Lorraine Hunt-Bono over at Nevada News and Views explains:
Politicians would better serve the public in areas of fiscal policy if they owned and operated a small business before they ran for political office. Budgeting, prioritizing, and fiscal discipline would then be familiar to them. As an example, I would like to share a story with you:
In 1988, former United States Senator, George McGovern, the Democratic presidential nominee against Richard Nixon in 1972, decided to fulfill a lifelong dream- he purchased the Stratford Inn, a quaint bed-and-breakfast in Connecticut. Two years later, the hotel went out of business. In a subsequent article in the Wall Street Journal, Senator McGovern humbly admitted the well-intentioned laws he aggressively supported in Congress were the same laws that put him out of business, into bankruptcy, and his employees out a job. “Regrettably,” he said, “I should have been a businessman first and a congressman second.”
As we strive to make this a better country for our children and grandchildren, let us get back to basics and appreciate what made “America the Beautiful” so wonderful- freedom and opportunity for all, rights with responsibilities, and limited government intervention in our personal lives and in our businesses. Let’s not change that.
Its hard to find Obama Administration people who have even spent significant time in the private sector, let alone any who have run a small business (are there any such?) – and those who worked in the private sector seem to have been heavily concentrated in big corporations…the very same corporations which have helped Big Government run the economy in to the ground. They simply don’t know – but, per Obama, they’re going to spread that wealth right around…whatever is left of it after Obama has paid off his cronies.
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