After you have a business thought up, the coolest bar in the neighborhood, you named it after yourself. I named mine “James’s”. You have all your money set up, an investment from a family member and you are ready to start on your venture.
How to run a business.
1: There are a lot of things you need done and you need a staff. So you hire the least amount of people necessary to keep the widest profit margin. And you hope that your new hires are productive enough so you don’t have to hire anyone new.
2: The bar is working out. You are making lots of money every night. But customers are getting frustrated and the staff can’t keep up with how busy it’s getting. You have to hire new people, not because you want to have more employees on your payroll that you have to be responsible for but because the market demands it of your business. So you hire again, the bare minimum just like before. To keep that same profit to payroll minimum as before, or maybe even better. When profits are made they go into your pocket and your investors. Those profits don’t tell you that you are free to hire more people. That would make you a dumb ass. Everyone knows the only reason to hire more people is because your foot traffic went up and the market demands it of you, not because you got a tax break.
3: Well it’s been a year. Your bar has calmed down and hit a plateau. You’ve tried many things but this seems to be the norm for a while. You cut back on staff. You don’t fire anyone, because then you have to pay UN-employment. You just cut back on the hours of your least productive employees and secretly hope they just leave on their own to a different job.
Your ego is wrapped up in your business. That’s your Bar. Your livelyhood is wrapped up in your business. Your family’s investment is wrapped up in it. And lets face it, you convince your self that your awesome employees care a lot about the job, even though it pays the same as the bar around the corner that has a wanted add on “craigslist”.
It makes sense that Romney, an obviously dedicated business man, has his ego, sense of self, and identity wrapped up in his business and that title of “business man”. I would too, in my bar named “James’s”. That doesn’t mean that just because we can refer to that business as an entity, that means it is a person, or a human, or even a citizen. It is not entitled to the same constitutional rights as a citizen. Most people consider themselves as humans first. And a lot don’t want to consider them selves as “cashier” or “taxi driver” and are insulted by some one who only sees them as there job title. While most people are glad to have a job. Most people don’t like there jobs and want to be seen and treated like a “human”
We can not run America as a business. The “Business” or “America” would fail. We can not place citizens on the a priority list of most effective, productive, or easier for you to work with, without infringing on their civil rights or equality.
Republicans constantly say they want to run Government like a business. And then say they want lower taxes. Well taxes are revenue. How do they plan on running the government as a business and not have any revenue? That’s just bad business. I wouldn’t want them working as managers at my bar.
I think most people would agree that they don’t want The Government to have the goal of “making money”. The government needs just enough to sustain it’s self, it’s public projects, and a disaster fund. Profit never comes into play in the government like it does in business. And, no one wants it too.
The goals of business and and financial ventures are profit driven. The values of capitalism and the free market are important to help drive the economy. But these goals and values are at odds with each other. And, they need to be to drive competition. The libertarian value of the free market will eat away at possible competitors if UN-checked. That will destroy the financial structure we call “capitalism” leaving nothing but giant monopolies that we could call “To Big To Fail” . The goals of business have nothing to do with civil rights. Sometimes the goals are at odds with civil rights.
We can’t run America as a business and when I hear a politician suggest we do, I know I’m ether being fed a line or the politician sees me as an employee to the what he thinks is a business venture. And my civil rights and humanity has been down graded, or put aside for what we all known is the real goal of business “making money”
Dear Mitt Romney, and other Republican who think like him. I know your identity and how you see other humans is through a business spectrum. I know your ego is wrapped up in the title of “business man”. It’s that spectrum that is making it hard for you to relate to humans. Your financial success has gotten you many things. I don’t fault you for any of your success. Even when it meant laying people off. That’s just part of the game we call capitalism. I love the game my self. But your business success doesn’t entitle you to a promotion within this country you’ve mistaken as a business.
