If I lived within a day’s driving distance round trip I would be patronizing your establishment as soon as possible. Instead I hope that some of my friends who live in Virginia can pay you a visit in my stead. I applaud you for standing up for yourself and not taking the cowards way out for cheap press and letting your convictions slide.
Though I will say you’re probably getting considerably more press and coverage by telling them no, than you would have by accepting their patronage.
Now some have claimed that Obama was merely talking about infrastructure, except lets look at exactly what he said (emphasis mine):
“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help,” Obama said last month. “There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
If I have a business, I didn’t build that. Someone else made that happen. In the words of Samuel L. Jackson:
He said, plain as day, “if I have a business I didn’t build that, someone else did”. But lets humor them for a second and say it just applied to “infrastructure”.
It wasn’t the government that built the roads, no, it was small independent contractors, aka small businesses that built that. They were paid from money collected by the federal government. That money was collected from businesses and their employees. They made that money by selling goods and services to other people. So really small businesses through inter-cooperation built roads and infrastructure with the government getting involved to take a cut of the costs.
So maybe what Obama was actually talking about was money. You see government prints the money and since it’s no longer standardized on anything they can print as much as they want. So it was the government that built a fiat currency to use to buy all this stuff and in the end screw businesses by devaluing the currency used for transactions. That is the only way that “If you have a business, you didn’t build that” can possibly make any sense. That statement can only hold true if you say that government is the creator and founder of using money in exchange for goods and services. Except you need not only use cash, you can barter or use precious metals in transactions as well.
The bottom line is the President let us look under the veil on that one. Under that veil we saw what many of us already knew, a hard-core socialist that wants to drive private independent businesses into the ground and have a central government-run it all. Because in that case no one would build that, it would all be “owned” by the government. No thanks Mr. President, keep the change.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
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Will do. “Crumb and Get It” is only about 10 minutes from my house. I’ll just have to wait until payday!
Thanks, much appreciated.
Honestly I’d refuse most politician’s trying to make a campaign stop. I don’t want my business tied to either side of the political fire.
More than welcome as a general customer, just behave like one.
And the story gets even better!
So much sudden demand for his business because of this that he ran out of his most critical supplies halfway through the day!
I don’t think he regrets turning down that campaign stop.
Oh, and regarding the “you didn’t build that” comment: Even if it were 100% true, it was still an incredibly stupid thing for him to actually say.
Yup, it was stupid, just like many of the other things to have come out of this administration. More on that later though.
Next trip to Texas I’ll definitely stop by! 🙂
Texas!? I thought this guy was in Virginia.
Let us, just for the sake of being charitable, presume that he was indeed referring to infrastructure…
“He didn’t invent iron ore and blast furnaces, did he?”
“Who?”
“Rearden. He didn’t invent smelting and chemistry and air compression. He couldn’t have invented his Metal but for thousands and thousands of other people. His Metal! Why does he think it’s his? Why does he think it’s his invention? Everybody uses the work of everybody else. Nobody ever invents anything.”
She said, puzzled, “But the iron ore and all those other things were there all the time. Why didn’t anybody else make that Metal, but Mr. Rearden did?”
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, 1954
Oh I know. The whole thing stinks to high heaven and yes that passage has crossed my mind. I just find it funny that what they claim means that they have no understanding of the use of the English Language.