Fellow entrepreneurs and business owners,

I believe that you and I –

People who work every day. . .

People who put our hands in the soil…

People who create products and services. . .

People who build businesses. . .

People who pay our taxes. . .

People who don’t create offshore accounts to dodge our responsibilities. . .

Can be silent no longer.  We cannot be a silent majority with no voice! 

I really do believe that Small Business people across America have got to join together with our ideas, our energy, our creativity and our patriotism to bring about the change we need in order to prosper and in fact, survive. 

I need you to be an active participant with me! 

I believe we are headed down a dead end street and from the feedback I am getting, it sounds like Small Businesses like you agree!  Everyone from Ben Bernanke to Billy Bob and Mary Sue know that the spending that started under the Bush administration and is continuing today will drive us into oblivion.  Big Government has never worked, and will never work.  We need some government; we need some laws; and we need some checks and balances. But, what we need more of, is hard working people to be thinkers, creators and innovators. We need Small Business Entrepreneurs to have the freedom to stimulate this country and grow our economy.

Let me define what a Small Business is - it is not a company with 500 or

fewer employees.  A Small Business is really a company with 1 to 20 employees. 

A Small Business is anyone who is self-employed and any home-based business. 

It encompasses all races, all genders, all ages; it is all people.

This is not a political movement; this is a movement about righting the ship.  This is a movement about ensuring a future for our children and our grandchildren. 

As I write this note, I am in the state of California.  California may have the greatest natural resources of any state/nation in the world. The San Joaquin Valley is the breadbasket of the world.  It has the most fertile soil, producing the richest crops anywhere in the world.  The Silicon Valley is the epicenter of innovative technological advances which are the envy of the rest of the world.  With 37 million residents, California’s human assets and natural resources are unparalleled and yet the state is bankrupt because of fiscal irresponsibility.  It has been driven into bankruptcy by unbridled spending on programs which are unsustainable in any economy. 

If California can go bankrupt, America can go bankrupt.  If our nation’s banking  industry can go bankrupt, America can go bankrupt.  We must curtail this spending now!

I have always found that the only way that I can make changes happen is that

I must create a sense of desperation.  At the age of 70, I’m compelled to create a

sense of desperation for this country for all of our sakes.

I believe that you and I –

People who work every day. . .

People who put our hands in the soil . .

People who create products and services. . .

People who build businesses. . .

People who pay our taxes. . .

People who don’t create offshore accounts to dodge our responsibilities. . .can be silent no longer. 

We cannot be a silent majority with no voice! 

We are creating a Small Business movement across this country. 

*         I need your ideas. 

*         I need your partnership. 

*         I need your energy, your goodness, your strength as an American entrepreneur. 

Together, we can make a difference for Small Businesses and in fact, for the future of America!

Visit our Small Business Party page on Facebook to join me today, and feel free to invite your friends, family, and business associates as well!