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- ozel01, on 11/11/2008, -23/+56This is the classic case of everything I talked about small business up to the election. Higher taxes are going to kill jobs and put small businesses out of business. Not only the higher taxes but the proposal to raise the minimum wage as well. Corey will be hard pressed to stay in business under the Obama plan. ANd he had no qualms about telling Mr Obama just why many Americans won't succeed!! A priceless piece!!!
- ivanvivian, on 11/11/2008, -20/+50A well written letter from the heart. However,suspecting the ilks of BO, fear that Cory might have a party of a hundred lawyers, and a thousand dirt digging press agents after him, not to mention the FBI.
Local law officers will probably be sent after him, backed by ruthless liberal D.A's.
Cory took the courage to speak out, and I hope you're abunadantly rewarded for it with great blessings. - inactive, on 11/11/2008, -16/+45The hardworking people of Middle-America have an innate common sense that Urban elites and thralls to the state cannot understand.
- inactive, on 11/11/2008, -13/+41FTL
In short, Mr. Obama, your political philosophies represent everything that is wrong with our country. You represent the culture of government dependence instead of self reliance; Entitlement mentality instead of personal achievement; Penalization of the successful to reward the unmotivated; Political correctness instead of open mindedness and open debate. If you are successful, you may preside over the final transformation of America from being the greatest and most self-reliant culture on earth, to just another country of whiners and wimps, who sit around looking to the government to solve their problems. Like all of western Europe. All countries on the decline. All countries that, because of liberal socialistic mentalities, have a little less to offer mankind every year.
God help us…
Cory Miller
Just a ordinary, extraordinary American, the way a lot of Americans used to be.
This is the best thing I've read in the past year. This man, is the heart of the American dream. This man is like my dad. This made me cry. My country is lost. - govsucks, on 11/11/2008, -18/+44AS a small business owner I wish I could digg this up 100 times. I know exactly how you feel Cory. My small software company has made it for 6 years now and the only thing that has threatened to put us out of business is the stifling taxation we are hit with every year. This year it cost us a new truck to cary employees on site and at least one employee who packs and ships orders. So people who make trucks and people who pack orders, you can thank government for your lack of employment. It sucks to have to tell a man that you can no longer pay him and his family will have to find some other way to eat because some know-it-all traitors in D.C. will imprison us if we try to keep what WE have earned.
It is far past time to pick up arms and put the mean end right in the face of the collectivists and tell them to back the ***** off. - seeingright, on 11/11/2008, -19/+45Cory,
Well written letter. I can understand where you are coming from as I have been self-employed for over 40 years. These past few years of socialism creeping into our Country has just made want to cry.
Unfortunately people like Obama don’t seem to give a damn what you think as a small businessman. It is all lip service. Socialism is about “spreading the wealth” with your tax burden to keep the masses dependent on Government and to secure votes. Until this Country goes flat broke from over-spending I doubt seriously we as a Nation will wake up. During this past election it is estimated that many Republicans (way more than enough votes needed to get rid of Obama) didn’t even bother to show up and vote. We lost an election to socialism because of apathy. That sucks!
I wish you the best of luck. You will probably be doing what I am doing. I have put a freeze on contracting with any new companies in the USA. I am personally doing everything I can to get by on less. If the government wants me to produce more then they will have to quit providing lip service and start making sound business decisions which include less spending, less taxes, and less government.
God Bless to you and your East Texas business. I hope things work out for you. - mycutepetpics, on 11/11/2008, -6/+26The courage to speak out against Obama, unfortunately may cost Cory as much as it has caused Joe the plumber thus far. This is one of the reasons why Obama want's to limit and possibly one day completely take away our free speech. He cannot hear or take any opposition to his personal opinions, as he has shown us thus far.
Kind of reminds me of those great leaders in history. What were their names again?
Oh yea I remember now. Adolf Hitler & Fidel Castro!
