While campaigning during the 2012 Presidential election, Barack Obama condescendingly proclaimed: “If you've got a business … you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
Really? So, who does Mr. Obama actually think built a successful business in America if the personal owner of it didn't?
Based on his political philosophy, Mr. Obama believes government built it and fundamentally owns the business.
Not so, says the American entrepreneur who believes in a private ownership, free-enterprise system.
Who is right … the entrepreneur or Barack Obama?
Here are the facts:
It’s the American entrepreneur, not government, who takes the risk to build a new business to benefit America’s citizenry and enhance our economy.
It’s the American entrepreneur, not government, who invests and gambles everything he or she has so that their fellow-citizens can benefit either as a customer who needs their product or service, or as an employee who needs a job.
It’s the American entrepreneur, not government, who creates an extensive job market with expansive distribution and inter-linking services for more Americans to participate, prosper and further invigorate our national economy.
It’s the American entrepreneur who must tolerate and submit to intrusive and oppressive federal, state and local governments that over regulate, over-inspect, over-tax, and under-appreciate their sacrifices to our country and fellow citizens.
It’s the American entrepreneur, not government, who generates a revenue base that provides a steady stream of taxation to build a strong national defense and the necessary public services for our citizenry.
It’s the American entrepreneur, not government, who bears the burden of loss when a business fails.
It’s government, not the American entrepreneur, who takes the first share of profit when a business succeeds.
If you own a business, you built it and not government. So, why would anyone risk so much unless he or she truly loves America, the land of unlimited opportunity?
Show your support for America’s risk-taking entrepreneurs by buying American-made products and vote for those who support free-market enterprise and not a government-controlled economy.
And let us not forget the greatest risk-takers of all, the men and women of our United States Armed Forces who pledge their lives to defend this unparalleled American lifestyle.
“This government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Civil Disobedience”
(1817 – 1862)
Robert L. Rosebrock——Bio and Archives
Robert Rosebrock is a U.S. Army Veteran, Vietnam-era and Director of the Old Veterans Guard. He can be reached at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
