An Open Letter to Our Politicians From a “Working Guy”
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August 17th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
i enjoyed reading this.
August 18th, 2009 at 8:24 am
Awesome letter Chris and soooo true. I am sending a copy to my Senators and Congressmen telling them this is exactly the way I think. I was the 2008 finalist at the Super Conference in Nashville. We own an insurance agency and are not hiring new employees until we see how this health insurance plays out. Great job!! Jan
August 18th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
GREAT letter. I, too, plan to forward to the legislators SERVING me.
August 18th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
This letter speaks so much truth. Unfortunately, the truly abusive and greedy elite have developed a bad name for those that choose to take life risk for ultimate capital gain.
And yes, thanks should be given. But thanks should only be taken once given.
As a business owner, the biggest lesson learned has been that nothing is achieved without having those around me dedicate themselves to my vision.
Unfortunately, too many of my brethren have lost sight of this, and I believe that Mr. Hurn is inching closer to losing sight of this humility which is important to sustaining success and growth.
Although I agree with the premise of this article, Mr. Hurn has misguided his anger at his politicians by minimizing the importance of those he employs, which I think is a shame.
But thank you Chris for a detailed fact driven blog that exposes a lot of what is being ignored by mainstream media.
August 18th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
You are speaking for a lot of frustrated and dedicated Americans. We are watching the unraveling of our country by a bunch of liberal politicians, many of whom have never worked outside of government. They are the career politicians who make every decision to preserve their own jobs. I hope you and others will yell loud and clear that enough is enough. We need term limits to flush all of them out of office and replace them with people who know what it is like to work hard for those dollars they seem so anxious to want to waste.
August 18th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
If only this message was getting through to the right people. This administration should be ashamed of itself …. Chris Matthews…does anyone actually listen to that simpleton?
Keep up the good work…you are sending the CORRECT message. Taxing the the ones that work harder and create opportunity is going to have serious consequences…to the negative for the entire country. These people should be praised but the signal being sent by the administration is counterproductive and cowardly!! Without those who embody the true spirit of entrepreneurship, those risk-taking businessmen and women who create opportunity and those who take ownership for making things happen in this country without pointing their finger elsewhere, those that are truly responsible for many of the great changes that take place and benefit America from the top down (and their direct supporters who appreciate them and respect their contribution to society)..this country is nothing more than a vast pool of under-educated, misguided, under-achieving, needy consumers who are just waiting for hand-outs from a derelict body of non-problem solvers that are completely irresponsible, corrupted, unaccountable & completely off track…yes the U.S. Government..complete with all of its newly appointed czars & chieftains…true captains of the sinking ship we like to think are representing our best interests! Wish us all luck.
August 18th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
You are right on the money. The frustration level is rapidly rising. Also, there is an all out assault on the community and regional banks in this country by the regulators. Hold on to your hats. Remember Savings and Loans? Remember the RTC? Let capitalism work. By the way, in your company, who is the last person to get paid when times are tough?….been there brother…BS
August 18th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Chris, this was an amazing letter. I look forward to sharing it with some others as well. - Dan D
August 18th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
As usual Chris you put pen to paper or in today"s world key stroke to screen with such clarity that maybe just maybe the Beltway Bandits will be able to follow your thoughts. By keeping your comments under the length of the congressional bills that they do not or cannot read nor fathom there is a chance and only a chance of understanding. Thanks Chris.
August 18th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Very nicely done, Chris. It"s everything I"ve wanted to tell them myself.
August 18th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Chris,
I would like your permission to air your comments on my radio show sometime in the near future.
I think American needs to hear what you have to say. We could even have you as a guest on the show….talking about this and how you overcame hurdles and obstacles in the successful pursuit of achieving your own American Dream
I could not have said it better myself, and, on my soon to be syndicated weekly Radio Show, "Our American Dream", I am constantly railing against Obama essentially ignoring the two most important things needed to get the economoy on the path to recovery…..that is provide guarantees to local banks of lines of credit for small business who have seen their lines reduced by banks to lessen their risk. The effect of that has been to force small business to layoff workers because they can't operate without adequate LC's…especially as their Accnt/Receivables are paying much later…..normally 30 days are now going to 90 days and longer. Second, Obama needs to put more stimulus dollars toward retiring bad debt, such as mortgages….residential and commercial. As you know, the regulators require banks to put up cash reserves of 3 to 4x the amount of the bad loan….those funds are frozen and can't be used for loans.
