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Originally Posted by tonyz
Obama's recent statements and policies appear to be those of a true statist ideologue who is hell bent on fundamentally transforming this country.
Those of you who have founded, built, maintained, advised, or managed businesses over the past few decades have probably done so despite the government and its choking regulation - not because of it.
And, that government infrastructure that helps us all do business...was generally funded and paid for by taxpayer dollars, your dollars, earned and voluntarily paid over to government because of your labor and sacrifice.
In most any discussion, by Obama, regarding business (and, frankly many other areas) I'm afraid that this wanna be Emperor, too, has no clothes.
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I'm grateful for where/when I was born and where I live.....I've magically appeared on one of the better games of Monopoly.
What grinds me a bit is the President comes across as attempting to teach small business owners a lesson in gratitude.
Every small business owner I associate with(regardless of which country they reside in) is incredibly grateful for the opportunity of birth they recieved.
But to be grateful for infrastructure for which they've paid and continue to pay?
That's just weird.
I'm grateful for my family's ACCESS to electricity and water, but I'm not grateful at PAYING the bill...I'm grateful to my family/friends/mentors for helping provide me the tools I needed so I can PAY the bill...and pay employee wages...and hopefully have some left over for the risks I've taken with my capital that no one else has.
I know politicians make mistakes, even though they are trained to mitigate them....but this one kind of irks me.