A Letter to the President

Dear President Obama,

Your recent statement to small business owners - "If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made it happen." - shows just how out of touch you are with the people you supposedly represent. You clearly know nothing about the struggles, the effort, and the sacrifices that go into making a business successful. Your implication that somehow you, the government, or the surounding community are responsible for our sucesses - and failures - is both arrogant and offensive.

You didn't spend all those late nights at the office while your family had to sit down to dinner without you yet again. You weren't there for the all-nighters spent trying desperately to fix a problem in order to appease a customer. You didn't give up your vacation because you weren't able to leave your fledgling company lest it collapse without you. You didn't go months without a salary so your employees could get paid instead. And you can't comprehend the joy of success, whether it's getting a new contract or finally getting paid after all those months, because you didn't have to make the sacrifices first.

You can't understand small business, Mr. Obama, because you only know how to run a giant corporation further into debt.

Sincereley,
A Small Business Owner's Wife