Anyway, our country is in trouble because Small Business employs the vast majority of Americans….and if Obama wants to reuce the 600,000 lost jobs each month, he better start with Small Business.
August 18th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Very direct and to the point. Your thoughts are from a business owner's prospective and should provide a "moment of truth" for congress. I fear that this will fall on deaf ear's as congress is so out of touch with reality.
Keep up the great work that you are doing.
Regards,
Charles Brandt
August 18th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Chris - a well articulated summary of what we are facing in our country today. I've read that the end of a democracy comes when the population realizes they can vote themselves the national treasury - and that's exactly where we are with the "entitlement" mentality that exists today. You summed it up in an excellent fashion - your letter should be required reading for all of our numbminded bureaucrats! Thanks for sending. Bob
August 18th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
I must agree with your blog… I think if you haven't seen Rush Limbaugh's interview with Greta on Fox it's a must see… he talks about Obama with his chip on his shoulder with not being proud of his country, only bitterness.. stating reparation does not go far enough… in your example above about the 5 mil "Rich" paying for 300 Mil people, he carries it one step further,,, all workers earning $75k per year must have 100% of their earnings confiscated to tote the note,,, so the American Dream is dead under his theory,,, no incentive, no production,,, the fall,,,, other points in your blog are sorry to say too accurate, Jefferson very clearly stated, "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government.” I'm thinking that time is again, at hand…" The sleeping lion( silent majority) must be awakened,as I see quivers starting to surface,,, but if this man gets his programs passed now on the table, we will join the Roman Empire in the bowels of History…
Lets get the 504's Cranked to max and use the seed productively to educate the complacent,,,
August 18th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Good article Chris! Unfortunately they won't have the attention span to read beyond the third line!
August 18th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Mr. Hurn,
I read your story so I think I should be entitled to say my side too… I am a business-man like you, and a lot of the things you said in your letter were obviously off… for example, you said if you confiscate all the pay of the 5 million richest, it wouldn't pay for 300 million people's healthcare. IF the top 5 million only made 250,000 (and they don't), that would be $4,166 per person, and if our healthcare was non-profit, it would cost less than $3,500 per person. All joking aside… If those earning more than 250,000 paid an extra 1%, that would be $2,500 per year. Each American pays $1,444 per person on corporate welfare (that nobody ever seems to complain about because they're cowards), so if we stop the corporate welfare, we have more than enough to pay for a non-profit system. If a soldier is willing to give the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom, corporations should be willing to give a smaller sacrifice of giving up all profits during times of war (but instead corporations usually make more during war, and cowards don't say anything about it). Cowards complain about the second bail-out but not the first bailout. Cowards complain about voting on the healthcare bill without reading it, but didn't complain about the patriot act being signed without reading it. Cowards don't realize that FREEDOM without RESPONSIBILITY is a watered down form of Anarchy. All they think about is themselves, and not their fellow man, not realizing that if their fellow man doesn't have healthcare, and winds up bankrupt (only in America) because of it, and copes by drinking, and drives down our street, and hits our child, it affects us. I BELIEVE WE SHOULD ALL BE RESPONSIBLE AND HELP OUR FELLOW MAN. Too bad Americans don't realize that the first Americans put what they produced in the Commons House and took out what they needed. The Greedy corporatists that teach us to be like them, knowing that they can make sure that most can never climb the ladder, and share the wealth that they earn off the masses, have taken our attention off of real role models like Jesus, Ghandi, Mohammad, and the likes. It's strange that most of the cowards don't direct any complaints agsinst the parasitical insurance industry. The ME, ME, ME mentality is stranger when you consider that those same people want their parents to have their Medicare, and believe that VA Healthcare is good enough for the Vets that risk their lives for us, but not for them. There are some sick ignominious, puscilanimous reprobates our there, aren't there ?
