> Minority/women business owners shouldn’t take offense at his comment about building a small business; in most of their cases the government gave it to them.
Indeed. And Obama himself is where he is because of others doing everything for him, and lies, fraud and cover-up.
Most Americans (of any color) can now see that Obama is a stumbling token; the teleprompter (especially the damage he did to his image when speaking without it) was a dead giveaway. His recent campaigning has erased any doubts.
When I order supplies at my job, I can’t believe the wholesalers identify which suppliers are minority/women owned businesses. Rather than buy from them (they often have similar or higher prices anyway, for the increased overhead of unqualified tokens), I simply buy from the larger operators where merit matters more than race/gender.
I, a woman, ran an entrepreneurial business for 30 years without taking one thin dime from government other than a single contract with a municipal department that I earned from competing for it. There was no woman/minority documentation. I never joined any of those woman/minority set-aside programs and never let myself be characterized as a "woman business owner" or a "woman"-anything when I was frequently asked to give lectures. If I was going to do the work, I was going to do it well and compete straight on; and I did succeed.