Arnold-Jones: "Are you kidding, Mr. President?"

Commentary by Janice Arnold-Jones “If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that” - President Obama 7/17/12. Many a jaw dropped when the President said: “If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

Janice Arnold-Jones

My first response was: “Are you kidding, Mr. President?”

Do you, Mr. President, understand that to startup a business, most of us put our homes, our cars, and our life’s savings on the line for the chance to compete? Do you know that every time we offer a bid, write a contract, and yes, hire a new employee, everything is on the line including our children’s college fund?

I share the same frustrated response to his naivety as The National Federation of Independent Business. The NFIB said, “His unfortunate remarks … show an utter lack of understanding and appreciation for the people who take a huge personal risk and work endless hours to start a business and create jobs.'
Small business is the heart of the middle class.
Under the Obama administration the suffering of our entrepreneurs and our CD1 economy is obvious. Just drive around and count all our empty business spaces! Every empty business means suffering families—the families of the owners and the families of the employees who no longer have jobs. I stand in sharp contrast to the progressive agenda that my opponent and the President promote. I believe in the middle class and our small businesses. I refute the idea that government is smarter than people and can do a better job…..a better job of what? What are we progressing too? So far the job of this “progressive government” has been putting people out of work, out of business and out on the street.

Do we really want more of this kind of “progress” in CD1? I think not. Let’s go back to work New Mexico. We can do better.

Arnold-Jones: "Are you kidding, Mr. President?"