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Obama Proclaims November 19th as National Entrepreneurs’ Day

39 points| jaybol | 15 years ago |grasshoppergroup.com | reply

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[+] heyrhett|15 years ago|reply
Oh great, it's our day, and we can celebrate by thanking, mentoring, lending money, and paying it forward.

"Hey Entrepreneurs! It's your day! Please bail out the country, the rest of us have no idea what we're doing!"

[+] shmulkey18|15 years ago|reply
But remember kids, business is icky, the rich are evil, investors are greedy, and "public service" is preferable to working in the private sector.
[+] johngalt|15 years ago|reply
Spiders declare Nov 20th national day of flies.
[+] jberryman|15 years ago|reply
*groan

i`m flagging this story as flamebait. not really interested in the libertarian hatefest that it invites.

[+] willheim|15 years ago|reply
So... do we get to take a day off?
[+] lukifer|15 years ago|reply
Maybe take the day off from your day job to work on your side project? :)
[+] rms|15 years ago|reply
Probably the best we can hope for is $3 well drinks.
[+] Towle_|15 years ago|reply
Idea: Stock bought/sold on Nov. 19th not subject to capital gains tax
[+] crikli|15 years ago|reply
Huh. I thought that was April 15th.
[+] chailatte|15 years ago|reply
He wants us to work harder that day so to pay off the raises he's been giving to the federal workers.

"The number of federal workers earning $150,000 or more per year has risen tenfold in the past five years. And it has doubled since Obama took office."

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/11/13/2010-11-13_th...

[+] jon_hendry|15 years ago|reply
That's meaningless without info about what those jobs are. Clueful SEC investigators, skilled engineers, top scientists aren't going to come cheap.

Also, "since Obama took office" doesn't mean much, since Obama's first year in office was under Bush's last budget.

Finally, if you outsource or contract out lower-wage Federal jobs, it should be expected that the remaining employees will have a higher concentration of high-wage specialists.