You are exactly right but I feel like I can make it work so I take the risk, not because I think the government or someone else will come in and bail me out. If I fail I fail, its on me. It is up to be to stay ahead of the curve, keep offering a service and product that people want, need, and can afford.
Let us try to use real words. You are not going to get "bailed out." That was a gift to large campaign contributors by congress and the past and present administration. In all honesty, they choice was massive economic collapse and years of revolution and restructuring which was going to suck, or attempting to do something to keep the economy moving. It is not only death to the politicians to let the economy collapse to that levels, but it is death to our entire system of wealth. You could have kissed whatever domestic supported money or credit you had goodbye. That was not just your little business that was failing. It was the backbone of american finance that was going to collapse.
As another person who has actually run a few businesses the government help you get is an opportunity for people who do not have business owners in our families to satisfy an opportunity of demand we get presented with. Yeah, i could go to college and spend more than 4 years and countless thousands of dollars for a business degree and by the time i got done the opportunity I was presented with would be gone. Instead i went to the SBA and learned about the differences in business types, how to set things up, I got directed to where to find local policies and restrictions i needed to follow, and had i not had a family who could loan me the money i could have gotten help securing a loan with the SBA even if i had no collateral. That sort of thing is a gold mine for a dedicated person who has an opportunity to start a business filling a demand.
This idea that you throw some money at a rich person, AKA job creator, and all of a sudden they make jobs is a load of bull. If there is no demand for the jobs they are not going to create working class jobs for no reason. Especially in a crappy economy when cost cutting and efficiency have become a huge concern. Then you work on basic economic principles. You own a business, what is better for you? one rich customer who can only consume so much, or 50 customers who need your products and can buy from you? This is why you lower your costs to put them in range of more customers, and to attract more buyers. You need a name to up your costs and increase your profits on the elite. This is why trickle down economics is fail, and demand creation from the bottom actually does work at stimulating the economy.
Yeah, food stamps are a handout, but where would our economy be at present without them? We would have food stores cutting employees and folding. We would have food shippers going under. We would have farmer's crops rotting and be paying more farm subsidies to artificially inflate their profits. This would lead to higher unemployment and more welfare. Yes, there needs to be a transition off of welfare in a capitalist society for a robust economy, but the safety net of welfare is not just catching our poor people. it is also creating an artificial bottom for farmers, distributors, and retailers. It is creating a demand for jobs right now by allowing the poor who cannot purchase as much to fill their needs through consumption. 8 million poor people getting 200 dollars a month for food is pumping 1.6 billion into the food retail and farming industry that would not be there without them. So instead of handing the farmers a check to artificially protect the profits on their crops you are pushing that money through the economy by giving it to the poor people who have to spend it, which pumps it through a number of commercial entities, and finally keeps the farmers with a real demand for their crops. That money goes everywhere when you consider that the employees the demand creates use their income to purchase what they need.
All of this doesn't happen by giving some tax breaks to the rich. As a business owner when my businesses went up and i needed to expand I had the ability to do so. You have gotten loans to secure your business expansion, as i could do. If i were rich and dealing with money like romney and his friends I could easily secure investment without needing tax breaks or a handout from the government. The idea that i would just pass up real expansion for my business because I pay a little more in taxes is stupid. If the demand for expansion is there that means my expansion is more money for me. Greed alone would make me either invest in someone filling that demand, or do it myself.
As for obama and mitt, I don't think either of them really have a good grasp on this idea. Mitt is a rich kid who had everything handed to him including all of his opportunities. he doesn't get these ideas because he has really never had to deal with them. I don't think he has the education or mental capacity to understand this. It maty be his own weakness, or it may be because of his situation, but it just is not there. I think obama just happens to be wandering closer to the right direction, but i don't think he really gets this either. If obama really understood this issue he would have pushed for single payer healthcare as it would have created huge demand for healthcare and lots of jobs. Instead he opted for a revamp of the system that is overpricing healthcare and sucking money from everywhere it can. Think about taking all those people without healthcare and having to create jobs to get them healthcare. It would be like the great job creations when we were putting together the infrastructure of the US. You would have to build hospitals, you would have to hire all levels of workers for those hospitals, you would have to ramp up education to cover the need for doctors, and all those people would be getting money which they would spend on stuff that would boost every other part of our economy. Best of all you can't outsource healthcare. You can't ship it to another state with less taxes. It has to be done locally. So these would all be american jobs.
Anyway, this is all basic economic principles that actually can be applied in reality and work.