex Pugliese

I fear that this is going to be a bad year for Libertarians. This country desperately needs the message of freedom, property rights and limited government that libertarianism brings, but the American people are not going to warm up to a political party that will not fight for those freedoms or fight for our security.

SAY WHAT?

We hear this morning that the Imperial Federal Government is now going to ban the use of any cows that are too sick to walk in meat production. Hold on a minute here. Are we being told that up until now it was perfectly OK for a meat producer to slaughter and process a cow that was too sick to walk? They would slaughter this cow and then sell the meat to us? What in the hell is going on here?

Get your own Bill O'Reilly Bedpan of Pure Doom

STAY SAFE

It's New Year's Eve. Me? I'm going to be safe in my own home at the stroke of midnight. Times Square? Well, I'll be watching, but there is no way I would stand out there with those people on this particular New Year's Eve. Congressman Chris Shays (R-CT) is taking some heat for saying that he would avoid Times Square tonight because it is a "tempting target" for terrorists. Shays chairs the House subcommittee that deals with terror issues. I think his warning is worth listening to. No one can deny that the Islamic terrorists would just love to slaughter a few thousand people in Times Square tonight. Hopefully the NYPD and our Homeland Security folks can prevent such a carnage, but these Islamic goons are suicidal .. and that makes them exponentially harder to stop.

Whatever you're doing tonight, stay safe. I need every listener I can get. And Happy New Year!

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