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 Small farming has been replaced by giant agricultural mega-corps, just as the entrepreneurial spirit of American small business owners have been crushed by the likes of Home Depot and Wallmart.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
Comments (12)
The United States stopped being a manufacturer because the government makes it too expensive to compete through taxation, regulation, and other ways.
The problem is not Walmart or Home Depot … the problem is the US government. They need to stop taxing the hell out of business small and large, so that they can produce.
Businesses in the market move to where they can be most profitable and stay afloat the longest. America NEEDS to start manufacturing things again or we are as you say destined to fail. The only way the American economy will ever get out of the hole we are in is with less government, less taxes, and less government paternalism.
I once again agree with your sentiment, however, probably not so much on the assumed solutions.
@ Fabian – I agree that the US government is defiantly a problem. We have allowed to government to grow too big, too powerful and too inefficient.
Also America does need to manufacture again or we are destined to fail in a growing global economy. The problem with a global economy however is that regardless how “business friendly” our government is, we are never going to be to create products here for anywhere near as cheap as China can. Anyone who thinks that we will be able to needs to realize that in China that average citizen makes 69 dollars a week!
It is not simply our taxations and regulations that make it too expensive. Putting all that aside, even if the government abolished all taxes on business completely, manufacturing in American would still be dramatically more expensive then in countries such as China.
So then what is the solution to this problem? I really don’t know but I do believe that things have to change in order for our economy to improve and our country to continue being successful.
Where are your articles Jacques? keep posting its good =]
When I worked retail, people would complain about how everything was made in China, but they never complained about how cheap everything was.
The unfortunate truth is that if everything was made in the USA by small businesses, the costs of goods would skyrocket.
Nice blog by the way, I like the format. For the lighter side of life (your’s is so serious), check out mine at http://atourofcollege.blogspot.com/
@ Fabian – Thanks for the encouragement, I was busy but now I will be posting more. Good job with yours so far as well!
@ CJ – Perhaps costs would go up but maybe not drastically. Keep in mind that if everything was manufactured in the USA then more American made products would be purchased. Basic economics states that this would mean the prices of American made products would drop. Not to mention that stronger industry in the US would equal a stronger dollar which would mean our money would have more purchasing power.
By the way I liked your blog. Defiantly lighter topics then my own but fun to read non the less. I will keep following it.
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