I imagine that the kids and social left wingers who write for the blog site ironically known as "the independent's view" ain't got a clue about what it means to run a small business. The statement "if it means hiring more people so be it" is so incredibly simplistic and wrong that it defies understanding. Small businesses might take a chance and hire people "off the books" if they need to cover an unexpected temporary increase in business but nobody wants to hire people with all the benefits mandated by the administration and Obamacare looming. Unemployment insurance, taxes, a hundred federal regulations, OSHA stuff, union interference and the unknown future of a quirky and unpredictable socialist democrat administration. If a small business has more work they work harder rather than hire anyone.