Soon they will tell us when we can wipe our own back sides!
Can't wait for that one because I forget things sometimes and need my Government to tell me what I can do, what I can say, who to support, who I can hang out with, what I can listen to and when I can do things.
I am starting to feel more like a slave of the USA then a citizen of it! - lccat, on 11/11/2008, -14/+33You can not think that an Elitist Snobbish Condescending Socialist Marxist Lawyer Politician would have any practical conception of what Corey was writing! obama's only desire is to satisfy his own Elitist Political Contributors!
- btschul, on 11/11/2008, -9/+28FTL: "I won’t say what I have given to charities over the last 25 years, but the percentage is several times more than you and Joe Biden… combined (don’t you just hate goggle?). Tell me again how you feel my pain."
***** awesome. I love how Obamabiden say that people who don't want the government to redistribute their wealth are "selfish" when people like this guy and most conservatives give more money to charity in a year than Obama and Biden combined. - inactive, on 11/11/2008, -12/+30
Obviously this is some greedy, racist, East Texan redneck who clings to his guns and religion!
. . . . . /* Sarcasm
Tax Hell out of him !!! Send soetoro's new Sturmabteilung to intimidate him !!!
. . . . . /* I only wish this were sarcasm, rather than the probable future this man faces. - inboxnews, on 11/11/2008, -8/+23Excellent letter. FTL"You see, Mr. Obama, I’m the guy you intend to raise taxes on. I’m the guy who has spent 25 years toiling and sweating, fretting and fighting, stressing and risking, to build a business and get ahead. I’m the guy who has been on the very edge of bankruptcy more than a dozen times over the last 25 years, and all the while creating more and more jobs for East Texans who didn’t want to take a risk, and would not demand from themselves what I have demanded from myself. I’m the guy you characterize as ‘the Americans who can afford it the most’ that you believe should be taxed more to provide income redistribution ‘to spread the wealth’ to those who have never toiled, sweated, fretted, fought, stressed, or risked anything."
- Striker101, on 11/11/2008, -8/+22I walked the path similar to the author, but it wasn't so successful. Nonetheless, now in barebones survival mode, I totally agree with him. I didn't even send in for my tax stimulus because it's wrong, and is symptomatic of all the reasons why we're in collapse today.
- PeppermintPig, on 11/11/2008, -8/+22Don't worry, the Obama administration will HELP him... *facepalm*
Pessimism is viewing the world in terms of scarcity and saying we have to help some people at the cost of others. Why? That's not helping, just as politicians removing themselves, big corporations and banks from being held accountable is not helping! - keltin, on 11/11/2008, -3/+16One understatement there, striker...instead of $$, you mean $$$$$$$$$$$$.
- jojopumpkin, on 11/11/2008, -11/+23Hey Cory I wouldn't worry about a tax hike. this economy is going to ***** soon and you and millions of other Americans will be out of work. You see the banks want to own every aspect of the American way. They own our presidents now they own more banks thanks to us giving them the 700billion (Trillions actually) to bail them out. We will then borrow that same money from the banks we just bailed out to "bail out" (buy for the banks) our auto industry and then bail out the credit card companies. So don't fret Cory, McCain would have done the same thing because he and Obama are owned by the same people.
- Striker101, on 11/11/2008, -4/+16That's hardly Obama's "Only Desire". He has many plans for the $$ he intends to steal from us all to redistribute, and to promote communism. So I Digg ya!
- PeppermintPig, on 11/11/2008, -3/+15Joe, perhaps lacking consideration for a 'best option' candidate rallied against the greater evil he perceived. People on the internet and msm ran with this story, as did the McCain campaign. I think that was the main contributory factor for Joe getting this publicity and not so much that he 'wanted' it. Whether he wanted it or not, some people wanted to promote what he was saying, else he wouldn't have received further airtime.
