Confusing Obama

Being an entrepreneur myself, I have to go along with Mark Cuban on this one:

President-Elect Obama’s First Big Mistake

If we are going to solve our current economic problems, our president needs to get first hand information on the impact his proposed policies will have on real Joe the Plumbers. People who are 1-person companies living job to job, hoping they get paid on time. We need to know what the impact of his policies will be on the individually owned Chrysler Dealership in Iowa. The bodega in Manhattan. The mobile phone software startup out of Carnegie Mellon. The event planner in Dallas. The barbershop in L.A. The restaurant in Boston.

Entrepreneurs that start and run small businesses will be the propellant in this economy. PE Obama needs to have the counsel of those who will take the real risk inherent in creating companies and jobs. Those who put their money and lives on the line with their business.

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Entrepreneurs will lead us out of this mess. Talk to them.

So he points out that there’s no entrepreneur on his staff. And he’s right that entrepreneurs will get the country out of this economic mess. It’s the American people that make things happen here – not the big old Government, no matter what kind of egos these Democrats have.

-T