[lbo-talk] Make Members of Congress Wear NASCAR Patches

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 21 06:34:33 PST 2010


[WS:] I do not understand why anyone should be concerned about small businesses. Fuck them. Most people in this country are employees not small entrepreneurs, and they are being screwed by entrepreneurs, big and small.

Wojtek

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:42 AM, fernando cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:


> [A bit naive, isn´t it?]
>
> 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."
>
>
>
>
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