(07-14-2020, 07:02 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(07-14-2020, 06:57 PM)mikesez Wrote: Good questions.
1) it's an election year.  I don't want CEOs telling me who they're voting for. A CEO should simply care so much about his brand and customers that he doesn't want to risk alienating half his customer base while people are fired up.

2) yes, private ambition is one of the necessary ingredients to our greatness.  I assume most Latin American countries have their own entrepreneurs. I think itd be a bit racist to assume otherwise.  If your country isn't stable, or if it has a corrupt and counterproductive government, it doesn't matter how many entrepreneurs you have. When you have functioning democratic elections, you can get rid of your corrupt or counterproductive government.   

By the way, thanks for insulting my courage and misattributing my party affiliation again.  A person with no spine would just avoid engaging arrogant horse anuses like you, of course, so I've obviously got plenty of spine.  And I help my wife fulfill her dream, where she has a small profitable business with two employees. So I might know more than you about ambition also.

Does your wife know you back politicians who promote policies that damage the small business you pretend to give a [BLEEP] about?

Surely, being a small business owner, your wife has a different view of the real world.

We agreed in 2017 that we did not ask for, nor did we need, that huge tax cut.  That tax cut was way sweeter for small businesses than it was for pretty much anyone else.  I'm not intending to ask how she's voting, because I value our relationship too much.  But I still know the tax cut is not a big deal for the business.  I know she'd be OK paying more in taxes if she knew she was getting better government in return.  
The thing that was a big deal was the PPP loan.  We were not amused about how uneducated and incapable Chase was handling that.  Chase was acting like the government hadn't educated or prepared them right.  That whole thing was a corrupt fiasco.  And my boss, another small business owner, had pretty much the same experience.

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