The American Small Business: A Thing of the Past
Posted by Jacques on September 25, 2009 | 12 Comments
For the past year or so we have been hearing about economic recovery and our bail out programs for large corporations.
Let us go back in time, and discuss why this country became the greatest country on earth.
Our country was built by the hard working people of this land–farmers, pioneers and small business owners. This tradition has become a thing of the past however. Small farming has been replaced by giant agricultural mega-corps, just as the entrepreneurial spirit of American small business owners have been crushed by the likes of Home Depot and Wallmart.
Our small businesses were once the backbone of this country. Under their watchful eye however, it seems that our government has completely abandoned the American small business owner in favor of the rich CEO’s and corporations that have forced these small businesses out of the market.
Just look around and you will see the same trend everywhere. Wallmart has replaced mom and pop stores all over, and Home Depots all over the country have forced millions of small hardware stores out of businesses. It is the same story everywhere as these business owners find themselves bankrupt over night with no where to turn.
The Average American sees no benefit from this of course. Instead it becomes harder and harder to find work or to make ends meet as more and more industries become swallowed up by the mega-corps. Why is it that our government has let small businesses down? Why is it that they don’t realize that strong small businesses equal employment opportunities for more and more Americans? Don’t they realize that successful small businesses as the backbone of our communities translate to a strong American economy?
Our government is instead crushing small businesses, taxing them to death as our large corporations get tax breaks and bailouts. Unless we change our policy, and go back to what made us so great in the first place, we are for sure destined to fail! If the government simply allowed the trillions upon trillions of dollars we wasted on the bailout to instead be invested into jump starting small businesses, we would have generated millions of new jobs, and unemployment would have gone down drastically. In the long run this would mean less unemployment, more tax revenue, and a decrease in our deficit as we would move back towards a more fiscally responsible budget.
We MUST change course before it is too late! Our factories must stop being shipped to China and other parts of the world! The USA was at one point a global leader in the manufacturing of goods. Now however the phrase “Made in the USA” no longer appears on store shelves. Let us join together and support American businesses by buying American made products, and returning manufacturing and strong small business to America!
As usual your comments are welcome. I look forward to seeing what you have to say.
-Jacques