Carta abierta a Obama
Debiera haberla publicado este post antes de asistir boquiabierto y ojiplático a según que exaltaciones. Pero no pudo ser.
En todo caso, paladeen la carta del emprendedor Cory Miller a Barack Obama. No esperen que al nuevo presidente de los USA (y a gran multitud de los que le apoyan), se les caiga la cara de vergüenza tras leerla. Lamentablemente, eso es algo incompatible con según que arranques de superioridad moral.
Aquí va un extracto:
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. 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. I resent you, Mr. Obama, as I resent all who want to use class warfare as a tool to advance their political career. What’s worse, each year more Americans buy into your liberal entitlement culture, and turn to the government for their hope of a better life instead of themselves.
Ondiám me recuerda al discurso de John Galt. Seguro que bebe de las mismas fuentes/fountains (o “manantiales” para hacer el chiste fácil)
Esta te va a gustar Diego. Justo hoy me llega esta noticia:
http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/06/mitra-obama-entreprenuers-tech-enter-cx_sm_1107mitra_print.html
Entresaco algunas perlas:
You want to create 5 million new green jobs–a great goal. To create 5 million jobs, you need at least 50,000 entrepreneurs–leaders–to step up to the plate.
What, President Obama, is your message to this group that you so desperately need help from to deliver your beloved country out of this economic mess? That you will take the fruits of their toil and hand it out to those on welfare? At least that is what we are hearing in your rhetoric. Your messaging is terribly off when you try to communicate with the entrepreneurs, and it terrifies us.
Well, we’re not the looters of Wall Street. We are the entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley and elsewhere–we build, we innovate, we create jobs. And to us, you have had nothing encouraging to say thus far.
When you say you will fix health care and education, we all rejoice. But then you cannot support your claims with a clear explanation of where the money to finance those plans will come from, and you lose credibility.
Vaya Luis,
Acabas de publicar el comentario número 1.000 de este humilde blog :-)
Ondiá! y yo que quería que fuese el 616. ¿Y no hay premio? Te pediría un descuento en licencias pero como son “open source” ;-)))
Es todo un honor. A ver si también pongo el 10.000
Impreso el post y colgado en el hall of fame de la ofi.