Tired of Cake - Small/Middle Businesses Unite!

Wow. Unemployment benefits are the enemy? Not the offshore tax havens? Not insider trading? Not no-bid contracts? Not war profiteering? Not the Wall Street upheavel that paid billions to the culprits, then got bailed out, then got re-bonused? You're killing me. You want to blame the poor? Unemployment? Wake up elite. We're sick and we're tired. Sell some homes, or follow Mr Buffets gesture and donate your wealth. After all, 5% of Americans own 95% of the countries wealth. And this is not by hard work alone. Not that you're all guilty, but the system is twisted and for whatever reason you have all done well. Your billions can't be spent when the people are tired of cake.

Edit: Aug 29 2010 Disclaimer: I work for a healthy small business that is taxed to death. Our owner has always concentrated on improving and growing his business. His business like many small businesses are providing many people (like myself) with a decent income and a good life. I'm frustrated that when the powers that be do their shifting that small businesses like ours are stuck paying the bill.

To all political parties: you're missing the big picture because you're ignoring middle America and their employers. There is just too much money at the top and it is the corporations and large trade unions that get your attention. But middle America is fed by the small businesses that are sick and tired of being ignored--and too often it seems like the conservative pitch is the one they most agree with. In practice they are trying to take care of their employees but they see the taxes they face and hear the liberal rhetoric against business and flock to the right. Not that the right will take care of them, it just sounds good. SO:

When middle America does well, America does well. Small and middle sized businesses should get the cuts, regardless of whether they have a strong lobby. (Small and middle businesses, you should stop listening to the US Chamber of Commerce. Their voice was long ago drowned out by the richest corporations.)