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Small Business Owners Take A Stand Against Obama, Big Government

The latest piece of Romney campaign email to hit my inbox comes in the form of a statement from Ross Murty, co-owner of the Village Corner Deli in Davenport, Iowa, who caused a little stir last week by wearing some Romney campaign swag while catering for an Obama campaign stop.

No one from the government was there when we were sweating it, when we were building this business. I'm proud of the business I've built, so I appreciate Mitt Romney for standing up for people like me. He knows the kind of hard work and dedication it takes to make a business successful.

We need a president who understands business. Who understands what it means to make payroll. Who understands what it means to grow an enterprise and to be successful. I think Mitt is the candidate for the job.

On a scale of 1 to 10, Obama's "you didn't build that" remark appears to resonate at about a million. It perfectly summarizes his government-centric worldview and makes it plain to anyone paying attention that he and his policies are standing in the way of our economic recovery.

So it should come as no surprise that business owners hang signs telling Obama to kiss their ass. Or tell Joe Biden to take a hike. Or protest being forced to accept EBT card payments for pies.

“I don’t think American taxpayers should be footing the bill for people’s pie purchases,” said Andrea Taber, proprietor of the Ever So Humble Pie Co. in Walpole, who peddles her wares at the Braintree market on Fridays and now finds herself in the middle of the state’s raging fight over welfare benefits.

“To me it’s no different than nail salons and Lottery tickets,” Taber said. “It’s pastry, it’s dessert. My pies are great, but come on.”

We have serious economic problems in this country, and they're not going to be fixed by hopey-changey bullshit or "fundamental transformation" to a European-style social welfare state. As Mitt says on the campaign trail, Europe doesn't even work in Europe. Why the Obama-ites think it'll work here is beyond me.

But these problems can be be fixed by government getting its house in order while honest, hardworking Americans who take risks are allowed to benefit if the risk pays off. And it is a risky proposition - according to the SBA, half of all small businesses fail within five years.

What Obama favors, though, is a heads-I-win, tails-you-lose system where business owners fight an out of control regulatory state just to face demonization and punitive taxation if by some chance they manage to succeed.

It's great to see business owners all across America standing up and saying "f*ck that!". Now I'm off to Walpole to buy some pies.

posted by Andy at 12:05 PM

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