If I use my 15 minutes of fame to promote something I believe in, it's somehow wrong? - keltin, on 11/11/2008, -9/+20Cory said what I feel, so much better than I've been able to relate. He brought tears to my eyes, knowing firsthand that kind of situations he has gone through. The heart, backbone and muscle of America.
I will not concede that My Country is Lost!!!!!!! - SuperVepr308, on 11/11/2008, -4/+15So Jimmy, you think cutting the taxpayer's throat is the cure for the "less fortunate"? Are you high? Killing small business will throw the lower classes into more woe and open the door wider for them to be paid and controlled by gov'ment. How in the hell is that a good thing?
- inactive, on 11/11/2008, -11/+21If the American people are truly mad as hell and not going to take it anymore we have a way to stop 0bama and the thugs. It is far easier to starve the beast than to kill it with blows.
A man named Tom Cryer asked the IRS to show him where he is liable for the income tax and they charged him with tax evasion. He was aquitted in a 12-0 decision because the IRS failed to show a Constitutional basis to tax his income.
He is now in the process of suing the IRS agents who violated his rights and smeared his reputation all because he asked them to show him how he was liable for the tax.
If we all pay only those taxes the IRS can show a Constitutional basis for, 0bama will be unable to use the power of his office to impose his will on Americans.
That is how it should be.
BTW I have a friend who runs a gun sales business and he says that the last time he was this busy was 9-12-01. Is it a sign that we are really not going to take it anymore? - AWBoy666, on 11/11/2008, -10/+20God this letter is amazing....almost brought a tear to my eye. This is what the American dream is: success through your own toil. Those who succeed do so on the own behalf and do not need the government to get them there. And what do they have to look forward to? Higher taxes so that the government can help those who never put in the effort.
Thank you Cory. You really touched me. - niradg, on 11/12/2008, -6/+14It's fun to see that uneducated Republicans are still trying to fight an election they lost.
- badradio, on 11/11/2008, -2/+10I also have a friend in the gun sales biz, he said he has sold out of ar-15's and ak47's and all his upper assemblies as well. 3 month backorder with the manufacturer as of 3 days ago, 1200% increase in ammo sales. obama has clearly stated his intent to ban assault weapons and make us americans his subjects.
- padraic2112, on 11/12/2008, -7/+15Dear Cory:
> Given the uproar about the simple question asked
> you by Joe the plumber, and the persecution that
> has been heaped on him because he dared to
> question you, I find myself motivated to say a
> few things to you myself.
Joe misrepresented his income and his current plans, and then quite willingly road a wave of media hysteria that resulted in the obvious investigation into his private life. He wasn't persecuted. He was investigated. And given how he obviously relished the media attention and attempted to launch his own political career through it, it's disingenuous to claim altruism on his part.
> I am a 54 year old high school graduate. I
> didn’t go to college like you, I was too ready
> to go conquer the world’ when I finished high
> school.
Good on you for knowing what you wanted to do and pursuing it. Sucks that you can't give the same credit to people who chose the path of higher education.
> I started my own water well drilling business...
> ... I didn’t get any help from the government,
> nor did I look for any. I borrowed what I could
> from my sister, my uncle, and even the pawn shop
> and managed to scrape together a homemade drill
> rig and a few tools to do my first job. My
> businesses did not start as a result of privilege.
> They are the result of my personal drive,
> personal ambition, self discipline, self
> reliance, and a determination to treat my
> customers fairly.
The fact that you had a family support network to provide you startup capital and available hard goods to pawn to acquire more startup capital indicates that you're conveniently overlooking a huge privilege of base support that is currently not available to a staggeringly high percentage of the population.
Oh, and just as an aside, keep in mind that the following multiple paragraphs describing (what is admittedly a damn hard time) getting a business up and running all would have been several orders of magnitude easier with a tax code that *supported the middle and lower class*, which the author was clearly a part of when he started out.
> 2. 5 years later I made a business loan for
> $100,000.00 to build a new, higher production,
> computer controlled screen service machine.
