For the 20 zillionth time:
"The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together."
Being required to point out the obvious is getting pretty tiring. Originally Posted by Doove
You don’t get it do you? I built my business of building houses in one of the worst ghettos in Houston. Me. Did I have construction loans, subs and suppliers? Yes, but that doesn’t mean the work building that successful company wasn’t mine.
There were no other builders in the area I was in until about a year after I started in the ‘hood. Did my banker do me any favors by making me put up 35% into the deal and another $15,000 in a CD to secure my first $85,000 loan? Kinda.
Did the banks help me any when I was trying to get loans for my homebuyers? I’d have to say kinda, not yes. I had to get involved several times and threaten the bank with redlining either my customer or the neighborhood. So, yeah!, there’s one for the government “helping” me; well kinda. The regulators certainly out enforcing race related banking laws; I had to shove the loans down the loan officers’ throats to close them.
When I was BEHIND schedule – like 16 weeks - because of a ridiculous variance I had to file with the City for a five unit subdivision I replatted and rain, rain and rain and running close to my budget, I – ya me – was out busting steel to tie the rebar into cages for piers for five houses. It was so hot that when I’d pick up the steel the sweat would sizzle and evaporate out of my leather gloves. Me. Not the guy next door, not Obama, just me, my boyfriend and a couple of day labors. That’s where I learned if you put something on to cover yourself you say cooler than if you have on a tank top.
Two crews of day labors pulled off the job digging the beams on that job because the rain finally stopped and the gumbo baked hard as a rock. Again, I got out on the job and dug with the guys. I tarred all the pipes to the weather barriant. I held the cages when the poured the piers. Me. All five feet of me.
Everyone here wants to talk about the gob’ment putting in roads and infrastructure? Not on that job they didn’t. The variance I spoke of earlier is because the asshole City wanted me to run a street. A real 28’, 13” steel, re-enforced concrete street with curbs because there was an unfinished street running adjacent to my property. It was part of a minority vote buying initiative by Mayor White. A lawyer and eight weeks later, no, I didn’t have to finish out a 35 year old, abandoned street. I did have to being the utilities: water, sewage, gas and electricity to the site at my cost as well as provide storm water drainage.
I will admit HPD responded quickly when I was chasing a crack head down the street, in my Sex in the City heals BTW, that had broken in to one of my rent houses and smeared the blueberry pie he’d stolen all over the walls. Poo Bear went to jail for that one. If he’d just spent the night there and not smeared the pie on my walls, I’d have let him get by with it.
But where, was the gob’ment when my daughter was collecting rent for me once. A gang of, we’ll call them youths, lined up across the street to try to get her to stop. I guess they figured a girl in a high end German car was an easy mark. Negative Mustang. No help was needed to get those checks in the bank. She downshifted and gunned it. Well, I might have had some help since I don’t own the bank I deposited the money in. In fact I won't own any bank charters. But there you go. Help.
How about the time I had another rental broken into and there was water flowing out of it because the ghetto rats stole my toilets, water heater, sinks, stove (gas leaking). Did I get help from the insurance company or the gob’ment? No, my insurance company said it was “vandalism”. A judge said otherwise. Ya, I know that lawyer, out of the goodness of his heart “helped” me out. His goodness and my money.
I could go on, but I think you get the picture. Business owners help themselves and they pay everyone else including people like you that are EMPLOYEES.
So, please get off me about what I know and what I don’t know about building a business and who helps and who doesn’t. I’ll bet you and Obama know just about the same limited bits of info and sound bites when it comes to Americans building businesses. Obama hates the American way, and it doesn’t get more American then building a business from the ground up and pulling yourself out of poverty. He hates commercial America just as much as he hates the Liberty that is America.
He meant what he said. He meant that in his mind we are one big hippie commune bonded together as a collective love fest. We aren’t. Business is about money and not “helping”. The hippie commune idea went up in smoke – literally, and the communist experiment failed. Get over it. Money not “help” makes the world go around.
Doove's Box: And no this doesn't have fuck all to do with Hillary not getting the nomination.