August 18th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
“”Edw” (since I don"t have your name) –
I don"t disagree with some of what you"ve said, but I"m afraid you"ve overly-simplified it. There are a lot of “if”s” in your argument. Each American doesn"t pay $1,444 per person for corporate welfare – nearly half the working populace doesn"t even pay income taxes for that matter. My point is that a very slim minority is being taxed overwhelmingly for the majority and not only does that disincentivize them, but it"s patently unfair. I don"t use the public “services” more just because I pay for more of them… so I"m pretty sure I"m already doing my “civic duty” to my fellow man. I also have always provided health-care for my employees, not because I was forced to do so by some bureaucrat, but because it was good for my business from a recruitment standpoint. Businesses exist to create profit. Period. They don"t exist to “provide jobs” or to “give back” – owners of businesses have a fiduciary responsibility to do more with less when they can (something populist politicians often fail to understand when they rail against outsourcing, for instance). The owners of those businesses should be allowed to decide where to “sacrifice” and donate some of their profits (when they want to) – and the research clearly shows that American businesses are the most charitable in the entire world (I"ve chosen to give mostly to veterans causes for years, for example). Your analogy of the “fellow man” going bankrupt with no health care so he"s driven to drink and commits manslaughter is a typical “straw man” argument. No one forces you into the welcoming arms of alcohol when you lose your job. Another point of my blog post was about self-reliance. I think it"s time we have more of that. A responsible person who loses their job comes up with ways to make themself more valuable in our society (to someone else or to the marketplace as a whole) – they don"t automatically “throw the towel in” and get drunk. If they do, they deserve what little they get. There are certainly “cowards” out there, no argument from me here about that, but there are plenty of well-read people speaking out against “government creep” and that is what the protests in townhalls all over the country are about. A government big enough to give you everything is big enough to take anything from you, as the old adage says. Insurance companies are certainly not angels, but neither are our politicians who have created an environment where little competition even exists for health-care, especially for small businesses.
August 18th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
While this letter dealt with some issues that are beyond dispute there are others that are clearly open for dispute. I fully expected the rantings and ravings of some right winger spewing hatred without any substance. What I received was a different and good perspective.
Right now this nation is about 12 trillion dollars in the hole and you can't just gloss over that fact or ignore how we got there. We're in the middle of two losing wars, one of which bankrupted the former U.S.S.R. and seem to have us headed in the same direction. Why are we so far in debt and still have so many problems that require money? Where has all that money gone and what could we have purchased with it if wiser people had been in charge? The Taliban told Bush that if he gave them direct evidence of Bin Laden's involvement in 09/11 they would hand him over. It seems to me that providing them that evidence would have been considerably less expensive than the route Bush decided to pursue. Why bring up war policy in the midst of a conversation on economics? I brought that up because it was those dumb decisions and other similar ones that brought us to the point of needing stimulus and bailouts in the first place. For eight years a regime sat in the white house that didn't know or care about how to run this country. Their agendas for being in power didn't come close to coinciding with the wants and needs of the people in this country. The majority of the population seemed overly patient while this regime reaped havoc on this country that will be felt for years to come.
As someone who knows his way around the mortgage industry, you know that the real bandits of this foreclosure crises have gotten the least amount of attention. I'm talking about the people who decided to peg an adjustable rate mortgage to indexes that only seemed to keep going up. In other words how much have you heard about the creators of these exotic mortgage products and why they created them? Common sense should tell anyone that if you increase someone's mortgage every six months, sooner or later they're not going to be able to afford that mortgage. This "hands off" approach just doesn't work unless it's going to coupled with some steep penalties including prison time for offenders. Those mortgage lenders, brokers, servicers, etc were permitted to push things to such an extreme that the person responsible for paying the mortgage was forgot about. The whole residential mortgage industry was about everybody getting paid and to heck with that poor homeowner.
As far as what made America the richest country in the world, some would argue that slavery was responsible for that. I've heard arguments on both sides of that issue and there's a compelling case to be made for having some people work for free for over 300 years gave America an advantage far ahead of other nations. If capitalism was practiced in it's true form where the best talented went to the top, we wouldn't be in the mess we're presently in. We got here largely because we don't have the best minds heading a lot of these companies. Why else do so many of these corporate heads have to cheat to stay ahead? That good ole boy network needs to be rooted out and destroyed but no one including yourself is talking about that. I'll be happy to provide you specific names and companies if you need them.
August 18th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Don't try and confuse our politicians with logic and reason.