> 2 years after that, I made another business
> loan, this time for $250,000.00, to buy another
> used drilling rig and all the support equipment
> needed to run another, larger, drill rig.
Hm. I might be mistaken, but if I'm doing my math correctly and understanding his timeline properly, at least the second of these two loans and possibly both came about during the Clinton Administration. A small business loan that he probably could find due to the Small Business Lending Enhancement Act, or some other government subsidized loan program.
So much for "without asking for any government assistance".
> This should work out, but if it doesn’t it
> will be because you, and the other
> professional politicians like yourself, will
> have destroyed our country’s’ (and the world)
> economy with your meddling with mortgage loan
> programs through your liberal manipulation
> and intimidation of loaning institutions to
> make sure that unqualified borrowers could
> get mortgages.
Any reasonable analysis of the current fiscal crisis is bipartisan in the blamethrowing.
> While these unqualified borrowers were
> enjoying unrealistically low interest rates,
> I was paying 22% to 24% interest on the credit
> cards that I had used to provide me the funds
> for the mud pump business that has created jobs
> for more East Texans.
While I can empathize, clearly this is a false comparison. Those "unrealistically low interest rates" were reflected through the entire banking program, including small business loans. If you were unable to qualify for those loans due to a capital/debt ratio or overall business value, and chose as a business decision to finance an expansion on *22% interest credit cards* this was clearly your business decision to make.
> I have finally made enough money to be able
> to put a little away for retirement, and
> now the value of that has dropped 40% because
> of the policies you and your ilk have
> perpetrated on our country.
Again, the current economic crisis is obviously bipartisan in creation. Also, your choice to continue to grow your business at the expense of your retirement planning was clearly your decision, sir. At any time during the last 25 years you could have delayed your business expansion in order to more invest more in a retirement portfolio. By the way, it sounds like you can have a pretty smooth retirement just by selling off the companies you own.
> I’m the guy you characterize as ‘the
> Americans who can afford it the most’ that
> you believe should be taxed more to provide
> income redistribution ‘to spread the wealth’
> to those who have never toiled, sweated,
> fretted, fought, stressed, or risked anything.
While I congratulate you on your efforts and hard work, I imagine that a huge proportion of the middle-class people you essentially just accused of being lazy, cowardly, laid-back pacifists would take this paragraph as a mortal insult.
> You want to characterize me as someone who
> has enjoyed a life of privilege and who
> needs to pay a higher percentage of my
> income than those who have bought into
> your entitlement culture.
No, sir, you infer that. And note, for a high percentage of people in your income bracket, this characterization is in fact true... in fact, a much higher percentage relatively than the lower income bracket people "entitlement culture" people are in comparison to hardworking middle and lower class workers.
> Liberals are succeeding through more than
> 40 years of collaborative effort between
> the predominant liberal media, and liberal
> indoctrination programs in the public
> school systems across our land.
At this point I'm starting to lose the sympathy I had for you, Cory, and I'm generally starting to think that you have a bedrock liberal conspiracy nuttiness to you as equal to the bedrock conservative moral majority conspiracy nuttiness we see on the left.
> If you and your liberal comrades in the
> media and school systems would spend half
> as much effort cultivating a culture of
> can-do across America as you do cultivating
> your entitlement culture, we could see
> Americans at large embracing the conviction
> that they can elevate themselves through
> personal betterment, personal achievement,
> and self reliance. You see, when people
> embrace such ideals, they act on them.
> When people act on such ideals, they succeed.
Actually, in large proportion, they fail. They are rescued by family networks, friends, and... government assistance (as you undoubtedly have been multiple times in your career, if you would be honest enough to admit). Then they pick themselves up and try again.
The difference is that you have obviously conveniently forgotten the various assistances you've had through your career, and/or seem to just blithely assume other people have it as well. You're also conveniently ignoring a large population of people who (most commonly due to medical bills - 50% of bankruptcies) simply cannot elevate themselves. If you owe more money than you can possibly earn in your career lifetime, you're screwed.
