Like most of you, I watch with horror and frustration as those who “know better” than us make rules, raise taxes, enact legislation, and create entitlements that will cripple small business for generations to come.  Small business is under attack at a level heretofore unheard of.  When you consider that only a small percentage of small businesses will last for five years, this attack will undoubtedly have a devastating effect on those that have survived, thus affecting our economy, our livelihoods and our quality of life.

What the “wise ones” always seem to forget is that it’s small business that makes the world go around.  Small business employs the vast majority of workers in America.  When long-term, viable, ongoing, REAL jobs are created, it’s almost always from small business.  The government talks about “shovel-ready” jobs.  What they mean is that they have a road to be repaired, or a bridge to be built.  The problem with such jobs is that when the money dries up (like it does when the project ends,) the jobs dry up as well.  Unlike the jobs created by small business, those created by a meddling government will be gone as quickly as they came, and there will be a need for more money.

The problem with small business (at least from a current government perspective,) is that they’re seldom unionized.  They are staffed by independent, freedom-loving, free-thinking, hard-working, dare-to-dream people.  Because they don’t belong to the union, they don’t pay dues, don’t make multi-million-dollar donations to political candidates, and therefore lack the “protection” of those who “serve” us.  Our new president seldom makes a move without talking to SEIU (service union.)  What they (SEIU) want is to unionize ALL business — even small business.  Since they donated over $400 million to the president, it’s likely you’ll see legislation soon that will further hamper the small business way of getting things done.

All in all, you can’t be pro small business and be pro big government at the same time.  They are diametrically opposed in everything they do and stand for.  I believe in the free market.  I believe it is capitalism that is part and parcel of the American dream.  I believe small business is the engine that drives our economy.  I believe un-meddled with, the market will make whatever corrections are necessary.  I believe that giving away our freedom to run our own businesses in our own way is a terrible idea.  I believe nobody knows better than me how to run my business.  I believe that any politician who thinks he can do it better than me is not only wrong, but supremely arrogant in thinking so.  Finally, I believe we can find our way out of this mess if we’re just given the same chance to do so that our forefathers have always been given — that is, to let a free market sort it out.  Historically the free market has produced the wealthiest nations on earth with the highest standard of living.  When governments have run things, they produce the poorest nations on earth lowest standard of living.  I know which I want.

Well, that’s what I believe — stated pure and simply.  What do you believe?