Those of you know me, realize that I am never politically
correct, nor reserved about my opinions.
Those of you who know me will also already know that I have ZERO respect
for President Barack Hussein Obama. And
my lack of respect has nothing to do with his questionable citizenship, it has
to do with his attitude that America is somehow the aggressor in the world and
that we owe the world an apology for our success.
So it will come as no surprise to anyone who knows me that
I am livid about the President’s statement at a campaign rally in Roanoke, Va.
on July 13th when he was off teleprompter and in his full class
warfare mode and enthusiastically blurted out, “If you’ve got a business, you
didn’t build that! Somebody
else made that happen!”
Here is a man who appeared out of nowhere in 2004 when he
made a speech at the Democratic Convention. The only job he has ever had other
than that as a paid politico is that of a community organizer, aka an
agitator. He has lived his entire life
off of other people’s money. As best
anyone can tell, he has been a ward of the State living off of your and my tax
dollars for his entire adult life. Yet
he dares to tell businessmen that we have had nothing to do with building our
business and that if it were not for government, American businesses could not
survive!
So after he said that I went back and checked to be sure I
had not missed something over the last 40 years! I mean
I even went back to my high school yearbook, The Chieftain, to see if it was
really me in that SHS Class of 1968 picture.
It looked like me, it had my name under it, but now I question if I
really did graduate.
So I went on to my 1972 Texas A&M yearbook and looked
myself up and by gosh, there I was and my degree says I have an Electrical
Engineering degree. But now I don’t
know. Maybe it was someone from the
government that stayed up and studied all those nights to get through
A&M.
Then I went back and looked at the bank note’s I signed in
1979 pledging my personal assets and providing my personal guarantee for the
money that I borrowed to start my business and provide the paychecks, and yep,
that was my signature and I confirmed there were no government grants or
government loans. And I checked to see
if the banks really did have a lien on my assets, and sure enough they do!
But I thought hey everyone tells me that Obama is so
brilliant that we common folk just can’t understand him, so I decided to check
further, I went back and looked at all
the tax returns both personally and for the business that I filed paying our
personal and business taxes from the money we had left over from paying our
bankers, our license fees, and our employees.
Yep seemed to be my signature on all those documents.
I looked for pictures and other evidence of government
employees who were working with me day and night and while I found lots of
pictures of my family and our employees who were working hard, I simply can’t
find any evidence that my survivability, so far, can be attributed to anyone
from the government. Hell I can’t even
find any evidence that anyone from the government was around when I wanted them
to help.
During the downturn of 2009 (that would be after Mr. Obama
took office) I did experience new governmental regulations that made it even
harder to survive. Thanks to the Dodd
Frank Act, passed by Mr. Obama and his buddies, the banking relationships most
business owners had either vanished or changed significantly. Government regulations have made it
increasing hard to get anything done or finance any expansion.
So Mr. Obama you are just WRONG, businesses do not exist
because of government; businesses exist in SPITE of government!
However Mr. Obama did say something else that night in
Roanoke, “If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some
help.” And he was right, in my case
there were/are great teachers such as Mrs. Welch, Mrs. Brinkman, Mr. Williford, Mr. Pinkerton, Dr. Linder;
great family and friends, Sue Ann my lifelong friend, partner and wife; my
parents who made my life easy and convinced me that I could do anything; Jimmy
Schoppe who not only let me do everything, he challenged me to do more; Charlie
White, a great mentor, friend and partner; Jim & Cindy Jennings who have been part of my business so
long they are now considered family; Walter Hinkle, who came into our business
in 2002 when things were really tough and helped me dig my way out; my kids who
were always my inspiration and best cheerleaders, and all the wonderful
employees who work their butts off everyday to keep our business going.
So yes Mr. Obama I will give you that, there are always
people who have given and continue to give people help along the way, but none
of them I know worked for the government!
Marc
