Jobs should be the major issue in the United States today.  Many media outlets have been airing stories about jobs and the economy, but the CBS Evening News has gone a step further and has been conducting a series of interviews with CEOs about how to get Americans back to work.

It has been interesting to watch.  I have placed a link to the story at the end of this column.

Scott Pelley of the CBS Evening News recently interviewed Robert L. Johnson.  According to CBS, “… Johnson founded Black Entertainment Television, and later sold it to Viacom for almost $3 billion. Johnson is now the chairman of RLI, which invests in companies in a variety of industries, from entertainment to real estate.”

Besides his ideas on how to put America back to work, toward the end of the interview Pelley asks him what he would say to elected officials in Washington.

This is what he had to say:

My message to Washington is simply sacrifice your political job for the job that American people want you to do.  That’s as simple as that.  Be willing to be a one-term congressperson.  Be willing to be a one-term president, be willing to be a one-term senator.  Take that position.  That the issues before the country are far greater than me returning to Washington and starting the same old treadmill over again.

When I heard Johnson say that, I said, “Wow!”  That is exactly what we need in our elected officials.  Are there any out there who will do that or will they just go along with what their party or their donors want them to do?

Electing people who will put our country first is critically important in 2012.

You can read the full CBS Evening News story HERE.

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