[Las Vegas Ron]

I agree with some of his points, but I disagree with his conspicuous consumption and looking down at others not only in his company

Wow, that's what you came away with after reading this?

After the writer said he would have preferred to give raises and hire more people? Yeesh

[LongTimeMILurker]

I guess its more directed toward some of the people in like situations that I have been exposed to.

Frankly, few here got upset when it was Wal Mart or some other big box store who put the small businessperson out of business.

Some here have to recognize that the threat to small business comes not only from taxation and big government, but big corporations as well.

And the dangerous thing is that now big business feels compelled to cooperate with big government.

Face it, most of you have been looking only at one side of the equation for way too long.