Archive for 2012

When a President Mocks Small Business

When a President Mocks Small Business

As an entrepreneur who has worked my entire life to create new businesses, hire more than 200 employees and risk everything I own on my companies, I join the chorus of Americans who are outraged by President Barack Obama’s recent outburst, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

This is clearly the most definitive proof that Obama does not understand small business, does not like small business and lacks the rudimentary knowledge of how ...

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EU Turns Its Back on Intellectual-Property Theft

EU Turns Its Back on Intellectual-Property Theft

When nations such as Brazil, China and India steal our intellectual property (IP), they are stealing from American companies, their employees and from the American people.

This should become an issue vital to every American. Our economy suffers, our employment picture suffers and our prestige suffers when our patents are stolen or ignored.

So I was astonished and disappointed to see the European Parliament reject the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a multinational treaty designed to better protect IP around the world by ...

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Ugly Campaign Battle Over Outsourcing Isn’t All Bad

Ugly Campaign Battle Over Outsourcing Isn’t All Bad

The Obama and Romney campaigns are slinging mud at each other over outsourcing jobs. What most people would think is just an ugly brawl of a typical campaign battle; I consider it a positive development when the national dialogue turns to keeping jobs in America.

Preventing the outsourcing of U.S. jobs must be an issue that is seriously debated by the presidential candidates. Whether or not Mitt Romney created jobs or outsourced jobs while at Bain Capital is irrelevant. The issue ...

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Small Business Gets Punished by Supreme Court Ruling

Small Business Gets Punished by Supreme Court Ruling

The ruling by the Supreme Court that found Obamacare constitutional sent a message to small business that free enterprise no longer exists and the government is now in charge of their future. For the nation’s job creators, this ruling is devastating news for business and worse news for the 25 million Americans unemployed or under-employed.

The ruling by the Supreme Court said the law’s “requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized ...

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Egypt Needs a US History Lesson

Egypt Needs a US History Lesson

The good news is that Egypt has held its first democratic election. The bad news is that they held their first democratic election. If Egyptians were looking for change, they are getting it, but not what they had envisioned after the Mubarak government was toppled by a popular uprising.

The military appears to be in charge and can veto anything that the new leaders propose. Many of Mubarak’s confederates remain in power. And there will not be a parliament or constitution ...

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