Instead of sending the letter to unaccomplished and inexperienced people such as our President why don't you send the letter to the people who voted for the unaccomplished and inexperienced Politicians?
I wrote a blog once on the "Selfish Patriot" It's a story of how a rich guy purchased a house he will only live in 2 weeks out of the year. Most would call him a selfish rich guy, but I named off all the people who made money building this selfish bastard his house. The real estate agent, concrete layers, framers, carpet, counter tops, drywall, paint, landscape, and most important of all Window Coverings.
These people used that money to go to the restaurant and support the local guys. They gave the waitress a nice tip. She went to the movies where the pimply faced concession kid sold her popcorn. He used the money to put gas in his car, and we all know that selfish rich guy owns the gas station.
This is the Readers Digest version.
August 18th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Good stuff Chris!! How you can keep such a level head when talking about this stuff is beyond me. (When I start the bar room thug I used to be comes out and it all goes down hill from there.)
Anyway, these nit wits are going to drive us into a collapse of our entire economy. When that happens, It's people like us who will have to do the work "cleaning up their mess" as our good president likes to say.
But like I told someone today, until the government services offices are empty of people, and Americans are willing to take responsibility for themselves and refuse government 'hand outs' because they lead to slavery, we are destined to the scrap heap of history. Not because government wanted to take care of the people, but because the people let it.
August 18th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
I'm forwarding to my Senators and Congressmen as well. So many thoughts I could relate to. I felt your pain. Very well written. Meg
August 18th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Chris - well written and abundantly true. Small businesses built America and continue to be the backbone of innovation. Throwing money at failing banks, automakers and programs based upon averse selection versus solid qualifications makes no sense and brings negative return on capital expenditure. Countless innovators today are seeking capital to expand and create jobs are reaching dead ends since funds are going to pork and failing companies. Not only do our government officials need to read The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution; they need to take basic economics to learn the law of supply and demand.
Note to government: if a company can not find capital from market funding sources(including equity investors and hard money lenders) the company is a BAD RISK and you should not risk taxpayer money to fund.
August 18th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Wow this was such a refreshinging and alarming letter.
True, True, True and I have never been so upset with our mindless board of directors (Congress) and their response to the CEO of over 500 corps (Obama). Do we let him get away with this because of his color? Is he using this as a way to keep us from complaining? Will he just buy us a foreign beer??? not even a good american beer.
I am constantly amazed at the length and breadth of this horrific president and the passivity to it by our elected officials…
Sorry if this is ranting….. But America is being stolen without even a shot being fired.
Thank you for this great article, I will retweet, post email and send to all my 3200 contacts….
Go Chris….
Thanks
Don
August 18th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Very good Chris, I will thank you for being a business owner! Chris ever though about being President of the SBA!! P.S. just a thought??
August 18th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Chris:
Thank you for saying it so well. I like the idea of forwarding to our elected representatives. Have you sent this to Obama yet???!!!!
Nice work.
Sheila
August 18th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Thank you for the great article, i am sure you are on the right track.
August 19th, 2009 at 8:02 am
JB - I think that"s awfully condescending and pedantic of you to presume I"ve nearly lost sight of my humility. I"m the first one to always acknowledge the importance and exceptional work of my great staff. We wouldn"t be where we are today if it weren"t for their contributions. We also profile our staff considerably in our monthly newsmagazine and in upcoming videos, which you can watch on our YouTube channel: www.YouTube.com/504LoanExperts. Apparently I"m doing something right, as my staff has anonymously voted us “Best Place to Work” in Central Florida in the small business category for four of the past five years in our local business journal. No other firm in Orlando can lay claim to such a consistent honor. And I give thanks daily… so you"re welcome to criticize our confidence (we have a LOT of it as we believe we"re the best at what we do), but there is a fine line between confidence and arrogance. I don"t believe we"ve crossed it, nor will we.
August 19th, 2009 at 8:03 am
Walt - I'd be honored to come on your radio show. Please send us the details at (info@mercantilecc.com) and we'll try to make it happen. Thanks for the offer. Hope I don't disappoint!
August 19th, 2009 at 9:06 am
I had a chance today to sit down and read your blog. My response to you is that we as Americans are a free society that believes in a free capitalist market. That free market is now under seize by our own federal government.
