Dear Progressives

I know a secret. I did not think it was a secret, but I guess the truth has been hidden from many of today's youth, Democrats and welfare queens and liberal in general.

I am going to let the "Occupiers" in on the secret.  You see, businesses exist to make money. They do not exist to create jobs, to protect the environment, to help the disadvantaged among us. If they can make money and do those things, so much the better, but the first and foremost goal of any business is to make money.

How about I back up and start at the beginning? Let us say you want to make some money mowing lawns. Many of us did that in our younger days. You determine how much you should charge your potential customers to cut the grass. Do you do it for free? Only if it is you grandma's yard and you are a good kid. For the neighbors, you determine how much gas the job will take, how much time it will take and determine a price. In the end you hope to pocket some cash. You are now a businessman or businesswoman. You are making an evil profit.

Let us go one step further. You think you could make some serious money if you could mow more lawns.  To do that you need a better mower and maybe some other equipment. Your parents decide to chip in some money to buy the new mower in return for a percentage of the profits.  You are now (unofficially) a corporation. That is how it works.  Shareholders own a portion of a business in return for a percentage of the profits. If your mowing business does not make money the shareholders do not make money and will invest their money elsewhere.

At some point you get more and more yards to mow and you cannot keep up. You need to hire some help. You have ten extra yards a week to mow, enough for one person.  Both of your buddies Dave and Joe need a job. You can hire one to do all ten yards or you can hire each part time to do five, but you would not hire them both to do ten yards each would you?  You do not have enough work.  Now you have become a greedy corporation who only wants to make more money and not create enough jobs.

Business remains good.  After several years in the lawn care business you have expanded into snow removal, weed treating, tree trimming and landscaping in addition to mowing.  You might have ten or twenty employees. You make more money. You put it back into your little corporation and think life is good.  Now you hear the President call you greedy.   You hear him and his Democrat buddies threaten to increase your taxes. They claim they are going to increase your business taxes too.  The new Healthcare laws will add a significant cost to your business. State and local governments are trying to tax you more also.  The new Energy Department rules are going to increase the cost of electricity. Mandates for engines, exhaust, braking and fuel consumption are going to increase the cost of replacing your aging truck fleet by twenty percent.

You know your costs are going up, but you have no idea how much. Should you hire a new employee? Do you expect everyone to work harder, even if that means you make more money (and so do your shareholders)?

Guess what?  A bunch of unemployed college kids, Union agitators and far-left radicals are now sitting outside of your business, calling you evil, greedy and worse.

They also want use your bathroom.

Welcome to today's America.