Guess what, Cory? Only ~40% of small businesses are profitable. (http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/news/coladvic ... While we certainly ought to applaud those that make the grade, they don't all fail because their owners don't believe in self-reliance, personal achievement, or personal betterment. Sometimes they just fail because life doesn't always go your way.
> You see, I know because I’ve had them work
> for me before. Hundreds of them over these
> 25 years. People who simply will not show
> up to work on time. People who just will not
> work 5 days in a week, much less, 6 days.
> People always looking for a way to put less
> effort out.
Oh, you mean, people who won't put their 10 year old to work at their company? People who will constantly put themselves at a risk for bankruptcy, multiple times during their career? What exactly is your standard for "hard work", Cory? Let's not fish around, here.
> I won’t say what I have given to charities
> over the last 25 years, but the percentage is
> several times more than you and Joe Biden…
> combined (don’t you just hate goggle?). Tell
> me again how you feel my pain.
Well, I can't say for certain, but I'm pretty sure that both Senators Obama and Biden (funny how Cory doesn't ever talk about politicians on the other side of the aisle except in the abstract) would both be making considerably more in the private sector than they're making as government employees. If you're busting your ass off every day working for political causes, you're probably actually delivering more to worthy causes on a daily basis than any private citizen is by donating his own funds. - inactive, on 11/11/2008, -4/+12It touched me too. It's heart-wrenching, we have come so far as a country, through the blood, sweat, and tears of Americans like Cory... now he and others have been sold into servitude- serving the people who wouldn't know drive if it bit them in the ass. I don't even recognize this country anymore.
- AWBoy666, on 11/11/2008, -5/+12I cannot even begin to tell you just how wrong you are. Anyone can get a job and pay the bills if they are willing. /end of story
- sundancekid503, on 11/11/2008, -6/+13You guys sure love these folksy anecdotal stories with cute names.
- Janinco, on 11/11/2008, -2/+9We will FIGHT for our Country!
Don't give up my dear (I KNOW you won't)! - cardgame, on 11/11/2008, -7/+14Cory, as ANOTHER American on the brink of bankruptcy getting my business off the ground, I have to say Amen Brother, Amen. This year I actually would qualify as one of those that has the money redistributed TO. But by next year, I will be taxes into submission.
This letter NEEDS to be on the front page of Digg. lets get it there. - Ironmom61, on 11/11/2008, -2/+9Cory, all I can see that is good coming from this is that we are ticked and motivated.
I agree with Janinco, we WILL fight. They underestimated us! - inactive, on 11/11/2008, -4/+10He just proved Cory's point, didn't he? I'm so sick of people.
- twitchr, on 11/11/2008, -6/+12bunch of ***** whiners in here. Small businesses did just fine under the Clinton administration, they'll continue to do fine.
you'd swear from the responses in this thread that the last eight years didn't even happen. Of course the Democrats have to fix your mess, again.
Bush is the biggest ***** up of any president ever... just remember that. - PeppermintPig, on 11/11/2008, -2/+8I agree with most of what you are saying, but you seem to have a stark opinion of free market capitalism. The incentive to solve the problems in the free market is curtailed to an extent when government imposes itself.
If you do not have faith in the principles of liberty, freedom of choice, and the idea that we can seek greater accountability through voluntary action, then I don't know what else to say. This problem will subsist so long as we accept the idea that we can take from some by force to help others and somehow call that a good thing.
Competition on the whole is a good thing. Not all stances are suitable towards the provision of charitable action, but when people can keep all of what they earn, they will have more power over using it as they wish. Responsibility is not an easy sell, I understand. - Lawlmuffin, on 11/11/2008, -10/+16Dugg For Capitalizing Every Word In A Title
- AWBoy666, on 11/11/2008, -7/+13Obama wants to raise the corporate tax rate.....go look at his website. So yes, Cory is going to pay more taxes.