I am sure this is not the change the American people wanted. We at Northern California University have been trying to buy a building in California to expand with no success. The Angel Investors and no other lender will not lend. Why? Because they are all afraid and we the entrepreneur suffer. Great ideas are being lost, as this country's entrepreneur has been shut out in favor of the auto industry, the banks that don't lend and the special interest groups that have the ear of the administration. For the banks and the Congress to help us , we the entrepreneur will have to make noise like the Americans at the town hall meetings on health care reform. Thank you for your voice. I hope other private lenders and investors will listen and get involved "the rope is around our necks the only thing left is to "kick the chair from under us".
August 19th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Chris: I scanned this because I do not have enough time right now to study it in detail and I want to get my resppnse back to you ASAP which is I completely agree with your positions.
August 19th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
As stated in Edw's blog: "If a soldier is willing to give the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom, corporations should be willing to give a smaller sacrifice of giving up all profits during times of war (but instead corporations usually make more during war, and cowards don't say anything about it). " (EDW says above)
My response: What??? Are you living in our same democratic, free enterprise system? We have been in war for like 7 years..companies should just work for the sake of it just because the president decides to squander our hard-earned tax dollars overseas??? No profits? Why is this even offered as a solution??? With that mentality there will be NO future for this country!!
August 19th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Nicely said Chris. Hopefully politicians are paying attention but I don't think they can handle logic, and well thought out arguments.
I honestly hope that Atlas doesn't shrug because then our country will be a scary place indeed.
August 20th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Chris:
Nothing speaks louder than facts and you came in loud and clear. You should run for congress in your district. We need more business owners, people that have made a payroll and understand cash flows to run our country. We the people deserve better !
August 28th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Hi Chris,
You've made some good points. It looks like, from the diverse comments, that you've really struck a nerve, or rather brought emotions to bear that illustrate just how diverse or shall I say, divided, America can be. We Americans disagree with such fervor!
THIS is the real problem. In our emotion and division, we lose sight of a very important issue: America. Instead of America, many of us focus on our special concerns and/or our political positions, as though this country was just originated and Obama was our first President and this is our first Recession and the "Big Car Companies" and "Big Banks" were never small companies and small banks or in otherwords, those companies were never once entrepreneurs just like we are now.
Although I may not agree with all of the Administration's methods, I can understand the reasoning behind SOME of them: Big companies can keep and hire more employees. More people working, saving here and spending there, sounder economy. After the economy is sounder, back to lending. I've oversimplified it, yes, but anyone whose been alive for the last 21 years and ever been employed or has family that has been employed by ANY big company should surely grasp the underlying prinicples.
NONE of us alone can resolve this crisis, but economically, we ALL need to do what JFK said "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country". And as hokey or new age as it may sound, we really need to ask ourselves, despite our differences, WHAT DO WE REALLY WANT FOR OUR COUNTRY? Once we focus our Intent on this question we will begin to productively move toward the answer, and America at large, will be better off.
NO, IT WILL NOT HAPPEN MAGICALLY! But look at all the negative energy! Constant doom and gloom everywhere! And this is from the leaders! Republicans, Democrats! Is there no wonder followers echo? How can positive fruit rise up from all this negativity in the soil?
One of the commentators said that America was being stolen… America can't be stolen. But it can be given away in gestures of uncompromising anger and barrages of destructive criticism. There's an old saying (paraphrased): "One person can cast off a thousand problems, but two in agreement can cast off ten thousand."
August 31st, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Chris- Sadly your wisdom and insight falls on the deaf ears of the lowest life form. the entitled elite. you alluded to jefferson. Time is coming shortly where all the words in the world will not fix the abuse of power that the government chooses to take. there are 2 ways to rid ourselves of these assholes. 1. by violence- full scale armed takeover. 2. purposely refuse to comply en mass with any federal taxes- irs- gathering.
what we need to do is make being a govnt official a lowly position ie- decrease salary- no pension- cant make it career oriented. it should be like jury duty. get everyone in office out- impeach all of them for treason vs declaration of indepence etc… have mass elections- anyone running cant have any previous post as a govt official-i think no lawyers would be another good call cause most of them in there now are ex lawyers. we need to get joe football involved in politics and sam the barber. ie regular ppl and i would also decree that ppl could tap heads of business to be advisors and like jury duty /civic duty you'd have to advise for atleast 12 mos. so we'd have smart ppl like warren buffet- steve jobs- donald trump .
thats my 2 cents
September 1st, 2009 at 9:21 am
I read your commentary and I get it. However career politicians don"t because they fly at an altitude so high above the real world and daily grind their perspective is oblivious to what it takes to make things work at ground level.
