The Uncertainty Canard

Des Moines Register:

“This is going to go on for a couple more years just like the European debt crisis,” Zimpleman said. “We’re back to a continuation of uncertainty. The painful reality is that businesses tend to be conservative when they’re not sure what the rules are going to be.”
Uncertainty is an evil for business because it hinders future investment plans, according to Elliott Smith, executive director of the Iowa Business Council. The council represents the 20 largest Iowa employers.
“This decision is a little helpful in that the courts have made their pinion known,” he said, “but the legislative aspect of uncertainty is still very much in play because who knows what’s going to happen after the election.”

News flash, businesses tend to be conservative. Period.  The painful reality is that if I could predict the future, I'd be extremely rich.  Nobody knows what is going to happen, so shut the hell up.  If business leaders were half as smart as they thought they were, they'd foist the responsibility for insuring their workers on the government.  Instead, they've drunk the anti-government kool-aid, so they blame the government for their own limitations.  I'm sick of it.  Businessmen aren't some kind of superheros, they are just people who want to make money.  They only hire other people to work for them because that helps them make more money.  Period.  Uncertainty is what keeps most people from becoming businessmen.  They like the "security" of a 9 to 5 (nowadays probably more like 8 to 6) job.  In other words, that's why you get the big bucks guys.