Why do you open your mouth when you know you are wrong? - Striker101, on 11/11/2008, -2/+8ah yes, big mistake, thanks for fixing that!
- Janinco, on 11/11/2008, -2/+8Just because I might not have to pay more taxes, doesn't mean I want other people punished for their success!
- Janinco, on 11/11/2008, -4/+10But at least McCain wasn't best buddies with Marxists, Communists, terrorists, and all the other enemies of America!
- Janinco, on 11/11/2008, -4/+10The Country knows more about Joe the plumber than they do about the cult leader they just voted into the White House!
- mycutepetpics, on 11/11/2008, -2/+7It's not lost yet and we still have a chance but the time to act is now. If we don't then we will definitely lose the Country our forefathers fought and died for, to leave us.
I am waiting for someone to step to the plate and lead the millions waiting to really make a change and put this country back in the hands of the People.
It's time to stop talking and start acting! - joe122370, on 11/12/2008, -1/+61) obama is not president elect until Dec 15th when the electoral college votes
2) being against socialism has not tie to bigotry. lame attemp to turn peoples opinions on them by screaming racism every time somebody dis agrees with "THE ONE" - GutterMoo, on 11/11/2008, -12/+17Wow. Just wow. Stop your whining and moaning, it might be a tax increase. So what? We all pay taxes on the money we earn, it sucks. But guess what, it pays for things that you use and might miss if they weren't there. Obama is not a savior, he is the president-elect of a country that has been on an economic downturn since Conservatives voted Bush into office. We need to get america to get back on the right track, somethings we have to do. Stop whining about Obama already, since under it all, you are just bigots.
- nichesiteexpert, on 11/12/2008, -1/+6@padraic2112 The only reason I dugg this post at all was because of your brilliant and well though out response.
- mycutepetpics, on 11/11/2008, -3/+8Here we go again!
Every time somebody talks against Obama they bring up Bush. You are putting him down without even knowing if Cory even voted for Bush. Please come up with something new when you are defending your messiah!
We are also not all Republicans and many of the people I personally know who dislike the man, are actually Democrats, who at least have the brain capacity to see the man for the fraud he is. - wishninja, on 11/12/2008, -6/+11I don't get it this guy hates supporting America with taxes and feels free to soak up small business loans. America gave him a chance and he ***** on other people for wanting nothing more than a roof over their heads. It seems he should be grateful to have the opportunity he did but instead he is so blind and selfish when it comes to others wanting the same.
***** you freepers anyway. - ozel01, on 11/11/2008, -4/+9HHHMMM, yep like CA being $7 billion in the hole. SOunds pretty wealthy to me.
- nichesiteexpert, on 11/12/2008, -0/+5Lol - yes, you're the *real* America - us city folk are just a bunch of commie fakers.
- Navigator7, on 11/11/2008, -8/+13Huge free market capitalism American values dittos, Cory!
My small business story is the same as yours.
“The Obamanation” we are about to experience is a small business owners worse nightmare.
Not unlike hydraulic seals going bad, fuel contamination, running over re-bar popping new tires, rising fuel prices, skyrocketing insurance, rising building permit costs and typically slow government response to same, a taxation rate that stifles new equipment purchase and government meddling preventing employers from firing those who do not deserve employment.
The Obamanation will result in a lightning bolt of punishment to exactly the very people Obama purports to help.
Marxism: The Death of American Exceptionalism - mycutepetpics, on 11/11/2008, -1/+6"We will FIGHT for our Country!"
I am with you 100%!
The time is now and people need to start getting together and figure out a great game plan.
Somebody also needs to truly step up to the plate and lead the millions that are waiting to really make a change to save our country.
As Our Constitution states "It is our duty" - iamghost, on 11/11/2008, -3/+7Wait. How did that prove him wrong?
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