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Jewish World Review
July 23, 2012/ 5 Menachem-Av, 5772
The 'I didn't write this column,' column
By
Dave Weinbaum
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As everyone knows, business owners didn't create their own businesses, but relied on the Native Americans to shoulderoops, sorry. I inadvertently channeled my inner squaw from senate candidate and apparent spiritual advisor to the President, Indian poser, Elizabeth "Buffalo Dung" Warren. There must be something about
the use of old Indian hunting and travel paths that crisscrossed the fruited plains.
How many of us who have drive-thrus in our restaurants should owe more taxes
because of these original pathssome of which came under the purview of the
government for highways?
Seems others are infected with that kind of logic. Our President has reiterated that ideology to the rest of us entrepreneurs, business owners and dreamers. Barack preached, "…If you've got a businessyou didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
My parents used to take me to target practice
thank G-d they were lousy shots
I think either Obama's on to something or on something. You know that ole homily, "…The hip bone connected to the thigh bone, the thigh bone connected to the backbone…" Although, one wonders how Obama came to the same conclusion as Buffalo Dung Warren.
That may be the kind of theory that one contemplates while munching potato chips and Cheetos in a car so full of smoke it would make a Mexican gang-banger buy a gun from Eric Holder and rob it. Thanks for the revelation that unlike what you've accused Romney of doing, you've already admitted to committing numerous felonies. Maybe, Mr. President, if you come up with the names of the drug dealers you bought your coke from, as Mark Levin has suggested, your case to have Romney reveal whatever you think incriminates him as a felon, beyond what the law requires might be relevant.
But again I digress.
A window of opportunity won't open itself
My biggest break, unlike many liberal and minority babies, came when I was
born alive. I'm grateful to my mother for not aborting me and my father for not
leaving me in the wild to fend for myself--even though I gave him many reasons to
do so. He also paid for my college at a bad time in his life when my wrestling
scholarship to Denver University fell through the abyss. DU, or as I lovingly
call it, Duuuuh disbanded the team for budget cutsprobably because as a
private institution they were under too many federal regulations and tax obligations.
I became a small business owner soon after my then father-in-law, Van Morris
convinced me that it would be a good idea to come in with him and his many
partners into the restaurant business. As things worked out, I spent three years
managing restaurants with a little ownership thrown in for good measure, often
having to work those same seven days a week.
That was over 40 years ago.
Three years into the business, the franchisor I was involved with offered me a store
of my own in Mid Mo that was turned down by all existing franchisees. I jumped
on it, surviving while many didn't. Jimmy Carter's big government ruinous interest
rates and inflation almost killed my small business, but I survived and thrived
in spite of it! Boy, was I happy to see Reagan!
As to the old Indian parable that it wasn't me or my employees who created my
business, but the infrastructure, protection and other niceties provided by the feds,
I have three comments.
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Those roads, electrical grids, teachers policemen and sidewalks were
funded almost exclusively by the very people Obama and Buffalo Dung
have demonized, business owners.
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As someone who never participated in Capitalism, never having run as much
as a lemonade stand and never having to make a payroll, Dear Leader doesn't
know the first thing about what it takes to make a business succeed.
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The worst result of Dear Leader's comments is the murder of ambition
of those who look to him for leadership and are told that the best way to live is to
cheat on taxpayer-funded welfare and food stamps. Sadly, many of those people
are in minority communities. I'd say it was a crass attempt to buy their votes as
long as they sell their soul to Obama and his ilkbut that's just me.
I have it on good authority that if Obama wins a second term the Pledge of
Allegiance will be changed to: "I pledge a grievance that brought our flag
of the Progressive Nitwits of AmeriKKKa and to the kingdom of Barack
Hussein Obama; one third-world country under the UN, with malice and
poverty to all."
America! TIME TO FIRE THE LIAR!
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