Businesses must spend money before they can make money. A
Widget Factory must be built before Widgets can be built. Imagine the angst
that would be created if, as soon as Widgets R Us completes the construction of
their new State of the Art Widget Factory, Widgets were suddenly outlawed.
It just might be a wiser course of action for businesses to
wait 2 or 3 or 5 years before they spend a whole bunch of money Going Ahead
with the Go Ahead until they find out if a Judge is going to step in and put a
hold on the Go Ahead and caused the Went Ahead Company to have wasted all the
money it spent getting ready to take advantage of the Go Ahead they had gotten.
The stock holders will come down on management like a ton
of bricks accusing them of Going Ahead with the Go Ahead before they found out
if the Go Ahead was a Temporary Go Ahead or a Permanent Go Ahead.
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Prime example of what is causing
me to confuse you like this is that the Obama Administration issued an
Executive Order, just weeks before it left office, which banned drilling in about 125
million acres of the U.S. Arctic Ocean and 3.8 million acres of the Atlantic
Ocean.
President Trump issued a Counter
Executive Order during his First Months in Office to overturn the Obama
Administration’s last minute ban.
Two years later (on March 29,
2019) a federal judge in Alaska reinstated the Last Minute Ban.
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Uncertainty Has Certainly Become a Certain Problem
Why can’t judges act more quickly? Drilling for oil is very
expensive undertaking and cannot be turned on and off as easily as politicians
can sign go ahead directives and judges can sign cease and desist directives to cancel those signed go ahead directives.
Imagine the money that may have been spent by oil drilling
companies getting ready to start getting ready to suck the oil or gas out of
the ground only to have a judge say the Ready To Spring Into Action Company can’t
start sucking the oil or gas out of the ground.
All that spent money does not come back into their coffers when
a judge says they can’t proceed. Are businesses in the future going to stop
acting on the authority to do what they do (spend money to make money and
deliver products and services) because future judges may outlaw
what they were lawfully doing?
Don’t forget that, during this spending money process (and
into the foreseeable future), employees are paid salaries and families are fed.
What happens when businesses run out of money or get too
timid to act? Senator Foghorn Leghorn addressed this perplexing issue only
yesterday, “Son, I say, Son, that’s not
for us to worry about, especially not this close to Happy Hour. I say leave this
thorny issue for future Presidents and Congresses to figure out. They might
come up with something”.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
