My letter to President Obama in response to his Job Summit, Dec. 3rd 2009

"What I'm interested in
is taking action right now to help businesses create jobs right now, in the
near term. " - President Barack Obama, Jobs Summit, December 3, 2009

Mr. President  , do
you want small businesses to grow and create jobs? Do you want to get this
economy back on track?

Well then, create an environment where small businesses feel
like you will not keep changing the rules. An environment where you will do no
more harm. As long as we are still adapting daily to the negative effects of
your out-of-control spending, we will not feel confident that the hard work we
do will benefit our  companies and our
staff. We feel that the harder we work, the more we will have to pay to bail
someone else out.  We have and always
will gladly carry our own loads, we are just tired of being punished for poorly
ran big business, excessive 
government,  and irresponsible
borrowing of others.

In the words of a great President, Ronald Reagan, "In
this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government
is the problem."

Yesterday, you also said " We don't have enough public
dollars to fill the hole of private dollars that was created as a consequence
of the crisis."  That's right, so step
aside, let us do our jobs. We will grow. We will create jobs. We will bring
prosperity back to our country.. if you, the government do not penalize growth
and success. That is what we do. Maybe you now realize that no matter how much
of our tax dollars you dump into stimulus spending, you cannot do what the free
enterprise system does so well.

Your job is to keep us safe, and ensure that we remain a
powerful beacon of hope for freedom.  And
yes, let poorly ran companies fail.  Let
those who spend more than they  make feel
the discomfort of their own actions.  Do
not reward bad behavior. That will give hope and rewards to those of us who
choose to work hard and risk all we own to live the American Dream. Again, it
is only we who can create growth, prosperity and JOBS!

One more quote from President Ronald Reagan, " Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government
competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are
not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized
bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite."

I will continue to work hard to survive and succeed in my
own business, and I will continue to take care of my staff, but the burden you
place on small business has gotten heavier than any other time in my twenty
years of being self-employed.  I implore
you to stop growing this government, take no more action and let me do my job.
Your "help" is not wanted.

Lowell Gibson

December 4th, 2009