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Remember, most small businesses are owned by people with median incomes under $45,000 (nationwide, don't have WA stats, but seem to recall we're similar).

On the other hand, many people who retire like to start a small business to keep busy and help pay the bills, so there's some conflation of the groups.

Amerika loves Big Business. We subsidize it, give it fake bookkeeping, and find ways to write loopholes for it. Even if most jobs are created by small business, not Big Business.
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Unfortunately, 100% of small business owners are self-selected. It's not like anybody who knows picked them for their qualifications. They picked themselves, based on the size of their own egos plus their lack of success working for somebody else.

You have to first prove you are good before you can play against Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods. You don't have to prove your are good to go compete against McDonald's or Wal-Mart or Amazon. And then when you get your ass handed to you, you get nothing but sympathy and hugs from pandering politicians and media whores.

Some small businesses do well because some of them are run by people who know what they're doing. The rest are deluded fools, praised as children by the Lake Woebegone Effect and misjudging themselves as adults by the Dunning–Kruger effect.
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Main Street Alliance, I think.
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@2,

I agree with you in principle, but the fact of the matter is that the deck is stacked against small business owners. Even if you put aside factors outside of the government's control, such as big business's ability to take advantage of outsourcing and economies of scale, government picks winners and losers in the economy all the time.

The pandering to small business by politicians is just as meaningless as political pandering to mothers or to families or to family values. The politicians braying the loudest about these issues are always the first to screw over those groups through actual legislation.
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@2 I bought a small business from my former employer. She offered it to me. She chose me. Some small business owners are selected. You know what they say about generalizations...
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When Goldy says : "We hate entrepreneurialism," he is really speaking for the Dumbocrat party who only see business as a cash cow for their "keep-a-brotha-down" social programs.

Goldy could give a shit about business, successful or otherwise. Jus keep 'dem tax dallaz comin' in...
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#6 I know you are a troll and all, but wtf? Stop drinking the Rush Limbaugh Kool-Aid and the vapors and cob webs may clear out of your brain.

Anyway, if cutting Social Security was just a republican priority, I'd have nothing more to say. But unfortunately the main impetus right now in Washington DC for cutting Social Security is Barack Obama and his stubborn pursuit of a 'Grand Bargain.' I think there is a very big misconception out there among both dems and repubs about the president's agenda. Cutting Social Security is a priority for him and has been from the very get-go. The sequester is just the latest tactic in pursuit of this policy and is intended to force liberal/progressive legislators to accept cuts to Social Security and Medicare as much as it is intended to force republicans to accept new revenue. This is third way, triangulation, new democrats, DLC all over again. And Wall Street is behind it all. So yea, republicans are amoral, greedy anti-American hypocrites. That much is obvious. Too bad the leadership of the democratic party ain't much better, at least when it comes to protecting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
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@5

Seriously? Like I said, totally delusional.

Last week a guy on a street corner chose me to be the new owner of his necklace. I guess he offered it to me because my qualifications radiated all the way up the block. He took one look at me and said, "That guy has $5!" I didn't, though.

Also got some mail this morning saying I've been selected for some other offers. A re-fi, some magazines, and some kind of time share property I think. They chose me.

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