In response to
The Most Business-Despising President in History

QJG in Queens, NY
Sunday, July 22, 2012 at 12:58 PM

A couple of days ago, when the White House wastrel called the family of the very recently deceased restaurateur/entrepreneur, Sylvia, of famed Sylvia's soul food restaurant in Harlem, did he lecture them about how their mother didn't build her enormously successful business herself? I bet he dared not do that--he would have been rendered permanently deaf in one ear. I heard Sylvia's daughter say yesterday on the radio, "My mother used to tell me: 'if I could come from a 3-stoplight town in South Carolina, go to NYC and build this empire, then so can you.'" This waste of White House space and an Oval Office lives in grand style in D.C., and before that in the Chicago suburbs, all because of the generosity of "We the People" who ARE the government. Dumbed-down American citizens have forgotten that very, very, important fact in our founding documents. If we sincerely want change, we can make change happen at all levels of government. So we had better stop staying away from the polling places in droves each and every Election Day because THAT is why we're in the current mess we're in now. Americans with common sense used to be acutely aware that no one can help you if you won't help yourself.