Memo To Entrepreneurs: Obama’s Just Not That Into You
An Investor’s Business Daily editorial notes:
Based on a ranking of regulations, it’s now easier to start a business in Slovenia, Estonia and Hungary — three former Iron Curtain countries — than in America.
Canada, our liberal northern neighbor, is now head and shoulders above America in entrepreneurial friendliness. It requires the least number of procedures to start a business of any of the OECD nations.
The OECD also measured cultural attitudes toward entrepreneurship and found that far more Chinese think starting their own firm is “a good career option” than Americans. The Chinese also think they have more “opportunity” to start their own companies and have less “fear of failure” than Americans.
What does it say about America under Obama when people living under communism are more jazzed about opening a business?
Black entrepreneurs are especially sour on their prospects under Obama.
“When Obama became president, we were all happy about the symbolism—America’s first black president,” said National Black Chamber of Commerce President Harry Alford. “We didn’t really care about his position or views on anything. We just wanted a black president no matter what.”
But “we should have been more careful,” he added, “as his views on small business are counter to ours.”
Complained Alford, as quoted in the new best-seller “The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House”: “His view of business is that it should be a few major corporations which are totally unionized and working with the government, which should also be massive and reaching every level of American society.”
In short, Obama has little use for entrepreneurs.
That’s been true his entire adult life; why would he start now? Or to put it another way, “You can lead a leftist to reality…But you can’t make him think.”
““His view of business is that it should be a few major corporations which are totally unionized and working with the government, which should also be massive and reaching every level of American society.””
Pure Mussolini.
Take a moment and just imagine what the country would be across the board right now if the first black American president was a Republican. Just imagine for a moment… General Powell, no militant righty by ANY stretch, for example.
Bismark once said, “God looks after drunks, small children, and the United States of America”. This is one time I feel His eyes were elsewhere.
Now maybe, as I have considered, the Great Purpose of Obama’s election is to thoroughly discredit socialist/progressive thinking, at least for while (until a whole new crop of perpetual children reach voting age and can fall for the same siren song all over AGAIN).
But the fact that so many now equate “to be black is to BE quasi- or outright socialist, to be against quasi- or outright socialism is to be racist” is a tragedy of epochal proportions.
It really did not have to be. Just imagine where we would be at this very moment if it were not.
Listening to Obama on Friday, with both his statement on how great the private sector is doing followed by his obviously peeved walk-back, it’s pretty clear that not only doesn’t he like or understand small business, he thinks the whole private sector is conspiring against him and deliberately trying to tank the economy to make him lose in November. He’s thinks people are just talking down the condition of the private sector for their own selfish needs — they could add jobs anytime they wanted to, unlike the poor public sector, which is desperately in need of more tax dollars to keep going.
Have Obama and the rest of his cabinet lost total touch with reality? With Obama’s recent comments that the “Private sector is doing fine” it confirms all my beliefs that he’s living on his own world.
Seriously, we must dissect his statement. Does he really think the private sector is fine? Contrary to all indicators such as the high unemployment rate, increased people on welfare, section 8 and other government programs and soaring underemployment rate, he could think private industry is doing fine. As mindboggling and as totally absurd as it sounds, he may actually believe it.
Is there that much of a disconnect with him and the real world? Does he have any grasp of simple economics? Does he even understand how the economy works? Does he know how much people around the country are hurting for work? Does he understand how difficult it is, despite a good education, to find a quality job?
The simple and most logical answer is that there is a disconnect and he’s as clueless as Kim Kardashian at a Mensa convention. It would explain his inexplicably naive comment and make sense of his whole tenure as president. We all realize by now that he was unqualified for the job and his entire resume consisted of a single speech (As eloquently pointed out by Hillary Clinton) at Senator Kerry’s Democratic convention. The truth of the matter is that being President of the USA is no joke. It takes skill, training and one heck of a resume. If you’ve really accomplished nothing significant in life like Obama, then taking on the job of president was well out of his league.
I believe that this is the most probable cause for his statements. However, I still have a nagging feeling that he simply doesn’t care. It’s been about him since day one when he got into office. When the brave Navy seals killed Bin Laden, he took the credit. He took credit for Bush’s Iraqi withdrawal schedule. He took credit for the auto industry. When things went bad, however, he never took the blame. It was Bush, the European economy, the Republican in Congress, or the Supreme Court and the list goes on.
When President Truman was in office he said that the buck stops here. Obviously the only thing that stops in the White House now is his media cronies, Hollywood elitists and his personal lobbyist. Well, Mr. Obama, I have some advice for you. As President of the great USA you should feel proud to serve the people and not feel as if we should feel proud to have you lead us. Remember that the next time you speak.