America was not built on the backs of politicians and government bailouts. It was built on private enterprise and free, hard-working, God-loving Americans. When President Obama said that he was going to create thousands of new jobs, I was not thinking that he would take over GM and Chrysler in the process.

        It won’t matter how much taxpayer debt is poured into "new deal" type jobs. It is not going to work. The American economy was built on private enterprise. Six months after taking office President Obama’s $787 billion dollar taxpayer expenditure was passed into law. Since then 2.8+ million more Americans not only don’t have healthcare. They don’t even have jobs.  Private enterprise creates jobs, but the big government  of Washington D.C. won’t allow it to happen.

        History is our best teacher. In Garry, Indiana; Youngtown, Ohio; and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania almost the entire inhabitants of towns worked in steel mills. That steel was used to build ships, tanks, water towers, refrigerators, stoves, cars, and a myriad of other commodities. Millions of people had skilled jobs and earned a good living. Those workers and their families were able to afford medical care. Invasive government regulations and onerous taxes put wealth-building private industry out of business.

        Samuel Slater built several successful cotton mills in New England and established the town of Slatersville, Rhode Island. His idea actually worked, unlike the Relocation Agency created by FDR where the government built homes in government towns in the desert, but no one wanted to live there since there were no jobs. The one thing that government can’t do is create jobs. Francis Cabot Lowell, a private entrepreneur created a more efficient power loom and a spinning apparatus. Elias Howe invented the Sewing Machine. Americans were innovative and the constitutional government at the time stayed out of their business.

        Left alone industry leaders in America can provide for other Americans. Reasonable laws prohibiting monopolies and protecting the health of workers are necessary, but government has no place in dictating corporate policy to private or public companies. The following inventions and business improvements were not created or designed by Washington D.C. politicians. They were created by - capitalists.

        •1733 flying shuttle invented by John Kay - an improvement to looms that enabled weavers to weave faster. •1742 cotton mills were first opened in England. •1764 spinning jenny invented by James Hargreaves - the first machine to improve upon the spinning wheel. •1764 water frame invented by Richard Arkwright - the first powered textile machine. •1769 Arkwright patented the water frame. •1770 Hargreaves patented the Spinning Jenny. •1773 the first all-cotton textiles were produced in factories. •1779 Crompton invented the spinning mule that allowed for greater control over the weaving process. 1785 Cartwright patented the power loom. It was improved upon by William Horrocks, known for his invention of the variable speed batton in 1813. •1787 cotton goods production had increased 10 fold since 1770. •1789 Samuel Slater brought textile machinery design to the US. •1790 Arkwright built the first steam powered textile factory in Nottingham, England. •1792 Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin - a machine that automated the separation of cottonseed from the short-staple cotton fiber. •1804 Joseph Marie Jacquard invented the Jacquard Loom that weaved complex designs. Jacquard invented a way of automatically controlling the warp and weft threads on a silk loom by recording patterns of holes in a string of cards, •1813 William Horrocks invented the variable speed batton (for an improved power loom). •1856 William Perkin invented the first synthetic dye.

          Unfortunately the IRS, EPA and the NLRA have inhibited the free-market. Companies did not close their doors because they were making obscene profits and exploiting labor as some would like us to believe, they fell victim to an invasive government metastasis.