[waterstraat]

Not too many people still have any savings left after their second or third small business failure. They are left desitute, with no savings left, and no job either. to encourage someone who lost thier job to foreign outsourcing to start a small business with whatever savings they still have , is irresponsible, and will inevitably lead to higher taxes to support them after their second or third failure leaving them penniless.

[painter]

You sound like a LOSER!!

I bet you belong to a labor union.

[livius]

The sky is falling!!!! We're all doooomed! Don't try anything! You might fail!

[Luke Skyfreeper]

Not too many people still have any savings left after their second or third small business failure. They are left desitute, with no savings left, and no job either. to encourage someone who lost thier job to foreign outsourcing to start a small business with whatever savings they still have , is irresponsible, and will inevitably lead to higher taxes to support them after their second or third failure leaving them penniless.

I'm not recommending that people just go out and start their own business. Believe me, it's not easy, and in fact the main way we ended up in financial hell was through a first business failure. This was followed by a period of profitable employment, but we never could catch up from that first failure.

Then, while still in very bad shape financially, we moved to long-term unemployed.

My starting my own business was an act of utter necessity: I simply couldn't get a decent job, no matter how many times I applied, what new skills I taught myself, or what I tried.

Heck, I'm still applying for regular full-time jobs - and missing them.

If someone offered me a decent job today, I'd take it. But increasingly, I'm moving closer to the day when I won't "need" the job from someone else.

And I'm even starting to like it.

The day I approach being able to do just as well by myself may well be just around the corner. And when that day comes, you can bet I'll happily tell all the employers who've politely but disdainfully told me to kiss off, again and again, to go take a flying you know what.

[BillM]

Have you ever started a business? Have you recruited, hired, trained and paid substantial numbers of people?

You and I are only worth what we can convince other to pay us.

Having the government use it's guns to extort money from you for me is unconstitutional, morally, and ethically wrong.