Remember Joe the Plumber? He owned his own business. He had the courage to lay it on the line to Obama and there was an effort to destroy his business. But the lesson is more powerful than that.
If he had been an employee of a national chain of plumbers, he would have been terminated the next day. They don’t want bad publicity and all that. And the government can pressure them as well.
But a private business owner can do and say what he wants, and if he has the customer base that agrees with him, it will actually increase business. And the key is that it is a SMALL business. It does “local” work or background work (e.g. selling on ebay or Amazon).
But when you work for a large business, you have to be careful what you say or do, even on FaceBook. You can find yourself without means to support yourself. It shuts people up.
This is why our government - especially the D side - is hostile to small business. They want a world of large corporations were all human beings earn their living in a way that precludes them from rocking the boat - if they want to keep a roof over their head.
This is a much more “civilized” way of controlling the masses than the old soviet measures. It has the appearance of giving freedom - as long as you don’t use it.
That is a very perceptive comment. You might want to fish that out and Pat is as a vanity
Great post!
OK, but what does that have to do with the Supreme Court issuing a stay of the 9th Circuit’s order?