Benjamin Netanyahu is coming to New York for the United Nations General Assembly meeting. He has asked for a meeting with President Obama. The president said he was too busy to meet with him next week in New York (although he does have time to make an appearance on David Letterman).

I read somewhere recently if you are getting something for free, then you are not the customer. This is very true with government handout programs – those giving away things are doing it to earn votes – the voters are the customers, whether they ever use the services or not.

Don't expect to see any interviews with Canadians who come to the U.S. for health care because it is impossible to receive timely and decent health care in Canada under their universal health care system. The Chevy Volt will not be mentioned. Nor will GM's announcement to suspend its production from Sept. 17 to Oct. 15.

Think with both sides of your brain when you head into the voting booth in a couple of months. You will be deciding issues affecting your family for unborn generations to come.

In football, in business, in many other endeavors, the leader, the coach, the president would not be allowed four years to fix the problems. I can tell you in business, the rule is simple: You have one year. A charismatic football coach may be given two years.

Let's take the Department of Motor Vehicles. What if your state put these services out for bid every couple of years? What, if say, next year, New Jersey won the right to operate the DMV in your state? Maybe a couple of years later, due to service and costs, Iowa offers your state a better deal. What would be wrong with that?

It is time we all leave fantasyland and the dream works. It is time to assess threats and dangers as responsible adults, not by what we feel is right or wrong.

Obama has no clue how small business works. I do. I have been in business for myself for 23 years of my 42-year career. Here are some of the things I have learned.

It came out a couple of weeks ago that the International Olympic Committee is in a quandary. They just don't know if they should let Coca-Cola and McDonald's sponsor the Olympics any longer. Coke has been doing so since the 1920s and McDonald's for several decades. It is not that they don't like their money, it is just the way they earn it.

They also know the more people on the federal payroll, regardless of political leanings, the more votes they have for an ever broadening and restrictive federal bureaucracy (who is going to vote to eliminate their own job?). The cuffs are around our hands.

Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush thought they defeated communism and socialism. They were wrong. Despite the failures of communism, despite the failures of socialism, the American people have embraced their lies. We might as well give the keys to the country to Putin or Hollande.

Who will businesses keep? The person who shows up on time every day and cheerfully does their assigned tasks, and, additionally, thinks of ways to improve the business. I don’t care if you are a clerk in a convenience store, you can make the business neater, friendlier and stand out compared to the competition. Apply yourself.

Live two decades more and health care will be so cheap it will not matter who is paying for it.

Franklin Roosevelt, as quoted in the New York Times on Sept. 16, 2011, is reported to have said, "It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government." And of course the reason is simple and can be explained by a sixth grader: public worker union bargainers sit across the bargaining table from elected officials their members elect. They are bargaining with themselves, which is why things have gotten so far out of balance today.

Have high standards and hold other people to them as well. We are slowly sinking into mediocrity.