Bernie Marcus: Trump providing real hope for the futureThe Oklahoman, Apr 19, 2017, Bernie Marcus
The business community is brimming with optimism across America — the highest level in 10 years. I know it, because I hear it from my colleagues every day. We're hopeful, and for good reason: President Donald Trump is moving his job creation agenda forward resolutely.
First, it was Carrier jobs, then ExxonMobil, and now it's Ford Motor Company and more are on the way. Importantly, these big enterprises will also create thousands more jobs with their extended families of suppliers, all small and medium-sized businesses.
America's chief executives aren't happy with Washington's flat tire on the road to health care reform, but we're confused by the pessimism coming from Capitol Hill and the media elite. While the president's critics wring their hands, we see remarkable success getting the short shrift.
Maybe because so few politicians have ever signed the front of a paycheck, they don't see what CEOs see.
We look past the remarkable 12 percent growth in the stock market, a rising tide lifting pensioners and middle-class Americans alike, and see the Consumer Confidence Index, which just hit its highest mark since December of 2000. "Consumers' assessment of current business and labor market conditions improved considerably," Lynn Franco, director of economic indicators at The Conference Board, said April 11.
That's all 100 percent Donald Trump. But there's far more, if you get past the screaming negative headlines and listen.
Listen carefully, and you'll hear the locomotive of American business gaining steam, stoked by the president every week since his inauguration. He's clear-cutting the path to robust economic growth, and even Congress is doing its part.
For the eight years of Barack Obama's aggressive regulatory regime, the 103 million words in the Code of Federal Regulations came down hardest on small business. That's changing fast.
Now, if Trump's administration creates one regulation, it must kill two. Congress is fast tracking bills to the president to reverse regulations, using rarely deployed legislative tactics. Trump has already signed seven of these bills — half of all the laws he's signed so far — and he's promised many more.
Experts say returning to the regulatory climate of the late 1990s can bring 6,000 more new businesses and 100,000 more new jobs every single year. Our first CEO-president has promised to "remove every job-killing regulation we can find." Add that pace to the 298,000 jobs created his first month and it's not hard to see how President Trump could sustain 200,000-plus monthly job creation and, soon, economic growth beating three percent month-after-month — the first time since George W. Bush.
But the president has accomplished even more:
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