I hope there's enough people around who know that
1) the first step to our future is cutting the poverty-creating $4 trillion government spending and taxes by at least 80% and get them out of meddling with our economic and commercial affairs.
2) the next step that naturally flows from small government is the rise of the wealth-creating free market economy that has always been the basis of our superior standard of living for the average person.
The key is cutting government. As Reagan once said (a truth that has not nor will ever change), "Government isn't the solution, government is the problem."
Yes. And the key to opposing hypertrophy of government is to recognize and promote the distinction between society and government:http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/sense2.htm  Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776) Of the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.”You didn’t build that” is the socialist rationalization for growing the government - but although there is in fact some truth to the argument, the government “didn’t build that” either.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.
Society contributes to everything you do - but if you’ve got a business, you have to work to a bottom line in order to keep that business from decaying and stopping. Not government - not even society - will do that, because if it is “everyone’s" responsibility it is actually no one’s responsibility. And it simply will not get done. And still less would it have gotten done during the startup phase of the business, when everyone but you was saying your business would never pay the rent. And on average, “everyone else” was right - most business ventures fail.
So I guess you did "build that," after all . . .