Part of the Owatonna business visit to Washington DC included an excellent panel of speakers. Tom Donahue, President/CEO of the United States Chamber of Commerce addressed several hundred small business people this morning and touched on the following:
-Small business is why the US economy is doing so well versus Europe where unemployment is high-small business people get up early and stay late to get it done.
-The message is that we're here as businesses to kick some butt at capitol hill.
-Government needs to create a good environment for business and then get out of the way!!
-The US Chamber is now getting into K-12 education, after stating some very sobering statistics about low graduation rates, unskilled workers, etc, lead Donahue to ask, "What the hell are we doing?"
-Outlined three priorities when dealing with Immigration: 1. Safety of the country, 2. future of the workforce, 3. Who we are-country of immigrants, what do we want our country to look like?
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