The same way bailing out GM, Chrysler or Countrywide only delayed the inevitable, let them keep dishing out Trillions, taxing (out the wazzoo) those who still have jobs, and reward laziness. My belief is things will have to get worst, before they get better.
I cannot believe the cash for clunkers program took US tax payer money and issued $4,500 incentives which could also be used to purchase foreign cars. Japan benefitted more than the U.S. because they sold the most cars.
Too big to fail was the excuse we got for throwing ten"s of billions at companies who needed to fail. The back bone to the American economy has forever been small business. Should we stumble there will be no emergency congressional session to lend a hand.
I wonder if the office supply stores in D.C. sell special calculators…..because none of mine know what do with a figure approaching the Trillion dollar mark.
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:23 pm
By the way, your editorial to the “Beltway Bandits” this August was spot on. Maybe you should run for office. You would get my vote.
September 3rd, 2009 at 2:38 pm
I got your newsletter today and I read your article about "an Open Letter to Our Politicians" I thought it was terrific. I think you're singing to the choir - you said everything that I believe in and I just hope there's more people out there like you and me who feel that way, because I'm concerned about the direction our country is heading. I'm in the commercial real estate business so basically, we're straight commission - we're entrepreneurs - exactly what you were describing in your article and everything you've said is what I've said to other people. I hope there's more people out there that feel the same way, otherwise I just think we're heading down the wrong path. You're probably going to get a lot of comments back - I just wanted to take the time to say that I thought it was a terrific article and I'm gonna pass it around. Thanks - talk to ya later.
September 4th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
I just received the July/August newsletter and read it cover to cover, first attracted to the article on Timothy Ferriss, continuing through your rant on Washington. Before the downturn, I too was one of those high earners and hard workers…now I"m just a hard worker. But after 23 years in the business, and 3 generations, I know it will come back.
September 4th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
I just read your newsletter and I just wanted to commend you on a great job well done. Very inspiring — in the essence of someone speaking out against our government, who is obviously going down the wrong path. Just an enjoyable read – I"d just love to get on the bandwagon as far as support, so thanks again for getting something out of this caliber. I mean, obviously every industry is hurting, small businesses are definitely hurting, which is ours, and I appreciate what you"ve said in there and it makes a lot of sense. Again – great job – love it! Thanks!
September 8th, 2009 at 8:10 am
This letter was RIGHT ON. I sent it to a number of people. July/Aug. Vol 6 Issue 51.
Your Newsletter is very good.
If the gov't. only knew how many people are on the sidelines from the real estate business and building industry.
Many of the people not making money in this market aren't even in the gov'ts unemployment numbers because they're not eligible.
Independent agents, contractors, and entrepreneurs.
Framers, masons, landscapers, roofers, electricians, plumbers, etc. are not working because nothing is being built or sold.
Banks aren't lending.
And the people that make the windows, carpet, faucets, toilets, drywall, lighting fixtures, and on and on, aren't working.
We need to wake up the people in Wash. To the fact that nothing happens until they get off our back.
Keep up the drumbeat.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Just got your latest newsletter and just wanted to compliment you on your terrific letter. Boy, you hit the nail on the head. Well written and exactly what we're thinking on our end here. I appreciate this little note you put together.
Joseph Koss
Culver Franchising System, Inc
September 8th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
I just finished reading your "Open Letter" in the most recent MCC newsletter…
Thank you!!
I want to stand on the rooftop and scream it at the top of my lungs.
It is brilliant!!!!
September 8th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
I've read this open letter to lawmakers. Great read, and I forwarded it to one of the State Senators, in Niagara County NY.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:49 am
I read your letter, and YOU ARE SO RIGHT ON POINT. You so eloquently voiced the same thoughts I have had for quite some time now.
The logic of what you say screams so loud, isn't it a wonder that so few seem to get it? Thanks for your push toward saneness.
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:20 am
This letter is brilliant.