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: Continue reading →