Letter to the Editor: Applauding Poltenson’s column on how entrepreneurs build their own businesses

Dear Norm [Poltenson]:

After some time on the road, I spent last evening catching up on my reading. This included a few recent issues of The Central New York Business Journal. Your column, entitled “Somebody Else Built My Business” [in the July 20 issue], was truly a highlight.

You did a superb job of expressing the risks, sacrifices, and efforts that each entrepreneur takes every day to maintain a glimmer of hope for success. As I read about your experiences of building your business over the years, I could not help but think of watching my father work ridiculous hours and take all kinds of risks to build Fay’s Drug Company. His work created opportunity within all the communities in which we operated.

The fact that President Barack Obama does not understand how entrepreneurs have built our nation is more than infuriating. It is downright frightening, as it demonstrates how the president fails to grasp the fundamental makeup of our economy.

Thanks for, once again, expressing so well, what so many of us feel.

Keep up the good work.      

David Panasci 

Camillus