The Michael Berry Show.

We closed the show last night, and I won't replay it now, but if you did not hear the

podcast from last night's show, John Stossel did, we edited it down to I think about

six minutes. But John Stossel did a segment, did a piece on how much big business loves big

government, and how big business uses big government to snuff out whack-a-mole style, any

businesses that start rising up to compete against them.

Anyway, years ago, my belief it was the private sector versus the public sector, and I'm

always coming down on the private sector side. And then you begin to realize how much big business

is actually in bed with big government and vice versa. And that's why you realize Dick Cheney

from the 70s goes back and forth from government to big business and government to big business

and defense contractors, and you begin to see that they are not far from one in the same.

And that's where my passion for the small business owner comes from because often it's the

government hammering them at the direction of big business to keep them from ever getting

their legs under them and being able to compete. It's hard for small business owners. It is hard

to grow. It is hard to establish. There's so many barriers to entry. Then it's hard to get

financing, to get going, and then it's hard to grow from there. And in addition to all the

challenges of hiring good people and marketing what you do and all the expenses of operations,

if in addition to that, you've got a city, county, state, federal inspector, you've got one of

the agencies on your back, whether it's OSHA EPA, you name it on your back. It makes it

well not impossible to ever get grounded so that you could begin to grow to that next level,

to give yourself at least some degree of breathing room. And he does a great job in a short segment

of really laying that out. So if you missed the podcast, we had done some research the company had

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