Reply #10: Again, if the rungs are missing, start your own business....... [View All]

[MikeyJones]

I've heard of hoards of small-business success stories just 2-3 years after initally starting them up. The only thing I was criticizing was a sad mentality I've found with so many Americans. That is a lack of self-reliance and a definite lack of common sense. People want the government to do everything for them and that's simply what socialist capitalism isn't about. Socialism is about giving somebody a help up when they're down, not making semi-permanent pension holders out of the recepients. After all, the more businesses you have, the more tax revenue you're going to have to help out the poor on their way up.

In the same way I don't like how one would view a job as shitty as Starbucks or as a hotel maid to look forward to doing for the rest of one's life. One should look to be one's own boss. Small business is the backbone of this country after all.