| Comment Number: | 522418-04507 |
| Received: | 6/27/2006 6:42:27 AM |
| Organization: | Graham Global |
| Commenter: | Shenica Graham |
| State: | NY |
| Subject: | Business Opportunity Rule |
| Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 437 |
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Comments:
Dear Sir or Madam, There are people in this country who have less than the means of what constitutes "a living" in America. As a child I did not always have shoes. I had a few abusers and fewer friends. While our country sends aid to other continents, there are starving people, right here and some of them do desperate things to escape their lives of this calibur. Some of us have only our heart's ambition to keep us going from day to day. Our country was founded on free enterprise. Please do not over rule-temper the only opportunity that some of us have left- and I can say "us" because I won't just give you a sad story that's only relatable to me. I know people who have the same story I have, including the broken homes and the abusers. In this, the single greatest country on earth, if we cannot make it, we will die and many of us are so close to that already. No, people should not be cheated, so I believe that fewer people would be if more were taught the value of a dollar as children and young people. In school, we are taught to grow up and get jobs. Then, some of us even go on to college and still have trouble finding work. What was it all for? Some people get well into the twenties before knowing how to properly balance a checkbook. When they finally do have a check in the mail, it only lasts long enough to get met by the credit card bills that they didn't even have to have an income to get. Then they're marked as negligent because they can't pay the bills. So "go get a job" is the education that is "mandatory" in our country that was not built by "employees." Do you see what trouble we are in? Working for someone else our entire lives, we suppress our own dreams and while many tolerate it, many others feel it is a form of slavery. I am an American and I was born, free. Why I am being taught to enter slavery? There are some people like myself, who just have to be free. In a society that rewards the "walk a line, yes-sir, yes-ma'am" mentality, our passion is squandered at an early age. Then, after ruining what desire we had to contribute to our environment because we need all our strength to get out of the valley of death, we are virtually spat upon by people who have no idea where we've come from, and it's because we do not "look" successful and we have not lived up to our potential. I don't know much about the technical side... I do know that not all business owners begin because of the "facts." When we have nowhere else to go, we must go forward if we continue to live. This world has more broken people than it has people who can read financial statements or who will follow a ten year history before deciding that their dreams are more important than the risk of doing the same things they've always done and keeping what they've already gotten out of life-NOTHING. The decision to start a business is too, an emotional one. Not that it's all rags to riches as the case may be for some. That is to say, sometimes, the numbers don't matter as much as the fact that it is an opportunity to zero the scale. This may be the first time in my life that I have something of my own. I don't care how long it takes to become successful and it doesn't matter if a million people failed before me. I have seen at least one success and that's enough. I have given everything I had to be able to stand with winners and say I am a business owner. Even if that business never makes I dime, I am willing to fight for it because it's mine and at least I know that I am willing to live for something. Also some of us do not have many opportunities to be in the presence of such great men and women as those who are in the trenches everyday, fighting for their dreams. When someone such as myself finally makes a run for the better, we have come a very long way to get here. Please do not hinder free enterprise. It is one of few institutions that has not yet removed the word, Free. Regards, Shenica Graham