Most successful businessmen know what it is like to have the financial wolf at the door.   Many started at the bottom as working people, come from working class backgrounds and have known failure in life. They are much more sympathetic to the working man than the left give them credit for.

However, they have learned that brooding over poor decisions and blaming others for your situation does not do anybody any good.  You have to solve your own problems.   If you want “Big Brother” government to solve your problems, you then become a slave to “Big Brother”.   Big Brother will support you only if you do what it wants.  Paraphrasing the lyrics of Michael Jackson “look at the man in the mirror” to solve your problems and change your ways.  That is the American way.

President Obama’s rhetoric may sound good to those who do not think through the unintended consequences of a Western European style welfare state imposed on the United States.  However, it will lead to economic serfdom, a loss of individual freedom and a less prosperous America.  Remember, our President has never met a payroll, provided goods or services that consumers were willing to pay for, or provided jobs with his own money or that of investors willing to trust him.  Why should Americans think his nanny state rhetoric will solve America’s problems?