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Thursday, March 04, 2004
Techie entrepreneurship
As I posted in my long article about a month ago, the Internet has enabled a huge amount of opportunity for non-techies. I wrote about how many people I've met recently are making part-time incomes through the Internet -- as affiliates, as an aspiring conservative talk show host, selling automobile stickers on eBay etc.
The following post calls attention to an article in The New York Times Magazine:
President Bush on the rise in entrepreneurship
This entry is more politically partisan than you'd perhaps expect in a blog on computer careers. Perhaps the following quote explains why I think it's relevant:
"Jobs are created when the economy grows; the economy grows when Americans have more money to spend and invest." -- President George W. Bush
Thanks to President Bush and the two tax cuts he pushed through, Americans DO have more money to spend and invest. I believe that, over time, that is going to create many more jobs -- including computer and technology jobs -- than Senator Kerry's plan to raise our taxes by abolishing Bush's two tax cuts.
If you're a wannabe techie who wants to break into the industry, a computer science student hoping to find a job when you graduate or currently a techie looking for work, you're a fool if you vote for Senator Kerry.
President Bush has unfairly gotten the blame for a recession that began in the final year of Clinton's administration. The first tax cut would have dug us out, except for September 11. He has led us through some of the worst years of our republic and now his second tax cuts are having the desired effect of rejuvenating our economy.
Things aren't perfect -- they never have been, never are and never will be.
Better times and more jobs for all are coming.
I feel a rant and rave about this modern tendency of thinking the President of United States is personally responsible for whether or not you have a job, but it will have to wait for a later time.
Rick Stooker, author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career
