1. " John Kass, Chicago Tribune columnist and the son of an immigrant,... describes how his father worked his fingers to the bone every day of his life to run his small business. And how the government, not only didnt help, it was like a hammer over his head.
2. 'Just two immigrant brothers and their families risking everything, balancing on the economic high wire, building a business in America. They sacrificed, paid their bills, counted pennies to pay rent and purchase health care and food and not much else. And for their troubles they were muscled by the politicos, by the city inspectors and the chiselers and the weasels, all those smiling extortionists who held the government hammer over all of our heads.
3. You didnt get there on your own, Obama said. Im always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
4. If youve got a business, you didnt build that? Somebody else made that happen?
Somebody else, Mr. President? Who, exactly? Government?
5. One of my earliest memories as a boy at the store was that of the government men coming from City Hall. One was tall and beefy. The other was wiry. They wanted steaks.
We didnt eat red steaks at home or yellow bananas. We took home the brown bananas and the brown steaks because we couldnt sell them. But the government men liked the big, red steaks, the fat rib-eyes two to a shrink-wrapped package. You could put 20 or so in a shopping bag.
6. Thanks, Greek, theyd say.'
7. Like so many of our grandparents and parents, no one gave them subsidies, they didnt take food stamps, they didnt take welfare. They didnt spend their money on frivolous things. They just worked and worked and worked. Every day of the summers I was a child my Mom would drop me and my brothers off at my Grandmas so she could work for no pay at my Dads start up law firm. This was after he worked days at a railroad so he could go to law school at night. And that was after he went into the army, so he could go to college, where he took any job he could get. Both of them worked so hard, and never complained. This is the legacy of the entrepreneurial spirit.
8. People like Obama hold the hammer and say, Thanks Greek, because they have never known what its like to get up every day, work hard to make a business successful, never take time off, never golf, never go on vacation, much less the Hamptons. Obama doesnt know. Most people in the government dont know."
Pres. Obama Swinging The Government Hammer | TexasSparkle | a Chron.com blog
I hope all have the time to read Mr. Kass's entire article at
Who else, Mr. President? - chicagotribune.com
2. 'Just two immigrant brothers and their families risking everything, balancing on the economic high wire, building a business in America. They sacrificed, paid their bills, counted pennies to pay rent and purchase health care and food and not much else. And for their troubles they were muscled by the politicos, by the city inspectors and the chiselers and the weasels, all those smiling extortionists who held the government hammer over all of our heads.
3. You didnt get there on your own, Obama said. Im always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
4. If youve got a business, you didnt build that? Somebody else made that happen?
Somebody else, Mr. President? Who, exactly? Government?
5. One of my earliest memories as a boy at the store was that of the government men coming from City Hall. One was tall and beefy. The other was wiry. They wanted steaks.
We didnt eat red steaks at home or yellow bananas. We took home the brown bananas and the brown steaks because we couldnt sell them. But the government men liked the big, red steaks, the fat rib-eyes two to a shrink-wrapped package. You could put 20 or so in a shopping bag.
6. Thanks, Greek, theyd say.'
7. Like so many of our grandparents and parents, no one gave them subsidies, they didnt take food stamps, they didnt take welfare. They didnt spend their money on frivolous things. They just worked and worked and worked. Every day of the summers I was a child my Mom would drop me and my brothers off at my Grandmas so she could work for no pay at my Dads start up law firm. This was after he worked days at a railroad so he could go to law school at night. And that was after he went into the army, so he could go to college, where he took any job he could get. Both of them worked so hard, and never complained. This is the legacy of the entrepreneurial spirit.
8. People like Obama hold the hammer and say, Thanks Greek, because they have never known what its like to get up every day, work hard to make a business successful, never take time off, never golf, never go on vacation, much less the Hamptons. Obama doesnt know. Most people in the government dont know."
Pres. Obama Swinging The Government Hammer | TexasSparkle | a Chron.com blog
I hope all have the time to read Mr. Kass's entire article at
Who else, Mr. President? - chicagotribune.com
