Who is a “Citizen Entrepreneur” and why should we trust him/her?

The Citizen Entrepreneur is any citizen who is employed in a ‘for profit’ business enterprise that faces competitive pressures every day in order to survive and thrive.

Unlike non-competitive public service providers, all entrepreneurs face competitive pressures that force them to:  be creative and seek new value propositions in order to attract customers; to control costs in order to find the right balance between profit & loss as well as growth or loss of market share; to genuinely serve customers’ needs & interests which translates into superior customer service; to hire, train and mentor staff to achieve high levels of work performance; to expand the wealth of society in ways that will continue to support a rising standard of living for everyone.

In other words, the Citizen Entrepreneurs can be found among our friends, family members, personal communities and ourselves. 

Those who oppose the Citizen Entrepreneur are generally our citizens who directly or indirectly benefit from Big Government – these include public service employees; public sector labour union leaders; those persons whose income is predominantly derived from government sources such as public subsidies to politically favoured enterprises as well as those that have been granted monopoly powers to ensure competitive advantage.

A fair society is one in which power and money is not centralized in the hands of the government but decentralized in the hands of individual citizens either in their role as Citizen Entrepreneur or as consumer.  

This is the libertarian vision. We wish to share it with every voter who is willing to “think outside of the box” and consider this highly attractive alternative as a means of attaining true democracy rather than the Totalitarian Statism that we currently refer to as “democracy”.

Why trust the Citizen Entrepreneur ?  

A wise man I met in 1981, who had worked several years in the Ontario government before leaving for a private sector job in Alberta, taught me that "the currency of government is votes".   He went on to explain that the constant pressure to win votes felt by all politicians guides their public  decisions - whether its spending the public purse to "buy votes" with "investment" promises or its creating regulations that favour the party's largest supporting voter bases.  

Citizen Entrepreneurs strive for a different kind of "vote"- the kind that tells them that the products and/or services they sell are the kind that pleases so many customers that they continue to produce sales, obtain repeat business and generate consistent profits. 

Profits are the reward of any successful business that generates many sales whereby  every sale is a unique and voluntary exchange between customer and vendor. 

Votes are the reward for successful politicians who succeed in convincing enough special interest groups that they will selectively benefit from their political support of said politicians at that coerced expense of everyone else.

Given the choice, who would you rather trust?