Contrary to any impression you might get from my posts, I am not a small business owner. Neither am I a millionaire or billionaire opposed to Democratic plans to spread the wealth around.
I am a middle class American who has not swallowed the myth that corporations and the wealthy doom my future. By day I manage operations for a machine tool company, so I know what the election of Barack Obama has done to manufacturing and small business. Nights and weekends I put my Political Science degree and cynical outlook to use writing Civil Candor. My home is in Illinois, a situation I vow to correct each time my taxes go up.
Readers have asked why I do not blog under my real name, or even a believable pseudonym. Other readers, less approving and even hostile towards a conservative viewpoint, are the reason I use “Civil Bob.”
