{"id":358203,"date":"2010-02-24T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/small-business-owners-linkedin-survey-2012-2"},"modified":"2010-02-24T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T13:55:00","slug":"small-business-owners-reveal-themselves-as-xenophobic-protectionists-who-want-handouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/358203","title":{"rendered":"Small Business Owners Reveal Themselves As Xenophobic Protectionists Who Want Handouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/small-business-owners-linkedin-survey-2012-2\/only-america-shall-make-anything-ever-again-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b852f66000000000050dba7-247-214\/minutemen-border-immigration-illegal-immigrants.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"minutemen border immigration illegal immigrants\" width=\"247\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a>Small businesses are always glorified in the media and by politicians for being the lifeblood of the economy.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s not delude ourselves into thinking small business owners are these saints who just want a fair chance to compete.<\/p>\n<p>Obama confidant Valerie Jarret was sent out to get some simple answers about how the Obama Administration can help small businesses. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&amp;gid=2199632&amp;discussionID=14385271&amp;goback=.anh_2199632\">She posted a question on LinkedIn:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">What steps do you think government should take to help American businesses spur job creation?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What she got was a long list of responses from protectionist business owners that want a handout.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/small-business-owners-linkedin-survey-2012-2\/only-america-shall-make-anything-ever-again-1\">Check out the answers The White House got from the small businesses &gt;<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/small-business-owners-linkedin-survey-2012-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henry-blodget-unionized-rhode-island-teachers-refuse-to-work-25-minutes-more-per-day-so-town-fires-all-of-them-2010-2\">Unionized Rhode Island Teachers Refuse To Work 25 Minutes More Per Day, So Town Fires All Of Them<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/brown-breaks-with-gop-to-support-jobs-bill-2010-2\">Scott Brown Bucks His Party, Won&#8217;t Thwart Democrats On Jobs Bill<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/and-now-the-jobs-bill-is-in-trouble-too-2010-2\">And Now The Jobs Bill Is In Trouble Too<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/f4EzW1EYal8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small businesses are always glorified in the media and by politicians for being the lifeblood of the economy. But let&#8217;s not delude ourselves into thinking small business owners are these saints who just want a fair chance to compete. Obama confidant Valerie Jarret was sent out to get some simple answers about how the Obama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}