We need a real movement in this nation that gives the power to decide who runs for office back to the people who work for a living. Far too many of the folks in power in this nation have never needed to work in order to survive. Oh yes they have had jobs but that has seldom been their main source of income of late. Even Bill Clinton who came from a relatively poor family lost track of what it was like to work in order to eat during his long political career. He still created more jobs during his administration than any other President in history. It is jobs that give people dignity and the power to make their lives better. If there is any panacea for the masses of poor in the world and in this nation it is well paid work.

We need a few hardscrabble leaders in Congress who know what it takes to put bread on the table. Most of all we need a President that takes the loss of jobs in this country seriously. Not one who pumps the sleeping gas of tax cuts at the crowd in the place of solutions. Every time someone mentions the fact that there are a lot of people out of work here that were working when he took office he tells the same lie. It is simply not true that the tax cuts passed during his administration were made for the purpose of creating jobs. All you have to do to know that is to play back the speeches he and his advisors made before the first cuts were passed, jobs were not mentioned. The tax cuts might even have stimulated the economy slightly but they have created little impact on the jobless nature of this faint recovery.

We desperately need leadership in this nation that knows how to support entrepreneurial efforts and promote the creation of new business. It is infantile to believe that tax policy is the best way to do this. The governments of this nation are in the entrepreneur's pockets from the day they open their doors and before. In order to encourage the risk-takers to build this economy we need to make more systems available for supporting that process. It is by building business that we are building jobs and creating work for the citizens of this nation. The rich and powerful corporations get lots of help whether they need it or not. But the individual entrepreneur, who is struggling to make a success out of sweat, blood and tears often gets ignored or crushed by this system. I have watched the struggle and participated in it more than once. Most businesses fail because the business model didn't work. Business modeling can be taught to high school students. We need to train the next generation of entrepreneurs better than we trained this one. It is a revolution of thinking independently that we need to create with our ballots.

Today perhaps one person in ten could supplant their income with an independently created source that they have the ability to develop. Perhaps one person in a hundred could generate their whole adequate income from a job they create. Perhaps one in a thousand could create a business that can employ them and another person. It is likely that less than one in ten thousand can create a business that employs more than ten people. We need to train our people better so that those numbers change. Our economy would be incredibly strong and vital if we could help the people who can create their own job learn what they need to know in order to create jobs for others. We also need to help people find guidance toward the goal of independence. Our President never had a success in business that cannot be attributed to the help of others. That is not an indictment; it is a perfect example of what brings success! A lot of support by people who have your best interests at heart is as great help in building a business as it is in building a life. I don't envy our President; I just wish he would see what it takes to help people become independent. It would do this nation more good than any amount of tax cutting to have one in a hundred independent thinkers able to create a few jobs rather than one in ten thousand. God Bless and keep you all safe in these jobless times.