Thom Hartmann | Make Members of Congress Wear NASCAR Patches http://www.truth-out.org/make-members-congress-wear-nascar-patches66103
Thom Hartmann, Truthout: "I am a somewhat typical 'serial entrepreneur,' and fortunately we have a lot of them in America. They are generally middle-class people (my dad worked in a tool-and-die shop for 40 years, and my mom was a full-time homemaker with four sons), they generally do not have an inheritance or family money to draw on, and yet they spend their lives pursuing the American Dream. I have never relied on a member of Congress or a government agency to do me a favor or bend the rules. I have never given campaign contributions to politicians in hopes of getting favors that would help my business. I have never hired a lobbyist to try to amend laws that would serve my financial interest. And this is generally true of all the hundreds of thousands of sole proprietors and partnerships and small businesses across America. But that is not how big-time corporate America operates."