"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end, and no sense of responsibility at the other."
--Ronald Wilson Reagan
IN the present atmosphere, and here in Granholm's paradise, but especially in Washington, D.C., capitalism and its adherents are almost too ashamed to declare themselves believers in the system that has wrought the greatest economy the world has ever known.
With more than forty percent of Americans on some form of dole from the Federal Government, there has to be a way to keep feeding Goliath (our government): after all the giant is getting hungrier all the time, fatter all the time and a lot of those in government right now know it must be kept healthy because it uses our tax monies to buy votes from groups of people.
Business--capitalist businesses--have been the one feeding this giant, after all businesses pay plenty of taxes, and more importantly they employ wage earners, who then in turn pay their taxes. (This is all very basic but seems to be forgotten by those in government who would keep coming to businesses for more and more taxes and regulation.)
In order to confiscate more of our money, the present administration has declared war on the American Economy and the American Businessman. The businessman is the enemy, the bad guy, the source of ALL our problems: a scapegoat.
Add to that lie the burden of the onerous regulations and taxation of businesses with more coming and no end in sight from the state of Michigan and you've got yourself a Gigantic Fight Against Goliath.
I'm a big believer in the freedom for businesses to succeed or to fail. My belief is that the ONLY role of government in the enterprise of the American people who own businesses is this: GET OUT OF THE WAY.
You see, contrary to popular opinion, freedom means just that. You are free. Free to succeed, free to fail. There were no guarantees built into the constitution and anyone who tries to imply that is guilty of twisting truth.
There is no way that your success, or your failure for that matter, should be "guaranteed by the government". Whomever coined the term "too big to fail" was not a believer in capitalism.
Some businesses should fail, because they made very poor decisions and kept doing more of the same; year after year. Their practices and their spending was out of control....much like our Goliath Government.
But businesses should not fail BECAUSE of the government and that is what is happening all around the state. State and federal governments are placing such huge burdens on our small businesses--who, by the way, are the biggest employers of all!--that they are finding it hard to keep afloat.
If businesses keep going away from Michigan like they have been, who then will government shake down to keep feeding Goliath?
Business are shutting down, closing their doors and laying off employees, yet Granholm is busily traveling the globe to "bring jobs to Michigan"!
Instead what we need is our state government working in Lansing to create an atmosphere that will keep the businesses that are already here! It was bad enough for Michigan before this national recession hit, but now that the whole country is suffering, we're worse off than we could have imagined!
I will do my best in Lansing to work for getting Goliath Government off the back of the businesses in our state.
IN the present atmosphere, and here in Granholm's paradise, but especially in Washington, D.C., capitalism and its adherents are almost too ashamed to declare themselves believers in the system that has wrought the greatest economy the world has ever known.
With more than forty percent of Americans on some form of dole from the Federal Government, there has to be a way to keep feeding Goliath (our government): after all the giant is getting hungrier all the time, fatter all the time and a lot of those in government right now know it must be kept healthy because it uses our tax monies to buy votes from groups of people.
Business--capitalist businesses--have been the one feeding this giant, after all businesses pay plenty of taxes, and more importantly they employ wage earners, who then in turn pay their taxes. (This is all very basic but seems to be forgotten by those in government who would keep coming to businesses for more and more taxes and regulation.)
In order to confiscate more of our money, the present administration has declared war on the American Economy and the American Businessman. The businessman is the enemy, the bad guy, the source of ALL our problems: a scapegoat.
Add to that lie the burden of the onerous regulations and taxation of businesses with more coming and no end in sight from the state of Michigan and you've got yourself a Gigantic Fight Against Goliath.
I'm a big believer in the freedom for businesses to succeed or to fail. My belief is that the ONLY role of government in the enterprise of the American people who own businesses is this: GET OUT OF THE WAY.
You see, contrary to popular opinion, freedom means just that. You are free. Free to succeed, free to fail. There were no guarantees built into the constitution and anyone who tries to imply that is guilty of twisting truth.
There is no way that your success, or your failure for that matter, should be "guaranteed by the government". Whomever coined the term "too big to fail" was not a believer in capitalism.
Some businesses should fail, because they made very poor decisions and kept doing more of the same; year after year. Their practices and their spending was out of control....much like our Goliath Government.
But businesses should not fail BECAUSE of the government and that is what is happening all around the state. State and federal governments are placing such huge burdens on our small businesses--who, by the way, are the biggest employers of all!--that they are finding it hard to keep afloat.
If businesses keep going away from Michigan like they have been, who then will government shake down to keep feeding Goliath?
Business are shutting down, closing their doors and laying off employees, yet Granholm is busily traveling the globe to "bring jobs to Michigan"!
Instead what we need is our state government working in Lansing to create an atmosphere that will keep the businesses that are already here! It was bad enough for Michigan before this national recession hit, but now that the whole country is suffering, we're worse off than we could have imagined!
I will do my best in Lansing to work for getting Goliath Government off the back of the businesses in our state.
