Quote of the Day
As a small business owner all I can say is that I think the current sentiment in the small business community is that we didn’t sign up for this shit. Y’all can vote for whatever the hell you want but we are not going to be a part of it.
I have seen more owners get out of the business or retire in the past couple of years than ever before and with the ACA on the horizon the jobs these businesses produced will not be replaced. The economics no longer work. This is why unemployment is always so high in socialist countries. What you have to go through to have employees is just brutal.
But here’s the thing about what Obama said — he has it exactly backwards. The government didn’t build any of that shit he is talking about — we built it. We are the ones who paid for it. Not only did we build our businesses we built the schools and the roads and everything else he thinks was generated out of thin air. If you want to get technical about it the businesses and taxpayers that came along before we did built it all and now we are building what comes next.
And not only that, but we did it with the albatross of a predatory, corrupt and overbearing government hanging around our necks at every juncture.
And now we have had enough.
— Ace of Spades commenter “Voluble.” Read the whole thing.
Update: “‘We Did Build It’: Small Business Owner Taunts Obama Motorcade.”
Excellent comment. RNC, if it were smart, should hire that person for an ad.
I’m so glad he took the time to do that. It’s perfect. I think I’ll just cut-and-paste it, with a few minor editorial changes to personalize it.
Otherwise, it pretty much sums it all up. I’ve made millions in tax revenue for the government, and have naught to show for it. Luckily, I have my son and we know more about our business than any employee. I’m finding that not having to deal with payroll taxes, workman’s comp, all sorts of government red tape and regulation because we have no employees lets us keep far more than when we had 10 guys working, and it is lovely! Indeed, we do almost half the sheer volume that those ten whiny, drunken fools ever did, and we don’t ever have to do anything twice. We can go fishing when we get slow, and buy fancy new equipment that makes US more productive.
It’ll be a cold day in hell before I hire ANYONE again.
The nature of the state
Cafe Hayek
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[edited] There is a notion that the state is a legitimate agency deserving respect; that despite its flaws, it generally promotes or tries to promote the welfare of its citizens. This is increasingly difficult to understand, much less to accept.
The late Mancur Olson had a far more realistic view: The state is a stationary bandit. Ordinary people might have to tolerate this, but they should understand that dealing with the state is dealing with organized thuggery. Obey the state because it can unleash its guns and prisons on you. But, please don’t pretend that the state’s commands are issued with your best interests in mind.
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