By Chuck Muth
NEVADA BUSINESS COALITION
YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT
“If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." –President Barack Obama
“To say something like that is not only foolishness, it's insulting to every entrepreneur, every innovator." – Mitt Romney
“My father’s hands didn’t build this company? My hands didn’t build this company? My son’s hands aren’t building this company? Did somebody else take out the loan on my father’s house to finance the equipment? With hard work and a little bit of luck, we built this business. Why are you demonizing us for it?” - Jack Gilchrist of Gilchrist Metal Fabricating Company in Hudson, N.H.
“What do you do when everybody's claiming your president said something, and you just know he didn't really say it, but all the video and all the audio and all the transcripts show that he did say it?” – Tim Cavanaugh of Reason magazine
“(W)hat I said was together we build roads and we build bridges and so if you've got a business, you didn't build that...Meaning the roads and the bridges, not your business.” –President Barack Obama
“The word ‘business’ appears immediately before ‘you didn’t build that’ and ‘Somebody else made that happen.’ And besides, if Obama had been referring to ‘roads and bridges,’ he wouldn’t have said ‘that.’ He’d have said ‘those.’ You didn’t build those.” - The New Republic‘s Timothy Noah
“Barack Obama has never - within our sketchy knowledge of his background - had to put his personal money at risk to create anything nor to hire anyone. When Obama is talking about building a business he has no idea what he's talking about, because he's never done it.” – Rich Galen of Mullings.com
“Mr. President, with all due respect, and I mean all due respect, you have no idea what you’re talking about. … Government is the single largest obstacle that exists for every business in America. Everyone except you already knew that. It’s like being in a rowboat and having someone throw in a 500-pound anchor and calling it ‘help.’” – James Thomson, Las Vegas Review-Journal
"The president in fact believes that people who build enterprises like this really are not responsible for it, that in fact it is a collective success of the whole society that somehow builds enterprises like this. In my view we ought to celebrate people who start enterprises and employ people.” – Mitt Romney
“It’s not the government’s money! It was business people who gave the government money so we could have roads and buildings and infrastructure. That is what is fundamentally deficient in this administration.... (The president) completely and fundamentally misunderstands what creates business, what creates a thriving economy.” -Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho)
“Here's the question to ask -- how many more successful businesses, inventions, products, services, toys, tools, insights, and just plain fun would there be, if government did not in the first place make it so ridiculously difficult to start a business and keep it going? I don't see our young president taking credit on behalf of the state for all the failures it helps cause, all the ideas that never got off the ground because the regulatory hurdles were so high, or all the established companies that never had to face competition because they had managed to get their rents written into law.” – Tom Smith of RightCoast
IN OBAMA’S AMERICA
“In Obama’s America, we’re all ingrates. Never mind that we’re the most giving nation in the world, or that the top 20% of American wage earners pay nearly 70% of the country’s income taxes. Obama thinks the most successful among us don’t sufficiently appreciate how ‘interconnected’ we are. He’d like to force a little more appreciation upon them.” –S.E. Cupp
MINIMUM WAGE, MAXIMUM PAIN
“Small business proprietors would hire many more teens if the minimum wage weren’t so prohibitive. I suggest that the teen unemployment situation would improve dramatically if the minimum wage were slashed by 50 or 75 percent.” – Owen Nelson, Las Vegas Sun
THE GRAND DELUSION
“The government is the only entity big enough to create projects large enough to put people to work immediately. … A big stimulus is the only answer.” – Debbie Starr, who apparently slept through the last three-plus years of the Obama administration, Las Vegas Sun
BIZ-QUIK-TIP
“Word of mouth can be one of the best ways to find new employees,” writes MaryEllen Tribby of WorkingMomsOnly.com. “Be prepared to meet the right employee no matter where you are, whether it is one of your children's sporting events or a dinner party. Have the job description and what you're looking for written on a 3x5 index card and keep it in your purse just in case.
“Include the primary responsibilities of the job and the kind of person you are looking for as well as your contact information. This way, when you are speaking with a potential person to fill the job - you can just hand him or her the index card instead laying out exactly what you are looking for.”
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“It seems clear to small businesses and entrepreneurs that the unprecedented level of government spending and increase in regulations is having a harmful effect on economic growth. Job Creators Alliance believes that reducing -- not increasing -- the regulatory and tax burden on small business owners will help jumpstart the painfully sputtering engine of the American economy.” – David Park, Chairman, Job Creators Alliance
Lee ADDS: What Obama forgets is that 'it is we the PEOPLE' that paid for all of our governments accomplishments!
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