Every time President Obama gets off the teleprompter, he gets into trouble. The most recent example of this is the statement, “If you got a business, you didn\u2019t build that; somebody else made that happen.\u201d That is an affront to every American who has worked 60-hour weeks to build a business to support his (or her) family.<\/p>\n
Here are some figures from the U. S. Small Business Administration<\/a>\u00a0website:<\/p>\n Small firms:<\/strong> These are also the businesses that will be hit the hardest if the “Bush tax cuts for the rich” are allowed to expire. Just for the record, most small business owners are not rich.<\/p>\n An\u00a0article at Power LIne<\/a>\u00a0compares President Obama’s recent gaffe about small business to President Ford’s comments about Poland during the 1976 debates. The article\u00a0concludes:<\/p>\n Okay\u2014let\u2019s have that debate, and ask what business needs from government today.\u00a0 Not high-speed rail in California (or anywhere else), investments in \u201cgreen energy,\u201d massive regulatory uncertainty from the EPA and Dodd-Frank, a<\/strong> health care law expanding by the day as the regulators figure it out, massive financial uncertainty from taxes set to explode in January, and a permit-process-from-hell to build anything bigger than an outhouse.\u00a0 That\u2019s just for starters.\u00a0 I note that Obama hasn\u2019t even met with his highly touted Jobs Council for more than six months now, which shows how unserious he is about all of this.\u00a0 Bring it on.<\/strong><\/p>\n I agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every time President Obama gets off the teleprompter, he gets into trouble. The most recent example of this is the statement, “If you got a business, you didn\u2019t build that; somebody else made that happen.\u201d That is an affront to … Continue reading
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms.<\/strong>
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Employ half of all private sector employees.<\/strong>
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Pay 44 percent of total U.S. private payroll.<\/strong>
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Generated 65 percent of net new jobs over the past 17 years.<\/strong>
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Create more than half of the nonfarm private GDP.<\/strong>
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Hire 43 percent of high tech workers ( scientists, engineers, computer programmers, and others).<\/strong>
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Are 52 percent home-based and 2 percent franchises.<\/strong>
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Made up 97.5 percent of all identified exporters and produced 31 percent of export value in FY 2008.<\/strong>
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Produce 13 times more patents per employee than large patenting firms.<\/strong><\/p>\n